Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-03
SAYS ORCHARD LIED
Witnesses Refute Testimony
 of Steunenberg's Slayer.
DID NOT PLAN TO BLOW UP HOTEL
AiLman Declares He Did Not Take Part Tn vindicator Mine Expio- sion-Innocent of Crime Was
 Prisoner In "Bull Pen."

BOISE, Ida, July Civilian AK man of Wonder, New, implicated by Harry Orchard in the placing of a bomb in the .yindicator mine at Grip pie Creek, was witness called at the Haywood trial. Aikman, who has been a member of the Western Federation of Miners since 1893, absolutely denied that he had helped Orchard place any bomb anywhere.
 He declared he knew nothing of the Vindicator explosion until after 1t oc- cured. Aikman was in the Cripple Creek "bull pen" for ten days or two weeks. He said he once worked for a short time in the Vindicator mine. Fol- lowing his release from the "bull pen Aikman said he was held in the coun- ty jail for three months. He was never tried for anything.
 How did you manage to get out?' asked Attorney Darrow.
 "Well, I don't know" replied Ak man. "They took me to the sheriff's of flee one day and charged me 6 bits and let me go."
 Did you pay the bits?"
 "Yes, sir; borrowed it."
 Aikman maintained that he knew ab- solutely nothing about an attempt on the life of Governor Peabody.
 Did you ever go out in rig with Harry Orchard and Joe Mehliet to kill Governor Peabody"
 "No, sir; did not" declared Aikman positively. q did not even know Joe Mehliet at that time."
 He asserted that he had never had any connection with Orchard or any one else in any criminal act
 Max Malich was called to the stand and said he was a carpenter and min- CT. He was a smelter man at Globe vile, Colo, at the time of the strike in 1903.
 Orchard testified that Malich had suggested to him the blowing up of a hotel where 15O nonunion miners were living and had helped him steal 100 pounds of dynamite from the Union Pacific powder house. Malich declared that the testimony was all false.
 He said that Orchard, or Hogan. came sto him one day and said: What is the matter with you folks out here The scabs are getting the best of you. Why don't you blow that - hotel off the earth?"
 He said he replied: "Tom, I wouldn't stand for it under the circumstances. If you do anything like that am go- ing to denounce you"
 After this the witness said Orchard told him he was joking.
 Mahch said he knew nothing about taking any powder from the Union Pacific. He declared two attempts had been made to burn his place of busi- ness, the last on April 27. 1905, after Orchard had left Globeville.
 Malich next related a conversation he had with Orchard in Turkish bath establishment
 II was taking baths for rheuma- tism," said the witness. "He met me one day when was going to take a bath. and he got to talking to me about Governor Steunenberg and called him vile names and said if it had not been for him he would have been a million aire.
 He said he had to sell his interest in the Hercules mine for $500 and get out of the country. I told him 1t did not make any difference how much money he had he would lose it all at faro anyway"
 General Englee, one of the last wit. nesses, when asked if he was so. cialist said, If you mean that I favor the restoration to the human family of planet now largely confiscated by a few. I am a socialist"