The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-07-24
WANTS A FAIR VERDICT
II Haywood is Guilty, Hang Him-Bit-
terly Denounces Prosecutor HawIey.
Declares There Was No Truth Left
in Orchards Story, and That He
Lied to Save His Neck.


Darrow began the closing address fol
the defense in the Haywood case this
morning. The court room was crowded
to its capacity. In opening Darrow
impressed the chief case upon the
jury and declared that the defendant
is an Idaho alien, brought 1,500 miles
from home into a community and be
fore jury which does not view life
or industry rs the men accused of the
murder of Steunenberg have been
taught to look at it.
THE defendants in this case" de
clared Darrow, ''have been brought
to trial in the nome of man who was
killed in most cowardly way. Many
of you on this jury voted for Steun
elberg. One of you had business re
lations with him, while in the house
of another Of you ne made his home
for two years. You are almost the fam
lily circle of the murdered man, and
none of you has ever mad any com
ants. Under these circumstances !
can but ask you to lay aside as much
of passion and prejudice as you can
and look at us as if we were one of
you.''
He asked for fair and impartial
trial and that the jury be guided by
the evidence only. He said the prose
cution knew it could not convict on
the evidence and was relying upon
forced circumstances to get a verdict
cut verdict and asked them not to
compromise on any verdict of murder
or manslaughter, Or murder in the
second degree. 'I would not thank
this jury if it returned a verdict o.
assault and battery and assessed a
fine OF five dollars against the defend
ant" he said. 'If you believe the sto
ry that has been told against this
man, take him and hang him. Bill
Haywood is either guilty or innocent
If he is guilty l have nothing to say
But, men, this is the case of Orchard
from beginning to end. There is moth
| ing at all left in the evidence with
out him.
Harrow launched into a lengthy
bitter vituperative denunciation of Al
torney James H. Hawley, leading cour
sci for the state Darrow assailed him
as a hired man, actuated by 40 other
motive than to get the money of the
state of Idaho that he might builc
another addition to his house. He de
nounced him as ''bug-nouse," and said
he had been a friend of the labor or
CARNATIONS as he proclaimed only
when they got the cash to his Office
first. He said that Hawley had the
| "Orcharditis," or Orchard itch might
be a better term. Darrow dismissed
| Senator Borah with a few words. ''l
don't mean to intimate" he declared
that Senator Borah is any more hon
est than Hawley, but 1 do believe he
is slicker.''
He said that he did not believe Bo
ran was as much overcome with the
| truthfulness of Orchards story a!
Hawley. "Hawley would nave you be
| llieve Orchard cannot lie since he go
religion. i shall have something tt
say as to that religion later on, bu
what want to say is that if Hawley
hasn't got religion he had better ge
it if there was any left after Orchard
got his
| Darrow declared that Orchard mac
been so contradicted that there was
no truth left in his story. He said i
would be a disgrace to the state O
Idaho to convict a man on such testi
mo1y He reviewed the crimes con
fessed by Orchard and said that eacf
one showed the man to be a sneak
ling, craven coward who mad nevel
taken a chance that would endangel
his miserable hide. 1t was logical. ht
argued, that Orchard should now turn
to lying to save his neck.
/, Returning to Orchards religious
conversion, he declared that befor'
Dean Hicks, his religious adviser, ha<
persuaded MIN to lay his sins on Je
sus. "Father" Mcfarland. the detec
tive, had persuaded him to lay hi
crimes on Haywood. Meyer and Pet
tibone.