Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-26
Senator Borah Makes
Much of Failure to Tes-
tify for Haywood.
HOLDS CHAIN STRONG
Final Plea to Jury Attracts
Greatest Interest Shown
During the Trial.

Boise, July 2G.-Early as this morn.
ed by hundreds seeking admittancG to
The court room, Senator BOrah being
popular as an orator. Inside the court,
az next to the last day of the trial be
gan, Haywood sat surrounded by his
family. Mrs. Frank Steunenberg, wife
q the murdered governor, and son, Jul
Ian, were early i'll the court room, and
when they had been shown inside the
attorneys rail, found themselves with
III seven or eight feet of Haywood him.
sell
Went Over Trail OF Blood"
Borah began by reviewing briefly the
points made in the opening hour of
his address to the jury last night He
said he would go briefly over the trail
of blood left by Orchard, taking first
the murder of StCunenberg, and bark
ing back over some of the most impor-
tant incidents developed in the testi
mCny.
Il hardly need tell you sensible
men," he declared, that Pinkerton de
tectives had nothing to do with the as
sassinatiUn of SteunenbCrg That is
one of the most absurd of the many alb
surd things brought into the case by
the learned counsel for the defense"
Murdered After Conference.
Borah. i'll laying Il foundation for his
argument of conspiracy, pointed uul
that Orchard went to Caldwell from
Denver and fresh from association
with officers of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners, who regarded Steun-
enberg as an enemy. He then touched
upon the fact that Marian Moore. m
officer of the federation, in testifying
for the defense, admitted he agreed
with Orchard to deceive Orchard ;
wife when Orchard wished to desert
her
Absence Declares Guilt.
Orchard left Denver with crime in his
heart. The impelling, compelling;
force came from Denver. George PET
tbone helped Orchard pack his utcn.
siIs of murder in his trunk Why Is
Pettibone not here to deny it. His
silence is confession of his guilt
PettibOne's absence is an absolute cor
roboration of Orchard"
Showed the Deed.
Taking up the question of personal
motive the defense had charged against
Orchard. Borah showed The jury the
deed by which Orchard had parted, alb
sCutely and forever, with his Interest
il the Hercules mine, II months be
fore General Merriam ordered negr,
troops in the Occur d'Alcne. This
deed. letters, kilograms and all Othel
evidence not subject TO being tamper
ed with, corroborate Orchard and fit il
precisely with the story he has tol,
you Steunenberg did not cause Orch
ard TO lose his interest in the mine, 81
how could he have entertained Il nun
derOus grudge?"
Upheld by Witnesses.
BOrah took up one by one the vii
nGsseS for the defense, who, he sait
ttlIObOIdttu OICHdIu anu DlbFCu CiIl
inal conspiracy, because they had cor
cred and protected Orchard up 10 tn
time he confessed and implicated Ha!
wood Among these were Bill Easte
ly, w +. Davis, David Coates, eX-liel
tenant governor of Colorado, LOtti
Day. and General Eugene Engley, TO
mer attorney general of Colorado. Th
i,r,1N 20 !,
jury articles denouncing Steunenber
in the miners magazine.
Shall Murder he Tolerated.
There was much talk here and
the argument of the counsel about il
dustrial war There is an industri;
war, but it is for you men to determiT
whether industrial warfare shall /
carried out on the principle of murder
THE defense tells you,' the speak'
went on, outside of Orchards test
mony there is nothing here to prov
conspiracy What more do you wan
We put Orchard and Simpkins al
Meyer and Haywood and Pettibone
gether in Denver. Now watch them
they move to the scene of Steune
bergS murder"
Yields the Chain.
Simpkins was the man who went
Attorney Miller at Spokane Simpki
was the man who sent the mysterio
and unexplained telegram to Haywoo