The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-07-19
EVIDENCE COMP[ ETED,|.
Haywood Defense Rests Without
Offering Any Rebuttal.
uATERIALITY OF TESTIMONY

Attorney barrow Insists on the Right
to Show a Conspiracy Of Mine Own.
.ers and Detectives Against the Fed.
Grafton of Miners.
Boise, Ida, July ls:-The evidence
b all in, analysis arguments have be-
gun and within the next seven days
the fate Of William D. Haywood will
b In the hands of the jury. The de-
tense rested without calling single.
witness in rebuttal.
The morning session was given up
10 Clarence barrow, who In behalf Of
Haywood argued that the showing of
The deportation from Cripple Creek
during the strike period and connec.
lion, of the Pinkertop detectives and
hired gunner should be allowed to
80 to the jury.
Mr. Darrow reviewed the Colorado
situation. He charged the mine own
ers and the detectives with planning
q wreck on the Florence and Cripple
Creek railway, with blowing up the
Independence depot and with creating
riot through hired men.
barrow was impassioned and hurled
tnvectlve without stint at the detec.
lives and at Orchard. He closed with
whirlwind appeal for the right to
show a conspiracy against the West
arm Federation Of Miners.
Occur d'AIene Troubles.
Beginning with tho Occur a'Alene
troubles Of 1899 Mr.. Darrow called the
courts attention once more to the
laot that William y. Haywood at that
time had nothing to do with the gen.
eral organization of the Western Fed.
grafton, but was an obscure member
of a local union In Silver City, many
hundreds of miles from the scene Of
The disorders.
AS to the employment of detectives
Mr.. Darrow declared that most or
practically all Of the testimony in this
case was secured by PinkertQns and
It would be impossible to disassociate
them and their methods from the is
sue. Taking up Orchards crimes as
confessed by him Mr.. barrow said the
defendant at bar was compelled, in
reputation of a charge of having MUIR
Tered Frank Steunenberg, to meet all
sorts and conditions of allegations.
"The state was allowed through Or
,hard to bring IN something about an
alleged attempt to wreck train and,
Of course, this defendant was held up
as the guilty party. Was it inmate
rial for us to show that the attempt
was made by detectives in the en-
ploy of the railway company and the
Mine Owners association? I think
not. Neither is it incompetent for
US to show that the men who perpe-
trated the crime merely wanted to
create an impression or appearance OF
train wreck so as to trump up an
other charge against the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners"
Have Right to Contradict.
As to the Bradley explosion,
claimed by Orchard, Darrow said it
was entirely competent to produce tes-
timony that the explosion was caused
by gas. It was also the proper course,
he said, to show that the indicator
mine incident might have been an
accident rather than the result of de-
Iign.
Mr.. barrow spent some time in dis
sussing and citing authorities as to
Ihe materiality Of the evidence show
hg threats on the part Of Orchard
against Governor Steunenberg. He de-
slared that If there was any question
rs to the relevancy of any Of the tes-
Apony in the case the doubt should
b resolved in favor of the defendant.
Mr.: barrow charged the Independ-
once explosion directly to X. G. ster-
ang, the detective Of the Mine Owners
AssQciation. Three undisputsd wit
nesses, he declared, had told of see
ns Orchard SNEAK" into sterling's
'oom at night on at least fifteen occa-
lions. The explosion was part of
he conspiracy, the attorney asserted,
Il the men who were engaged in the
Iaudabls occupation Of driving out
very man who had ever shown any
lympathy with the Western Fedora
Hon Of Miners" The men who defied
',heriffs and courts and set themselves
lp az the only competent judges. ~
stsrIIna Was Not Called. ~
Sterling sat in the courtroom for
week ana was not called, said Mr..
Darfow, and this he took as an admis.
lion Of the testimony Of three wit
lesses who saw him SO frequently III
consultation with Orchard.
he testimony given as to conditions
Ind deportations in Colorado Mr.. OAR
row held that the defense should be
lllowed equal latitude with the state.
"A man defending his life," he ex-
claimed, Should have even wider
attitude than is given to those who
ire seeking to send him to his death.
We claim the things charged against
Haywood, Meyer and Pettibone were
pmmitted by others and we must be
Allowed to show evidence, conditions
Ind circumstances which tend to bear
as out. All that the mine owners did
the deportation of men, the defiance
II law, the forbldding Of merchants to
,ell food and supplies to the families
IF the mon driven from the state-all
that they did In furtherance Of their
criminal conspiracy to destroy the
Western Federation of Miners is COM
oetent testimony and 1t should ba loft