Crimes of the Last Century: Idaho’s Most Famous Trials

Idaho Legal History CLE Series
Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation

Length: Approx. 1.0 hr

1.0 CLE Credits - NAC approved

Cost:  $50

Idaho was in the forefront of some of the most sensational trials in the 1900s.  Perhaps the most famous was known nationally as the “Trial of the Century” when the leaders of the powerful Western Federation of Miners labor union, William “Big Bill” Haywood, George Pettibone, and Charles Moyer stood accused of hiring Harry Orchard to assassinate former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg outside his Caldwell home by detonating a bomb attached to his gate.

Also of notoriety is the trial of Diamondfield Jack Davis a famed gunman for cattlemen, who was convicted of murdering two sheepherders and was sentenced to be hanged, even after others confessed to the murders.

These cases and others will be presented by the Chair of the Idaho Legal History Section, Christopher P. Graham of Brassey Crawford.