The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-07-12
GIVE THE LIE TO ORCHARD.
Former Friends and Associates Of
Cold-Biooded Assassin Contradict
His Story.

His Story.
Boise. Idaho.-Max Malich, Joe Me-
heliet and Billy Altman, three OF the
men variously implicated in alleged
misconduct at Globeville, Denver and
Cripple Creek, on the word OF Harry
Orchard, went to the stand on Tues
day as witnesses for w. d. Haywood
and made denial of Orchards testi-
mony Malich swore that Orchard,
and not he, suggested the inhuman
plot of dynamiting a boarding house
full of non-union smeltermen at Globe
Vile, and that Orchard originated the
idea of killing William Macdonald,
one of Malich's business rivals. he
said he had been burned by some
mysterious acid thrown into his house
by an unknown hand but he denied
that this acid was really "Pettibone
dope" that had been left in his room
by Steve and Annie Adams. He also
denied that "Pettibone dope" had been
used in burning his store, and testl-
| fed that he was at his ranch when
the fire occurred. He also swore that
Orchard had told him that but for
Governor Steunenberg he would be
rich, and that he intended to kill
Steunenberg.
Meheliet, on cross-eXamination, who
followed Malich, also made positive
and circumstantial denials of all the
things Orchard swore he did with him.
The crossexamination of all three
witnesses showed a purpose on the
part of the state to further deal with
their testimony when the case in re.
buttal is reached When Orchard is
recalled he will be asked to give his
version of the. alleged use of Petit
bone dope" in burning Malich's store
at Globeville.
Another unusual feature was con-
tributed to this unusual case, with It's
background of plots and counter plots,
criminal, industrial and political, by
appearance as a witness for the de-
Tense of F. MCFARLAND, a brother OF
Detective James MCFARLAND, who
worked up the case against Haywood,
Meyer and Pettibone. This MCFARLAND
is a shoemaker at Manitou, and he
came to tell that while he was follow
ing his peaceful craft at Victor during
the strike he was unceremoniously
taken from his last by the militia,
thrust into the bull pen" and then de-
ported.
Attorney Generals Evidence.
Eugene Englee, former attorney gen
eral of Colorado, swore that Orchard
told him of the loss of a rich share in
the Hercules mine and of his intention
to kill Steunenberg. Englee told at
great length how the military authori
ties at Cripple Creek defied the pro-
cesses of the civil courts, how he was
himself deported from Telluride, where
he went as counsel for the federation,
and how he was later deported from
Cripple Creek the day the mob de-
stroyed the union store at Goldfeld.
The defense also produced Thomas
c. Foster, now bartender OF Bisbee,
Ariz., and who as union miner was
tried and acquitted at Cripple Creek
on the charge that he had attempted
to wreck a train on the Florence &
Cripple Creek railroad Foster told of
his experience in the bull pen," an at
tempt of Detectives D. c. Scott and X.
c. Sterling to force confession from
him, which was followed by seventeen
days solitary confinement, and his
final flight from the district, when he
walked thirty miles and tasted for
over thirty hours.