Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-20
HAYWOOD WITNESSES ARRIVE
Some Days VIII Intervene Before
They VIII he Needed in
Court.

BOISE, Idaho. May is-several Of the
more important witnesses summoned In be-
half of the state in the trial OF William
d. Haywood for alleged participation in
the assassination Of former Governor Steun-
enberg arrived at Boise today The prose-
cution had hoped by this time that trial
jury would have been impaneled, but II Is
now evident that all twelve seats in the
jury box will not be satisfactorily filled for
several days.
When court adjourned Saturday afternoon
the attorneys for the prosecution and de-
fense, were trying to hll vacancy caused
by the exercise OF the states fifth peremp-
tory challenge The defense still has six
Of it's ten arbitrary challenges available
and the state, under the new Idaho law,
has ave more challenges 10 its credit.
Formerly the prosecution was allowed one
half the number of peremptory challenges
granted the defense
The work Of Jury selection will be taken
UP again tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
Only twenty-six members of the special We
nlre Of 100 remain. and there is wide specu-
lation as to whether or not the trial panel
will be completed before the talesmen are
exhausted. If II Is not, there will be a de-
lay of several days while Sheriff shad
Hodgin and his deputies are rounding up a
new set Of men from the county.
Perhaps the most interesting Of the states
witnesses who arrived today was former
Sheriff Angus Sutherland OF shoshone
county. A scotchman by birth. but a pio-
neer of the American far west, Mr.. Suth-
erland is quiet, unassuming, modest. typ
ical Of the steel-nerved men OF the law
and order days of the frontier. He is in
innate with the Couer dAlene troubles
"a f1f
periences-and was the man who identified
Harry Orchard while the latter was held as
a suspect after Governor steunenberg was
killed.
Boise continues quiet and unruffied. There
is nothing in the aspect of the city to indl-
cate that the long-awaited trial Is under
way.
DENVER, Colo, May 19-General Sher-
man NJ. Bell, who commanded the state
troops during the trouble with the Cripple
Creek miners under the administration of
Governor Peabody, has not been called by
either side in the Haywood trial at Boise,
though he declares he knows much OF the
inside history Of the Western Federation
of Miners.
IL shall not appear as witness" said
General Bell today, except OF my own vo-
lition, but II any attempt to job the pris-
oners is made. or any attempt to use me
as tool by either the Western Fedora
ton of Miners OF the mine owners, 1 give
notice now that shall take a hand.
''Why should they try these men in
Idaho? During the trouble here and before
the murder of steunenberg there were sew
enty-hve persons killed in Colorado; and
yet they take men from Colorado to Idaho
TO try them for crimes committed in Colo
RADIO Why don't they try them here? Is
It because they are afraid7
"The whole thing is farce. II is unfair
and un-fImerican. tpetcst the principles
OF Meyer and Haywood but I think they
should get a square deal. and II you take
men from a state where the alleged crimes
we're committed to place supposedly hos
tile to them in another state. don't call
It square deal"