The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-24
DARROWTOCHARCE
GIANT CONSPIRACY
HAYWOOD DEFENSE TO MAKE
FLAT DENIAL AND ACCUSE
MINE OWNERS.
STATES STRONG CASE
viii Be Attacked, Point BY Point,
and May Last For Several
Orchards Story to Be
.NI pu. on Grill.

Boise. Idaho Jrne 23--William ID
Haywood will tomorrow morning
formally assert his entire innocense
of the murder charge and outline The
evidence he proposes to produce in
order that the presumpt on OF limo
cence still resting in the mind Of
the jury may become a fixed judg-
ment. Clarence Darrow, as attorney
for Haywood, will say that his client
is not guilty of conspiracy to assassin
ate Steunenberg, a former governor OF
Idaho, but that Haywood Is in fact the
victim of conspiracy to disrupt the
Western Federation of Miners and UNI
der the guise of legal procedure CON
demn to death the chief officers Of the
federation.
Mr.. Darriw's address to the jury
probably will take up most Of the day.
Court meets at 10 o'clock and takes
recess at noon. Mr.. Darrow says
that he expects his speech will occupy
at least three hours and possibly
more
Counsel for the defense are of the
opinion that the first witness will be
called on Tuesday morning. Judge
Wood, however, Is anxious to push
the case to completion and 1t may be
that from now on he will extend the
hours
The defense expects to take not
more than ten days wit hthe introduce
tion of evidence, but counsel for the
state will go into a close examination
of all the witnesses brought to upset
the Orchard story and for this reason
II Is thought that the case for the de.
fense may take up longer time than
was occupied by the state. The rebut-
tai testimony will take probably a
week. The speech and verdict may
take the greater part Of another 30
that 1t is not thought that the conclu-
sion will be reached before the end OF
July.
Strong Case Against Haywood,
AS to the Steunenberg crime, which
is the one specifically charged against
Haywood. the state has made the fol
lowing showing:
Jack Simpkins, member of the ex-
ecutive board of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners, went to Caldwell three
month sbefore Steunenberg was mur-
dered. He Travelled under the as
sumed name of Simmons and lived
with Orchard. He left Caldwell at
the end of weeks stay and later re-
turned from brief visit of less than
a day. His presence and movements
are shown by independent witnesses
and registers of hotels where he
stopped.
Haywood sent 800 to Simpkns on
Dec. 20, 1905. nine days before the
murder of Steunenberg, and an un-
signed Letter. sent from Denver on
Dec. 30. 1905, and showing by its ad-
dress to Thomas Hogan that the
writer knew the alias Of Harry Or
chard. collected the statement that
that has been sent TO Jack" on Dec.
81. 1905. Orchard testified that Petit
bone, one of Haywood's co-defendants
wrote the letters. Without any re-
quest from Orchad, legal aid was ex-
tended to, him two days after his ar
rival through Attorney Fred Miller of
Spokane.
Four letters we're sent to Mrs. Or
chsrd. the second at Cripple Creek.
three by Orchard and one by Hay
wood at various times in 1905, and 1t
Is claimed that they not only show
evidence of a plan to conceal orch !
ards whereabouts from his wife. but
we're part of plan 10 make an alibi
for him. Orchard swore that Hay |
wood was a party to the plan and
that TO carry II out Paddy Mullaney,
a member Of the federation of Cripple |
Creek, undertook to deliver the two
letters he wrote at Denver and dated
at San Francisco, and that Marion |
Moore. a member of the federation's
board. carried the third letter he
vtote to Nome. Alaska, and there |
posted It. The letter which was pro-
duced with it's envelope, bore the
postmark of Nome.
Connect fdyWooo d"u
Haywood's letter to Mrs. Orcnaro
bore the date in November. 1905, at
which time Orchard and Simpkins
we're at Caldwell, and made the state
ment that he was in Alaska Aside \
from the word Of Orchard Heywoods
letter stands alone and there is moth
ing 10 show that he was not himself
deceived or that.he was only helping
Orchard in the less harmful act OF
deceiving Mrs. Orchard Through |
Orchards letter runs the suggestion
that the federation officials are keep
ing Mrs Orchard supplied with funds,
but this too. rests on Orchards word. !
Haywood. Pettibone and Orchard
ere located together on two or three 4
occasions in Denver. between the