The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-24
RICHARDSON ENDS ARGUMENT
HAYWOOD LAWYER CLOSES WHEN
HIS VOICE ~ ALI GONE.
Devotes himself Finally 90 Denouncins Or
chard. the Pink ert Ons. Mcfarland. the
state Onicers mi All VINO Have Been
Active I'm the Prosecution OF Fits Client.

son brought his two day argument I'm de-
fence Of William ID. Haywood to a close
at half past y tonight with u fierce
denunciation Of Harry Orchard and James
Mcfarland. the detective
He declared that the theory that religion
-ctuated Orchard In making his confession
was absurd and described him as a cheap.
tawdry hero who sat on the witness chair
like a king. who was the author Of a
magazine article about himself and was
made much Of by everybody about him.
This man. he further declared. had been
promised immunity for his confession.
though he had denied 1t.
Mr.. Richardson's voice was nearly gone
when he faced the jury for the last time
tonight. but he anne up game when the
bell sounded and started at once to tell
how the v~ultures (PinkertonsD and the
hell hounds Of capital Idaho and Colorado
State and county O~fficialsl had been
steadily at work ever since the SteuneD-
berg murder to fssten that crime on the
leaders OF the Western Federation Of Miners.
He seemed 10 think that the offer Of a large
reward for the capture Of the murderer
was an argument calculated to back up
that theory.
II has all along worried the deIence "A
good deal that Harry Orchard has been
inoarcerated in the penitentiary and not
in jail, and MIR. Richardson took this chance
to denounce the State officials for this
action, which. as appeared in Orchards
confession, brought him into contact with
Mcfarland. The detective was denounced,
and the lawyer practically declared that
the Mollie Mcguire outrages. in SUPPRESS
ing which Mcfarland won his spurs, were
really instigated by Mcfarland himself.
Then the lawyer waded into the detective
for further orders. Said he:
Mr.. Hawley In his opening. promised
You that this terror to evildoers would be
put on the stand. Now where is this terror
to evildoers? Did he go on the standH He
did not. Only once has this terror 10 evil
doors dsrkened the doors Of this court
room since this trial began and that was
after the evidence was all in and he thought
he was coming 10 hear a eulogy pronounced
upon him 10y MIR. Hswley. ] wish he was
here TO hear the eulogy that | am about TO
pronounce upon him.
There was a burst Of laughter at this
and one man started TO clap his hands,
but the noise was sternly suppressed by
the Sheriff and IL didlnot break out again.
Richardson hurried on to declare that
though the Pinkertons had been for years
on the trail OF the Western Federation not
a single crime had they ever been able to
fasten upon the leaders He asserted at
the top of his voice that the Pinkertons
knew tnAt OTCDaTu WOulU COuletb lODk
before he did. He ridiculed the claim
that Mcfarland deserved any credit for it.
and declared hat in his judgment the
evidence showed the whole thing had been
prearranged
One circumstance rather baked counsel
in this belief and that was Orchards At
tempt to commit suicide after his con-
~fession, but he really did not think that
amounted TO much, or il it did, ii was the
result Of his remorse at swearing away
the lives OF innocent men.
-Petted by the warden. visited by the
Governor and called Harry, this vile. this
wretched, this loathsome creature-I don't
know that he calls Senator Borah BILL
but I do know from the evidence that the
senator called hi m Harry,
And 40 we see them all together. not
for the purpose of hanging that murderer.
but for the purpose OF making this jury
believe that Orchard told the truth. and so
persuade you jurors TO vote to hang the
leaders Of this organization, which has
been conducting an industrial war against
the mine owners OF the West, which Is an
other name for the Standard Oil Company
Mr.. Richardson was vastly displeased
because the State employed MIR. Hawley
and Senator Borah to prosecute his clients
Canyon county. He thought that was
another evidence that there was a conspiracy
to convict his clients whether or no.
One Of the first things Richardson did
to-day was to demand why Bulke Wells
State. Wells is the man who undertook
the ticklish job Of digging mp the bomb
that Orchard planted in front Of Judge
Goddard's gate in Denver and which nobody
knew was there until Orchard told about
told the jury how he saw Wells perform hiS
task. but that didn't satisfy Richardson at
all. He practically intimated that Wells
himself had planted the bomb which he
dug I'D in order to furnish more evidence
against the Western Federation
Throughout the lawyers address ran the
note OF Orchards homicidal mania. When
Mr.. Richardson referred to the alleged at
tempt to kill Gen. Sherman M. Bell, who
commanded the Colorado militia in h Grip
argument. He declared that IL the Western
Federation had been cunning for enemies
Gen. Bell would surely have been the first
victim.
do you suppose said he, that had this
federation been as implacable n muir
derous against it's enemies as Orchard would
have you believe sherman Bell would have
been alive and walking the streets to-day
And there are Goddard and Peabody and
Gabbert. all Of them bitter enemies Of Or
L is as certain as anything in this world
can possibly be that IL the federation
leaders were the men that Orchard makes
them out not one OF these men would be
alive to-day
The lawyer had been talking for seven
hours before ne got down to the Steunen
berg case, which after all. he said, was the
only thing at issue at the present. He I'M
derscored the fact that no matter what
crimes had been committed In Colorado
the jury could not infict punishment for
them but only for the murder OF ex-Gov.
Steunenberg.
The case really should have been tried
in a week and would have been il the State
had not been forced to go outside the State
OF Idaho to try to convince the jury that
Haywood might possibly have had some
thing 10 do with crimes elsewhere and there
fore probably had something TO do with the
S~teunenberg murder.
When Orchard made his confession he
told Mcfarland that he had many chances
TO kill St~eunenberg before he actually
killed him, but he never accepted any OF
them until December 30. 1905. because OF
the danger OF capture.
Its easy enough TO kill anybody, said
Orchard. ats the get away that's the
trouble"
This idea did not occur to Lawyer Richard
son, apparently. for he went on to say that
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