Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-02
MAX MAuCH DECLARES
ORCHARD STORY
UNTRUE
Says He Had Nothing to Do
With Any of the Plots
Made by De.
mon.
NEVER SAW BOMB
IN ENTIRE LIFE. !"
Detective MCPdrtldnd's Brother
Tells Jury Facts Concerning De-
portation of Miners During
Riot Following Independ-
enCe Depot Explosion.

Boise, Idaho July Max Malict
was called to the stand immediately
after the opening of court in the
Haywood trial today. He was a smell
terman at Globeville, Colorado, al
the time of the strike in 1908.
He was introduced to Harry Or.
chard, whom he knew as Tom Ho-
gam" by a Pinkerton detective NAM
ed A. w. Gratias in February, 1905
Malich said he did not know that
Gratias was a detective at that time,
for he was acting as president of the
local smeltermen's union.
Orchard was then living with Steve
Adams and his wife and Malich had
become the proprietor of a small ho-
tel and bar.
Orchard testified while on the
stand in this case that Malich had
suggested to him the blowing up OF
a hotel where Is 0non-union miners
were living, and had helped him ia
steal 100 pounds of dynamite from
the Union Pacific powder house.
Says Orchard Lied.
Malich declared today that this tes-
umony was false. He said Orchard
or Hogan" came to him one da,
and said:
What is the matter with you folks
out here? Scabs are getting the best
of you. Why don't you blow thai
d hotel off the earth?"
Malich replied, Tom, 1 wouldn't
stand for 1t under any circumstances
If you do anything like that, am
going to denounce you" After this
Orchard told him he - just 1ok.
ing.
Malich said he knew nothing abou
the taking Of the powder.
Used Acid ON Malicb.
4Ie declared that two attempt.
were made to burn his place of bust
ness, the last, on April 27, 1906, after
Orchard had left Globeville.
Il had gone to my bedroom" said
the witness, when somebody threw
a bottle of acid or something through
the window. The bottle burst abou
three feet in front of me and some
of the fluid splashed on my righ
wrist, burning through to the bone
grabbed up my three year old boy
who was asleep. and ran out of the
room with him"
Would Kill for 500.
He saw Orchard the month follow.
Ing. This time Orchard told hin
that the smelter company's store wa!
taking all his trade away from him
Donald, proprietor of the store, fol
500.
Malich said that he told Orchard
he had ali the trade he wanted, and
he wouldn't have anybody killed OF
his account
Malich next related a conversation
he had with Orchard in a Turkish
bath establishment, when Orchard re.
membered his proposition about Nc
Donald.
Cursed Steunenberg.
He then got to talking to ms
about Governor Steunenberg, anl
called him vile names, and said Il
II had not been for him, he (Orchard)
would be a millionaire"
Malich said that his store and sa.
loon in Globeville burned down or
June 2l, 1905. He was on his ranch
In Montrose county. 4S4 miles from
Denver, at the time. Asked if ne
ever talked to Orchard in regard to
or assisted him in making bombs fol-
Judges Goddard and Gabbert, oi
anyone else, Malich called out a rip
pie OF laughter by replying, 81 never
saw bomb in my life"
Didn't Use "Pettibone Dope"
Mallch denied on cross examina.
ton that he burned himself with
"Pettibone dope" while preparing to
burn his own store, and later burned
1T with "Pettibone DOPE" and that
he agreed to help Orchard with an
alibi when he killed Detective Lytle
Gregory.
The next witness was Joe Meheliet,
a member of the Western Fedora
uon. He first met Orchard in Globe
vile, Colorado, in January, 1905, but
denied that he ever assisted Orchard
or Adams to steal powder from the
Union Pacific powder house or any
where else.
He said he refused to go with Or
chard and help blow up a hotel,
which he proposed to do. MeheIlet
said he never talked with Orchard
as TO any attempt on Governor Pea
body or anybody else.
McParland's Brother on Stand.
The next witness was Edward L.
MCFARLAND, a brother of Pinkerton
Detective James MCFARLAND, who has
been in charge of the work of secur-
Ing evidence for the state.
The witness said he was not a
member of the Western Federation
of Miners, but a shoemaker by trade.
lie was at work in his shop in Vie
tor on the day of the riot following
the Independence depot explosion.
After the shooting started, McPar-
land said that five men came TO his
shop and said that they wanted him
He Was DepOrted.
lie was marched between lines OF
soldiers To train and taken to Colo
hundred miners were transferred TO
the Santa Fe road and taken within
short distance Of the Kansas line.