Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-07-27

BOISE. Idaho. July Ex-senator Borah
concluded his address at 1890 p m. Judge
Wood announced that he would charge the
jury at 10 a. IN. tomorrow.
BOISE, July 26-"Watch these five men
Smpkins, Orchard, Haywood. Meyer and
Pettbone-Steunenberg is to die in thirty
days. Watch them. We have got them to-
gether. They are moving to the scene.'
This was the dramatic climax reached
this morning in the Haywood trial, when
for an hour and a half Senator Borah,
making the last argument in the Haywood
case had woven craftily on the meshes of
his net His theme was conspiracy-the
essence OF the case OF the state OF Idaho
in its efforts to show that Harry orchard
was only the tool of Haywood, when he
killed the former governor Now watch
this quintet" he cried triumphantly, when,
having laid his foundation, piece by piece,
using only the testimony of witnesses for
the defense itself, picking It out from the
mass of mixed material, he showed the
intimacy between Orchard and the highest
officers of the Western Federation OF
Miners.
Scenes Changed Rapidly.
The argument of the morning centered
in Caldwell, but the scenes changed rapidly,
each flash showing an officer, a friend or
a member of the Western Federation of
Miners, the confdant and intimate OF Harry
Orchard.
At IL o'clock recess was ordered until
p. m.
As early as o'clock the court house doors
were besleged by hundreds seking admit
ance to the limited court room, Senator
Borah being popular an orator In this.
his home city. So great was the throng that
court officials and others having business
at the trial had to find their way into the
building by devious ways, most of them
climbing a steep improvised stairway In
the rear The jury was also brought
up these stairs.
Inside the court. as the next 10 the last
day of the trial began, Haywood sat sur
rounded by his family. His invalid wife,
whose helpless condition and pallid faco
have attracted so much attention and sym
pathy, sat Immediately at his right and
next to her was the gray haired mother,
who. on yesterday could not restrain the
tears which welled to her eyes Clarence
Darow of Chicago made the last plea for
the life of her son. The prisoners daugh-
ter and sister were also in the family circle,
the only absentee being the little l0-year-
old girl Henrietta.
Mrs. Frank Steunenberg, the wife of the
murdered governor. and her stalwart son,
Julian, were early in the court room and
when they had been shown to seats insidc
the attorneys rail, found themselves within
seven or eight feet of Haywood himself.
Attorneys from many cities in the west
have come Ito Boise for the laE' arguments
and constituted a large proportion OF to-
days big audience. When the last seats
were occupied disappointed hundreds re-
mained on the court house lawn to catch
what they could of Senator Borahs ad-
dress as the words filtered out of the
windows.
Orchards Trail of Blood.
Senator 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 Harry Orchard, taking first the
murder of Governor Steunenberg and hark-
ing back over some of the most important
Incidents developed in the testimony.
Il hardly need to tell you sensible men,"
declared the pleader, that Pinkerton de-
tectives had nothing to do with the
sassination of Frank Steunenberg. This s
one of the most absurd of the many alb
surd things brought into this case by the
learned counsel of the defense"
Senator Borah in laying the foundation
for his argument of conspiracy pointed out
that Orchard went 20 Caldwell from Denver
and fresh from association with the officer
of the Western Federation OF Miners who
regarded Steunenberg as an enemy. He
then touched upon the fact that Marian
Moore, an officer of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners, in testifying for the defense,
admitted that he agreed with Orchard to
deceive Orchards wife when Orchard
wished to desert her.
The Power behind Orchard.
Harry Orchard left Denver with crime in
his heart. The impelling. compelling force
came from Denver. George Pettibone helped
Orchard pack his utensils OF murder in his
trunk. Why is Pettibone not here to deny2
His silence is a confession OF his guilt.
Pettibones absence is an absolute corrob-
Grafton Of Orchard"
Jack simpkins was the man who went
to see Attorney Miller at Spokane; Jack
simpkins was the man who sent the myS-
terious and unexplained telegram to Hay
wood. The wording OF Simpkins telegram,
Senator Borah declared, showed that he
knew Haywood had fun knowledge Of tho
case. And Haywood "got busy"
Proof of Conspiracy.
''FoIlow simpkins Orchard, Meyer. Hay
wood and Pettibone from Denver to the
death Of Steunenberg at Caldwell, review
the testimony, watch their actions. and I
say to you that an absolute and concerted
conspiracy has been proved.
"They killed steunenberg to show to the
world that they never forgot an enemy
Where Is Pettibone-afraid 10 speak2
Where is Jack simpkins, who was at Cald-
we'll with Orchard and who could tell so
much? He is IN a corner and afraid to
come out TO say a word for his lifelong
friends"
Senator Borah said he was ready to
admit that Haywood was shrcwd. keen
and possessed OF brains. "Of course he has
brains" he exclaimed; ne had brains
enough to start a defense Of the Western
Federation Of Miners the minute he learned
that Orchard, the hired assassin, had fallen
into a trap.
did the Pinkertons send any ono to
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