The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-12
HAYWOOD TAKES
STAND IN HIS
OWN BEHALF
Tells Story of His Life and Makes
Positive Denials of Charges
Against Him.
(By the Associated Press }

BOISE, Idaho, July i1.---William
d. Haywood took oath today as a
witness in his own defense, and. in
lengthy narrative of his lite and his
that was interrupted by adjournment.
denied guilt of the murder of Frank
Steunenberg and the manifold
crimes charged against him by Harry
Orchard.
Haywood was pa'e and trembled
with nervousness when he left the
table of his counsel and walked
around to the elevated witness stand,
where he faced the judge and jury
and raised his right hand to be
sworn. When he began to respond
to Clarence Darrow's questions, his
voice was low and somewhat uncer-
tain, but within ten minutes he had
regained his cOmpOsure, and for the
rest of the afternoon he was master
of his feelings.
AS he told of his boyhood, that be-
gun with toll at the age of 8, and
gave the history of his family. his in
valid wife, who sat just to the left of
the witness stand, began sobbing
softly. Her mOther-in-law and her
nurse soon comforted her, however,
and during the remainder of the af-
ternOon she and the rest of Hay
woods kinfolk remained quiet, but
deeply concerned auditors.
Haywood's testimony was chiefly
characterized by positive denials of
the allegations made against him by
the prosecution. He denied that he
met Orchard until some time after
the Vindicator explosion; denied that
he sent Orchard back to Cripple
Creek to blow up the independence
station; denied participation in the
Lyte Gregory murder, and denied
suggesting or discussing the Steunen-
berg murder. He swore that he
never gave Orchard any money at any
time or place for any purpose. He
declared that he never made threat
against Steunenberg, whom he said
he regarded only as he did any poll
tican who was being swayed by capt.
talistic influence. He told of num-
ber of occasions when he met Or
chard in Denver in the ordinary
course of his relations with the feder-
tion and George A. Pettibone, and
said he saw Orchard for the last time
in August, 1905, when Orchard told
him he was going to Alaska, and
Haywood said he chided him for de-
serting his wife at Crippel Creek.
The direct examination had not
completed the connection of Jack
Simpkins and the action of the feder-
alton after Steunenberg was mur-
dered when adjournment interrupted.
The state completed the crOss-ex-
animation of Charles H. Meyer at
noon, and in dealing with his testi-
mony directed its strongest attack
against the circumstances under
which the federation, at the sugges-
ton of Jack Simpkins, came to the
relief of Orchard when he was ar
rested for killing Steunenberg.
Senator Borah, who conducted the
examination, emphasized the connec-
tion of Jack Simpkins and the feder-
alton, and the fact that the fedora
ton, without inquiry as to the guilt
or innocence of Orchard, gave 81 500
from it's treasury to provide for his
defense. He also developed the fact
that the federation is providing for
the defense of Steve Adams, who is
charged with killing two claim
jumpers at the instigation of Jack
Simpkins. Meyer denied knowing
anything about the 500 that Hay
wood sent to Jack Simpkins few
days before Steunenberg was assassi-
mated and which Is traced to Orchard
by an unsigned note he got at the
Caldwell jail, and a coincidence of
dates.