Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-06-29
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 Grimes Orchard Has Related.

Boise, Idaho, June 23.-William d.
Haywood, having already pleaded not
guilty to the charge of murder and
having heard the evidence the state
of Idaho has placed before the jury in
support of its charge, will this week
formally assert his entire innocence
and outline the evidence he proposes
to produce in order that the presump-
ton of innocence, still resting in the
minds of the jlrymen, may become
fixed judgment. Clarence Darrow, as
attorney for Haywood, will say that
his client is not guilty of conspiracy
to assassinate Frank Steunenberg,
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 a miner, working for days wages,
TO become the secretary and treasurer
of a labor organization with upward of
$4,000 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 assaulted, but that a conspiracy
has been charged.
Mr.. barrow will not attempt to deny
that many foul crimes have been com
mitted He will not deny that Steu
nenberg was assassinated, but he will
maintain that his client had nothing
to do with them, or any other murders
and that the state has not connected
Haywood with any conspiracy.
He will charge a conspiracy on the
part of the mineowners' association
with a large membership and unlimit
, ed money behind it, who, finding The
Western Federation of Miners inimica
to the mineowners, plotted to wrecl
!
spiracy with detectives and Others
create such feelings against the fedora
ton that governors of state and ever
= the federal government would be will
ing to help the mineowners to driv,
3 the members of the federation from
the land.
1t will be asserted that the Orchar'
story is true only in that the crime
were committed.
A 1t will be asserted that the conspiI
acy, as between Haywood, Meyer, Pet
tibone, Orchard and Adams, was a fail
ribation of Orchard, who, in order t
; save his life brought the others int
! it, and that the price of the confession
: was the pardon of the actual murdere
S of Steunenberg. The motive of thi
+ murder, it will be asserted, is to b
: found in Orchards desperate povert
+ and the fact that he saw his old par
:. ners in the Hercules mine rich an
S prosperous, while he, a hunted erin
e inal, robbed tills and attempted bul
t glary in order to replenish his pockets
J. 1t will be charged that Orchard boz
I rowed money from August Paulsen
I Wallace in order that he might hav
: enough money to go to Caldwell, XII
L Steunenberg and get away.
n The defense expects to take nc
e more than 10 days with the introdu
ton of evidence, but counsel for tn
state will go into close examination {
r all the witnesses brought to upset tn
Orchard story, and for this reason
/ is thought that the case for the d.
Tense may take longer time than wa
d occupied by the state. The rebuilt;
Y, testimony will take probably a wee
The speeches and verdict may tai
L the greater part of another so tn;
s it is not thought that the conclusio
will be reached before the end of Jul