Hellraisers Journal: Charles Moyer, Big Bill Haywood, George Pettibone Indicted by Grand Jury at Caldwell, Idaho
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones.
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Friday March 9, 1906
From The San Francisco Call: "Boise Suspects Are Indicted"
The Call of March 8th reports on developments in the murder case against the officers of the Western Federation of Miners:
BOISE SUSPECTS ARE INDICTED
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Caldwell Grand Jury Returns Bills Against
Moyer and His Confederates
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Attorney for Prisoners Announces That He
Will Ask for Trials Immediately
-----BOISE, Idaho, March 7.-In the District Court at Caldwell the Grand Jury returned indictments against all of the men held on the charge of having murdered former Governor Frank Steunenberg, with the possible exception of Steven Adams. It is understood also that an indictment against J. L. Simpkins and another man, whose name has not been learned, was returned, these two men being at liberty. Bench warrants were ordered issued.
No information was given out respecting the indictments and nothing will be officially revealed until the defendants shall have been arraigned. Three of them-Charles H. Moyer, W. D. Haywood and George E [A.] Pettibone-are to be taken to Caldwell tomorrow morning for arraignment. It is stated that these three are included in an indictment and that a separate indictment was found against Orchard. Whether the other indictments are separate or joint is not known.
As soon as the men are arraigned the defense will ask that they be given a speedy trial. This statement was made by Attorney Fred Miller of Spokane. It has been formally announced that Canyon county has retained W. E. Borah as assistant county attorney to assist in the prosecution of the cases.
----------[Photographs added.]
SOURCE
The San Francisco Call
(San Francisco, California)
-Mar 8, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/80909714/
IMAGES
Moyer and Haywood from Darrow Collection
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=1384
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=1385
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Comments
Thanks JayRaye
I don't know the outcome to this so I want to read ahead but I will wait. The series continues to be extraordinary.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
Hey kharma, I know y'all like to read ahead so I usually include
links for that.
Was doing some research with frustrating results this morning (sometimes its great, and sometimes not so great) and then ran out of time and had to rush to pub and so I forgot the links.
But here are links for the whole story and then some, plenty to chew on here:
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma Florence Langdon
Denver, 1904-05
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon00.html
Appendix, April 1908
(Coverage of Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case)
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon29.html#dedication
The Darrow Collection, Haywood Trial
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/trials.php?tid=3
Thanks for stopping by, K, always great to see you at HJ.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Thanks JayRaye, you're awesome.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
Amazing how Grand Juries will indict anything...
except a cop or a politician. I'd add clergy to the list, but nobody ever seems to arrest them in the first place.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Thanks, mate, another brilliant instalment.
What a relevant diary to my morning. I'm teaching my teenage daughter about protest music. She sings and chose protest songs as an essay topic in English class. This morning she learned about Joe Hill and the g*damned copper bosses who killed him in 1915, in Joan Baez' Woodstock version. She also learned Utah Phillips' version of Joe Hill's "The Preacher and the Slave." We went through my binder of protest songs and it was lotsa fun. It's not often our kids show interest in us old duffers' preoccupations. She adored Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant. Who doesn't!
I also taught her Phil Och's famous saying that "Protest music is music that is so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit."
Cheers, JayRae
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Gerrit, yr daughter is a lucky lucky kid.
LOVE IT!!
"Protest music is music that is so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit."
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
:-) Raising hell sure is more fun accompanied by song!
Thanks, mate
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.