THE GREAT BOISE TRIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 30 July 1907, Page 3

THE GREAT BOISE TRIAL.

MUBDEK OF EX-GOVERNOR STEUNENIIURU. THE ACCUSED ACQUITTED. VICTORY FOR ORGANISED LAIiOR. Received 20th, 1025 p.m. New York. July £i. Haywood was acquitted of the murder of ci-Uovernor Stcunenbcrg. The juiy deliberated 21 hours. In the first ballot, eight supported acquittal and four favored a verdict involving some degree of murder, but the minority was won over during the night. Haywood, on leaving the dock, thanked each juryman. No demonstration was made. It is understood the case against Mover and Pettibone will be abaudoncd.

A SURPRISE VERDICT. ORCHARD TO STAND lIIS TRIAL Received 29th, 10.28 p.m. London, July 20. The Times' New York correspondent says, doubtless Orchard will 1* tried, and made to pay the penalty of his crimes. It adds that Haywood's exoneration implied the exoneration of the entire inner circle of the Western Miners' Federation. The verdict came as a complete surprise equally to the public as to newsjiajwr correspondents at Denver, who declare that a disagreement was the utmost Haywood's friends expected.

(Orchard, arrested in connection with the murder of Steunenburg, formerly Governor of Idaho, confessed to twi-ntv-»ix murdcis. He alleged that he received from Sloyer, President of the Miners' Federation, and another official, \£7tO to murder Steunenburg. Mover and William Haywood, secretary to "the ™ n ' .deration, have been standing their trial. A Labor paper, published in Kansas, hinted that at the bottom of the whole affair is a desire to kill organised labor, and Russianlse the United States. In characteristic American •tyle, the paper made bold assertions under "acare" headings. The following will convey an idea of the paper's opinion on this exceptionally grave matter now occupying attention in Boise:— "A man had been killed in Idaho. "Who! Frank Steunenberg, once Governor of that State and member of a labor union. •The leaders of the Western Federation did not know him and had nerer seen him. "But Governor Gooding said that a Pinkerton detective said that another detective had told him that Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone, who did not know and had not seen Steunenberg, ami could have no possible interest in, or connection with him, were in some wav connected with his death. "Not that they had killed him. That Could not be charged, because they were a thousand miles away when it happened. But they had guilty knowledge of •lis death.

"Who «id so! "Just one person. "One only! "Who! "Harry Orchard. "Who's he J "A murderer. "To whom did he tell it? "To James MePartland, abas 'Jim' UcKenna. "Who is he! "Another murderer. "And both these murderers. Orchard and McPartland, detective, spies, and street agents in the employ, and on the pay-roll, of the Mineowners' Association I "This is the foundation, and all there is of it, for the kidnapping and proposed judicial massacre of the Federation leaders. "They shall never leave Idaho alive.' "The Governor has said it. "And he is the State! "Their epitaph follows: "Kidnapped, Killed!—Gooding fJover-