The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-07-18

part JOu played IN the great ITAaIS y
gainst the State.
You say, Mr.. Morrison, you were
OF connected with HAYWOOD, Moe.
and Pettibone case at all. Yet the
records Of the district court in and
or Ada county show in the petition
or writ Of habeas corpus for Steve
Adams, your name attached to that
document written by your own hand.
You first wrote the firm name
Morrison & Pence. then you
scratched out Morrison & Pence"
and wrote your own name John T.
Morrison Under your name to this
same document written by his own
hand is Clarence S. barrow, anu
nder Clarence barrow appears the
|rame, in his own hand writing John
LUCENT. Clarence barrow was the
principal Attorney for the Western
Federation; Joan Nugent their prin
|cipal resident attorney in Idaho.
How His Fee Was
Earned"
You say your only interest in this
case was the liberation of Steve
adams who was being held without
warrant OF law.
What interest did Clarence OAR
ow and John Nugent have?
Was theirs the same interest as
ours?
Why are you indeed, if you please.
n SO simple a case when great law
ers like. Clarence barrow and Jonn
Nugent We're ready to do this work?
1t is said, John T. Morrison, that
you received $1,000 for this simple
ase. You say his uncle paid you the
| money. Do you know how much he
| aid to Clarence barrow and Jonn
lugent? For let it be known that
Steve Adams uncle was a poor man.
)ne hundred dollars would have been
princely fee for any attorney to re-
Give for simple case of writ of
labeas corpus.
Again, Mr.. Morrison, If you
had been an honest Attnlnng to
Steve Adams,' the day tn (Eou
and Clarence barrow and D.,
Nugent had your secret confer.
ence with him, you would have
told him to have walked out of
the Feniteneiary. You knew as
well as the Attorneys for the
| prosecution that we were not
holding Adams against his own
will in the Penitentiary, but
before Adams would repudiale
his confession promises had to
be made to him to protect him
against the great crimes that he
had confessed to.
again let he say, you were
present and heard those prom
ises made to Adams, for it was
the only opportunity Clarence
barrow had to promise Steve
Adams to defend him against his
awful crimes.
You were not employed, John
T. Morrison, because you were an
attorney, but because you mad
been Governor of this great
State. The crimes were SO hOr.
rible that that was one of Oar.
rows efforts to employ every
man that he could who would
give his case some respectable
ity, and in this way deceive the
people. DO you think, John T.
Morrison, that If you had not
been Governor of this State, that
you would have been employed
| in this case?
For seven months Steve Adams had
been in the Penitentiary. Up to
within a few days of your visit to
,, Adams with Clarence Darrow and
John Nugent his uncle, who you
claim employed you, had advised
Adams to stand by his confession and
to tell the truth. He said that Steve
was of Kentucky blood and there was
no danger of his going back on his
confession, but for a paltry thousand
) dollars, or whatever your fee may
have been, you forgot the great honor
the State had given you, the support
the Stuenenbergs had given you in
your election for Governor, and that
love and friendship for that great
} man you so profusely expressed.