Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-07-18
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OF connected Win may sCoa, -noy O.
nd Pettibone case at all. Yet the
ecords of the district court in and
or Ada county show in the petition
or writ of habeas corpus for Steve
Adams, your name attached 70 that
document written by your own hand
You first wrote the firm name
Morrison & Pence. then you
cratched out Morrison & Pence
and wrote your own name John I.
5orrison." Under your name to this
same document written by his own
hand is Clarence ). Darrow, ana
| nder Clarence barrow appears the
rsme. 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.
low His Fee Was r
Earned
You say your only interest Ia III
Case was the liberation of Steve
ldams who was Sing held without
warrant OF law.
What interest did Clarence Oar
ow and John Nugeat have?
Was theirs the same interest as
ours?
Why are You indeed, if you please.
SO simple a case when great law
ers nike Clarence barrow anu Jonn
LUCENT were 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 Darrow and JonD
Iugent? For let it be known that
,teYe 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, MIR. Morrison, il you
had been an honest Attorney TO
Steve Adams, the day that you
and Clarence barrow ana JJnD
Nugent had your secret confer
ence with him, you would have
told him to have walked out of
the FeniteneiaFy. lou knew a.
well as the Attorneys for the
prosecution that we were not
holding Adams against his own
txiH in p no
before Adams would repudiaIe
his confession promises had to
be made to him to protect him
against the great crimes that he
had confessed to.
Again let me say, you Mere
present and heard those prom
ises made TO Adams, for it was
the only opportunity Clarence
barrow had to promise Steve
Adams 10 defend him against his
awful crimes.
You were not employed, John
L. Morrison, because you were an
attorney, Dut because you had
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 I.
Morrison, that il 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 few days of your visit to
Adams with Clarence barrow and
John Nugent his uncle, who you
,laim employed you, had advised
Adams to stand by his confession and
o tell the truth. He said that Steve
vas of Kentucky blood and there was
10 danger of his going back on his
onfession, but for a paltry thousand
dollars, or whatever your fee may
ave been, you forgot the great honor
he State had given you, the support
he Stuenenbergs had given you in
our election for Governor, and that
owe and friendship for that great
nan you so profusely expressed.
God may forgive you for your
acts, but if the Republican party
of Idaho dominates you for Gov