The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-03
PUTTING FORTH
EFFORT DISCREDIT
ORCHARD

BOISE. Idaho, July Max Ma
Itch, Joe Mehelich and Billy Ak
mant, three of the men variously i'm
plicated in alleged misconduct at
GlObeyille, Denver and Cripple
Creek, went on the stand today, as
witnesses for VIM. d. Haywood and
made denial of Orchards testimony
Malich swore that Orchard, and not
he, suggested the inhuman plot of
dynamiting boarding house full of
nOn-uniOn Sme1termen at GlObeville
and that Orchard originated the idea
of killing VIM. Mcdonald, one of the
Malichs 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 Adams. He also denied that
the "PettiDone dope" had been used
in burning his store and testified that
he was at his ranch when the fire oc-
Cured. He also swore that Orchard
had told him that but for Governor
Steunenberg he would be rich, and
that he intended to kill Steunenberg.
Mehilich on cross-examination fol-
lowing Malich, also made positive
and circumstantial denials of the
things Orchard swore they did with
him. The cross-eXamination of all
three witnesses showed purpose on
the part of the state to further deal
with>their testimony when the case in
rebuttal is reached. When Orchard
is recalled he will be asked to give
his version of the alleged use of
"Pettibone dope" in burning Malich's
store at Globeville.
Another unusual feature was con-
tributed to this unusual case with its
background of plots and counter
plots, criminal, industrial and politi
cal, by the appearance as a witness
for the defense of G. MCFARLAND,
brother of Detective James McPar-
land, who worked upon the case
against Haywood, Meyer and Petit
bone, and obtained Orchards con-
fession. This Mcfarland is shoe
maker at Manitou and he came to
tell that while he was following his
peaceful vocation at Victor during
the strike, he was unceremoniously
taken from his last by the militia,
thrust into the bull pen and then
deported.
Eugene Engle, formerly attorney
general of Colorado, swore that Or
chard 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 authorities at Cripple Creek
defied the processes 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 destroyed the
Union store at Goldfield. His entry
into extended descriptions and MI
mute details drought repeated OBJ
jections from the prosecution and
finally the judge interviewed to limit
him to the material facts to save the
time of the court and jury.
The defense also produced Thomas
G.. Foster, now abartender of Bisbee,
Arizona, who as a union miner was
tried and acquitted at Cripple Creek
on the charge that he had attempted
to wreck a train on the Florence and
Cripple Creek railroad. Foster told
of his experience in the "bull pen"
and attempts of Detectives ID. Scott
and X. G. Sterling to force confess
sion from him, which was followed
by II days solitary confinement, and
his final fight from the district,
when he walked for 80 miles and
tasted for over 80 hours.