The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-25

are up against here.
why. I don't know. but I somstimee think
ito On insult TO your lntellIgence 70 be arsuiDR
such q case before you II twelvs men could
take away human life upon u evidence,
then I would think that human life would
he safer In the hand Of Harry Orchard than
In the hands Of q Jury.
Now who 10 this fellow Orchard? PettIbone
did not make him bad. IL wasn't Petitions
dope that did II. A . young man he gave
his soul 70 crime.
Darrow wa lust getting real hot under
tho collar again when he O time OF to
hurl another Jest by asking: ,
conversions are any more permanent
than first ones or not: do you. SENATOR
Never had my first yet, : answered Borah.
We'll. do you know anything about II.
Richardson persisted barrow.
Looking for sxpsrtsi" grinned Richard
4 am said Darrow. Il need one: with
which admission he returned TO O considera-
tion Of Orchards career,
This passage he garnished with frequent
references 70 Father Mcfarland and his
sIre,T he went on, that q religious man
will tell the truth. u maybe It's just M
well, because we've had two or three re-
ligious witnesses ourselves, and IL would
be q tough job to ask the prosecution to
CUOOtS DStWebu Juc1u huu OTCUhIuf
That led him on to discuss the question
Of what Orchard was to get for his testt-
mony. .
Now the Court will instruct you hat you
have = right to take your common sense into
the jury boz with you. 80 let's see what Harry
Orchard has already received. II he had not
confessed. a. they call IL. the grass would have
been growing above his grave to-day. And
yet you've seen him. fat and sleek and well
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death. And I take IL that nobody here thinks
anything will happen to Harry until the last
case has been disposed of-not until Bill Hay
wood 10 dead and his body is rotting or eaten
up with quicklime.
Jack Simpkins In at large too. and then
there are 20 900 members OF the Western
Federation OF Miners. all criminals. and
Orchard knows them all. Hang Orchard
when all these criminals are alive and can be
testified a~gainstg What nonsense. Can't
anybody see that years OF life are staring
Harry Orchard in the face. and will they tell
MS then that Orchard has not been paid?
-Sickly, SOLDERING idiots" was the phrase
Darrow had for persons who talk about
Orchards regeneration, and he added:
4 least a month before Dean Kinks per-
susded him TO lay his sins on Jesus. Father
McPatlan persuaded him TO lay his crimes
on Bill Haywood. and yOn are asked by your
verdict to say TO all men: You may kill.
steal. commit any crime known to heaven
or TO earth. and then you may turn and throw
your crime on somebody else and your soul
upon God. But. gentlemen. IL you think pebble
policy demands H.. don't let q little matter
like Bill Hsywood's neck deter you from
that action.
Now ! am not a professed Christian. but
1 believe In religion. and " may he q broader
one than Hawley's. | believe that the same
sentiment that inspires the poor black who
bow down TO wood and stone inspires the
white man who lifts his heart to his infinite.
invisible God. It's the same thing. and for
both I have the profoundest respect.
Tears trickled down the lawyers cheeks
and he furtively wiped them away as he
went on:
And n Harry Orchard has an ything OF this
In his nature ] would be the last TO deny him
its consolation. would not even take his
life. and 10 tho day ever comes when they
actually do decide to send him to the gallows
and not another voice Ia raised for his life
my petition will be made for mercy TO Harry
Orchard.
But l want to say that II Harry Orchard
has religion now l hope I may never get it..
for It has made him totally depraved.
What does true religion mean? IL means
charity. kindliness and for giveness. Would
YOU nave commences IN n Religion tnat ulO
not mean thstp Yet you heard him testify
10 hang his old friends. and ask II you saw
in his eTes the least sign Of pity that was not
there the night he met a reeling. sta ggcribg
drunken man coming from a saloon and shot
him down before he could raise his hsnd'
take il, gentlemen, for this Is a historical
case. that in the future time pictures will
rome back to every one OF you. sleeping or
waking. Of the principal persons who have
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pictures OF Harry Orchard.
One OF you may see him pulling the wire
that sent fourteen souls TO eternity at the
Independence station. Another may see
him placing the bomb for Gov. Steunen-
berg and Fastening away with towards
feet. And MIR. Hawlsy will see him as a
cherub with wings %sprouting from his
shoulders and a halo lust above his head
with Father Mcfarland by his side chanting
hymns through all eternity.
But I shall not see him in any OF these
lights.
The black eat deed that Orchard ever did,
in Dsrrow's mind. was the admission Of his
true name of Horseley. thus blasting the
good name Of the little daughter he left in
Canada.
The blowing mp OF the Independence
comparison with hat deed. And why did
he do II. gentlemen For glory1 For
honor7 No. He did 10 because a miserable.
contemplate Pink rton detective had per-
susded MIN that IL he gave that name It
would make his story more creditable with
wood. would help to take the ives OF the
leaders Of this organization the detectives
have been bounding for years.
The martyr plea was overdue. but IL came
now. Said Dsrrow in making il:
You are asked to XII Bill Haywood. Well.