The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-07-03
THE PINKIRTONS
THEY WORM THEMSELVES INTO
LABOR COUNCILS AND cHEEP.
GET HOLD OF RELIEF FUND
Startling Testimony Brought Out in
the Haywood Murder Trial Causes
Sensation in Court.

BOISE, ldaho.-NOrrlS frleuInhH,
former employe of the Pinkerton de-
tective agency at Denver, who pub
lished his adventures and many of the
confidential reports and records mat
passed through his hands in an attack
upon the agency, was a witness in be-
half of William ID. Haywood. and told
how the Pinkertons had sent spies
into many of the important unions OF
the Western Federation of Miners.
The call from the defense for Fried
man to take the stand produced one
of the sensational periods of the trial.
He is striking looking young man,
with shock of black hair and of
marked Hebraic type. Heavy, thick
glasses magnify his large dark eyes
and his smooth shaver face is very
pale. BY name and operating number
he identified dozen detectives who
succeeded in entering or getting very
close to the miners unions in Colo
RADIO, and he produced voluminous cop
les of the reports they made to the
agency for transmission to the mine
owners. Friedman was confidential
| stenographer under Detective McPar-
land, and, so he testified, it was part
of his duty to recopy the reports OF
the operatives as they reached the Of
flee.
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 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 be-
fore the militia. Ten feet from Fried
| mans chair sat George w. Redell,
| who, as a Pinkerton detective, worked
up to the leadership in the Telluride
| union, and, turning TO him by direc-
ton of Clarence Darrow. the witness
identified him. Redell smiled and
touched his chest as Friedman point
ed toward him.
| Friedman said that one Pinkerton
| operative became chairman of the
strike relief committee at Globeville,
and. as such, had charge of all the
| funds and foods dsbursed there by
| the local union and general federation.
I Friedman said thai under instructions
from his superiors at the Pinkerton
| agency this man first tried to beggar
the federation by the lavish expendi-
| ture in behalf of the strikers, and.
| failing in this, he cut the relief down
| to the lowest point of stinginess in
| the hope that the members of the
union might censure Haywood.
Friedman was twice interrupted to
| give way to other witnesses. and did
not get beyond the Identification and
| a brief sketch of each operative EN-
| ployed in the espionage of the fedora
| tons strike operations. and the iden-
| LITIGATION of several of the confiden-
tial reports. The examination did not
wi
employ of the Pinkertons as a spy in
behalf of the labor organizations, or
his decision to make public his knowl-
edge and the documents he took was
| reached after he was employed.
Aside from the introduction of Nor
| ris Friedman. the defense also offered
| a large amount OF testimony covering
| Orchards credibility. the dispute as
| to the time Orchard sold his interest
| in the Hercules mine. and the treat
ment of Jack Simpkins while pris-
oner in the Idaho ''bullpen," another
| motive for the murder of Detective
Lyle Gregory the whipping of men
| friendly 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
| Mullen. which is eighteen miles from
| Wardner They located him in
poker game and one of them-Patrick
| McHale, barkeeper-swore that he
sat in the game. BY various means.
| including a showing that McHale is
gambler, the prosecution endeavored
to break this testimony. but both wit
/ h.1I haf Stn
J. II. Ramey. who formerly operated
stage lines in north Idaho. testified
that Orchard came to him on May ..
| 1899, and offered to sell him his in
| terest in the Hercules mine for $500.
| Orchard has testified that he finally
sold his interest in the mine in Feb
ruary. 1897. Frank Hough. who said
| he was sent to the "bullI-n" in north
Idaho in 1899. for reasons that he new
| err knew, described conditions in that
military prison. and told how negro
soldiers required Jack Simphins to
stand for six hours in the hot sun OF
a July day. refused him water, and
kept him up by menacinS him with
| their bayonets
| Another cruelty witness was VIII
| liam Amole. once a Waterman on the
Pc, tland mine, which acceded to the
demands of the strikers at Cripple
Creek, and continued to work with
union men.
In picturesque language and real
good humor. Amole 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. The
soldiers released him, but as he lief
the Office of the Citizens Alliance he
was set upon by party OF armed
masked men. He testified that they
took him six miles outside the town
and there cruelty whipped him with
revolver butts and n blacksnake.
Judge Theron Stevens. now of Gold
field. New. but once of the District
Court at Telluride. traced the history
of the relations between the courts
rnd the soldiery in the troublous days
nf the strike. He testified that when
the deportees tried to use the injunc-
ton to get back to their homes. the
Governor returned the district to the
>ontrol of martial law. and that the
writ of habeas corpus and the sub
,equent order for arrest for its dis
obedience against the military authori-
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