The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-07-03
MAKES DIRECT DENIAL
Another Witness at Boise Flatly
COntradiCtS Orchard.
KNEW LATTER AS TOM HOGAN

lSIS III IeIdii TOW OFGHdfu ouS-
pested Blowing Up Nonunion Board
inohouse and Also Proposed Killing
Business Rival of Witness for 500.
Boise, Ida, July 3.-In the Haywood
trial here Max Malich, another of the
men implicated by the testimony OF
Harry Orchard. made his appearance
as a witness In behalf of William d.
Haywood. He directly contradicted
all of Orchards story relating to him.
Malich was the leader of the Austrian
smelter workers at Glo1kville and
conducted q 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 nonunion men and offered
him 800 to blow up the store of Will
lam 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 Lyte 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 "Pettibone dope" or
it's use in his store and swore that
Orchard told him that but for Gov
ernOr Steunenberg he would be rich
man and that he would kill him.
Malich was called to the stand
Immediately after the opening of
court. Malich Is carpenter and
miner. He was smelterman at Globe
vile, Colo, at the time of the strike
in 1903. Malich said he was an Aus
trian, as were most of the men In the
Globeville smelters
Malich said he knew Orchard under
the name Of Thomas Hogan. He was
introduced to him by Pinkerton de-
tective, A. w. Gratias Malich said
he did not know Gratias was detec-
tive at the time, for he was working
secretly and was acting as president
Of the local Smelter union. The wit
ness said it was in February, 1905,
that he met Orchard, who was then
living with Steve Adams and his wife
Malich had become proprietor of a
small hotel and bar at this time.
Orchard testified when on the stand
hot hol Cd f> ha
blowing up Of a hotel where $50 non
union miners were living and had
helped him steal 100 pounds of dyna-
mite from the Union Pacific powder
house. Malich declared that the tes-
timony was all false. He said that
Orchard, or Hogan, came to him one
day and said:
Proposed Blowing UP Hotel.
What is the matter with you folks
out here; the scabs are getting the
best of you? Why don't you blow
that d-n hotel off the earth?"
He said he replied:
Tom, | wouldn't stand for 1t under
the circumstances. If you do any
thing like that am going to denounce
you"
Malich said he knew nothing abou.
the taking of any powder from the
Union Pacific.
Malich testified that he next saw
Orchard In May, 1908. This time
Orchard told him the smelter com
pany's store was taking all his trade
away from him. He offered to "do
up" William Mcdonald. the proprietor
of the store, for $i00. Malich said he
told Orchard that he had all the trade
he wanted and he would not have
anybody killed on his account. The
next time he saw Orchard was when
the. man. vas. writing hail Insurance.