The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-01
HE'LL IN BORDER
SENATOR eoRAH SAYS THIS OF
COLE DO.
CLOSING PLEA AT BOISE
Case Goes to the Jury and Return
10 Not Expected for Sew
eral DAYS,

dence in the Haywood murder trial
are at an end. and the entire matter
Is now in the hands of the jury.
The summing up Of the case may be
taken about as follows:
Former Governor Steunenberg muir
dered December 80. 1905.
Harry Orchard arrested for crime
January l, 1906.
Haywood. Meyer and Pettibone ar
rested February II, 1906.
Trial OF Haywood began at Boise
May 8. 1907.
Jury to try Haywood completed
June 3.
Orchard begins confession on stand
June 4.
Introduction of testimony concluded
July II.
Arguments to jury begun July II.
Case went to jury July 26.
Senator Borah had the closing plea
in the famous case
Watch these five men-Simpkins,
Orchard, Haywood, Meyer and Petit
bone!
"Steunenberg is to die in thirty
days. Watch them! We have got
them together! They are moving to
the scene!"
This was the dramatic climax
reached when for an hour and half
Senator Borah was making the last
argument in the Haywood case, and
woven craftily on the meshes OF his
net. His theme was conspiracy-the
essence of the case of the state of
Idaho in its effort to show that Harry
Orchard was only the tool of Haywood
when he killed the former governor.
Now watch this quintet" he cried
triumphantly. when having laid luis
foundation piece by piece, using only
testimony of witnesses for the defense
itself, picking it out from the mass OF
mixed material, he showed the init
macy between Orchard and the high
est officers of the Western Federation
of Miners.
The argument of the morning cen
tered in Caldwell, but the scenes
changed rapidly, each flash showing
an officer, friend or member of the
Western Federation of Miners the con-
fidant and intimate of Harry Orchard.
Senator Borah began by reviewing
briefly the points made in the opening
hour of his address. He said he would
go briefly over the trail of blood left
by Harry Orchard, taking first the
murder of Governor Steunenberg and
barking back over some of the most
important incidents developed in the
testimony.
Il hardly need tell you sensible
men," declared the pleader, that Pink
erton detectives had nothing to do
with the assassination of Frank
Steunenberg. That is one of the most
absurd of the many absurd things
brought into this case by the learned
counsel OF the defense"
Senator Borah, in laying the founda-
tion for his argument of conspiracy,
pointed out that Orchard went to Cald-
well from Denver and fresh from as
ISOLATION with the officers of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
regarded Steunenberg as an enemy.
Then he touched upon the fact that
Marion Moore, an officer of the West
ern Federation of Miners, in testify
ing for the defense. admitted that he
agreed with Orchard to deceive Or
chard's wife when Orchard wished to
desert her.
Harry Orchard left Denver with
crime in his heart. The impelling,
compelling force came from Denver.
George Pettibone helped Orchard pack
his utensils of murder in his trunk.
Why is Pettibone not here to deny it?
His silence is a confession of his guilt.
Petitioners absence is an absolute cor
roboration of Orchard"
Orchards Story corroborated.
Taking up the question of the per-
sonal motive the defense had urged
against Orchard, Senator Borah
showed to the jury the deed by which
Orchard had parted absolutely and
forever with his interest in the Her
cules mine fourteen months before
General Merriam and his negro troops
marched into the C9ur d'Alenes.
This deed, the letters and kilograms
and all the other evidence not sub
ject to being tempered with in this
case, corroborate Harry Orchard and
fit in precisely with the story he has
told you. Governor Steunenberg did
not cause Orchard to lose his interest
in the mine, so how could he have
entertained murderous grudge!"
Senator Borah took up, one by one,
the witnesses for the defense. who, he
said, corroborated Orchard and
proved criminal conspiracy because
they had covered and protected Or
chard up to the time he confessed
and implicated Haywood
Among these were Bill Easterly, the
member of the Western Federation of
Miners who heard Orchards threats
and to whom Orchard telephoned
from Caldwell before the murder; w.
F. Davis, the president of the West
ern Federation Of Miners local. who
heard Orchard make threats against
Steunenberg; David Coates, the ex-
lieutenant governor of Colorado and
friend of the Western Federation of
Miners, with whom Orchard discussed
the stealing of Paulson's children;
Lottie Day, General Eugene Engley,
the former attorney general of Colo
RADIO. who, of all men. an officer OF
the law, should not have kept these
direful threats secret locked within
his breast when the state of Idaho
WAS looking for eYidence AGAINST Or