New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
BOISE DEFENCE GAINS.
PINKERTON NAN HEARD.
Schemes to Break Up Western
Federation of Miners.

Boise, Idaho. June 29.-Morris Friedman,
former employe Of the Pinkerton Detective
Agency at Denver. who published his advent
ures and many Of the confidential reports and
records that passed through his hands in an at
tack on the agency. was witness to-day in the
trial Of William D. Haywood. Friedman told
how the Pinkertons had sent spies into many of
the important unions of the Western Federation
of Miners
Friedman has a shock of black hair and is of
marked Hebraic type. Heavy. thick glasses
magnify his dark eyes. By name and operating
number he identified detectives who succeeded
in entering or getting close TO miners unions IN
Colorado. He produced voluminous copies Of
the reports they made to the agency for trans
mission TO the mine owners. Friedman was
confidential stenographer under Detective Nc
Parland, and testified that it was part Of his
duty TO recopy the reports of the operatives as
they reached the Office.
Friedman sWCre that in several instances tIe
detectives sent out by the agency in behalf Of
the mine owners got elected TO high offices in
the unions, and in 4 couple Of instances they
carried their caring parts 10 the extent of shar-
ing all the hardShipS of real strikers and being
finally deported from the country with real
strikers Ten sfeet from Friedman's chair sat
George W. Reden, who, as a Pinkerton de-
tecuNe worked up to leadership in the Tellu-
Tloe union. Turning to him, by direction Of
Clarence Darrow, the witness identified RedeI
who smiled and touched his chest as Friedman
pointed toward him.
SPY PLANNED To WRECK FEDERATION
Friedman said that one Pnkerton operative
became chairman Of the union strike relief COM
mittee at Globeville, and as such had charge Of
all the funds and food supplies disbursed there
10y the local union and general federation
Friedman said that under instructions from his
tried TO beggar the federation by lavish expendi-
ture in behalf Of the strikers; and falling in
this, cut the relief down to the lowest point Of
stng1ness, in the hope that the members Of the
union might censure Haywood.
Friedman was twice interrupted to give wav
10 other witnesses, and did not get beyond the
lGentilcation and a brief sketch of each opera
tive employed in the espionage of the fedora
non strike operations and the Identification of
several Of The confidential reports The latter
We're not read and VIII not be offered in evidence
until Monday morning, when Friedman will con-
lhue his testimony. The examination did not
snow whether Friedman entered the employment
ol the Plnkertons as a spy in behalf of the labor
organizations or whether his decision TO make
public hls knowledge and the documents he
copied was reached after he was employed
-4S-ae from The introduction Of Morris Fried
man tAe defence also offered large amount of
testimony covering Orchards credibilfty the
Q-sPule as 10 the time Orchard sold his interest
IL the Hercules mine, the treatment of Jack
SilnpAIs while a prisoner in the Idaho bull
pen another motive for the murder Of De-
lecJiFe Lyle Gregory. the whipping of men
liie-leiE u me strikers at Cripple Creek ana
the circumstances under which the processes
oi the civil courts at Telluride were disregarded
by the military authorities.
Two witnesses swore that on the day the
-,Gnher All and Sullivan mill were DESTROYED
Harry Orchard was at MulIan eighteen miles
from Wardner. They placed him in a poker
game. and Patrick McEale barkeeper swore
that he sat in the game. BY various means in
Guiding a Showing that AcHale IS a gambler
the prosecution endeavored to break this testi-
moIy, but both witnesses held to their stories
j. 4 kamey, who formerly operated stage
lines in North Idaho, testified that Orchard
came TO him on May 2, 1893, and offered to sell
his interest IN the Hercules mine for $400. Or
chard testified that he sold his interest in the
mine IN February, 1897. Frank Hough, who
said he was sent to the ''bupen' in North
Idaho in 1899 Tor reasons that he never knew
described conditions in that military prison and
tod how negro soldiers required Jack" Simp-
kns TO stand for six hours in the hot sun of
July day. refused him water, and kept him up
by menacing him with bayonets.
Another cruelty witness William Amole
once a watchnlan in the Portland mine which
acceded TO the demands Of the strikers at Grip
PIE Creek, and continued to work with union
men. In picturesque language and with good
humor Alaole told how, after he was first driven
from the district, he sneaked back to get his
furniture, only to be rounded up by the militia
SOLDIERS CRUELTY BEAT MINER
The soldiers released him, but as he left the
oilice Of the Citizens Alliance he was attacked
Dy armed masked men. He testified that they
took him six miles outside of the town and then
cruelty whipped him with revolver butts and
blacksnakes
Judge Theron Stevens. Of Coldfeld, New
out once Of the District Court of Telluride
Traced the history Of the relations between the
courts and the soldiery in the violent days Of
The strike He testified that when the deported
men tried TO use the injunction to get back 10
tnsr homes the Governor returned the district
% the control Of martial law, and that the writ
OF habeas corpus and the subsequent order for
arrest against the military authorities for its
disobedience in the case Of Charles H Mover
We're both disregarded by General Sherman Bell
and Captain Bulkey Wells. The Judge thought
things had been quiet in the Telluride district
Dut under discrimination said that some
men had been killed in attack on the Snug
gler union mine and that subsequently Arthur
Collins, manager OF the mine, was murdered
There was also showing that Detective Lyte
gregory had beaten officers Of the United Mine
workers, and the defence explained that this
was offered the foundation for the assertion
that somebody besides the federation might
nave desired his death.