The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-07-06
MAX MAliCA. ON WITNESS STAND,
coNTRADlcTs ORCHARDS
TESTIMONY.
REFUSED TO AID IN
BLOWING UP HOTEL
Declares He Has No Knowledge Of
"Pettibone Dope"-Brother of De-
tective Mcfarland Tells of His
Eviction from Victor.

behalf of William d. Haywood. on trial
for the murder of former Gov. Steun-
enberg. He directly contradicted all
of Orchards story relating to him.
Malich was the leader of the Austrian
smelter workers at Globeville and con-
Quoted a saloon and store and hotel
there during the strike. Orchard tes-
titled that Malich proposed to him
that he dynamite hotel at Globeville
filled with nonunlon men and offered
him 500 to blow up the store of Will
liam Mcdonald. a business rival, and
privately informed the prosecution
that Malich had burned himself with
"Pettibone dope" while preparing to
burn his own store, and had later
burned his store with "Pettibone
dope" and that Malich had agreed to
help him with an alibi when he killed
Detective Lyle Gregory.
Malich swore that Orchard had pro-
posed destroying the nonunion hotel
and the killing of Mcdonald and that
he had refused to have anything to
do with either crime He also denied
all knowledge of "Pettihone dope" or
its use in his store and swore that
Orchard told him that but for Gov.
Steunenberg he would be a rich man
and that he would kill him.
Brother of Detective on Stand.
An interesting witness called Just
before court adjourned, was Edward
MCFARLAND, a brother of Capt. James
MCFARLAND, the head of the western
division of the Pinkerton agency, who
has been in charge of securing evil
dence for the state. MCFARLAND gave
a. graphic description of his de-
portation from Victor when he was a
shoemaker at the time of the riots.
He swore that he was subjected to
many indignities and sent away from
the town with other men.
The witness said he was not men,
Der of the Western Federation of
Miners, but shoemaker by trade.
He was at work in his shop in Vic
tor the day of the riot there follow
ing the independence depot explo-
sion. After the shooting started Nc
| Parland said five men came to his
shop and said they wanted him. He
diers to the train and taken to Colo
RADIO Springs, where he and several
! hundred miners were transferred to
| the Santa Fee road and taken to with
! in short distance of the Kansas
| line. The engineer of the train re-
| fused to take the men across the state
| line.
After we left the train three vol
| leys were fired over our heads and
we We're told to never come back"
said MCFARLAND. I'VE went into the
fields for some time, when along came
train which slowed down. The en-
| gineer asked us If we were the de-
ported men. He then told us to get
aboard, and he took us into Holly, Col,
where we remained for some time"
did you ever go back to Vic
tor?''
NO, SIR"
| On cross-examination MCFARLAND
said he could not identify any one
who did any shooting in the Victor
riots.
At this point luncheon recess until
1870 p. m. was taken.
New Feature in Case Promised.
The visit of Orchard to Wallace,
where he swore he discussed with
Dave Coates, a. former lieutenant gov
ernor of Colorado, and at that time a
newspaper publisher at Wallace, on
the subject of kidnapping one Of
August Paulson's children, will be
taken up next. Mr. Coates. who has
been here for several weeks, has
given ont several interviews in which
he has denied Orchards story abso-
lutely and promised to develop some
new features in the case He will
state. 1t is from Wallace that the
defense will commence the contradic-
ton of Orchard so far as his story of
the murder of Steunenberg is con-
cerned. The effort will be to show
that Orchard already having a private
grudge against Steunenberg, secured
enough money from August Paulson
| 10 eudDle MIN 10 make get away
after he killed Steunenberg, but that
he bungled his plans
If the defense can close by the end
of this week, it is possible that Hay
wood and Meyer will take the stand
on Friday and Saturday. but as the
Haywood statement and cross-exanl-
nation is expected to take up at
least couple of days, the direct tes-
timony for the defense is not expect-
ed to close before Monday or Tues
day of next week.
Meyer and Haywood Retained.
Denver Col, June 3.-Charles II.
Meyer was retained as president and
William D. Haywood as secretary
treasurer Of the Western Federation
of Miners by the federation conven-
ton Tuesday afternoon, although they
are imprisoned in Idaho on the charge
OF completely in the murder of Gov.
Steunenberg,