Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-06-28
HAYWOOD'S DEFENSE
ATTORNEY DARROW SAYS HIS
Client is INNOCENT.
barrow Gives a Graphic Account of
How Haywood Rose from the Ranks
to Position of Honor and That He
Could Not Be Held Responsible for
the Crimes Orchard Has Related

Boise, Idaho, June 23.-William D.
HAYWOOD, having already pleaded not
guiItv to the charge of murder and
having heard the evidence the state
Of Idaho has placed before the jury in
cunport of it's charge, will this week
formally assert his entire innocence
ord outline the evidence he proposes
to produce in order that the presump-
tion of innocence, still resting in the
minds of the jlrymen, may become a
Aved Judgment. Clarence barrow, as
attorney for Haywood will say that
his client is not guilty of conspiracy
to assassinate Frank Steunenberg, a
former governor of Idaho, but that
HAYWOOD is in fact the victim of a
conspiracy to disrupt the Western
Federation of Miners and under the
guise of legal procedure condemn to
death the chief officials of the fedora
ton, of which Haywood is the secre-
tary and one of his codefendants under
the Indictment is the president
Mr.. Darrow's address will be an ex-
haustive presentation. He will assert
that Haywood, by sheer force of char
acter, rose from the humble position
of miner working for days wages,
to become the secretary and treasurer
of labor organization with upward Of
10000 members. He will show that
Haywood was elected to office by the
members Of the Western Federation
of Miners through successive terms of
office because of his ability and his
honesty. He will point out that the
personal character of the man has not
been assailed, but that a conspiracy
has been charged.
Mr. Darrow will not attempt to deny
that many foul crimes have been com
mitted He will not deny that Steu-
lenberg was assassinated, but he will
maintain that his client had nothing
o do with them, or any other murders,
md that the state has not connected
Haywood with any conspiracy.
He will charge a conspiracy on the
bart of the mineowners' association,
Fith large membership and unlimit-
ID money behind it, who, finding the
Western Federation of Miners inimical
the mineowners, plotted to wreck
he Western Federation and by con-
piracy with detectives and others
reate such feelings against the fedora
on that governors of state and even
be federal government would be will
ng to help the mineowners to drive
be members of the federation from
be land.
1t will be asserted that the Orchard
Tory is true only in that the crimes
ere committed.
1t will be asserted that the conspir-
cy, as between Haywood, Meyer, Pet
bone, Orchard and Adams, was a fab
baton of Orchard, who, in order to
I've his life, brought the others into
and that the price of the confession
as the pardon of the actual murderer
Steunenberg. The motive of this
urder, it will be asserted, is to be
und in Orchards desperate poverty
ID the fact that he saw his old part
rs IN the Hercules mine rich and
oSperous, while he, a hunted Grim
aL robbed tills and attempted bur
airy in order to replenish his pockets.
Will be charged that Orchard Dor
wed money from August Paulsen in
aHace in order that he might have
Ough money to go to Caldwell, kill
gutenberg and get away.
lie defense expects to take not
re Than 10 days with the introduc-
OF evidence, but counsel for the
'e Will go into close examination of
the witnesses brought to upset the
cnard story, and for this reason it
thought that the case for the de-
Sc may take longer time than was
upled by the state. The rebuttal
unony will take probably week
speeches and verdict may take
greater part of another, so that
not thought that the conclusion
Oe reached before the end of July. |