The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-25
PinkeftOns, Working for Mine Owners, to Kill Miners Un-
 iOrl Says Attorney
HAYWOOD WILL TAKE STAND
 ID DENY ACCUSATIONS
Clarence Darrow, In a Long Address, Outlines the Defense-To Show Orchard Murdered Steunen-
 berg for Private Grudee.

Boise. Idaho, June 24.-Tn an address that occupied two sessions of the district court today Clarence Darrow of Chicago outlined to the jury the detailed plot and defense of William D. Haywood to the charges that he murdered former Cover nor Steunenberg. In broad description it is to be denial of every material count in the testimony of Orchard with a show ing that Orchard Killed Steunenberg be- cause of a private grudge born of the loss of rich share in the great Her. cules mine and explanations of the in- dependent circumstances that tend to con- meet the three co-defendants with Or chard's life and operations. Haywood will take the stand to make personal denial of Orchards accusations, Mover may be called to testify solely to events and circumstances affecting the Western Fed eration of Miners. but Pettibone will not be witness in this case. MT. Darrow ex- plained that Mover and Pettibone must stand trial for this same crime and de- clared that every lawyer knew the dan ger whatever he circumstances. of ex- posing men awaiting trial under like cir cumstances. MT Darrow denied the exist of the great conspiracy to murder alleged by the state with Orchards testi- mony as a basis; denied that the fed eration was anything except an earnest, lighting labor orr nization with higher ages. shorter hours, tolerable working conditions and the and safety and education of it's members. and their wives an children as it's high and only mo- tives; denied the intimacy with the three co-defendants that Orchard laid claim to- denied several conferences and con- versatons that Orchard swore to; denied tha. CT chard 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 -he stand, and many witnesses of cred ftabe characters not connected by any ii with the federation or it's leaders.
 Mir Darrow charged that agents of the Mine Owners association of Colorado, an. tine Pinkerton detectives had joined hands in conspiracy to discredit and des-roy the Western Federation of Miners Agents of the mine owners had he asserted. committed many minor crimes to discredt the federation, and he promised that the defense would show tn 1t it was reasonable inference that they had engineered the Independence depot outrage as an attempt that had miscarried into tragedy. He asserted that this trial was the continuation of the conspiracy to kill the organization by killing the leaders; that the organization anu not "Bir' Haywood was on trial and that Harry Orchard, under the mani pulation of Detective Mcfarland, was trying to kill Mover Haywood and Petit bone that he might save his own life.
 great crowd gathered today in the room where William D. Haywood is on trial to hear the speech of Clarence Dar- of 1ipip h of the defense in combating the evidence put in by the state. The formaities of opening the session, at an end. Mir Dar- row at once took up his place directly in front of the twelve solemn visaged men in the jury box and began in the slow, mellow drawl charact eristic of him 10 state the theory and plan of the de- fense to be offered for his client
 DarroW Opens.
 Mir. Darrow reminded the jurors of the instructions given them by the court. that they are to keep their minds entirely open as to the guilt or innocence of the ac- cused man until all the evidence from both sides had been introduced.
 You have listened to the theory and evidence of the state" MT. Darrow pro- ceeded. "Mr. Hawley has covered a wide ground in his operating for the state, and we will have to meet him step by step Tine defendant here is charged nominally with the murder of former Governor Steunenberg. There had to be some nomi- nal charge. But the state has told you the case rests on a giant conspiracy. of which the defendant, among others, is party.
 ''rhe states attorney has told you the murder of Governor Steunenberg was but an incident. They have told you the Western Federation of Miners was an or ganzation to commit murder, to control hi Io tlarF Fs.rfn, inal things.
 Part of this is true part of it is not true. It is true there Is labor organiza- ton known as the Western Federation of Miners; it is true the Western Federation of Miners has spent money for lawyers. It was unfortunate, but most people have to employ lawyers at some time other.
 Birth of Union.
 This organization was really born in 1Se2-93, right down in cell breath from 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 judgment of this jury. To start out with, they hired law yers and they hired the best men they could. They hired MT. Hawley, now the leading counsel for the state. MT. flaw ley. laid out the plan of their organiza- ton for them; he advised them; he was the godfather of the Western Federation of Miners, and the man who formed the organization though it was an innocent undertaking. MT. Hawley was their first attorney and continued as their attorney for long time. If there was anything criminal in their appropriating money-far a lawyer the miners did not know it.
 ''The Western Federation of Miners is an industrial, not murderous, organiza- ton It has from time to time taken hand in politics, but we are not going to