Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-07-02
Record Of Proceedings Sent to thu
Denver Office
70 DIRECT BEARING ON CASE
offered as Collateral Evidence Of
Conspiracy.
LAWYER TELLS OF SHOOTING
Description of Capture of Union Hall
at victor and Attending Incl
dents by Cripple Creek
Attorney.

BOISE. Idaho, July morris Friedman,
the young Russian stenographer who left
the employ OF the Pinkerton agency at
Denver to write a book In which he pub
lished certain correspondence OF the agency
that passed through his hands. was again
today the principal figure at the steunen-
berg murder trial. More than half of the
courts day was occupied in reading 10
the jury copies Of the documents which
Friedman took from the Pinkerton records.
They were chiefly the daily reports OF Sc
cret agents operating as spies among the
unions and union men at Cripple Greek.
Victor. Globeville, Colorado City. trinidad
and Denver. and showed a complete sur
veillance of the Western Federation Of
Miners and the United Mine Workers OF
America during the labor troubles in Colo1
RADIO in l90s-O4. Pinkerton men sat in THO
Federation convention at Denver in 1904, re
porting all proceedings.
None of the reports that were produced
by Friedman and read to the jury by Clsrl
ence Darrow contained other than general
references to the collateral issues of thel
trial. but they were offered in substan-
tiation of the counter claim of the defense
that the Pinkerton agency conspired for
the destruction OF the Western Federation
OF Miners and the lives of its leaders.
Friedman CrOss-Examined.
The prosecution offered no opposition TO-
any feature of Friedmans testimony an
no objection to the introduction OF an
one of the documents that the defense oh
tained through him, and when Friedman|
was handed over for crOss-examination II
endeavored to ascertain II Friedman had.
any more reports or letters bearing on the
general issue. 1t attacked Friedman on
the ground that he had played the Pinkes-
tons false, had violated his pledge to them
and had stolen the documents which hs
produced but the witness would not ad-
NIT that he had stolen the papers and
would not allow Senator Borah TO call him
"Pinkerton." He insisted that 1t was
not stealing to take Information that had
been obtained by the fraud and deceit Of
| secret Berxtoe men, and declared that the
public service which he performed in In
forming the people of the methods OF the
agency fully Justified anything that he
had done.
He said that II he had known this tSlal
was coming up he would have taken ms
more letters and reports. Senator Bo
were in the Pinkerton once at
bearing directly on this case, az
the witness said he could not 4
any particular one he remembe
letters written by Detective McP
which all manner of crimes weT
the door of the Western FEEDER
Miners.
Lawyer Tells of ShootinE5
Another interesting witness was Janis
Wallace, an attorney of Cripple Gre
who served with the militia first as 4
private and then as a lieutenant durin
the strike of 1sO3-N. He related severe
instances as tending to show the misus
of the power of the militia by the min
owners; gave the criminal records of SON
OF the gun fighters imported by the mir
owners told of the working of the car
system; rected the circumstances col
nected with the looting OF the union stores
and a newspaper office and swore that
he saw X. c. Sterling. chief detective for
the mine owners. fire the shot in the
Victor riot the day of the Independence
station incident
NJ E. White, an organizer for the West
ern Federation, was the last witness and
brought the trial participants back to
great good humor with the drollest kind
of a tale of his arrest by the militia with
all the pomp and ceremony of war times.
the activities OF the vermin in the bull
pen and his happy release by a brother
woodman OF the World who commanded
the militia
Counsel for the defense said today tina
they might succeed in finishing with
of their witnesses except Haywood AMI
Meyer by the end of the week. Their plan
is TO reserve those two principals for the
last. The defense has prepared its draft Of
instructions and the state is working up
ts rebuttal case, 50 that the end OF the
trial approaches.
Friedman Called 20 stand.
with the opening Of the Haywood
trial today Mr.. Darrow, for the de-
fense, recalled to the stand Morris Fried
man. the stenographer formerly employed
at the Denver ONCE OF the Pinkerton de-
tectiye agency. Friedman was introduced
by the defense to expose the Pinkerton
methods OF dealing with the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners. Friedman spent the nrst
nalf hour OF his stay on the stand this
morning Identifying many reports from Sc
cret operatives, which he says he made
copies OF while in the Pinkerton once. He
also Identified three letters said " have
been written by James Mcfarland. super
intendent of Pinkertons in the west; and
the records of several operatives.
Senator Borah. for the state, asked per-
mission 10 examine the letters signed by
Mr.. Mcfarland. but was refused Il have
not decided definitely to offer these letters
In evidence" explained Mr.. Darrow, "snd
while do not want 10 appear discourteous,
must decline for the present"
The prosecution offered no objection to
the introduction of the reports OF the de-
tectives In evidence and many Of them were
read TO the jury by Mr.. Darrow.
The object IN putting them IN waa to