Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned (116 page)

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arry Orchard, the bomber and key witness. Not until Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy would the motive and paymaster of an assassin again be cause for such bitter, unresolved contention.

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he legendary Pinkerton detective, James McParland, who obtained Harry Orchard’s confession. Darrow called him “the greatest detective in the West.”

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rosecutor and, later, governor James Hawley, in the Wild West getup that appealed to his constituents. In court during the Haywood trial, Darrow baited him so often that Hawley’s son threatened to thrash him.

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closer look at Darrow in action, questioning a witness during the Haywood trial. Behind him is Big Bill. The bald-headed man to the right of Haywood is co-counsel Edmund Richardson, who clashed with Darrow over the conduct of the trial.

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rowds gather in downtown Los Angeles on October 1, 1910, to see the smoking ruins of the Los Angeles Times Building, where a union bomb claimed the lives of twenty men.

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nion bombers John J. and James B. McNamara in prison at San Quentin. “I saw war” in capital’s cruel treatment of labor, said Jim McNamara, who placed the bomb in Ink Alley at the
Times
. The deal that Darrow cut to save their lives almost cost him his career, his marriage, and his freedom.

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arrow entering his plea of “not guilty” to charges that he bribed the jury at the McNamara brothers’ trial. “The forces that control in this United States, the great forces of evil, want to destroy me”, he told the jurors at his trial.

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n this photograph, taken at the celebration following Darrow’s acquittal in his first bribery trial, he and his wife, Ruby, sit at a table, and a happy Mary Field stands between them.

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E
arl Rogers, Darrow’s lawyer in the bribery trials. The defense he crafted, with its drama and hysterics, was tailored to foil the prosecution’s case.

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D
arrow back at work in Chicago, captured by a
Daily News
photographer, on his way to court on a downtown street.

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he capsized
Eastland
at its berth on the Chicago River. It was the worst disaster, in terms of lives lost, in Chicago history. Darrow led a successful defense of the ship’s engineer, who was blamed for the tragedy despite his heroic efforts to save lives.