powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Thursday May 16, 1907
Boise, Idaho – Haywood Showing Signs of Strain?
From The Spokane Press of May 14, 1907:
HAYWOOD SHOWS SIGNS OF BREAKING DOWN
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(Scripps News Association.)
BOISE, May 14.-Haywood is beginning to show the effects of long confinement and worry. Lines about his mouth and eyes are becoming more clearly defined daily.
He is still pursuing the study of law, and, according to his attorneys, is making excellent progress. His youngest daughter is his constant companion and his wife is by his side the entire session.
BOISE. May 14.-John F. [H.] Murphy, chief counsel for the Western Federation of Miners, has held extended conferences with Moyer regarding the Chicago Journal story that Moyer is an ex-convict. While Moyer regards the matter lightly, insisting his life is an open book, his attorneys are engaged actively in seeking persons who knew him in the Black Hills at the time he is declared to have been in Joliet penitentiary.
The Pinkertons claim to have conclusive evidence that Moyer has a criminal record in Chicago and has served a prison sentence as charged. They say they can prove he was notorious as the “Cowboy Burglar.” By friends of Moyer this is looked upon as a master stroke of the Pinkertons, who have been constantly in the employ of the Mine Owners’ association, to deal a heavy blow to the defense in the Boise trial.
McParland is credited with working up the evidence against Moyer.
It is thought Moyer will find it hardest to explain the fact that at 20 he must have answered exactly the description of the man convicted. This is believed to be merely a coincidence.
Murphy is greatly displeased over declarations that in case of conviction there will be an armed demonstration. He says it is preposterous and the federation would never permit such a thing. He believes conviction impossible and declares it is the intention that no one will interfere in any way with the progress of the trial.
Judge Wood greatly pleased the defense by holding the prosecution down to the exact language of the criminal code in examining talesmen, indicating that he intends to hold to the strict language of the indictment and thus shorten the trial by preventing introduction of extraneous matter.
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BY JOHN E. NEVINS
Special Correspondence to The PressBOISE, May 14.-Attorney Clarence S. Darrow, chief adviser for the defense in the Moyer-Haywood case, is one of the most conspicuous men in Boise today. Because of his well known championship of the cause of labor in the past, he is pointed out on the street probably more than any other visitor here.
Darrow was born in Kinsman, O., and is 50 years old. He has been identified with many notable cases against corporations, fighting the Chicago gas trust and the coal trust in Pennsylvania. He was counsel in the Debs strike case and served in many labor injunctions and labor conspiracy cases on the side of labor.
He is well known as an author on social and economic questions and as a platform speaker. He was a member of the Illinois legislature in 1902 and has been active in politics as an independent democrat. His home is in Chicago.
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From The Salt Lake Herald of May 7, 1907:
SOURCE
The Spokane Press
(Spokane, Washington)
-May 14, 1907
(Also source for images within articles.)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/201689137/
IMAGE
HMP, Haywood, Moyer, Pettibone by Myers, SL Hld, May 7, 1907
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1907-05-07/ed-1/seq-2/
See also:
For more on Moyer at Joliet Pen:
Big Trouble:
A Murder in a Small Western Town…
– by J. Anthony Lukas
Simon and Schuster, Jul 17, 2012
(search: “charles moyer” joliet)
https://books.google.com/books?id=d07IME-ezzQC
For more on Clarence Darrow and the Pullman Strike:
http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/trials.php?tid=10
Solidarity: Paul Robeson and the Welsh Miners