Albuquerque evening citizen., 1907-06-29
MANY P|NKERTONS IN
FEDERATION OF
MINERS 4
Morris Friedman Tells Hay
wood Jury That Detectives
Made Reports on
Union Men.
PROVE ORCHARD WAS
NOT At BUNKER HILL
7
Defense Endedvors to Show That
Lyte Gregory Was Killed Be-
cause He Beat Coal Miners
at Trinidad During

Boise, Idaho, June 29.-The first
witness today ~ the Haywood trial
was Dominick hoSnn, a merchant Of
Mullen, Idaho, soenmmslo declared that
Harry orchard,eyg the 2sth OF April.
tSs hunSsr ane Day the suya0 ekp0s0a ns at
was playing pokcin his place.
Flynn is the second witness to tes-
tify that Orchard was in Mullen on
the day he said he helped light the
fuses under the mill at Wardner,
eighteen miles distant.
On cross examination Flynn said he
never saw Orchard after that day.
He gave the names of several per-
sons who were in the game at the
time of the explosion.
Saw Orchard I'm Mullen.
Patrick McHale, u bartender at
Mullen, testified that he played poker
with Orchard in Flynn's cigar store
on the 29th of April, 1899. and had
never seen the man since.
He was positive Orchard was at
Mullen the day of the explosion.
The poker party was made up Of
Forest Clark, retired mining man;
Col. Moore, electric light and water
man; Dominick Flynn, Orchard and
himself.
Conditions I'm "Bullpen."
Frank Hough, of Wallace, Idaho.
who was in the "bullpen" in 1890,
testified as to the conditions in that
place.
He said Jack Simpkins, accused of
completely in the Steunenberg MUIR
der. was a fellow prisoner.
The prosecution objected to testi-
mony as to the "builpen," but It was
admitted upon a statement by At
torney Darrow that 1t was intended
to, show the mott We ~5f nSfmplSins 70,
acting with Orchard. both men, It be-
ing alleged, having s. grudge against
Governor Steunenberg.
BayOnetted Prisoner.
Hough said 800 to 400 miners were
crowded in the "bullpen" during the
hot months of 1889. A quarter of
the men were Ill most of the time.
The prison was guarded by the Colo
rado troops of the regular army.
Hough told of IN incident on a hot
day in July when Slmpkins was made
to stand for six hours in the sun
tempted @nGe To down Gwfy the %e safaers aa et
trained bayonets on him. The wit
ness did not see them jab him with
the bayonets.
Hough said he saw Orchard and
Simpkins in Wallace in 1905, but had
no talk with them.
Came From Alaska.
Hough swore that Orchard told
him at Wallace in the fall of 1905,
that he had just come from Alaska,
the first mention in the case of the
defense of the supposed visit of Or
chard to Alaska.
Did he tell you that he had Civ
en- the title of his property to a man
named Cordova more than a year be-
fore this time ?" asked Senator
Borah on cross examination.
mo, sir, l didn't ask him about
the title. l turned the proposition
down cold"
Orchards Mine Offer.
William Amole, of Denver, a watch
man at the Portland mine in Cripple
Creek up to the time of 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 logged by two
masked men.
James ii. Ramey, former stage
driver and rancher in Coeur D'Alene,
testified that he met Orchard on the
road between Gem and Wallace, on
May 2, 1899, three days after the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan explosion,
and Orchard offered to sell him a
sixteenth interest in the Hercules
mine for $400.
Detectives Joined Union.
a sensation was aroused by the
calling of the next witness, Morris
Friedman, who has written a book,
which ne claims is an expose of the
Pinkerton detective methods.
Friedman says he is now a news
paper correspondent. He worked as
a stenographer in the Pinkerton Of
fees in Denver during the Cripple
Creek strike, doing particularly, work
for James MCFARLAND, who worked
up the case against the Western Fed
GRAFTON Of Miners.
Friedman said that he became
thoroughly familiar with the office
work and methods of the agency.
Asked as TO placing Pinkerton op-
eratves in the unions, he said a man
named Crane became secretary of the
Smeltermen's union Of Colorado City,
and also chairman Of the strike COM
mittee.
other operatives who We're con-
nected with the unions in Colorado
We're. Joseph II. Kaddon, Charles H.
Rhymere. George w. Riddell, i. b.
Bailey Cummings LutlOW and Conf
bear.
Concerning Pinkertons.
Friedman declared that he handled
almost daily reports from these men
for a year and a halt.
Riddell was in the court room as
Friedman began his testimony. He
was Identified by the witness.
TWO Pinkertons were deported
with the rest Of the union men from
Cripple Greek and Telluride, accord
ing TO the witness.
do you know a Pinkerton named
LondOner?' asked Darrow.
Yes, sir"