The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-05
TRIAL Of HAYWOOD
More Witnesses for the De-
Tense Examined
DENIED ORCHARDS STORY
Orchard Suggested Plot of Blow
Ing up Boarding House
Originated Idea Of killing Mcdonald,
One Of Witness Business RiyalS-
Had Told Witness That He Intend
cd 10 Kill OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Wit
ncSScS Testify to Same Thing.


Boise, Idaho, July 2.-Max Mitch,
Joe Mehelich and Billy Altman,
three men v~ariously implicated in al
legged misconduct at Globeville, Den
yer and Cripple Creek, on the word Of
Harry Orchard, went on the stand to-
day as witnesses for VIM. D. Haywood
and denied Orchards testimony. Mi
Itch sWOre that Orchard II not ne,
suggested the inhuman plot of dyna-
hitting a boarding house full Of non
union smelter men at G!Obeville and
that Orchard originated the idea of
killing VIM. Mcdonald, one Of MiliCh'S
business rivals. He said that he had
been burned Oy some mysterious acid
thrown into his house, but denied that
this acid was really "Pettibone Dope
that had been left in his room by
Steve and Annie Adams. He also de
MED that PettibOne dope had been
used in burning his store and testified
that he was at his ranch when the
IRE occurred. he also S"OI6 I1dt VI
chard had told him that but for Gov
ernOr S~teunenberg he would be rich
and that he intended to kill Steuuen-
berg.
Mehelich and Altman also made pos
tive and circUmstantial deniaIs Of all
the things Orchard swOre they did
with him. The cross examination Of
all three witnesses showed a purpose
on the part of the state to deal further
with their testimony when the case in
re0uttal is reached. When Orchard is
recalled he will be asked to give his
version of The alleged use OF "Ietti-
bone dope" in burning Milich's sore
at GlObeville.
Another unusual feature was con-
tributed to his unuSua crime with its
background of plots and counter plots,
criminal, industrial and political. by
the appearance as a witness Tor the
defense of E. L. Mcfarland, a brother
of Detective James Mcfarland, who
worked up the case against Haywood,
Meyer and Pettibone and obtained Or
chard's confession.
This Mcfarland is a shoemaker at
ManitOu. He testified that while he
was following his peaceful craft at
Victor during the strike he vas unCer-
enormously taken from his last by the
militia, thrust into the bull PEN and
then dcpOrted.
Eugene Engle, 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. Engle told at
great length how the military author
tiles at Cripple Creek defied the civil
courts, how he himself depOrted from
Telluride where he went as counsel for
the federation and how he was later
deported from Cripple Greek the day
the mob destroyed the "niOn store at
9eldfeld. His entry into extended de-
Scriptions and minute details brought
repeated objections from the pIoseCu-
ton II finally the judge limited him
to the material facts to a V the time
of the court and jury.
The defense also produced Thomas
c.. Foster, now a bartender of BiSbee.
Arizona. and who, as q union miner
was tried and acquitted at Cripple
Creek on the charge that he Id at
tempted to wreck a train on the Flor
ence and Cripple Creek railroad. Eos
ter told of his experience in the bull
pen" and attempt of Detectives D. c.
Scott and X. C. Sterling TO force 81 con
fession from him, which was followed
by seventeen days solitary confinement
and of his final flight from the district
when he walked thirty miles and fast
cd Ovor thirty hours