The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-07-04
THE HAYWOOD TRIAL.

Boise, Idaho, June &c. - In an ad.
dress that occupied two sessions of
the district court yesterday Clarence
barrow of Chicago outlined to the jury
the detailed defense of William B.
Haywood to the charge that he MUIR
dered Former Governor Steunenberg.
In broad description it is to be de-
NAL of every material count in the
testimony of Orchard. with showing
that Orchard killed Steunenberg be-
cause of private grudge due to the
loss of rich share in the great Her.
cules mine, and explanations of the
independent circumstances that tend
to connect the three co-defendants
with Orchards life and operations.
Will Deny Everything.
Mr. barrow denied the existence of
the great conspiracy to murder allege l
by the state with Orchards testimony
as a basis: denies the intimacy with
the three co.defendants that Orchard
laid claims to: denied that Orchard
had committed many of the crimes
he had boasted of. and promised 10
prove his contentious by many
of the men named by Orchard when
on the stand.
Plot to Destroy Jn;vn.
Mr. barrow charged that agents OF
the Mine Owners Association vi Gel
orado and the Pinkerton detectives
had joined hands in conspiracy to
destroy the Western Federation OF
Miners. Agents of the mine owners
had. he asserted. commit: I'll llary
minor crimes to discredit the fedora
ton. He asserted that this trial Was
the elimination of the conspiracy 10
kill the organization by killing the
leaders: that the organization and rot
Bill Haywood was on trial, and that
Harry Orchard. under the manil na-
ton of Detective MCFARLAND, was try.
ing to kill Meyer Haywood and Petit
zone that he might save his own life.
Vengeance Was Orchards Motive.
Boise, Idaho, June 27.-The first d.
rect testimony in defense OF William
D. Haywood was offered Yesterday.
and it was chiefly directed toward
showing that Harry Orchard, blaming
Frank Steunenberg for the loss of his
interest in the Hercules mine, had
threatened to have revenge by killing
him, and that the conduct of Orchard
and K. G. Stirling, both before the In
dependence explosion, when they were
frequently seen together, and after
wards when Sterling called of a blood
hound that was following Orchards
trail, justified the inference that the
mine owners inspired the crime.
Orchard on the Stand.
The calling of the first witness for
the defense was preceded by a further
examination Of Orchard to permit the
defense to complete its formal i'm.
peaching questions. These questions
were nearly all in connection with the
claim that Orchard killed Steunen.
berg because of an alleged grudge
growing out Of the sale of his interest
in the Hercules mine. Orchard again
denied that he ever threatened to kill
Steunenberg because of the Hercules
mine, and again asserted that he had
sold his interest in the mine two years
before the trouble that drove him out
of Northern Idaho.
Two witnesses called later in the
day swore that Orchard threatened to
kill Steunenberg because of the Her
cules mine matter, and the defense
has prepared the way for such testi.
mony from a dozen more witnesses.
Several witnesses located Orchard
at various conferences with Sterling,
the detective for the mine owners as.
ISOLATION, prior to the Independence
explosion.
Tracked by Dog.
Another witness told of the effort to
locate the men guilty of the indie.
pendence station outrage by starting
a bloodhound from the chair rung
used in pulling off the mine explosion.
He said the dog took the road to Col.
orado Springs, the one over which Or.
chard fed in the night, and that when
he reported to Sterling he got orders
to call the dog off. Sterling said he
knew who blew up the station and
later said that it was Steve Adams.
Denies Story Told by Orchard.
Boise, Idaho. June 2S.-William F..
Davis of Goldfield, New, one of the
most important witnesses for the de-
tense of William D. Haywood, accused
of the murder of Frank Steunenberg,
was called to the stand at noon yester-
day, and his cross-examination had
not been completed when court ad-
journed. Harry Orchard testified that
Davis led and commanded the mob
that destroyed the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan mill in 1899; inspired, as the
agent of Haywood and Meyer, the Vim
dicator explosion and the train wreck
ing plot at Cripple Creek, and was an
accomplice in the Independence sta
ton crime.
Denies Orchards Story.
On direct examination by Clarence
barrow he went over the story of his
working life, including the pathetic
story Nf hn Iao<b ~ I,Sc .,,s1.