Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-13
BOTH SIDES ARE READY;
CASE is SET FOR TUESDAY
HawIey and Borah viii Conduct the
Prosecution and the Defense Has
Employed Clarence Darrow, Who
Set Haywood at Liberty.
Associated Press.

Boise, Idaho, October 12.-Broken
in health by his long confinement and
illness, George Pettibone, indicted
with Haywood and Meyer for the
murder of Ex-Governor Steunenberg.
Will be placed on trial next week. The
date has been fixed for Tuesday. and
both prosecution and defense have
announced that they will be ready
at that time. Pettibone is still suf-
fer1ng from the effects of the recent
illness that at one time threatened
to cause his death, but maintains the
hopeful and cheerful spirit that has
animated him since he was brought
to Boise from Denver to answer to
the charge of murder. Naturally a
humorist and an optimist, he appar-
entity does not realize the gravity of
the charge against him, or dismisses
1t with shrug of the shoulders and
an airy witticism. When the condi-
tion. of his health allows, he spends
his abundant leisure in making clever
sketches. and photographic work,
which he .gravely assures his visitors
will become highly valuable as souve-
Mrs after he has been hanged.
Little popular interest is manifest
ed in the case, the general beIisf -SA--
ing that the prosecution will fail to
prove its case. Those who formerly
sympathized with the state officials
in their efforts to secure the convic-
tion of the Western Federation lead
ers are critical of the attitude the
state has taken toward Pettibone
who was refused his liberty despite
the failure of the Haywood prosecu-
ton and the release of Meyer on
bail. Persons not intimately con-
nected with the administration who
are, nevertheless, against the defen-
dants, think this action has savored
OF persecution toward Pettibone.
whose life has been endangered bv
confinement, and who is not a So
clalist nor an active member of the
western Federation of Miners. Petit
bone himself has been philosophical
He says the state needed a "goat"
and that he is it.
Clarence Darrow, who defended
Wliiiam d. Haywood, will head the
Pettibone defense, and will be as
sisted by several able ATTORNEYS. in
Guiding K. l. Perky, former circuit
judge of Boise county, who has also
been retained by the miners. E. N.
Richardson, who played an impor-
tant part in the Haywood defense.
will not take part in the Pettibone
case. The Denver attorney is still
employed by the Western Federation
OF Miners, but friction between him
and Darrow has caused him to de-
cline to take any part in the defense
of Pettibone. James H. Hawley and
Senator William E. Borah will again
represent the state.
AS in the trial of Haywood. Harry
Orchard will likely be the principal
witness for the prosecution, and will
again repeat his grisly story of mul-
titudinous murders, committed, he
alleges, at the instigation of the West
ern Federation's inner circle" Pet
tibone, Orchard alleges, was a mem
ber of this band of conspirators and
took prominent part in planning
the murders which he and other
hired assassins committed. So far
as is known, the state has no news-
evidence to introduce, and -sSae only
hope for convicTfon is apparently
in securing a jury/ /that viii be more
inclined to belie%e the tale told BY
Orchard than was the Haywood Jury.
Although it i is believed that the
finding Of AZ sufficient number Of
qualified jYfymen will be even more
difficult THAN in the Haywood trial.
the taking of testimony is not ex-
pected ITO occupy nearly as much
time. The trial of Haywood bega,
on Mayt and 1t was not until il,
sS that the jury returned its veu
Of not guilty. Nearly month";
occupied in securing jury.
side uslpg all its perempto1
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