The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-25
Haywood Case Takes a Sensational Turn. ] DEFENSE WILL COMBAT
 STATES EVIDENCE Court Room Was Crowded When
 Defense Opened. It Is Alleged That the Pinkerton sleuths Continually Advised Strikes and fin Many
 Cases CounseIed
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bolSe, Idaho, June 24.--In an ad- dress that occupied two sessions of the district court today. Clarence Dar- row, of Chicago. outlined to the jury the detailed plot and defense of WiI- Ham D. Haywood, to the charges that. he murdered former Governor Steunen- berg.
 In broad description 1t Is to be denial of every material count in the testimony of Orchard, with showing that Orchard killed Steunenberg be- cause of a private grudge born of the loss of rich share in the great Her. cuies mine and explanations of the in- dependent circumstances that tend to connect the three defendants with Orchards life and operations. Hay- wood will take the stand to make per- sonal denial of Orchards accusations. Mover may be called to testify solely to events and circumstances affecting the Western Federation of Miners. but Pettibone will not be a witness in this case. MT. Darrow explained that Moy- CT and Pettibone must stand trial foi this same crime and declared that ey- cry lawyer knew the danger, whatev. CT the circumstances of exposing mer awaiting trial under like circum. stances.
 Conspiracy Denied.
 MT. Darrow denied the existence of the great conspiracy to murder alieg- ed by the state with Orchards testi- mony as a basis: denied that the fed eration was anything except an earnest fighting labor organization with high CT wages. shorter hours. tolerabie working conditions and the care and safety and education of its members and their wives and children as It's high and only motives; denied the intimacy with the three co-defepdants that Orrh- ard had even committed any of the crimes he had boasted and promised to make proof of his contentious with many of the men named by Orchard when on the stand and many witnesses of credltable characters not connected by any tie with the federation or its leaders.
 Mir Darrow charged that agents of the mine owners asociatlon of Colora- do and the Pinkerton detectives had joined hands in a conspiracy to dis credit and destroy the Western Fed eration of Miners. Agents of the mine owners, had. he asserted. committed many minor crimes to discredit the federation and he promised that the defense would show that 1t was req sonable inference that they had engi- neered the Independence depot outrage as an attempt that Mad miscarried in- to A tragedy. He asserted that this trial was the culmination- of the con spiracy to kill the organization by kiil- ing the leaders; that the organization and not "Bin" Haywood was on trial and that Harry Orchard. under the manipulation of detective McPariand was trying to kill Mover Haywooo and Pettibone that he might save his own life.
 DnrrOw Begins Speech.
 great crowd gathered to- day fin the room where William D. Haywood is on trial. to hear the speech of Clarence Darrow Of chicago outlining the purposes or the oetense in combating the evidence put In py the State. The formalities of opening the session. at an end. Mir. parrow at once took up his place directly in front of the twelve solemn -visaged men m the jury box and began in the slow. mellow drawI characteristic of him to state the theory and plan of the de- fense to be offered for his client
 You have listened to the theory and the evidence of the State." MT. Darrow proceeded. MT. Hawley has covered a wide ground in his opening for the state and we will have to meet him step by step. The defendant here is being charged nominally with the mur- der of former Governor Steunenberg. There had to be some nominal charge. But the State has told you the case rests on a giant conspiracy or wnicn the defendant among others Is a party.
 'srhe States Attorney has told you inc murder of Governor Steunenberg was but an incident. They have told you the Western Federation of Miners was organized to commit murder, to control politics, to hire lawyers and other criminal things.
 Part of this Is true: part of 1t is not true It Is true there Is labor or ganization known as the Western Fed
 ta hn tern Federation of Miners has spent money for lawyers. It was unfortu- nate, but almost all the people have to employ lawyers some time or another.
 This organization was really born in 1892-1S93, right down In cell De- meath this court room where Ed Boyce, the first president. was a prisoner and where now the three men charged with this murder are awaiting the Judg- ment of this jury. To start out with. they hired lawyers and they hired the best men they could. They hired Mfr. Hawley, now the leading counsel for the State. Mir. Hawley laid out the plan of their organization for them; he advised them, he was the Godfather Of the Western Federation of Miners and tho men who formed the organization thought it was an innocent undertak- ing. MT Hawley was their first at- torney and continued as their attorney for long time. If there was anything criminal in. their approprlating money for a lawyer the miners did not know 1t.
 '"The Western Federation of Miners Is an industrial. not murderous or ganiSation."
 Tt has from time to time taken hand in politics but We are not goiES to hang every organization which has done such a thing. if we did no corpo- ration would be safe. The federation of miners did all 1t could to pass the eight hour law in Colorado. Utah and Mon- tana It tried to elect friendly United States Senators. It tried to elect Mir. HawIey. but unfortunately failed"
 Mir. DarTow went on to say that there was no claim that the Western