Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-13
DENVER POLICE WERE AFTER
 ORCHARD
That Detectives On His Trail Were Called Off By Somebody Higher Up'- Mystery About the Reason,

DENVER. June 12.-Captain of De- teetives William Loomis says the Denver police officials knew Harry Orchard killed Detective Lyte Greg ory, but that conditions" prevented an arrest being made Loomis inti- mates that influence was exerted by "a man higher up,' and Orchard was permitted to escape.
 Former Sheriff Armstrong, who
 was chief of police at the time of the Gregary tragedy, declares he never heard Orchards name mentioned in connection with the crime. The books of the Adams hotel show l that Orchard was registered there
 when Gregory was killed and that his bill was paid by W. J. Wardjon, an ! organizer for the United Mine Work | CTS. John MitchelPs organization.
 Employees of the hotel say Orchard l left by the fire escape, and that de tectiyes who were urged to arrest him ] pleaded that their hands were tied.
 Gregory was killed in May, 1904. l The first election under the greater | Denver's new charter was in full
 swing at the time. Mayor Speer was ] the candidate for mayor on the dem ocratic ticket. He was making an
 especially strong bid for the labor
 vote. He was supported by the po- ! lice department and the sheriff's of. | flee. Every man who was prominent. | ly connected with the department at | that time is still on the city's payroll
 with the exception of Armstrong. If orders were issued to Detective Loomis not to arrest Orchard and the others suspected of the murder of Gregory, they must have come from
 Mayor Speer, Sheriff Armstrong or some of the men who are now in
 charge of the police department.
 Armstrong says positively that he did not issue the orders and that he
 knew nothing about them.
 Chief of Detectives Loomis knows,
 but when asked last night to make
 the name public he declined. The day book at the Adams hotel discloses that Orchard was at the
 hotel from May 12 to 16, 1904, at intervals; that he fled from the hotel by means of the fire escape and that
 his bill was paid by Wardjon who left
 the same day. Gregory was killed
 May 14.
 Why don't you arrest Orchard ?''
 was the question asked of the three
 Denver detectives, who were shadow
 ing the men in the hotel during their entire stay.
 Our hands are tied" was the re-
 ply. according to an employe of the hotel, who would not permit the use
 of his name.
 Who issued the mysterious order through which the suspects were al
 lowed to go free?
 Captain of Detectives LooEis, who
 was a member of the city detective
 force at the time of Lyte Gregory's murder, refuses to say, stating only that conditions" were such that he
 was obliged to free Foster Meiburn, who was being sweated by the police in an effort to get from his 8 comics sion of his alleged part in the crime.
 MelbrTn was not at the Adams hotel. 1 Hamilton Armstrong. who was then chief of police and sheriff, is angry at the insinuations to the effect that the order to release the suspect and 1uit work on the case emanated from
 him, and he gives ont strong state ment denying all knowledge of the matter
 It was well known Co the employees of the hotel that Eardjon and Or chard were being shadowed and they were momentarily expecting the de tectiyes to arrest Orchard at any rate. On the day wardjon left three detec- tiyes were sitting in the rotunda and they saw him walk to the desk to pay his bill.
 Chris Evans, a representative of the coal miners union in the Eastern states. was at the hotel at the same time. He arrived here April 20 and lived at the Adams hotel until July 24, when he left the city. It was said