The result of the trial at Boise of Haywood, the
secretary- treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, for com- plicity in the murder of Mr. Steunenberg, Governor of Idaho, was a unanimous acquittal on Sunday morning last, after the jury had deliberated twenty-one hours. Four members of the jury are said to have wished to return a verdict of "some degree of murder," but were won over to the majority during the night. It was understood before the trial began that the evidence against Haywood was stronger than that against Moyer and Pettibone, other members of the Western Federation. In spite of the acquittal of Haywood, it is announced that Moyer and Pettibone will be brought to trial. The verdict of the jury, according to the New York correspondent of the Times, means that in their opinion the fact that Orchard, when he set forth to commit any one of the series of ghastly crimes to which he has confessed, always started from Denver (the headquarters of the Federation) and always returned there afterwards was a coincidence, and that Haywood, though intimate with Orchard, never knew his real character. On Monday Mr. Roosevelt published without comment the following telegram which he had received :--" Undesirable citizens victorious. Rejoice.—Signed, Emma Goldman, Alex- ander Berkman, Hippolyte Havel." All the signatories are notorious Anarchists. Mr. Roosevelt was, of course, quite right not to criticise the verdict of the jury, but his action in publishing the telegram is significant of his feelings.
