The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-25


Boise, Idaho. June 20.-Unless there
should be unforeseen delay in securing
a few final pieces OF evidence, the
state will tomorrow clOse lis case
against VIM. d. Haywood, who is
charged with the murder OF Frank
Steunenberg. This announcement vas
made today ny Senator BOrah, Of the
prosecution. and when Clarence Oar
row, Of the defense took up the ais
cusSiOn Of arrangement of time he
made it very clear that directly lIe
state closed, he and his associates
would move the court for an in6truc-
ton directing a verdict of acCuitLal.
1t is now anticipated that the state
will close by noon; that the afternoon
session will be devoted to argument
of the expected motion of the defense,
n if the court rules adversely on Ehe
motion, the opening statement in De
half Of Haywood will be made by Mr..
barrow Saturday.
The prosecution succeeded today in
again showing a direct connection be
tween the store Of Pettib0ne in Den
yer and Harry Orchard at work on the
Bradley crime in San Francisco and
promised to make the connection with
PettibOne personally by handwriting
experts who will be called tomorrow
Original records of the Pacific Postal
Telegraph Company were produced
showing that in September and o.
toher. 1904, remittances OF $3.50 and
$48 respectively were made, the first
by y. Wolff and the second by "P.
Bone" ron 1925 Stout street, Den
ver, the address of P~ettibone's store,
, to H. Green in care Of Peter L. Huff,
at 211 Taylor street, San Francisco.
w. v. Mccartney, who was carrier
of the Denver office of the Postal
Telegraph Company in the fall of 1904,
came here to Cheyenne and identified
and explained the records that show
ed TeInittances. The exhibit included
the receipt n the application forms
and kilograms of instruction ordering
LHS Day ultuL vi Tic JlOllty dI Dali
Francisco. j. Wolff" and "P. Bona
both waived the identification of III.
Green at San Francisco. and it is
claimed that the handwriting in both
instances is the same and that 1T is
the same in the letter PettibOne wrote
to the Mutual Life Insu! auce Company
when Harry Orchard joined that cor
poratiOn as a solicitor. The state also
showed that While at Silver City,
Idaho, January 10, 1899, Haywood de-
cIaIed that Steunenberg was a tyrant
and a monster who should be eXteI mi
mated, and by James Kirwan, acting
SeCretary-treaSurer of the Western
Federation OF Miners, that Jack Simp~
kinS and Marion Moore were made
members of the>executive board Of the
federation in 1905. and that control OF
all expenditures made by lie Organi-
ZatiOn vested III the president and sec
retar y-treaSurer.
1t was stated tonight that the pros
ecutiOn received a telegram from Den
Yer showing that the date on the
draft for 500 sent by VIM. D. Hay
wood to Jack Simpkins was December
p. 1905. Orchard testified that when
Simpkins left Caldwell alter the first
attempt on the life of Frank Stuen-
berg, he asked him to get 800 for him.
The undersigned letter which Orchard
got at Caldwell after his arrest II
which he said was written by George
PettibOne, one Of the CO-defendart5,
informed him that that" had been
SEN to jack on December q, 1905.
and that he should have received it.
The state produced the drafts sent ty
Haywood to Simpkins and among
them was one for 500 sent on some
date in the "20s OF December, 1905
but the particular day could not be
made out because the second figure
had been cut out by the perforator-
Detectives were detailed to trace
further the 800 draft and the tele.
gram from Denver today states that
the bank records show the date Of is
sue was December 81. The testimony
is of such Importance that the state
may delay closing it's case until it a
produce it. Or it may close with the
reservation that it be permitted to
make later proof.