The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-07-05
THE HAYWOOD TRIAL.

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that at Cripple Greek, during the
strike, Orchard told him Of the Her.
cules mine affair and threatened
To Kill steunenberg.
Mrs. Lottie Day of Denver testified
that in 1904 Orchard told her about
the loss of the Hercules interest, and
that he said he would kill Steunen-
berg for the wrong done him, and
John d. Elliott swore that Orchard
told him in Idaho in 1905 that he was
in the employ of the mine owners,
and that there was plot against the
federation and its leaders.
Judge Wood Rules Against Haywood.
Boise, June 20. = A ruling made
yesterday by Judge Wood while Ed
ward Boyce, for years the leader of
the Western Federation of Miners
and now wealthy mine owner of the
| Occur d'Alenes: was testifying in be-
half of William D. Haywood, may ma
! terially limit the showing of the de-
tense as to the existence of the coun-
ter conspiracy against Haywood and
| his associates which it alleges.
Claims Same Latitude as State.
James H. Hawley, for the state, OBJ.
| jected to general question as to the
policy and practice of mine owners
throughout the West in blacklisting
f~ tho Mt
that followed Clarence barrow, for the
defense, claimed the same latitude in
] proving counter-conspiracy that the
state enjoyed in showing conspiracy.
Mr.. Hawley contended that the state
had directly shown the existence of a
conspiracy by Harry Orchard, and by
so doing had laid the foundation for
and made the connection of all the
, evidence subsequently offered ON the
subject. He said the defense was try
ing to show a counter-conspiracy by
proving various isolated instances and
certain general conditions, none Of
! which was connected with the case
and for none of which a proper foun.
dation had been laid.
Court Sides With State.
In ruling the court accepted in part
the contention of the prosecution, and
limited the proof of the defense along
these lines to events in Colorado and
the Occur d'Alenes connected with the
case as now established.
Ed Boyce was the principal witness
of the day, and his testimony was
chiefly devoted to the history, pur.
poses and work of the Western fedora.
ton. He denied the existence of an
Inner circle" or that there had ever
been a conspiracy in the organization
or an illegal act.
Still Try to Diseredit Orchards Story.
Boise, Idaho, June 80. - The attor.
neys for Haywood continue to center
their efforts on the discrediting Of
Harry Orchard and the establishment
of their claim that Orchard killed
Frank Steunenberg in revenge for the
loss Of his interest in the Hercules
mine. Yesterday they directly attack.
ed the story of the Vindicator explo-
sion with the testimony Of a witness
who made it appear accidental rather
than criminal.
indicator Explosion.
Thomas Wood, a non.unionist, who
entered the Vindicator mine as a tim
Der man after the strike began, swore
that the night before the explosion he
placed box containing twenty-five
pounds Of dynamite at the shaft of the
eighth level. He saw the powder the
next morning shortly after 10 o'clock,
and few minutes later Supt. McCor-
mick and Foreman Beck came to the
eighth level. They remained but a
short time and left to 60 to the sixth
level, where they were killed. Wood
swore that when he reached the shaft,
twenty minutes later, the powder was
gone and it was a reasonable inference
that Mccormick and Beck took it with
them.
contradicts Orchard.
Wood testified that he had seen a
revolver in Beck's pocket; that the
fragments of only one revolver were
found in the sixth level, and that the
bodies of Mccormick and Beck were
blown apart, indicating that the ex-
plosion had occurred between them.
Orchard said that he fixed a revolver
with wire attachment, so that when
the safety bar was raised it would
send bullet in the giant powder he
had placed. One witness for the state
has sworn that he found wire attach
ed to the safety bar, but Wood, who
was among the first to reach the sixth
level after the explosion, said that he
had carefully examined the safety bar
and found nothing attached to it.
William Easterly and D. c. Copley
both swore that they heard Orchard
tell of the loss of the Hercules mine
and threaten to kill Steunenberg
Revolt Breaks Out Afresh.
Guayaquil, Ecuador, June 80. - The
revolution that was supposed to be
dead has broken out afresh, and new
rebel band of 100 men has appeared at