The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-19
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REPORTERS ESCAPE
CONTEMPT CHARGE
Not Guilty Of Any oaense In.
Printing Interview With
Harry Orchard.
.ExoNERATED / . BY THE COURT
Press Censorship ablished On
News From Boise Slow
Progress In Trial.
EXONERATED BY THE COURT
orcss Censorship Established On

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BOISE. IDAHO. May 1s,-Prose-
cuting-Attorney Koeslch today COM
3pleted his investigation of the circun-
stances under which Harry Orchard.
principal witness for the State. in the
Steunenberg murder case, was inter-.
viewed, and presented to the District
Court a report exoneratings from the
charge of improper motives all per-
sons connected with the publica ton.
lie found that the only motive news
paper men had In interviewing Orchard
was to obtain news OF him. In an
nouncing the report. Judge Wood said
that it called for no action. and di-
rected that it be filed. The report
says:
II am able to report that my. inves-
tigation of the matter entirely dis
proves the charge that any improper
motive actuated any one connected
with the publication under consdera-
ton. It was published purely as a
matter OF news, which the corresponds ;
ents had been eager to get for a long
time. but had been denied the oppor-
tunity of getting. When this oppor-
tunity was finally given to them, they
seized 1t with avidity. and nofother
thought than it would be front-page.
scare-h head matter. This was natural
During the5investigation my atten-
tion was directed to the fact that for a
long time a certain paper had devoted
itself almost exclusively to publishing
matter tending to dlscredit persons
likely to be called as witnesses In the
pending case. and when ! answered
that two wrongs could never make one
right, and that because others had not
been punished for contempt was not a
defense. l was assured by both tho
Statesman and the CAPITAL News, Boise
papers and by each correspondent Of
outside papers circulating in Ada coun-
ty whom I was able to interview. that
they would gladly obey and abide by
such rule as Your Honor might lay
down, forbidding any publication that
would In the slightest degree tend. to
obstruct the proceedings of this court,
or anything in the nature Of an opinion
as to the merits of the case on trial.
IT therefore recommend that Your
Honor make and pronulgatc an order
along these lines as stringent as the
law will permit, and ! promise to make
every effort within my power and au-
thorlty toward a rigid enforcenent,o OF
the same. and to bring before the
proper court every infraction of the
same. regardless Of whom the offender
shall be-"
Progress toward the completion OF a
Jury to try Haywood is being made
By expendng the peremptory challenges
allotted by law to State and defense
If by no other means Up to adjourn
ment this afternoon the State had con-
sumed FIVE of Its ten challenges and
the defense four OF It's ten, SO that
there remain uneNpended only eleven
peremptory challenges
The special venlre Of 100 talesmer
that reported In court last Monday
was at the close OF to-day's session
reduced to twenty-slx x men, and 1t Il
predlcted that another special yenire
must he called about Tuesday In order
Ito complete the jury. 5y