BIG MURDER TRIAL. THE BOISE SENSATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1907, Page 5

BIG MURDER TRIAL. THE BOISE SENSATION.

AN ACQUITTAL. JURY DELIBERATES FOR 21 HOURS. By Telegiaph. — Press Association. — Copyright. NEW YORK, 29th July. The trial of Haywood, Moyer, and Petiiboao, officials of the Western. Minors' Federation, for complicity in the murder of Air. Steunenberg, Governor of Idaho, which has been proceeding at Boise for several months, has ended, so far as Hcywood is concerned, in a verdict of acquittal. It is understood that the cases against Moyer will be abandoned. Tho jury deliberated for twenty-one hours. In tho first ballot eight of the jurors supported a \crdict of acquittal and four favoured a decision involving some degree of murder. Tho minority were yon over during tho night. Haywood, on leaving tho dock, thanked each juryman. No demonstration wao made. ' LONDON, 2?9th July. The New York correspondent of The Times says: — "Doubtless Orchard will be, made to pay the penalty of his crimes. Haywood'B exoneration implies exoneration of the entire inner circle of the Wedem Miners' Federation, The verdict is a complete surprise, equally, to the public as to .newspaper correspondents at Denver, who declare that disagreement on the part of the jury was the utmost Haywood's friends expected.' 1 • TALSE IMPRESSIONS. WHAT IGNORANT FOREIGNERS ■ MAY THINK. (Received July 30, 7.30 a.m.) LONDON, 29th July. Tho Times' New York correspondent further states that many labour unionists will regard tho verdict in - Haywood's case as the result of the agitation in Naw York for his acquittal. He adds that citizens were interrogated at random, and that of half a dozen demonstrators, asked as to what .the demonstration was about, not one understood English. Those -Ignorant foreigners throughout the country will believe that the labour unionists have won a great struggle against their enemies and against the Government, and that the law is arrayed on the side of their enemies. ' THE COST OF THE TRIAL. (Received July 30, 7.32 a.m.) LONDON, 29th July. The Times' New York correspondent declares that Haywood's trial cost the Stato of Idaho £18,000, and that ■£30,000 was spent on the defence. HISTORY OF THE CASE. ■„ 'Th<- trial took place at Boise, Idaho. On sth June-, the prosecution called as chief witness" Harry Orchard, the selfconfessed assassin of ex-Governor Steunsnberg and the agent of more than a score of outrages. Extraordinary procautions had been adopted to guard tho wretched man from violence. Throughout the day the assassin kept his eyes fixed on the ground, timorously avoiding the gaze of Haywood, one of 'the heads of the Western Federation of Miners, who is being, tried for complicity in the murder of ex-Governor Steunenbcrg. ORCHARDS EVIDENCE. Orchard stated that he was born in" Canada in 1866, went to the Coeur d'Alono mines in 1889, and joined thtFederation of Miners. Orchard gave an account of a special meeting of tho Miners' Union, Burke, in April, 1899, at which the secretary announced that it has been decided that day to go to Wardner and blow up n. mill at the Sullivan and Bunker's Hill mines and hang the superintendent-. ;Arrangenionts had been made to cut the wires along tho railway and take pos--session of tho Northern Pacific train. At Gem they were to be joined by tho j Gem Union, and together they were to proceed to Wardner. . . Wo went to Gem and took 40 boxes of giant powder: "Before tho mill was blown up it was decided to return to Gem and got more powder. Thero were a thousand men on board the train bound for Wardner, , most .of. thorn .armed. Y\e were told, to- flre on the. mills as we approached,' and wo did so. The fire was returned. The guards fled, and the miners took possession. They put powder in three places, and the mill was blown up." Who was Governor of the State then? — Governor Steuuenberg. Was his name mentioned at the meeting you have described?— Yes, sir. A BOMB EXPLOSION. "In November, Davis and Sherman" Parker, who wore in cßarge of tho strike, came and asked me if wo could not send a bomb into the Vindicator mine and ruin it. They said they would give me £100 for doing it. A man named Ackerman said ho would help me. I got 501b of Giant powder and arranged it with Giant caps. We placed the bomb, but did not hear anything of it for a week, when it finally exploded. Tho superintendent, M'Cornuck, and Mci Beck, the shift boss, were killed. I went to Denver and saw Haywood and Moyer." Witness stated 'that as a result ofthi3 interview Haywood and Moyor asked if he could fix up a scheme to kill Mr. Peabody, Governor of Colorado, and it was arranged that he (Orchard) should go to Governor Peabody's residence. He went and watched, and reported that ifc would bo foasible lo hide behind a stone wall and shoot the Governor as he was passing. Haywood and Moyer assigned Adams, a miner, to help Orchard. Adams met witness in Denver, and Pettibonc gave them sawed-oS shotguns and buckshot with which to assassinate the Governor. They wore on his trail for threo weeks, following him closely, and once failed to kill him only -because a lady was with him. A DETECTIVE MURDERED. They then determined to put a bomb under the side- walk and explode it when the Governor wns passing over it. This was in May, 1904. Adams actually made the bomb, but found a difficulty in placing it in accordance with tho plan, which in the end was abandoned temporarily in order to kill Mr. Lyto Gregory, a detective in Denver. Pettibone planned Gregory's murder with them. Orchard then described tlie killing of Gregory in Denver. "I shot him thrice myself, and killed him." Next day he discussed the crime with Ilaywood, Mover, Petti bone, and Simpkins, all of wliom expressed thomselvtti as wall satisfied with it as v, "good job." v Mojec ga.l4 witness £40, Hid £»£-

wood, later, in Mover's office, gave him £60 for blowing up the Vindicator mine. On «6th Juno Orchard reached the climax of ths most remarkable tale of crime ever unfolded in an American court.' With perfect composure he re- j lated the astonishing details of the plot | to murder ex-Goyernor Steunenberg, the suggestion of which he ascribed to Haywood, the miners' leader under trial. "A LIVING DEATH." "Haywood suggested," he said, "that j we ought lo 'get' ex-Governor St.eonenberg. He thought that if we got him after letting him go for seven or eight •years, and then went back to New Jersey and wrote letters to Judge Gftbbsrt, Judge Goddard, ex-Governor Pcabody, Mr. Be)!, and other enemies of the Minors' Federation, telling them that thoy would get tha same thing as Steunonberg, it would show them that thoy wero not forgotten, , and have a good effect. Mover (president of the federation) said that it would bo better than killing them, that it would be a living death. Orchard recited the grim details of the assassination of Mr. Steunenberg in the same matter-of-fact tone which characterised his story of 19 previous murdors. RAILWAY STATION BLOWN UP. j Before the adjournment on stb June Orchard related how he blow up the railway station at Independenco, Colorado. He gave Steve Adams tho money to purchase tho powder. "On Sunday evening wo placed 1001b of powdor beneath the platform, attached a wire, and waited. The train brought non-union-ists. Steve Adams and I both pulled a string, upsetting several bottles of sulphuric acid, which ran into a box of Giant caps. These exploded the powder ; the station was wrecked, and 12 or 14 persons killed." Orchard wa6 given £60. STRYCHNINE IN MILK. He returned to Denver, and was coat to San Francisco with instructions to locate Fred Bradley, foyn:er}y manager of the Sullivan and Bunker's Hill mino in Idaho. Ho went to Bradley's house one morning when the milk was delivered and pliceii ctryi.bnine in the cap. Tho poison failing, he purchased 101b of gelatine and powder, mndo a bomfc, and arranged ifc so Uiaf when Bradley opened the door it would explode. "When Bradley opened tho door nest morning the explosion blew put the front of tho house, and blow him into the street." ; .After this Pettibone sent £90 to Orchard, j Haywood then asked him to murder j Judge Gabbert, who had been giving decisions against Mover, president of the Miners' Federation. Orchard and Steve Adams went to the judge's houso. They took a shoo giui, but did net see the judge. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Haywood also wanted to "have another try'^at Governor Peabody. "Stove Adams, Billy Ackerman, and I made a bomb. Wo put it under the side-walk in Thirteenth-street, Gi-and-avenue, Denver. Adams and 1 watched for the Governor until he came out Just as he was walking over r "thß place where the bomb was, two heavy coal wagons Eassed over the wire le.-diug to the omb. so that wo could not pull it. "After that wo tried to shoot Mt. Peabody, and hung around his house for a long time, but could find no opportunity. We also tried to shoot Frank Hearne, of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, whom Haywood accused of trying to 'fix' the Legislature against us, and Dave Moffatt, the president of the First National Bank. We were also told to get after Judgo Goddard." General Sherman .Bell was another intended victim. Witness next related the blowing-tip' of a bicyclist named Wally, who picked up a purse attached to a bomb intended for Judge Gabbort's destruction. Orchard and Jack Simpkins first decided to kill Governor Steunenberg with a bomb, and planted one at tho Gov-i ernor's gate ; but it failed to esplode. They concluded that it would be hotter to shoot tho Governor. STEUNENBERG'S DEATH. Without the slightest show of emotion witness told the court how he waited for his intended victim outside Mr. Steunenberg's house on Christmas night and actually heard him coming, but had some difficulty in getting tho gun into position. It was a sawed-off gun, which ho could oasily carry under his coat. He told of another futile attempt to . plant a bomb during tho holiday week, but Mr. Steunonberg returned homo and pnsssd into tho houso before their task was completed. "The next time I saw the Governor." j continued Orchard, "he was sitting in i tho Saratoga Hotel. I went up to my I room .and pot tho bomb, hurried out to my Stounonberg's house, and planted the bomb by the gato. I then hurried back to tha hotel, find when about two blocks , away I met Mr. Staunenborg en his way home. T ran as fast as I could towards tho hotel, but had not reached it when the explosion occurred." ' I