The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-07-11
SAYS IT WAS PLOT
OF Mine OWNERS
Former Empioye Of Pinker-
tons Gives Testimony in
Haywood Trial
Says Employees Of Detective Agency
sscame Leaders Of Miners Union
Under instructions from Pin.
ksrtons, Who Reported to
Mine Owners.

Boise. Idaho. - Morris Friedman. 4
former employe Of the Pinkerton de.
tectiye agency at Denver. who pub.
lished his adventures and many OF
the confidential reports and records
that passed through his hands In an
attack on the agency. was a witness
on Saturday In behalf OF William Hay.
wood. and told how the Pinkertons
had sent spies into the many OF the
important unions Of the Western Fed
GRAFTON Of Miners.
The call from the defense for Fried
man 10 take the stand produced one
OF the sensational periods OF the trial.
BY name and operating number he
Identified dozen detectives who sue.
ceeded In entering or getting very
close to the miners unions in Colo
RADIO, and he produced voluminous
copies OF the reports they made to the
agency for transmission to the mine
owners. Friedman was confden-
tial stenographer under Detective Nc
Parland and. 30 he testified. 1t was
part Of hts duty to recopy the reports
OF the operatives as they reached the
ONCE.
Detectives Joined the Unions.
stances the detectives sent out by the
agency In behalf OF the mine owners
managed TO get themselves elected to
high Office In the union, and In q
couple of instances they carried
their daring roles to the extent OF
sharing all the hardships Of real
strikers and being finally deported
from the country with real strikers
who went out before the militia. Ten
feet from FTiedman's chair sat George
w. Redell, who, AZ Pinkerton de-
tective. worked up to leadership in
the Telluride union, and, turning to
him. by direction OF Clarence Oar
row. the witness identified him. Re
dell smiled and touched his chest as
Friedman pointed toward him.
Haywood to Shoulder Blame.
Friedman said that one Pinkerton
operative became chairman OF the
union strike relief committee Mt
Globeville. and m such had charge
of all funds and food disbursed there
by the local union and general fed.
GRAFTON. Friedman said that under
instructions from his superiors at the
Pinkerton agency this man first tried
70 beggar the federation by the lavish
expenditure in behalf Of the strikers
and. failing In this. he cut the relief
down 70 the lowest point Of stingi,
ness In the hope that the members OF
the union might censure Mr.. Hay.
wood The examination did not show
whether Friedman entered the EN-.
ploy Of the Pinkertons as q spy In be-
half OF the labor organizations or his
decision to make public his known
edge and the documents he took was
reached after he was employed.
Regarding Orchards credlblIlty.
Aside from the introduction OF Nor
ris Friedman. the defense also offered
a large amount OF testimony covering
Orchards credihility. the dispute IA
TO the time Orchard sold HIS interest
In the Hercules mine. the treatment
of Jack Simpkins while prisoner In
the Idaho bull pen" another motive
for the murder Of Detective Lyle
Gregory. the whipping OF mon friend
" to the strikers at Cripple Creek.
and the circumstances under which
the processes OF the civil courts at
Telluride were disregarded by the
military authorities. Two witnesses
swore that ON the day the Bunker
Hin aud sullivan min was destroyed
Harry Orchard was Mt Mnlian. which
IL eighteen miles from Wardner.
They located him In poker game,
and one OF them Patrick McIiale. a
hArkeeper--sworc that he sat In the
game. Hy various means. including
= showing that McHale Is gambler,
the prosecution endeavored to break
this Testimony, but both witnesses
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