The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-23

we or the defense do not DeneVe tnere
is any justification for such an act. We
shall not attempt to justify it; we do not
believe it can be justified from any point
of view"
Adjudged Guilty Without Hearing.
Mr.. Richardson then reviewed the event
following the death of former Governor
Steunenberg, saying Harry Orchard was
caught almost red-handed in the act.
Pinkerton detective came to Idaho and
soon had a confession from a man who,
to save his own worthless neck, was
ready to place the blame on others. The
matter was taken up by that portion OF
the press which depends upon the pros
peFous and eapitalistic classes and the
leaders of the Western Federation of Mi
ners were adjudged guilty without hear
ing. So far-reaching was this influence,
declared Mr.. Richardson, that II extended
even to the White House. The attorney
begged the jurors to lay aside any i'm
preston they may have formed from
reading the newspapers during the past
year and to start with him at the begin
ming of the cause and go through the
various events one by one without feeling
or bias.
Justly determine, in the light of our con-
sciences, Illuminated by high heaven, if
the man here at the bar and his code
PENDANTS in the cells below, are guilty
of the crimes charged. 1t is my intention
to carry out my argument, if 1 am not
overcome by heat, in the following or
der;
Eleven Points Presented.
First shall discuss the law as ap-
piled to this case and to the prosecuting
witness.
''Second-I shall discuss the history of
the Western Federation of Miners as
shown here in the evidence.
Third shall discuss the general con-
ditions which prevailed in the Occur
d. Alenes at the time of the Bunker Hi
Sullivan mil ut
pie Creek prior to and during the strike
in that section.
FOURTH shall discuss the series of
the events relied Oh by the state to prove
a conspiracy against the defendants Hay
wood, Meyer and PettibOne.
Fifth shall devote myself to the as
certainment Of the particular offense the
defendants are here on trial for, for, re-
member, gentlemen, that while the range
of the evidence has covered many fields
and many crimes, there is but one charge
in the indictment, but one Offense against
the state OF 1daho
Sixth shall consider Mr.. Orchard
while under arrest.
Seventh shall consider Mr. Orchard
while in the penitentiary.
Eighth shall devote myself to the
Impeachment of Mr.. Orchard.
''Ninth-TO the treatment of Mr. Hay
wood, the manner and method of it and
the reasons therefore.
''Tenth-I shall devote myself. as l have
been invited to do. to the reasons why
certain witnesses did not testify for the
prosecution and as to why certain others
did not testify for the defense.
Eleventh and finally, 1 shall discuss
this case as it appears before this jury.
When l have finished these eleven sub
divisions | will have done all that l can
do to assist the jury in arriving at a
proper and just verdict in this cause
Law of State of Idaho.
Discussing the law as applied to Orch
ard, Mr.. Richardson said the corrobo-
rating evidence in support of a confess
ing witness must be so strong that stand
ing by itself separated and apart from
the witness story, 1T is sufficient to re-
move all reasonable doubt as to the de-
PENDANTS guilt. He charged that the
state had no cOrrObOrating circumstances
of this character as to the murder of
Governor Steunenberg and that for this
reason a general conspiracy was charged
and all the events of the Colorado labor
wars were gone into
But, gentlemen of the Jury" said
Richardson, the general conspiracy that
the prosecution complains of is a lawful
conspiracy. If this be conspiracy. then
you are in a conspiracy if you are
Democrat and vote the Democratic ticket
The Western Federation of Miners was
in conspiracy to elect it's men to Of
flee, to shorten hours and to fix wages
and every one of those objects is lawful
yet in this country
Taking up next the history of the West
ern Federation of Miners, Mr. Richard
son said that while much was heard now
adays as to the equal distribution of
wealth, the motto of all would be- so
long as men are constituted as they are
to git all you can while you're gittin
says l." This saying from THE HoOsier
Schoolmaster," applied alike to capital
and to labor.
Delving into the Occur d'AIene troubles.
Mr.. Richardson declared that most of the
mines there were owned by the Stand
ard Oil company and he proclaimed that
wherever conditions were such as to ere
ate a Rockefeller at one end of the line
and a man with gaunt dinner pail at
the other, more or less friction and trou-
bic is bound to occur. The Bunker H:lI
property had been turned in for taxa