The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-23
TOO ROr FOR AN ALL DAY TALK
COIR mr. CETS TINE HAYWOOD ARGI.
MENTS INTO SECTIONS.


Attacking Crediblniy Of Orchard.
BOISE. Idaho. July ~. Lawyer T.. +.
Richardson Of Denver began the argn-
ment for the Haywood defence early this
afternoon n when he knocked of for
the day IL lacked only a few minutes Of
. y. NJ, not that he talked all that time
without intermission. On the. contrary.
Judge Wood NJ noon ordered q recess until
o O'Clock. The heat was 80 severe that the
Court cared for the jury. several Of whom
are advanced In years. and evening sessions
will he the rule from now until the jury
gets The case.
II Boise has the "a, 900 which il claims IL ia
probable that Lawyer Richardson has 20, OOO
auditors to-day. for. as stated just now, IL
was a blooming hot day and the court room
windows stool wide open.
II all Boise didn't hear il wasn't Richard
sons fault, for he doomed all day long like
the breaking waves that dashed no high on
that stern and rock bound coast.
The quill Of the lawyers talk was an
attack on the authenticity OF the crimes
Orchard said he committed and an srgu-
ment that becau use they resulted disas-
trously to the fede rati il wss unlikely
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One Of the most interesting statements
Richardson Ia was that in his judg-
ment the case had been tried up TO date
with the utmost fairness. The lawyer
made n clever stroke In accounting for the
failure Of the defence TO put Steve Adams
on the stand TO deny the accusations Or
chard made against him, He well knew
that Senator Borsh would surely ask which
IL .paa a,l -. l. ..t,nl 49,. -, 49,. f,.ala,I.
and thus frankly explained il:
The State has Adams's defence. We
have his reputation. II was n case Of
dog al dog. One was afraid and the tother
da
II WAS generally agreed that this state
ment was the cleverest thing Richa rdsOn
did. He added to IL by saying that Petit
zone had been kept from the stand because
he was ultimately to he tried on his own
account and his counsel thought il fair
that his testimony should be withheld until
he could give it with his own defence.
MIR. Richardson began describing the
conditions in the Ceur d'Alenes in 1899 and
said that when teunenberg was killed il was
generally believed that the murder in some
way flowed from the ex-Governor's action
at that time.
IL. ne controversy that followed said
the lawyer. we find even the President Of
the united States taking a hand and de-
ciding in advance OF their trial upon the
desirability Of the leaders OF the Western
Federation Of Miners"
He declared that the newspapers OF the
country "A discussed the matter with
great intemperance and those that accused
the defendants without knowing the evil
dence were just as Incorporate as those
that defended them in equal ignorance.
Before plunging into the details Of the
case the lawyer urged that the jurymen
lay aside any passion or prejudice that
they might nave had before entering on
consideration OF the evidence.
He then went into a consideration Of
the law IA applied to the testimony Of an
accomplish, requiring. IA II does. a %corrobo-
ration by other evidence that OF itself tends
to connect the accused with the commits
sion OF the offence charged.
mo one contends" he said. that this
defendant personally killed Steunenberg.
II is only commended that he aided and
sbetted this man Orchard in bringing to
his death that great and, from all that
to his death And the law OF your State
provides that no man can be convicted on
the evidence Of a mar like Orchard"
Git all yer can while yer gittin,," said
Mr.. Richardson, quoting the Hoosier
philosopher. has long been the rule OF
human life and believe a so long a.
human nature remains what il now is this
will continue to be the rule
THE federation" he said. was organ
lied for the purpose OF lending he working
men all legitimate aid in getting all they
could"
He went on TO tell what the federation
had done in reducing the hours OF labor
and lettering the conditions OF work in the
mines. the benevolent and charitable work
it had accomplished and 80 on:
The evidpncQ reOa riding the riot mt Ward
ner in 1899 when the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
var mill was blown up by the union miners
and two men were killed has all along stuck in
in the crop OF the defence and Mr.. Richard
son tried to palliate 1t in his address.
He admitted that it appeared that this
crime had really been committed. but
against the fact he set Oh the charge that
after the mill had been blown up the COM
panies raised the estimate OF it's value from
SeO. 900 10 $3.50 900. so that let the union
dynamiters out all right. il appeared.
Right here Mr.. Richardson forgot what
his colleague barrow said in his opening
address. barrow said the defence would
prove that no union miners meeting was
was blown up. and that there was NJ dis
pute between the secretary and thu preei-
dent OF the union about the propriety of the
proposed violence. All this Orchard had
testified to and Mr.. Richardson to-day
quoted from Orchards testimony to show
that the head OF the local union did not
approve the violent work OF that day.
Richardson told how many union miner
were shut UP in the bull pen and prac-
tically declared that il was highly TO their
credit that thoy had never assassinated
anybody for IL. He did not use these
exact words, but 10 other inference from
what he said would be iustiflable.
Mr.. Richardson. after telling how the
Cripple Creek strike started, waded in
on Orchards record barrow. in his open
ing. said il would be proved that Orchard
had not sold his interest in the Hercules
mine. but had merely put II up as collateral.
expecting to redeem II. which he was pre-
vented from doing by being driven out
OF the C0ur d'Alenes by S~teunenberg.
No scrap Of proof to this effect had been
presented and all Richardson could do
was to tell the jury that such a thing was
not at all uncommon
He went on to say the evidence showed
Orchard to ave been a tin horn gambler
and a man who loved to make himself out
the worst sort Of a had, bad man
The lawyer then proceeded to max the
argument IN which 80 many attempts to
defend union men accused Of violence
have been based. namely. that the fact that
violence was certain to react on the union
il sure that the union men COM
mitted Tor Of the acts Of violence charged
mp to them.
When Richardson got going again at a
o'clock he started in with the statement