The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-07-04
SAYS 1T WAS PLOT
OF MINE OWNERS
Former EmplOye of Pinker-
tons Gives Testimony in
Haywood Trial
Says Employees Of Detective Agency
Became Leaders Of Miners Union
Under instructions from Pin
kertons, Who Reported to
Mine Owners.

Boise. Idaho.-Morris Friedman.
former employe of the Pinkerton de.
tective agency at Denver, who pub
llshed his adventures and many of
the confidential reports and records
that passed through his hands in an
attack on the agency, was 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 to take the stand produced one
of the sensational periods of the trial.
BY name and operating number he
identified a dozen detectives who sue
ceeded In entering or getting very
close to the miners unions in Colo
rado, and he produced voluminous
copies of the reports they made to the
agency for transmission to the mine
owners. Friedman was confiden-
tial stenographer under Detective Nc
Parland and, so he testified, 1t was
part of his duty to recopy the reports
of the operatives as they reached the
office.
Detectives Joined the Unions.
Friedman swore that in several in
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 a
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 Frledmans chair sat George
W. Redell, who, as a 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 at
Globeville. and as 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
to beggar the federation by the lavish
expenditure in behalf of the strikers,
and, failing in this, he cut the relief
down to 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 a spy in be-
half of the labor organizations or his
decision to make public his knowl-
edge and the documents he took was
reached after he was employed.
Regarding Orchards Credibilty.
Aside from the introduction of Nor
ris Friedman, the defense also offered
large amount of testimony covering
Orchards credibility, the dispute as
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 Lyte
Gregory, the whipping of men friend
ly 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
Hill and Sullivan mill was destroyed
Harry Orchard was at Mullan, which
is eighteen miles from Wardner.
They located him in a poker game,
and one of them--Patrick McHale, a
barkeeper-swore that he sat in the
game. By various means, including
a showing that McHale is a gambler,
the prosecution endeavored to break
this testimony, but both witnesses
held to their stories.