The Ordway new era., 1907-07-19
DEFENSE CLOSES
STATE COMMENCES RgsurTAL m
HAYWOOD MURDER TRIAL.
SPRINGS GREAT SENSATION
Arrest Of Prominent Witnesses On
Charge Of Perjury Put New Life
Into the Trial.

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Haywood came to sudden close
last Saturday whent he attorneys an
Eounced that with the ending Of Hay
woods testimony II would rest tbs
case. The state at once began its re-
buttal, and created sensation when
one witness on the stand confessed to
participation in labor riot resulting
In the death of two men. the record OF
conviction OF murder In the second de-
gree OF witness for the defense was
having been sent to the insane asylum
upon the Information OF his neighbors
wac offered. and its admissibility was
| argued. Finally, shortly after court ad-
| Journed for the day. information was
cworn and warrant for perjury is.
sued In magistrate court against DR..
l.. MCGEE, n physician, of Wallace.
Idaho, who was one of the witnesses
for the defense in the discrediting OF
Orchard. Sheriff J. w. Bailey OF Sho-
shone county. who swore to the In
| formation against MCGEE. left for Wal
iace and will arrest MCGEE on arrival
there.
crowded courtroom, somewhat
bored by legal commonplace. sprang to
| strained attention at the close OF tho
second session OF the Haywood trial
when William Dewey. witness in re-
nuttal for the state, confessed to active.
armed participation in the destruction
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| centrator at Wardner on April -. 1899.
when two men were killed and a mob
of 1000 men participated in the riot.
| Harry Orchard commenced his series
CT great crimes at wardner. He con
iessed 10 lighting one of the fuses that
started the explosion. and he swoIe
that William +. Davis. known among
his fellows as Big Bill" Davis. led
the mob.
Witnesses for the defense have
sworn that Orchard was not at wari-
ncr on April goth. Davis himself hao
sworn to having been elsewhere AMI
positively denied any connection with
the crime for completely in which Paul
Corcoran was tried and convicted. and
some ten or a dozen men, including
Davis himself. were indicted by ths
grand Jury. Davis on the stand ad-
mitted that he went into hiding imm'f
ciately after the rioting
Dewey swore that not only did big
| Bill" accompany the mob to Wardner,
rrt that he served out guns. rifies and
ammunition to the union men gathered
in the Union hall at Burke before they
went to wardner. and was one Of ths
leaders OF the column that advanced
| on the concentrator before the work os
destruction commenced.
Eight years have now elapsed since
that day of meeting. the consequences
CT which was the calling out Of tho
United States troops at the request o,
Governor Steunenberg, the establish
ment OF the military bullpen and ths-
foundation was laid, according to tho
prosecution in the present trials. for
the animus on the part of the western
federation of miners against Steunen.
!. berg. resulting in his assassination by
Orchard in 1905. From that time no
witness except Orchard has been found
TO tell the story or incriminate him.
self until this afternoon, when Dewey,
now a resident of Goldfeld, Colorado.
made his confession.
With eyes downcast and fingers
nervously picking at the brainlnS
around the rim of gray sombrero.
Dewey told it ALL Repeatedly he was
} re oues;ed to raise his voice, and with
quick glance at counsel he complied.
only to sink back into an almost maud
iple tone. Under the provocation OF
sneering cross-examination by E. r.
Richardson, he rallied and even be
! came combative, but throughout tho
trial he gave evidence OF certain re-
morse.
Under the same cross-examination
re told why he had come to Boise TO
confess at this time after eight years
of silence He had been miner III
Colorado for seven years, he said, ana
had even risen sufficiently In the re-
gard of other men to be elected town
marshal of Goldfeld.
What promise OF immunity from
punishment was given you, before yon
decided to make this confession OF
crime?"
"what reward will you receiver"
What induced you to make this
statement after all these years?" were
some of Richardson's questions:
None" was the laconic reply to the
first two questions, but to the last one
the witness answered:
At read Orchards confession"
You saw how well he was treated
here and decided to get a little of lit"
sneered Richardson.
ut was nothing Of the kind, re-
sponded Dewey. quietly. Il thonght
ought to help along the doing OF JUS
| tice."
| Dewey left the stand few minutes
before the regular hour Of adjourn
ment. He is tall, loose -jointed man,
with deep set eyes and q great Roman
nose, dogged and determined in man
| ner, but with sense Of humor that
came out occasionally while he WAS on
| the stand. Mr., Hawley who Is conduct