The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-06-04
Actual Trial Of Haywood Will Begin
This Morning.
AS THEY REGARD JURY
Counsel for Both Sides Give Their Opin-
ion of Pane.

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I Vindicator mine, the blowing I'D of
the Independence depot, the murder
Of Light Gregory, a detective OF Den
yer; the murder of Arthur Collins of
Telluride, the alleged blowing up Of
Fred Bratley Of San Francisco, and
the alleged attempts on the lives Of
former Gov. Peabody and Judges Cab
oert and Goddard of Colorado, were
all acts in single great conspiracy to
which the murder Of Gov. Stuenen-
berg was incidental. 1t will be
charged that Haywood was the gen
ius and strength OF the great plot
and that Stuenenberg was added to
the list because Of his part during the
labor troubles in northern Ihado.
The states testimony will begin
| with rehearsal Of, the grim Cald-
well tragedy in which Frank Stuen-
enberg was blown to death by a
bomb on the night of December 80,
1905, and then the presence at Cald-
well of Harry Orchard and John L.
Simpkins, a member Of the executive
board Of the Western Federation of
Miners will be shown. After that
Harry Orchard, who actually mur-
dered Stuenenberg, will be connected
with the scene and crime and then
Orchard will be called to the stand
to retell the confession which it is
alleged he made to Detective MOZART
land. After this will come the states
effort to corroborate the Orcahrd
story and to clinch by other testimony
the general part Of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners and the particular
part of William D. Haywood are al
legged to have played in connection
with Frank Stuenenberg's murder
In the work of securing the jury the
court has been in session is days One
hundred and fifty-six talesmen have
been examined. OF this number. 81
have been qualified, including the 12
men now in the box. Juror Orric Cole
was excused on account, of sickness
and J. e. Tourtellotte was excused
after re-examination on the ground OF
opposition to capital punishment In
a joint interview with MI. Darrow this
afternoon, Mr.. Richardson after the
empanelment of the jury made the
following statement: 5.5
The Haywood jury is made up Of
eight republicans, three democrats
and one prohibitionist. 1t consists of
nine farmers, one real estate agent,
one building contractor and one fore
man of fence construction on rail-
road. There is no man on the jury
who works for wages or who has ever
belonged to labor union, excepting
Burns. who was member of car
penters' union IA years ago, or who
has ever been student Of trades
un1onism or the labor question. In
the 200 Jurors drawn, not more than
three trades unionists were placed in
the panel, and these were excused
for conscientious objections to capi-
tai punishment and alxed opinion. The
jurors drawn have been mainly farm
ers, interspersed with a large num-
Der Of bankers and some business
men.
The jurors appear to be mfn of
honest purpose, determined to give
the defendant fair trial, but it is
uniformly made up of class to which
none Of the defendants have ever be-
longed and to this they are drawn
from a small county almost wholly ag-
ricultural and each member for a
year and half has read little about
the case except what has been pub
l1shed In the Boise daily papers, and
this has uniformly been hostile to the
defendants. Nearly all of them admit
that they had formed opinions and
impressions from what they read
and necessarily these must have been
against the defendant
Commenting upon the jury, j. H.
Hawley, leading counsel for the state !,
said:
I'VE are thoroughly satisfied with
the jury. We have 12 faIr-minded
men. who will do even justice be-
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