The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-02
Prisoner May Testify in
His Own Behalf iii
Trial ThisWeek.
PUT CONSPIRACY.
on PI1NKERTON
Friedman, a Former ! Esnfllplloy!e ! q lt' OF
Agency, Reiteratcs Charge
That Mine-Owners In +'s''
spired Great Crime.
Militia Attacked
for Conduct.

Ro1sE IDAHO, July l.--Morris
15r,edma,,. n Russian stenographer, who
left the employment Of the pinnKterton
agency at Denver to write pookl ~ =.
which he published certain corresponnd-
ence OF the agency that pa ssed through
his hands. was again TO-DAY .the ,prih.-
oipal figure at the trial of William
Is. Haywood for the murder OF for
mer Governor Stcunenberg. More than
half OF the courts day was occupied
IN reading to the Jury copies OF the
documents which Friedman took from
the ,Pinkcrton records. They were
chiefly the daily reports of secret
agents operating as spies among me
unions at Cripple Creek. Victor Glob' iLo
Vile, Colorado City. Trinidad andsDen-
yer and showed complete surveil-
lance Of the Western Federation of
Miners and the United Mine Workers
OF America during the labor troubles
In Colorado in 1sGS-'04. Pinkerton men
sat in the federation convention at
Denver in 1904, reporting ell proceed
ings
None of the reports that We're pro-
duced by Friedman and read 20 the
Jury by Clarence Darrow contained
| other than general references to the
| collateral issues OF the trial, but they
were offered In substantiation of the
| counter charge OF the defense that
| the Pinkerton agency conspired for
! the destruction of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners and the lives OF its
| leaders.
Attack by Prosecution..
4 The prosecution offered no opposi-i
! ton to any feature OF Friedman's tes-
\ ttimony and no. objection to the intro
i ductlon OF any of the documents the
defense obtained through him. When
Friedman was handed over for CROSS
Examination the State endeavored to
i ascertain whether Friedman had any
more reports or letters bearing on the
4 general Issue. It attacked Friedman
Il on the ground that ne had played the
4 jPinkerton's false, had violated the
. pledge to then. and had stolen the
ldocuments which he produced; but the
witness would not admit that he had
sstolen the papers, and would not al
low Senator Borah to call him a
\ "Pinkerton. =
i, l@ti He insisted that 1t was not stealing
Information that had been obtained
by fraud and deceit OF secret service
men. and declared that the public SER
vice which he performed In inform
Z. ing the people OF the methods Of the
agency fully justified anything tha.
he had done.
Friedman said that II he had known
( this treal was coming up lie would
!, ] have taken many more letters and re.
. ports Senator Borah pressed him tc
. tell just what records thcrn2Were IL
!, the Pinkerton Office at Denver bear.
ling directly on this case, and. while
3 the Witness said he could not tell hin
I Iof any particular one, he remembered
: many letters written by Detective
a Mcfarland in which all manner O.
a crimes were laid at the door OF thu
: Western Federation of Miners.
= Has Hfttt,., Nxyo.Y,o,Y
9 Another Interesting witness wa.
y eiJ3mes y. Wallace. an attorney OF Grip
: pie Creek. who served with the mllitl;
!, first as private and then as lieu
t,ltenant during the strike OF 10000. H,
elrelated several Instances as tending I,
Z show the misuse OF the power OF th
!. militia by the mine owners; gave tn
n Icriminal records OF some of the gu,
bmp9sasa BY the mine eapS
: Item; recited the circumstances o
: the looting Of the union stores and;
nj newspaper office, and swore that h
le the mine owners. fire the first shot 4
=, - the Victor riot the day OF the Inde
~ pendence Station explosion.
= Put Him In Bull Pen.
IN NJ L. White. an organizer. for tn
~ Western Federation. was the last wit
Vt pants back to good humor with II
Id drollest kind Of tale Of his arrest b
,e the militia with all the ponlp and cere
,a mony Of. wartimes. the activities
"a tho vermin In tho bull pen and hi
- happy release by a brother IVY Woodma
Of the World" who commanded tn
militia.
ls Counsel for the defense to-day sal
20 that they might succeed In fnishin
rs with all ofatheir witnesses except Hay
ry wood and Mover by the end Of tt
,ir week Their plan Is to. reserve thos
81 two principals for the last The d
s fense has prepared Its draft Of II
!, structions. and the State Is workin
fr,fup Its rebuttal case, so that the or
ng of the trial approaches.