Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-08-01
HAYWOOD FOUND
NOT GUILTY.
Affecting Scene Between Mother and Son.
CLOSING Scenes of a Remarkable
Trial. Meyer and Pettibone
to be Tried.

sci for the state, and o. M. Van
Duyn, the prosecuting attorney of
the county in which Former Gov
ernor Frank Steunenberg was assas-
sinated sat gloomy in their places.
Senator Borah, who made the clos
ing plea for conviction, vas not
present.
Of the prisoners counsel those
in the court room were Clarence
Darrow of Chicago, E. F. Richard
son of Denver, and John F. Nugent
of Boise. The absentees from the
/ defendants table included Edgar
: Wilson. the former law partner of
Judge Wood, who presided at the
trial.
No member of the prisoners FAM
lily, nor any of his friends among
the Socialist writer's and the So
called |'labor jury who have been
attending the trial was in the court
room at the early hour the verdict
was returned. The spectator
benches were empty. In the door
way stood Governor Frank Gooding,
who has taken an active part in
pressing the prosecution of Hay
wood and his associates. There
was no demonstr alton Other than
that made by the attorneys for the
defense and the court proceedings
were over, the prisoner had been
discharged and the jury dismissed
for the term in less than three min
utes time.
The news of the verdict was re-
ceived quietly in Boise. Extra edi-
tions OF the papers carried the It'd
ings far and wide and during the
day there was considerable discus
sion in clubs, cafes, hotel lobbics
and upon the str ect corners.
The surprise which had been so
, manifest III the court room was
!, prevalent everywhere. The long
time the Jury was out had conveyed
the general impression that there
might be a disagreement. The
rumors which spread so rapidly and
frequently throughout the night ano
which were as unreliable as such
lumors always are, were generally
to the effect that a majority of the
:. Jurors had voted for conviction
| that the only difference of opinion
existing in the jury was as to tn,
, degree of guilt. The apprehension
of disagreement was prevalen
among members of the defendant
counsel and when to this feeling
was added the rumors of an ad
= verse decision, which continual,
, beat about their ears during th
i night, there could be found none t
s doubt the genuineness of their jo
i as the verdict was read
Clarence Darrow of Chicago, VIII
= made plea describing the case q
- issue as a struggle of ''class agains
class, who had definitely told tn
I" jurors that they were hostile to hi
i client and had had their mind
:, poisoned by corrupt and capital
Al istic press, had entered the cour
room with the mood of his speec
" still upon him, but as Haywoo
. vas freed and as the jury wa
~ passing out, he Wed with tn
u other members of counsel and wit
the prisoner himself in thankin
ie with mnay evidences of sincerti
:. the IL citizens of Idaho who hs
"a heard the evidence and rendere
~ their unalterabie opinion.
- Haywood's first thought was
y his aged mother who on Saturds
: had suffered a complete nervo,
:. breakdown after the jury had r,
- tired. Leaving the court room !
- company with Attorney Nugen
he walked down to the Jail portic
of the building shaking hands wit
AZ guards, employees and friends wi
~ had arrived on the scene. He bac
az farewell to Meyer who, when |
heard the verdict, said THAT
'o good'' and never stopped Shawn.
and to Pettibone, whom Darro
~ described to the jury as "a sort
se Happy Hooligan" and who call,
" out: Give my regards to Broa
Gu way Then Haywood walked
Ut ST. Luke's hospital and una
nouuced rushed into his mother