Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-07-05
makes DENIAL OF
DEATH-PLOT STORY
MAX MAllcH, ON WITNESS STAND,
coNTRApicTs ORCHARDS
TESTIMONY.
REFUSED 70 AID IN
BLOWING UP HOTEL

Declares He Has No knowledge Of
"Pettibones Dope"-erother Of De- |
tective Mcfarland Tells Of His
Eviction from Victor.
Boise, Idaho, July MAX Malich.
another of the men implicated by the
testimony, OF Harry Orchard. made his
appearance Tuesday as witness In
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.
Malichy was the leader of the Austrian
smelter workers at Globeville and con-
Quoted saloon and store and hotel
there during the strike. Orchard tes-
titled that Malich proposed to him
that he dynamite hotel at Globeyille.
filled with nonunion men and offered
him 500 to blow up the store Of Will
liam Mcdonald, 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.
2 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 "Pettibone 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
WAS marched between lines of SOL
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 a 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
ieys were fred over our heads and
we were told to never come back"
said Mel arland I'VE went into the
fields for some time, when along came
a train which slowed down. The en-.
gineer asked us II 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.
tori"
mo, sir"
On cross-examination MCFARLAND
said he could not identity any one
who did any shooting in the Victor
riots.
At this point luncheon recess until
1880 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 out several interviews in which
he has denied Orchards story abso.
1utely and promised to develop some
new features in the case. He will
be closely cross-examined by the
state. It is from Wallace that the
defense will commence the contradic-
yition of Orchard SO far as his story of
the murder Of Steunenberg is CON
.cerRed. The effort will be to show
that Orchard already having a private
grudge against Steunenberg, secured
enough money from August Paulsoa
to enable him to make a "get away'
after he killed Steunenberg, but that
he bungled his plans.
II 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-exam.
inatfon is expected to take up at
3east a couple of days, the direct tes-
timony for the defense is. not exuect-
ed to close before Monday aor Tues.
day OF next week:
Meyer and Haywood Retained.
Denver, Col, June Charles H.
Mover was retained as president and
William D. Haywood as secretary
treasurer4ef the Western Federation
OF Miners by the federation conyen.
stion Tuesday afternoon, although they
are imprisoned in Idaho on the charge
pf completely in the murder of Gov.
fte4aenberg,
Ex-6ankers Sentenced.
Fort Smith, Ark, July sJudge