Correspondence, petitions, and resolutions concerning the release on bail of William D. Haywood, Charles H. Moyer, and George Pettibone, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of Idaho ex-governer Frank Steunenberg.

Correspondence relating to Hawley's law practice, including letters pertaining to the conspiracy trials of officers of the Western Federation of Miners for crimes associated with the dynamiting of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan concentrator at Wardner, Idaho, in 1899 and for the assassination of Frank Steunenberg in 1905; correspondence and reports relating to mining operations in which the Hawley family held an interest.