Show CONSPIRACY BUT BORAH Attitude of the Defense in the theLand theLand theLand Land Fraud Trial Now Go Going Going Going ing on at Boise SENATOR IS INDIFFERENT MOYER MOVER AND BILL EASTERLY AT THE TRIAL t t 6 do 4 6 Special to The Th Herald 4 Boise Ida Sept Sopt 29 Peter Neth 4 i one of the t jurors to try 4 United States Senator W V E Borah f was taken violently ill tonight and f fIt It Is said his Indisposition may stop 4 4 the trial although this cannot be def der deri defInitely told until tomorrow The na nature nature nature ture of r Illness Is being care carefully 4 fully rully withheld but one of or the gov gO 4 i counsel tonight said he be 4 Neth to be suffering from 4 temporary mental derangement due 4 to the excitement of or the trial Many 4 rumors were afloat tonight as to 4 condition but no authoritative f 4 statement was given out The day 4 4 f following his acceptance as a juror 4 f 4 Mr Neth asked many questions of J Judge Whitson as to whether buying 4 Improved homestead property 4 4 a crime He speaks English rather brokenly and but little atten Uon was paid to him 44 4 4 4 i Boise Ida Sept 29 The second week of or the trial of or United States Senator Bor Borah h charged with complicity in the Idaho land frauds begins tomorrow morning before Federal Judge Whitson with the government attorneys still con confronted confronted I fronted by the task of connecting the defendant on trial In some criminal way with the alleged unlawful combination During the first six days of the trial the name ot 01 Senator Borah was seldom heard and the tho evidence adduced in be behalf behalf half of or the United States had mainly I Ito to do with the activities of former Gov Governor Governor I Frank It has been clearly shown that a partnership existed d between and a capitalist named William Sweet to acquire hold holdan and an generally deal in timber lands Confessions of Dummies It has been shown according to the confessions of the dummy themselves that Jqhn I Wells Yells and John Kinkaid furnished persons with money to prove up their timber claims Next It has been shown that Governor Steu was introduced to one Albert AlbertE E Palmer and that Palmer introduced the former chief executive of Idaho to James T Barber and Sumner G Moon I of the present Barber Lumber company One group of or dummy testified testified fied fled that they deeded their property over overto overt to b t Palmer The Immediate purpose of the prosecution now now Is to show that Palmer drew the money some in ail aAi from Barber and Moon and turned It over to Frank agent aj ent I who In turn gave It to Wells ells and Kin Kinkaid Kinkaid Kinkaid kaid No As far as this evidence has gone It has been admitted without any objection objection tion lion on the part of or the defense on the promise of the prosecuting attorneys eventually ev to connect Senator Borah with the conspiracy Senator counsel have hae adopted the general policy of or not any of the witnesses who confine their testimony to the al all alL 1 l L conspiracy among Wells ells Kinkaid and others It seems to be the policy of or the de defense to admit for the purpose of Sen Senator Senator Senator ator case that a conspiracy did exist but to contend that Senator Bo Borah Borah Borab rah rab knew nothing of its formation or existence and that he acted In good fath faith as attorney in handling some of the land matters upon the assurance of Hs ls l s clients that the purchases were the result of ot bona fide bargains and sales Senator Borah Borab continues to express con confidence confidence e that he will be completely ex exonerated exonerated exonerated His attitude in the court courtroom courtroom courtroom room almost borders upon Indifference to the testimony so far as it has gone He usually sits by one of the open win windows windows windows dows In the court room and seldom con consults consults suIts with his counsel Some Notable Spectators One of or the most Interesting phases of or orthe the case is the Interest displayed by the I representatives here of the Western Fed Federation Federation Federation of or Miners Senator Borah having been one erie of ot the principal prosecutors in inthe inthe Inthe the Haywood trial and still being ro re retained tamed as a state attorney in the Petti Pettibone Pettibone bone and Moyer cases the first of which Is set for trial on Oct 15 Moyer the president of ot the Western Federation has been a frequent visitor to the court courtroom courtroom courtroom room as have two of the local attorneys attorneys ne s for the miners organization An interesting and Interested spectator of the last few days has been Bill Easter Easterly Is ly one of the men whom Harry Orchard Orchard Orchard ard declared assisted him in some of his misdeeds In Colorado Easterly was a witness in the Haywood trial and de declared dared lared then that outside of two six shooters two Winchester rifles and a shotgun he kept no danger dangerous ous Otis weapons weapon In his Cripple Creek cabin Letters of William Sweet The rho greatest interest In Senator Bo Do Borah rah s case locally was aroused by b the let letters letters letters of William Wllliam Sweet to his attorneys which have been read rend In evidence They Th were original amusing and entertaining to a high degree The most striking sen sentence sentence sentence tence and one that Is being freely re repeated repeated repeated was In connection with Sweets complaint that his first attorney had turned all his money over oyer to Governor It is like pulling a cat through a stocking to get It back he declared Speaking of or one of or the alleged cocon coconspirators coconspirators coconspirators Sweet wrote That man Kin Kinkaid I kald kaid would skin himself if he find anybody an body else to Forgot Vital Point Another Incident which has occasioned I much talk was the testimony of an al alleged alleged dummy named Joplin I To the surprise of or the governments i Continued on Page 2 I CONSPIRACY BUT BORAH INNOCENT Continued from Page 1 counsel Joplin swore on the stand that the money mone with which he proved his claim was his own and that he received none of it from any or of the conspirators He admitted to the prosecutors pro that he had lad told them a different story outside the court room but explained this by saying Baying They rIley got me scared and I told them thema a lot ot of stuff that so 80 The attorneys for the defense were quick to ask aak Joplin what had been said to frighten him but he declared he could not remember Grand Jury Inquiry The special grand Jury which is Invest Investigating gating t charges char of misconduct against District Attorney Ruick has decided to take up and make an Inquiry into the rum ru rumors mrs mors m rs which have been current for some sometime sometime time to the effect that the Western estem Fed Federation Fedt ration t raton of ot Miners had something to do with the Indictment of Senator Borah Fred Miller of Spokane Wash Vash one of oft t the i Haj Haywood Hawood wood attorneys attorney arrived here to today today today day In response to a grand jury One witness before the grand jury is III said to have stated that he heard Miller Mil Miller III ler say the federation had spent in securing indictment nt Miller will Rill be a witness tomorrow |