There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Saturday May 11, 1907
Boise, Idaho – Haywood Reunited with Wife and Daughters
From the Wilkes-Barre Leader of May 10, 1907:
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BY JOHN E. NEVINS.
Special to the LEADER.
BOISE, Idaho, May 10.-Mrs. W. D. Haywood, the invalid wife of the Western Federation secretary, is the object of much sympathy and interest. Every afternoon at 3 o’clock she is taken to see her husband behind the grated bars of the county jail. Her two daughters, aged 11 and 17 years, and the nurse or the guard detailed by the miners’ federation accompany her.
For two hours the members of the little family enjoy the association that was broken when Haywood was brought here to stand trial for his life. Promptly at 5 o’clock, in obedience to the prison rules, the visitors return to the temporary home provided for them in this city.
Mrs. Haywood and the children were brought here from Denver to attend the trial. The first reunion of the family was pathetic. There has always been great affection among the members. The story has often been told of Haywood’s devotion to the invalid. How he built a cabin in the mountains of southern Idaho in an effort to nurse her back to health and carried her in his sturdy arms on visits to the neighbors.
The reunion of the family recalled vividly to the mind of each of its members memory of the broken home. Haywood left the cottage to spend an evening downtown. Far in the next day, after long hours of watching and worry his wife learned that he had been spirited to Boise to answer to a charge of murder. It was not until fourteen months after that time that she beheld him again and then in prison here. The guards slipped out and for two hours the members of the Haywood family exchanged words of affection and answered eager questions concerning the events, big and little, that entered into their lives during the long separation.
Every afternoon now they look forward with keen interest to the family gathering. Sinister as are the conditions surrounding them, it is an occasion of happiness. They feel confident that the outcome of the trial will bring an end to their suffering and that then there will be a reunion free from bolts and bars and guards-a reunion in the cottage home at Denver.
They will have a memento of the days of trial in the photograph of which the accompanying picture is a reproduction. They assembled on the green lawn beside the jail when it was taken, and the prison was kept out of it by having the photographer stand in front of a grated window, while houses across the street form a background.
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[Names added to photograph.]
The Haywood Family Reunited
(Closer View)
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From The Spokane Press of May 9, 1907:
Invalid Wife Cheers Haywood As Court Selects
Jurors Whose Decision Means
Life or Death.
—–(Scripps News Association.)
BOISE, May 9.-The trial of Wm. D. Haywood, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, for alleged complicity in the murder of Governor Stuenenberg [Steunenberg], began this morning with the preliminary work of selecting a jury.
As he sat in court Haywood was cheered by the presence of his wife, who sat in her invalid chair near, with their 2 daughters. The room was filled with an orderly crowd of spectators. The sheriff anticipates no trouble. Haywood’s elder daughter is just budding into womanhood. She is good looking and tastefully dressed. The 7 [11] year old daughter gives promise of much beauty.
Borah, in the progress of the trial today, denied that Jack Simpkins, indicted with Haywood as a principal, had been located and promised immunity. Borah said Simpkins never would be given immunity and that he would find and convict him yet.
The state’s list of witnesses was presented with the announcement that it might be necessary to call others later. Four veniremen were excused, two because they have interests on the range with no help, one because he is a Boise policeman and one on account of ill health.
At recess 3 jurors, A. L. Ewing, J. E. Yates and George Walker, were accepted as satisfactory to the prosecution. Nearly the entire day’s session was taken up by the prosecution’s examination of 12 veniremen.
The talesmen usually declared quickly they had read everything they could get on the case and discussed it freely, forming opinions as to the desired outcome.
Judge Wood, according to reports, has decided to hold testimony in the Haywood case as close as possible to the murder of ex-Gov. Steunenberg.
If the doors were thrown wide open the evidence would cover the entire history of labor troubles in this region, which began in 1892. The charge is that Haywood conspired to bring about Steunenberg’s death, and, under Idaho law, a conspirator is arraigned as a principal.
Naturally, Haywood’s record would figure in this showing, but to just what extent cannot be known until questions of the admissibility of evidence are argued in court. Attorneys for state believe the trial will be finished by July 4.
[Photograph of Secretary Haywood added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Wilkes-Barre Leader
(Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)
-May 10, 1907
(Also source for image of Haywood family.)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/116462796
The Spokane Press
(Spokane, Washington)
May 9, 1907
(Also source for images within article
-other than below.)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/201688865
IMAGE
Haywood, Wilshire’s Magazine, 1906
http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/documents/Wilshire_Mag.pdf
See also:
Tag: Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case
https://weneverforget.org/tag/haywood-moyer-pettibone-case/
Emma F Langdon on Wives at Trial
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon31.html#wivesattendtrial
U of Minnesota Law Library’s Darrow Collection
The Bill Haywood Trial
http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trials.php?tid=3