The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-06-08
A CONSPIRACY
n. HAWLEY MAKES SWEEPING
ACCUSATIONS.
EiE CALLS IT WHOLESALE MURDER
@tforney Declared Organization Left a
iran OF Blood to Mark Its Opera
lions Where Ii Had Control.

Boise, Idaho, June 5.-Through Jas.
l. Hawley, senior of the group OF
prosecutors, the state of Idaho made
the opening statement against VIII.
liam ID. Haywood, whom it charges
with the murder of Frank Steunenberg,
ana n began the presentation of
ne testimony by which it hopes to
prove the indictment laid against him.
81 The opening statement was a broad,
sweeping arrangement of the leaders
OF the Federation of Miners, who were
charged with plotting wholesale muir
der and hiring assassins, all in a giant
conspiracy of vengeance upon those
VINO o~bStructed their sway, to destroy
opposition by terrorism, to control the
political d~eStinies of the communities
covered by their organization and to
~perpetuate their own power within the
organization.
Murder Became a Trade"
1t charged a widespread conspiracy
dating in inception from the north Ida-
no disturbance fifteen years ago,
reaching down to the murder of Frank
81 oISulClDClS duu WuOSc uIutItu VIC
Tins, by bullet and bombs, numbered
scores. Mr.. Hawley declared that
wherever in the mining sections of the
) coast states the federation had been
in control there had been left a trail of
blood to mark its operations. OF the
hired assasSins he cried:
! ITO them murder became a trade and
assassination a means of living"
After retelling the story of the Cald,
well crime, the arrest and confession
of Orchard and part of the history of
the Couer dale trouble, Mr.. Haw-
; ley said:
The original proposition and the
! DRY that the power of this federation,
of the inner circle at least, could best
be'perpetuated by the murder of those
who in official life or in private situa-
ton ran counter to their interests, be-
came intensified seemingly after these
gentlemen as umed the entire control.
4 The inner circle composed, as it was,
z of this defendant an his co-defend-
ents to a great extent, brought around
them a few choice spirits, and to them
III ucI USCdIuc d UIdue anu dSSdSSlnd-
ton a means of living. We will show,
gentlemen, that a scale of wages was
eve devised, fixing the amount to be
paid for different crimes by this inner
circle TO parties who committed those
crimes, n chief among those who
wore doing the actual work that was
planned by the inner circle and paid
for out of the hands of the federation
by members of the inner cirle.' was
this man to whom l have referred,
Harry Orchard and one Stephen
ADAMS"
Counse, for Defense Object.
Hawley spoke for nearly an hour and
a half to a courtroom crowded, but
silent, to a jury which, sitting bolt
upright, watched for every word, to a
prisoner, who, with his family around
him, was several times moved to deep
emotion as the prosecutor pronounced
the charges. Counsel for the defense
opened fire before the statement had
proceeded ten minutes, and the repeti-
ton of objection from them led to
three or four sharp exchanges. They
protested against the charge that the
federation was guilty of scores of
murders" and the assertion that the
conspiracy extended back to the first
trouble in north Idaho, which was
years before the accused was a mem
per of the organization, and they &C.
used Mr.. Hawley of arguing the case
n an opening statement. They dotted
the records with exceptions of over |
ruled objections, n finally got an
agreement whereby they could protect |
their rights as to the entire opening |
statement. Judge Wood permitted the |
wide scope in the opening statement |
on the assurance of Mr.. Hawley that
the state could show the existence
later of conspiracy which it charged
and MAX the necessary legal connec-
ton.
Eight witnesses were examined and
there would have been time for three
or four more if the available supply
of the state had not Unexpectedly run
out, enforcing an adjournment after
3 o'clock. The witnesses were all
from Caldwell and those who did not |
tell of the crime itself were called to
locate Harry Orchard, who went to the
town as Thomas Hogan, at various |
hotels and around the S~teunenberg
home and to show that two months be-
fore the crime John l.. S%lmpkins, a
member of the executive board of the
Western Federation of Miners, had
joined Orchard and had lived with him
for several days in the same room.