Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-06-29
P|NKERTONS As
UNION OFFICIALS
Defense Springs a
Sensation in Hay
wood Trial
OUTRACEs OF BULL PEN"
Vividly Described By Miner
Imprisoned There During
Strike Days,

Boise, Idaho, June 29.--In the Hay
wood trial today the defense sprung a
sensation when it put Morris Fried
man on the stand Friedman was for
merly stenographer in the Pinker-
ton Detective Agency in Denver and
sort of private secretary to James
Mcfarland, who was instrumental in
working up the case against Hay
wood, Meyer and Pettibone. Fried
man cited various instances in which
Pinkeron detectives were sent out to
become officials of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners for the purpose of
spieing on the Union. The state
failed to shake his testimony on cross
examination
Prove Alib for Orchard.
The first witness today was Dom
mick Flynn. a merchant of Null
len, Idaho, who declared that Harry
Orchard on the Goth OF April, 1899,
the day of the explosion at the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, was
playing poker in his place. Flynn is
X the second witness to testify that Or
chard was in Mullen the day he said
he helped light the fuses under the
mill at Wardner, eighteen miles dis
tant. On cross examination Flynn
said he never saw Orchard after that
day. He gave the names of several
persons who were in the game at the
time of the explosion.
Patrick McHale, bartender at Null
len, testified that he played poker
with Orchard in Flynn's cigar store
on April 49,, 1899, and had never seen
the man since. He was positive that
Orchard was at Mullen the day OF the
explosion. The poker party was MADE
up of Forrest Clark, mining man;
Colonel Moore, an electric light man.
Dominick Flynn, Orchard and himself.
Horrors of the "Bull Pen"
Frank Hough, of Wallace, Idaho,
who was in the "bull PEN In 1892
testified as to the conditions OF the
Mace. He said that Jack SlmpKlns,
accused of the Steunenberg murder,
was a fellow prisoner. The prosecl-
tfon objected to the Introduction OF
testimony as to the "bull pen" but u
was admitted upon the statement by
Counsel Darrow that it was intended
to show the motion Of Simpkins for
acting with Orchard, both men, 1T be-
ing alleged having a grudge against
Governor Steunenberg.
Hough said that between 300 and
400 miners were crowded in the bull
pen" during the hot months in 1899.
A quarter of the men were i'll most
of the time. The prison was guarded
by Colorado troops of the regular
army. Hough told Of the incident of
a day in July when Simpkins was
made to stand six hours in the sun
without water. Every time he at
tempted to sit down the soldiers
trained their bayonets on him. The
witness said he did not see the SOL
Sdiers jab him (Simpkins) with their
bayonets. Hough swore that Orchard
told him at Wallace in the fall of
1905 that he had just come from Alas.
ka, this being the first mention in
the case by the defense of the sup
posed visit of Orchard to Alaska
Attempted Sale OF Hercules Interest
James H. Ramey, a former stage
driver and rancher in the Occur
d'Alene district testified that he met
Orchard on the road between Gem
and Wallace, May 2, 1899, three days
after the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
explosion and said Orchard offered to
sell him a sixteenth interest in the
Hercules mine for $400.
Did he tell you he had given the
title to his property to a man named
Cordova more than a year before this
tme?" asked Senator Borah on cross
examination
No sir, did not ask him about
the title. turned the proposition
down cold'
William Amole of Denver, watch
man, at the Portland mine, Cripple
Creek, up to the time the union
miners were deported, following the
independence depot affair, gave his
experiences during the deportation
period, He said he was arrested sew
eral times and finally flogged by two
marked men.
Exposes Pinkerton Secrets.
A sensation was caused by the call
ing Of the next witness, Norris Fried
man, who has written a book which
he claims is to expose the Pinkerton
detective methods. Friedman says he
is now a newspaper correspondent
He worked as stenographer In the
Pinkerton Offices in Denver during the