The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-30

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from Cripple Creek and Telluride.
''Do you know Pinkerton named
LondonerG' asked Darrow.'
eyes, sir.
''Was he a member of the uuion?"
No, sir; Londoner was supposed to
be capitalist, and trying to find out
the secrets of Mr.. Heinze.''
The reference to the Montana
mining millionaire called out wave of
laughter,
How the Spies Worked
Friedman next told of an operative
named A. W, Cratias, who was chairman
of the miners relief committee at
Globeville, just outside of Denver.
At first Gratias WIS intructed by
Mr., MCFARLAND TO make the relief bills
as large as possible, said the witness,
:. IN order to drain the Western Fedora
tion g treasury. This didn't seem TO
work, so Gratias was told to cut down
the bills to the lowest notch so as to
dissatisfy the men on strike.''
The report from the operatives in the
various unions usually covered all that
had transpired at union meetings, what
the miners were doing in private, where
they went IN the evenings, etc. Fried
man said he had copies of a number
of these reports. 1T was part of his
duty to copy these and mail them to
the agency's clients. Friedman said
the Pinkertons spied on both the West
tern Federation of Miners and the Uni
ted Mine Workers. The witness had not
brought the copies Of the reports to
court with him and was withdrawn until
the afternoon session, making way for
James Mooney of Missouri
Mooney said he was n farmer and
also ran a coal mine.
You do both?'' queried DarTow.
Yes, sir; m what they call in Mis-
souri, a jim Crow farmer and one
horse coal operator.
AS a member of the National board
of the United Mine Workers, Mooney
said he was called to the Trinidad coal
fields of Colorado, where there was a
strike.
"our object" said Mr., Darrow, ad
dressing the court sis to show that
Lyte Gregory Of Denver, who Orchard
coal strike, and was in no way work
ing against the Western Federation of
Miners.
Motive for Gregory Assault.
Mooney said non.union miners were
being brought TO Trinidad and it was
generally reported that Gregory and the
detec tives agency, with which he was
connected, was in charge of this work.
The witness said he was badly beaten
up and was in bed for ten days.
The prosecution objected to this Mr.
Darrow, in arguing the point, said he
wished TO show motive for assaults
on Lyte Gregory
con the part of this wituess?"
questioned Judge Wood.
eyes, SIR said Darrow; con the
part of anybody who was there and who
looked on Gregory as thug, man who
beat up the people and who was hos
tile 10 the union.
The witness was asked on cross-eX-
animation if he had laid any plans to
assassinate Gregory as a result of his
experiences at Trinidad.
"No. sir -
"Did you encourage any of your
friends TO assassinate him9N
''No, sir. made no effort to find
out who he was. -
"For the purpose of seeking re
venge?"
"No, sir. | was seeking to have him
prosecuted according TO law.
AT the conclusion of Moneys testi
mony, the luncheon recess until l. 80
p. m. was ordered
Another Story of Beating.
Chris Evans, national statstician
of the United Mine Workers. was called
to the stand after recess and testified
that while he was at Trinidad Colo, he,
too, was beaten up.
The prosecution challenged this tes-
timony us immaterial and irrelevant,
but Judge Wood allowed it on the
statement of counsel that they expected
to show that Lyte Gregory was respon-
sible for the assault.
Evans was followed by John I. Tier
ney Of Denver, a newspaper CORE
spondent Tierney said he was at Trini
dad during the troubles there. He saw
Lyte Gregory at the place. He de-
scribed Gregory ns a man SIX feet two
inches in height and weighing 260
pounds.
Mooney had declared that the man
who assaulted him was an exceptionally
large man.
Next on the stand was Judge Theron
Stevens, former Judge of the District
court of Colorado at Ouray. Judge
Stevens is now resident Of Gold6eld,
New Asked the purpose of Judge
Stevens IS testimony, Attorney Richard
son replied that il was TO show that
peaceful conditions existed in the Tel
luride district of Colorado up to the
time the militia came in and the de-
gun.
Judge Stevens told first of an injunc
tion having been issued against the
miners union preventing a boycott
of some of the merchants in the. Tel
luride country. So far as he knew
the injunction was obeyed and there
was no interference of any sort with
the court.
The witness said he had refused to
grant an injunction to the deportees
so long as the militia was In the dis
trict. After the soldiers were with
drawn the Citizens Alliance continued
to deport miners and then Judge
Stevens granted an injunction tc half
a hundred of the deported men, allow
ing them TO return.
f'What was done then7'' asked At
torney Richardson.
"The Governor of Colorado pro-
claimed the district In state of in
surrection and sent the soldiers back.
The deported men were not allowed to
return.
Judge Stevens next told of having
granted a writ Of habeas corpus to
Charles II. Meyer, president Of the
Western Federation of Miners, when he
was arrested at Ouray
General Sherman Bell and Captain
Bulkeley Wells of the militia had