Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-12
[YWOOD IN
Fins OWN DEFENSE
k.lendant in Celebrated Trial
| Born in Salt Lake City
In 1869.
,rnlEo ORCHARDS CHARGES.
}. Never Talked with Him About VIM
dioator Mine and Never Gave
Him Any Money.

po,ss ida, July u.--William II. Hay
.oA took the oath today as witness
his own defense, and In lengthy
,,ative of his life and his work as q
6e,dsr OF his fellow-miners. that was
= .,.rr,,nted by adjournment, denied
k,It Of the murder of Frank Steunen-
fsr,, and the manifold crimes charged
2gainst him by Harry Orchard.
HAYWOOD was pale. and trembled
i'm nervousness when he left the table
81, his counsel and walked around 10
Shs elevated witness stand, where ne
|5soed the Judge and jury ana raised hls
lso.h, hsnS IN be sworn. When he be-
- N respond to Clarence Darrow's
Esnestions his voice was low and some-
$500 uncertain, but within 10 minutes
~ had reEaincd his composufe, ana
~. tha resi- of the afternoon he was
,naster OF his feelings. AS he told 81
E{bls hood. that began with toll az
LINZ age Of 3. and gave the history of
E3bIs family, his invalid wife, who sat
EEus, 10 the left Of the witness stand
e3agan sobblng softly. Her mother
|,In-Iaw and her nurse soon comforteu
|9er. however, and during the rest OF the
4 ffternoon she and the rest Of Hay
EMnods ldpsfolk remained quiet, but
Eteeply concerned auditors.
Ed Hsyvood's testimony was chiefly
Efharacterised ~ positive denials OF the
allegations made against him by the
Efrosecutiou He denied that he met
5lDrchard until some time after the VIM
Sticator explosion, denied mat pc
tent Orchard back 70 Cripple Creek TO
'5blow up the Independence station, de-
2ried participation In the Lyle Gregory
.4rurder. and denied suggesting or dis
fussing the Steunenberg murder. Hs
<swore that he never gave Orchard any
5noney at any time or place for any
.purpose. He declared that he never
made threat against Steunenberg,
twhonl he said he regarded only as he
*swayed by capitalistlc influence. He
hold OF number of occasions when he
zmet Orchard In Denver In the ordinary
Hcourse Of his relations with the fedora
ktlon and George A. Pettibone, and said
he saw Orchard for the last time in
august 1905, when Orchard told him
she was going 70 Alaska and Haywood
bald ne chidea him for deserving his
*wife at Cripple Creek. The direct ex-
Eamination had not reached the connec-
ttlon of Jack Slmpkins and the action
fof the federation after Steunenberg was
4 murdered when adjournment interrupt
led 1t.
HAYWOOD CALLED.
William D. Haywood was called to
|the stand Immediately after the recess
land his examination by Mr.. barrow
|was begun. His voice was quite indis-
|tlnct at first, but when his attention
Twas called 10 this he elevated 1t so as
10 carry to Ju lge Wood. Haywood was
first questioned as to his family his
tory. He said his father and stepfath-
Ter were both miners and he first began
work as miner under the latter. Hay
wood was born in Salt Lake City In
1859 His father was born in Ohio and
his mother in South Afrlca--the daugh
ter of an English army officer. Hay
wood said he first went to work at the
mines when he was 3 years old. He
was married at Pocatello, Ida, and
has two ohildren--two daughters. The
who has but one eye. said he
lost the other when a boy OF by
sticking a knife In 1t.
The prisoner spent the greater part
of his mining career at Silver city,
Ida. He Joined the Western Federation
of Miners in 1896.
Haywood declared he never knew
Gov. Steunenberg and had no inter-
est In the Occur d'Alene troubles 9TH
er than as n member of the federation.
The prisoners wife, mother and
younger daughter were present In court
this afternoon when he was called to
the stand.
Resolutions and discussions condemn
ing Gov, Steunsnberg course in the
Occur d Alene, Haywood declared, were
not confined to the Western Fedora
ton of Miners, but applied generally TO
labor organizations throughout the
country.
The witness was asked IL he ever said
to anyone. as has been testified, that
Gov, Steunenberg should be extermin-
ated.
mo, sir" he replied "I think what