Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-15
SENSATIONS
The Order Of Day Saturday
in Haywood Trial.
me- Illness Coniesses Having
| lea Part IN Armed Riot.
E1st for Perjury Against Another
Defence Witness.

po;se Idaho, July 14-Startling de-
z,I,pmey,ts came Saturday in the trial
Vim ID. Haywood the murder OF
e9,k Steunenberg when the state be-
MS rebuttal evidence. One witness
Ssed to participation in labor
- tsulting in the death of two men
4ec0rd of conviction for murder III
a4ond degree. Of a witness for the
hcc was introduced and the PROOF
apother witness having been sent
INC insane asylum on the lnioriila-
Nm IF his neighbors was offered Us
Eadnissjbiljty was argued and the Dc
eisiou of the court will be handed down
Monday. Finally, shortly aftcr court
adjourned, information was sworn to
and warrant for perjury was issued
in a magistrates court against DR.. l..
Il. McGcc, q physician of Wallace, Ida,
who was one of the witnesses for the
defence. Sheriff J. w. Bailey of
shoshonc county, who sworc to tho in
formation against Niece left for Wal
lace to arrest McGce.
A crowded court room sprang to
strained attention ut the close of the
second session Of the Haywood trial
when William Dewey. a witness in re
buttal for the state confessed to active
armed participation in the destruction
Of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan con-
ccntrators at Wardncr on April 20,
| 1899, when two mon were killed in Il
riot IF thousand men. Harry Orchard
began his series Of crimes at Warln"r,
where he said he lighted one Of the
fuses that started the explosion and,
swore that VIM. f. Davis. known
among his fellows as "Rig EilI'' Davis,
led the mob Witnesses for the defence
have sworn that Orchard was not at
Wardner on April % 1899. Davis him
self has sworn that he was elsewhere.
positively denied any connection with
the crime for which Paul Corcoran was
tried ard convicted and some other
men. including Davis himself. were
Indicted.
Davis on the stand admitted that he
mt into hiding Immediately after the
biting.
1.-THE jury was kept out Of the court
m while the argument as to the ad-
ibilty Of O'Ncirs conviction was
hfcgress
ter the jury had returned. Mr..
Gity read the papers in the 0'Neil
~ He was charged with the killing
Daniel Falvcy. and uron being con
0faed Of manslaughtcr in the second
fgfee. was sentenced to one year and
T. months in the pentcntiary.
The state called in the afternoon Will
IN Dewey. Il miner in the Nindicat-
/ or mi ri, 10 Il In
was in Gem. Idaho and saw Zig Bill"
Davis on the day Of the explosion at
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan conccn-
traitor
Ten witnesses i'll rcEuttal were OK
amined. Most Of them were called t.
dlst'rovc statements as to Orchard $
Movements in North idaho and as to
disrosals in the Hercules mine. On" Of
The most interesting witnesses was Au-
gust Paulson, once a poor miner, part
fer Of Orchard in the Hercules mine
retained his interest in the Her
feS Tor five years, until the mine be-
ne one of the best properties in the
mry, and he is now wealthy. Or
~ sworc that he planned to kidnap
as children and cytort ran
FtAtoW. The coup did not come
pm was called at this time to
mt Orchard disposed Of his in
EsEin the mine some time before
Idaho. Paulson will be recalled
w"unSel for the state expect 10 finish
me rehuttal by Tuesday evening or
Wednesday at the latest.
"f perjury was issued. is a wealthy
Vs'o'ht of Wallace. At one time he kept
hospital there. In his testimony for
Wv urt'nce he sworc that Orchard was
""nac" i'll August and July of 1904.
was at this time, the state asserts.
''hard himself says, that Orchard
NUS III Denver planning the bradley
murder