| Show TO ORIA DOWN STOR defense ts is laying the foundation fot fo the charge that s assassin was hired by mine owners boise idaho idalio slowly but surely the defense in the haywood trial is 1 developing the lines by which it hopes to break down the story of harry orchard so far as it affects haywood now on trial moyer and pettibone who are yet to be tried on the same charge if it Is possible to heap further obloquy on the witness they have done so by proving him capable of petty crimes by his own admission he Is a bigamist a thief a liar and an incendiary he ile has placed played the traitor to his employers he ile has deserted two wives and his child to all these offenses he has been forced to confess but under a gruelling gruenling gru elling ex amin ami atlon by richardson Wc hardson he has stuck to to his tory and given chapter and verse possible witnesses after wit nesses have been named and counsel for the tire defense state most positively that the pile of sworn testimony they will bring to contradict orchard must convince the jury of the falsity of his testimony by their questions they have plainly indicated their in mention to prove that orchard was the hired agent of the mine owners who harassed by the western I 1 eder atlon of miners determined to wipe union labor from the mines of idaho and colorado planned assassinations train dreels s and mine explosion that could be laid to the door of the western federation of miners and would keep heep militia on the ground while nonunion non union men worked in the mines it has been shown under the cross lamination that orchard trafficked with railroad detectives in the mining legion of cripple creek during the great strike there while almost at the same time he was la in the conal dence of the leaders of the western 11 federation of miners and led by mr richardson rd has stated that t he tie was hired by moyer the president tt of the federation to act as his guard J against thugs alleged to have been ft hired by the mine owners to attack i and terrorize him from half a dozen states witnesses will be called to deny orchard orchards s asser eions already two men accused by orchard of complicity in the plots he says were hatched within the inner circle of the western federation have been called upon the stand in open court where they sat as spec gators orchard ha has identified them as the men he named and billy aas i terly and owney barney have openly sneered their denial dental of the testimony the court room scene is remark able possibly the most remarkable ever seen in any court session after session since Ord orchard liard first went on the stand a crowd has lias sought adais slon every seat Is filled long before the sheriff calls the court to order hundreds are turned away the prisoner pil boner haywood has a battery of six lawyers the state has hag tour four hay wood woods s family his wife mother sis ter and two daughters sit close be hind him but the prisoner watches every detail consults counsel contin bously and is always alert seldom showing the slightest sign of emot on between counsel tor for the state and defense the feeling Is very apparent ap patent at every session there comes a quid exchange of sharp words at times the situation becomes intense 3 11 hawley the senior counsel for the aej state Is quick to anger and down tg right in III his challenge united states senator borah his colleague Is I 1 een quick of tongue and sarcastic rich baj ardson for the defense has a re sonant voice that rises in anger and 1 impatient of interruption he frequent i ly flings a sneer at hawley or borah or thunders his objections when he thinks an interruption out of place clarence darrow sits beside him as watchful as a cat eat slow of action an I 1 of speech he seldom takes part in the passages and la Is ever ready to smooth the ruffled feelings of either cide iside |
