Show WITH JURI a FOB 08 moons LIFE iff denounces orchard as self conce ved hero of the D ire novel type po ants to good record of defendant boise idaho for four hours and a half on monday E I 1 richardson pleaded vita wita the jury for the life ot of william D haywood the excellent character and consist ent philanthropy of the western fed oration of miners the patient suffer ing of labor under the lash of capital and the perjury and perfidy of harry orchard were the main points in the opening argument in defense of wil ham lain D haywood presented by mr richardson mr richardson reviewed the events following the death of former gov arnor saying harry ard waa was caught almost red handed in the act A pinkerton detective came to idaho and soon had a confession from the man who to save his own worthless neck was ready to place the blame on others the matter was taken up by that portion ot of the press which depends upon the prosperous and capitalistic classes and the lead ers of the federation of miners were adjudged guilty without a hearing so far reaching was this influence de dared mr richardson that it extend ed even to the white house the a torney begged the jurors to lay aside any impression they may have formed from reading the newspapers during the past year and to start with him at the beginning of the cause and go through the various events one by oae one without feeling or prejudice do this he exclaimed so 80 we WO may justly determine in the light of our consciences illuminated by high heaven it the man here at the bar and his defendants codefendants in the cells below are guilty of the crime charged discussing the law as applied to orchard mr richardson said the cor rob orating evidence in support of a confessing witness must be so strong that standing by itself separated and apart from the witness s story it is sufficient to remove all reason doubt as to the defendants deen dant s guilt he charged that the state had no corroborating circumstances of this char acter as to the murder of governor and for that reason a general conspiracy was charged and arid all the events of the colorado labor wars were gone into before taking up the cripple creek troubles mr richardson returned to the history of the western federation of miners and pointed out what its objects had been to better conditions condi condit Jons to care tor for its sick and dying the widows and orphans of its members he ridiculed the idea that anyone could claim that 40 workingmen or for their betterment could be termed 40 criminals criminal richardson next told of the coming of harry orchard into the cripple creek district he recalled the early crimes to which orchard confessed selling short eight cheese burning the cheese factory gambling etc he even gambled away his inter est eat tn in the hercules prospect accord ing to bis his own story said the at tomey torney the defense claims orchard lost his interest in this mine by being driven out 0 of the country and it was for this that he murdered sheun enberg mr richardson went on to explain his statement as to the gamb ling that orchard transferred the mine but temporarily to dan galaner the present owner and was cheated out of its redemption when compelled to leave the country II 11 this were net true the state should have put gard ner on the stand richardson described orchard as dreaming that he was a dime novel hero he wanted to be known as a bad man he had his picture taken holding a smoking revolver over a companion dying in a position of death 0 over ver a card table this photo said the lawyer depicted the character of harry orchard the tinsel hero and showed the hereditary taint in his blood an uncle committed suicide while worrying over some imaginary crime answering mr hawley Ilaw leys s taunt in his opening address why the defense had not put steve adams on the stand richardson declared he wanted to be perfectly frank it would have been a case ot of dog eat dog and hawley and borah knew it under the same influences that worked on orchard ahey secured a confession from adams nh h ch cb he repudiated ted they have the confession and we have the repudiation the bhole truth gentlemen Is griat one was afraid to put him on the stand and the other didn dian t care to in passing here I 1 want vant also to say that the reason moyer was mas pat on the stand Is that not one scintilla of evidence was brought here to con hect him with any crime except the un tin supported word of orchard As to george A pettibone he will tike the stand at his own ovin trial and explain adt the tle transitions be he had with orchard |