Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-06-28
haywood WITNESS
DENIES misconduct
DEFENSE INTRODUCES TESTI-
MONY REPUTING STORY OF
HARRY ORCHARD.
INTERESTING SCENE
OCCURS IN COURT
w. r. Davis, Accused of Inspiring
Acts of Violence During Strike at
Cripple Creek, on Stand-Former
Miners Chief Called.

SiiSi SoilCOs
Boise, Idaho, June 28-The greater
part of Thursday mornin's session of
the Steunenberg murder trial was
used in completing the examination
of w. F. Davis, whom Orchard swore
inspired several OF the principal acts
OF violence committed at Cripple
Creek during the strike. Senator
Borah searchingly questioned him as
to the Cripple Creek strike and it's
principal events, the meeting at Den
yer after the independence station
was blown up and the subsequent
journey to Wyoming. Attorney Oar
row intervened several times to pro-
tect the witness, and he and Senator
Borah interested and amused the
crowd with some clever court STRAIT
egy. Borah drove Davis very hard on
conditions at Cripple Creek and his
action in changing his name, but the
witness held to his denials of mis-
conduct on the part of himself and
his assistants.
Conditions Not Unusual.
bdNlS u6CldIeu IlldJ uO uHuSudl COH-
ditions existed in the miners con-
vention at Denver at the time of the
indicator explosion. Orchard had
testified that att the time of the
indicator explosion that Haywood
said he was having some difficulty
In keeping the men together and
thought something ought to be
pulled off,
After the Denver convention Davis
did not go back to Cripple Creek but
changed his name, went to Cheyenne
and eventually to Goldfield, New,
where he resumed his right name.
One reason Davis said he changed his
name was in order to get work. He
had also seen in the papers that the
authorities were looking for him and
many others. He had been arrested
many times.
On redirect examination Mr. Oar
row took up the troubles at Cripple
Creek before and after the troops
were sent in. Davis said that aside
from the assault on Old Man Stewart,
the beating up of justice of the
peace and the killing of the woman
there was no extraordinary disturb
ances. After the troops came in,
however, there was much trouble be-
cause he said, ''the governor of Colo
RADIO turned lot of thugs out of the
penitentiary and sent them into the
district"
Vagrancy Notice introduced.
Mr.. Darrow here secured the con-
sent of the prosecution to introduce
into evidence a notice posted by the
military authorities in Cripple Creek,
defining vagrancy, and declaring that
all able-bodied persons seen lettering
about without visible means of sup
port would be taken into custody.
Davis said he was in Jail at the time
and did not see the notice. The union,
however, supported all Of its members
while they remained in the district.
Did you hear of attacks at Tel
luride on Mr.. Richardson here, and
other friends of the federation?" asked
Mr.. Darrow.
YES" replied the witness.
On recross- ss-examination Borah asked
Davis if he made an effort to find out
who assaulted old man Stuart. The
witness said he had not. Senator Bo-
rah mentioned the names of Steve
Adams, Parker, Campbell and others
in this connection, but Davis denied
knowledge of the matter.
Davis said that Haywood and Meyer
spoke at an outdoor meeting in Grip
pie Creek and urged the men to stand
together, but always to keep the peace
w. w. Rush, formerly engineer on
the Florence & Cripple Creek railway,
told an amusing story of the manner
in which, according to his story, De-
tectives D. C. Scott and K. c. Sterling
staged and executed the second at
tempt to wreck a train on the line dur
ing the strike.
Ed Boyce, formerly president of the
Western Federation of Miners, and
now one of the owners of the Her
cules mine, was called to the stand
before the noon recess. Boyce, under
the guidance of Mr.. Darrow, amused
the courtroom as he told with ready
Irish wit, how, in 1893, Mr.. James H.
Hawley, now leading counsel against
Haywood, but then retained as coun-
sci for the miners, suggested to Boyce
while the latter was in Boise, the or
ganization of the Western Federation
of Miners as an Offset to the Mine
Owners association.
Murdered and Thrown Into Cistern.
Benton, H., June 2S.-The decom-
nnsed body of Thomas Prichard was