Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-07-05
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.


tective agency at Denver, who pub
lished his adventures and many O
the confidential reports and records
that passed through his hands In al
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 to 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 confiden-
tial stenographer under Detective Nc
Parland and, SO he testified, it 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 |
to get themselves elected to
high office in the union, and In
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
'eet from Friedman's chair sat George
w. Redell, who, as a Pinkerton de-
ective, worked up to leadership in
he Telluride union, and, turning to
lin, by direction of Clarence OAR l,
ow, the witness identified him. Re- |
lell smiled and touched his chest as G
pointed toward him. a
Haywood to Shoulder Blame.
Friedman said that one Pinkerton
perative became chairman of the =
MON strike relief committee at
lobeville, and as such had charge /,
all funds and food disbursed there G.
y the local union and general fed o.
ration. Friedman said that under e.
from his superiors at the 81
inkerton agency this man first tried W
beggar the federation by the lavish c
Ipenditure in behalf of the strikers.
Id, falling in this, he cut the relief
'wn to the lowest point of stingi-
'ss In the hope that the members of IN
e union might censure Mr. Hay lie
BOD. The examination did not show cy
lether Friedman entered the en- ne
~ of the Pinkertons as a spy in be- OF
If of the labor organizations or his ma
cision to make public his know- Gil
ge and the documents he took was trl
,ched after he was employed ia
Regarding Orchards CredibiIity. Jul
aside from the introduction of Nor
Friedman, the defense also offered oi'
arge amount of testimony covering po'
,hard's credibility, the dispute as a.
the time Orchard sold his interest "
the Hercules mine, the treatment -"
Jack Simpkins while prisoner in u
Idaho Dull pen," another motive ',n'
the lHuTueT Oh DtttctlVe Lyle =,
CORY. the whipping of men friend ~
to the strikers at Cripple Creek, Nc,
the circumstances under which ing
processes of the civil courts at ne,
uride were disregarded by the
tary authorities. Two witnesses /,
re that on the day the Bunker Toe
and Sullivan mill was destroyed ME
ny Orchard was at Mullan, which frs
eighteen miles from Wardner. ten;
y located him in poker game, He
one of them-Patrick McHale. ing
that he sat in the OF
e. By various means. including saw
lowing that McHale is a gambler. eno
prosecution endeavored to break card
testimony, but both witnesses conr
to their stories. unio
and
ORCHARDS STORY. chic