The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-06-06
TESTIMONY IS HEARD
IN HAYWOOD TRIAL
EIGHT WITNESSES FOR THE
STATE ARE EXAMINED.
ALL ARE FROM CALDWELL
steunenbers's Son Among Those
Heard Prosecutions Opening
Statement Accuses sinner Cir
Gle" of Many Murders.

Boise, Idaho, June 5.-Through
James H. Hawley, senior Of the group
of prosecutors, the state of Idaho
Tuesday made the opening statement
against William D. Haywood, whom
1t charges with the murder of Frank
Steunenberg, and then began the
presentation of testimony by which it
hopes to prove the Indictment laid
against him.
The opening statement was sweep
ing arraignment of the leaders of the
Federation of Miners, who were
charged with plotting wholesale mur-
der and hiring assassins, all in a
giant conspiracy of vengeance upon
those who obstructed their sway to
destroy opposition by terrorism, to
control the political destinies of the
communities covered by their organi-
zaticn, and to peTpetuate their own
power within the organization.
1t charged widespread conspiracy
dating in inception from the North
Idaho disturbance Is years ago, reach
ing down to the murder of Frank
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victims, by bullet and bomb, numbered
scores. ~Hawley declared that wher-
ever in the mining sections of the
coast states the federation had been
In control, there had been left trail
of blood to mark its operation. OF
the hired assassins he cried: "To
them murder became a trade and as
sassination a means of living"
Many Objections by Defense.
Hawley spoke for nearly an hour
and a half to a courtroom crowded
but silent; to a jury which, sitting
bolt upright listened to 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 min
utes, and the repetition of objections
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 extend
ed back to the first trouble in North
Idaho, which was years before the ac-
cused was a member of the organi-
zation, and they accused Mr.. Hawley
of arguing the case in an opening
statement They dotted the records
with exceptions of overruled objec-
tions and finally got an agreement
uyb hu fhnir
rights as to the entire opening state
ment.
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 the conspiracy which 1t charged,
and make the necessary legal connec-
ton.
Eight Witnesses Heard.
Eight witnesses were examined and
there would have been time for three
or four more II the available supply
Of the state had not Unexpectedly run
out, enforcing an adjournment after
three 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 Steunenberg
home, and to show that two months
before the crime John L. Simpkins, 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.
c. F. Wayne, who passed outward
through the gate 20 minutes before
Steunenberg was blown up, told of
the explosion and the shocking con-
iition of the victim. ]. w. Cue, sur
geon, described the body.
John C. Rice, N s. Ellis and A. Bal
lentine, residents of Caldwell, traced
Orchard about the town at various
times before and after the crime, and
then came Julian Steunenberg, son of
the dead statesman, to tell how Or
chard, three days before the murder,
had inquired of him about his fathers
movements.
Victims Son Testifies.
Julian Steunenberg is a strong, well
set up youth with light hair He took
the stand very bravely, but when SEN
ator Borah began to question him a
cloud of pain passed over his face and
he shielded his eyes. evidently to keep
back the tears. He told of meeting
Orchard, then known as Hogan, at the
local railroad station in Caldwell three
days before the crime and telling him,
in answer to his inquiry, that his IA
ther would be at home the following
Friday. He said that he was on his
way home with his uncle and was two
blocks behind his father when the ex-
plosion occurred.
1t was announced that Orchard
would testify Wednesday
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