Wednesday March 28, 1906
Boise, Idaho - W. F. of M. Officers Now Confined at Ada County Jail

The Los Angeles Herald of March 25th reported the following:

MINER LEADERS IN SAME JAIL
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Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone Are Now
Confined at Boise
-Moyer's Health Reported Better

By Associated Press.

BOISE, Idaho, March 24.-William D. Haywood was brought here from Caldwell today by Sheriff Jasper C. Nichols and was placed in the Ada county jail with Moyer and Pettibone. The leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, pending their trial for the murder of former Governor Steunenberg, will have the use of a large room in the daytime and at night will be locked in separate cells.

Moyer's health is said to be much improved.

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[Photograph added.]

SOURCE
Los Angeles Herald
(Los Angeles, California)
-Mar 25, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/78269614/

IMAGE
Big Bill Haywood, young, Darrow Collection
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=197

From the Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood:

When our lawyers got on the ground, they raised such a hullaballoo about our being in the [state] penitentiary [on death row] that we were transferred to the county jail at Caldwell...

The Caldwell jail was a small affair of four cells, in one of which we were locked up at night. In the daytime we were allowed the use of a large room where there was a cookstove. There were five or six short-time prisoners...

While we were in Caldwell we learned that a stone cutter from Chicago by the name of Billy Cavanaugh, and his partner, were cutting stone for the new court house that was being built in Caldwell. Cavanaugh sent word to us to know if there was anything we would like to put in the cavity under the cornerstone. We could think of nothing better than a copy of the constitution of the Western Federation of Miners and my membership card, which we sent out by a trusty. Cavanaugh saw that they were deposited before the cornerstone was place...

By some hocus-pocus of the law, a change of venue for the state had been enacted by the legislature. We were transferred to Ada County jail, in the county in which our trial was to take place. Here we were confined at night in a little jail that had been built behind the main building. There were special guards outside, day and night. Sheriff Moseley was a man of some feeling who tried to show us that in his opinion we were not guilty until convicted. We were the only occupants of this little jail, and while our cells were not locked at night, there was a lock on the cage and on the door that led into the main prison....

In the daytime we had a special cell where we had our meals together, and each of us got out for an hour every day, to walk up and down in the sun or amuse ourselves as we pleased in the yard under close watch of the guards. I took excellent care of my health.

We had a tub in which we could bathe at any time so I always had a bath at night and setting up exercises in the morning. I fasted several times, for two, three and once for six days. At the time of the trial I was as clear as crystal both physically and mentally.

This was the jail where the plans for the Western Federation of Miners had been talked over before that initial convention in Butte in 1893. Now Moyer and I, the officials of this organization, were imprisoned in this historic jail some fourteen years later...

[Photograph added.]

SOURCE
Bill Haywood's Book
The Autobiography of William D Haywood
-by Big Bill Haywood
Greenwood Press, 1929
https://books.google.com/books?id=v1jtAAAAMAAJ

IMAGES
Big Bill Haywood, Ada Co Jail, Idaho, Darrow Collection, 1906/07
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=779
WFM Constitution, 1893-96
https://archive.org/stream/bylaconstitution00interich#page/n5/mode/2up

See also:

Bill Haywood Trial, Darrow Collection
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/trials.php?tid=3

The Cripple Creek Strike: a History of Industrial Wars
in Colorado, 1903-4-5
-by Emma Florence Langdon
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon00.html
Haywood-Moyer- Pettibone Case
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon29.html#dedication

Haywood's CIR Testimony re Founding of WFM
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=PeweAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcove...