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Show I WOOD HAS BEEN DENIED I A BILL OF PARTICULARS Motion Overruled by Judge And Ex-ceptlon Ex-ceptlon Taken by Council Work of Securing Jury Has Begun. Holso. Ily overruling the motion of tho defense for n bill of particulars sotting forth what overt nctH, If nny, thero were, to connect the accused with tho murder of former Governor Frank Stcuncnbcrg, Judge Fremont Wood of tho district court of Ada county cleared the way for tho trial of William D. Haywood, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, which began Thursday. Judge Wood held that tho request of Haywood's counsel for a moro explicit statement of tho charges again the prisoner 4 enmo too late, regardless of whether or not It might liavo been entertained at an earlier Btage of the proceedings. In cases where bills of particulars are allowable, tho man who Is to preside over tho trials of the accused miners declared the motions must be made beforo tho Indictments nro pleaded . I to and before the cases aro set for V Thero l as yet no Indication of tho scopo of the caso which tho state will seek to prove ugnlnst Haywood. It Is naturally assumed, however, that Messrs. Hawlcy and Uorab will seek ( to niako tho showing as to tho al- leged conspiracy as broad as possible, without endangering It upon appeal, assuming that there Is n conviction. Discussing this phaso of tho caso one ' of tho counsel for the prisoners said: ( "Tho broader thu scopo of tho case i) offered by tho state, tho better we will 1)0 satlsllcd." |
