The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
May Be Necessary to Summons
Another Big Venire.
RELUCTANT TO SERT e.
Men on Hand Are Evading
Service When Possible.
More Witnesses Are Arriving
on Every Train.

Boise, Idaho. May 17.-Counsel for
defense and prosecution in the case OF
William D. Haywood, which this morn
ing commenced its sixth day, express
doubt as to the probability of securing
a jury for several days. Yesterday
morning hope ran high that the seats
now filled with talesmen qualified to the
peremptory challenge point would be
changed to a box of real jurymen by
the end of tomorrow's session. But the
fact that eleven talesmen were ex-
hausted in the effort to fill the one
seat vacated by peremptory chal-
lenge and that it took two hours ana
a half to qualify one man for cause
alone at the half days session yester-
day showed there is an increasing re-
luctance on the part of the talesmen
to serve. To this may be added the
increasingly wide scope of the interro-
cations put by the defense in which
by the way the prosecution is mol
slow to follow suit Again the Judge
himself has up to the present not de-
MED a single challenge from either
side. Notwithstanding the fact that
81 talesmen are yet to be called from
the special venire summoned by Sher-
if Hodgin, the fear is expressed that
this venire may be exhausted and an
other will have to be called. With u
men in the box and is peremptory chal-
lenges to come, for it is likely that
every challenge will be exhausted, it is
thought quite possible that it will be
necessary for the sheriff once more to
scour the county for available jury
men. Such a contingency would I'M
doubtedly cause another protracted de-
lay.
Additional witnesses are arriving on
every train The activities of those in
terested or both sides continue. They
even increase. Among the witnesses ar
irving today were four from PocatellO,
a small town south of Boise and near
the Utah line. To the fact that these
writ haX hHn nv he
tense no little significance is attach
ed.
Undoubtedly these witnesses are
here in connection with the discovery
of what is known as Greek fire or
"Pettibone DOPE" buried in an old
SaWmill al POcatello and in connection
with the confession which Steve
Adams is said to have made. Adams
who is now awaiting trial on the
charge of having committed a muir
der indirectly connected with the
charges against the officers of the
Western Federation of Miners is said
TO have confessed that he went to
Pocatello to blow up a carload of
nonunion miners. In his confession
he is alleged to have located the place
where he buried the explosive, as the
car failed to come through the town.
After the confession was made Ad-
ans himself with party of officials
including the governor of Idaho
travelled to Pocatello and excavated at
thu place where the explosive was
said to have been buried. 1t was not
found. But farmer who is one of
the witnesses here today testified that
his children did unearth the stuff and
that it exploded, seriously injuring
the children. In the same confession
Adams told of the hotel at Pocatello
at which he registered. At first it was
feared that this could not be verified
but another of the witnesses who
came in today was the proprietor of
the hotel which was destroyed and
who, it is said, has with him the old
register showing that Adams did reg
lister at the hotel on the day he named
In his alleged confession. 1t has been
stated that Adams would be called as
q witness by the defense but now some
doubt is expressed and 1t is intimated
that Adams may testify for the state
The interview given by Orchard yes
terday to the representative of the
Associated Press has caused the
charge SO insistently made that Or
chard was kept incommunicadO and
that he was insane or that the con-
fession had been forced from him I'M
der duress Or extracted by promises to
be completely exploded by the state
ments and appearance of the man.
During the course of the evening the
doors of the penitentiary were thrown
open to the representatives of the
daily newspapers, the purpose being
to show to the country that these
charges were false.
In his second statement to the news
papers Orchard added little to his
statement made earlier in the day.
One intervening admission made by
him was that he had been a part own
er of the Hercules mine. This was
already known but his statement was
In answer to a question put to him for
the purpose of discovering If the fact