The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-08
HAYWOOD TRIAL
PROBABLY LAST
THREE WEEKS
Defendant to Take the Stand and
Lay Bare His Ent ire Lifc's
History.

BOISE, Idaho, July Viewed
in the light of the closing plans for
the defense and prosecution in the
Haywood case. there seems little
hope that the trial, which has al
ready been in progress for two
months, can be brought to an end
inside of three weeks. The defense
will require at least all of five or
six days yet. for 1t is announced that
Haywood, when he takes the stand.
tire life's history. His testimony as
to his connection with the Western
Federation of Miners will be inter
spersed with much documentary evil
dence and the Introduction and read
ing of this to the jury will take up
much time. The defense expresses
it's willingness trat the cross-eXami-
nation of Haywood shall take the
widest possible rance. The defend
ant, it is said, will not only deny in
toto all that Orchard has said as to
his connection with any of the wit
nesses and crimes, but will offer a
perfectly plausible explanation of the
instances where the state has asso-
ciated Orchard and Haywood, nota-
bly, the instance of Haywood's part
in the deception of the second Mrs.
Orchard as to the whereabouts of
her husband in the late summer of
1905.
Haywood will also be called upon
to explain the sending of several
drafts to Jack Simpkins, member
of the executive board and organizer
of the Western Federation, whose
presence in Caldwell with Orchard
Just prior to the assassination OF for
mer Governor Steunenberg has not
been denied by the defense. The at
torneys for the Federation say that
those payments were the regular
sums due Simpkins for his work as
an organizer and had absolutely
nothing to do with any crime or pre-
pared criminal act. The sending of
$75 to Steve Adams in Ogden, Utah,
will also be a subject of inquiry
when Haywood takes the stand.
The fourth instance to which the
state attaches Importance as tending
to connect Haywood with the alleged
conspiracy as revealed by Harry Or
chard upon the witness stand, was
the sending of message by Hay
ing the Federation officers to see
that attorneys were engaged for Or
chard and to protect the interests OF
the miners union
Haywood's explanation and cross
examination can hardly be accom-
plished in less than three or four
days. Meyer may be disposed of in
one day.
The week will begin tomorrow
with the reading of dispositions Sc
cured by the defense in San Francis
co, contradicting Orchards claim
that he destroyed the Bradley house
with a dynamite bomb. With sup
porting affidavit from Bradley, the
defense will claim the explosion was
due to gas. Dynamite experts will
be introduced to swear that the ex-
plosion of such a bomb as Orchard
claims to have placed on the Brad
'ey porch would have created far
greater havoc than was the case and
that it would have been impossible
for Mr.. Bradley himself to have es-
capped with only the few bruises he
sustained
The state may indefinitely prolong
the trial by going into the Colorado
labor troubles on rebuttal. The de-
fense claims that the calling out of
the militia at Cripple Creek was un-
warranted and that the deportations
from Cripple Creek and the Tellu-
ride country were nothing less than
lawless outrages upon the persons
and property of the union miners.
In addition to the Colorado Mat
ters. the state will undertake to con-
tradict the statements of many of