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Evening Journal
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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The trial of labor leaders William D. Haywood, Charles H. Moyer, and George A. Pettibone for the 1905 bombing murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg opens in Boise on May 6. Defense attorney E. F. Richardson contests the murder charge, citing Haywood's alibi in Colorado and demanding specifics on the alleged overt acts.
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OPENS IN IDAHO
By Our Own Wire. Publishers' Press.
BOISE, Ida., May 6-"You charge
this man with a crime it was manifestly
impossible for him to have committed
and you refuse to indicate how you
think he could have done it.
"Your indictment alleges murder, but
if what you charge is so, Frank Steunenberg was killed in Caldwell, Idaho, by
the explosion of a bomb on December
30, 1905, while William D. Haywood was
in Colorado as the evidence in the possession of the State shows, then the
crime is conspiracy. But your indictment says murder, and I appeal to the
court to compel the prosecution in this
case to furnish us with a bill of particulars to show what overt act is alleged before a trial is fixed."
So remarked E. F. Richardson, of
Denver, senior counsel for the defense
in the Ada County Court House to-day,
when he fired the opening gun in what
promises to be a great legal battle.
The trial of William D. Haywood,
Charles H. Moyer and George A. Pettibone was on. The proceedings were
purely legal and technical in character,
and could have little effect on the ultimate outcome.
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Boise, Idaho
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May 6
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Defense counsel E. F. Richardson opens the trial of William D. Haywood, Charles H. Moyer, and George A. Pettibone for the murder of Frank Steunenberg by challenging the indictment as alleging murder despite evidence suggesting conspiracy, as Haywood was in Colorado at the time of the December 30, 1905, bombing in Caldwell, Idaho, and requests a bill of particulars.