The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-01
CONSPIRACY
BULWARK OF
DEFENSE
CHIEF WITNESS FOR DEFENSE A
STENOGRAPHER FORMERLY
IN PINKERTONS' EMPLOY.
ALLEGE APPROVAL GOVERNORS
Argument As :, AdmlssabiIity of the
Stenographer's Report On Pro-
gram for Today.

BOISE, Idaho, June 30.-The al
legged conspiracy of the Pinkerton
National Detective Agency under re-
tainer from the Mine Owners asso-
citation and the Citizens Alliance of
Colorado and Idaho, to destroy the
Western Federation of Miners, will
be taken up tomorrow morning when
the trial of VIM. ID. Haywood is re-
sumed at 10 O'Clock The defense
sets up this -as~tne counter-conspiracy
>-ssf Which Harry Orchard, it is claim
ed, was simply an agent. The chief
witness is one Morris Friedman, for
merly a stenographer for the Pink
ertons at the headquarters of the
western division in Denver. 1t is al
legged that Friedman was an agent
of the socialists and the Western
Federation Some of the daily re-
ports of the operators employed by
the agency to join the Western Fede-
ration, attend meetings of the local
unions and, if possible, secure their
own election to offices in these un-
ions, Friedman has testified, were
given to him to copy. He made a
copy for himself and has produced a
number of these reports, which have
been marked for Identification as
evidence, but which have not been
read in court. In fact, Clarence Dar-
row, of counsel for the defense, stat
ed to Judge Wood that he had not
himself read the reports. The ad-
INSTABILITY of these copies of reports
as evidence will be argued tomorrow
II 4. y. I.
witness Friedman on the last day of
the first week for the de-
fense, more positive light is
thrown upon the position taken by
the attorneys which are endeavOring
to clear Haywood and the other Of
ficfals of the Western Federation of
Miners from the charge of conspiracy
to murder 1t is clearly indicated
that it is proposed to show that a
conspiracy to exterimnate the West
ern Federation of Miners went so far
as to secure the Indictment of the
highest officials of the federation on
the charge of murder 1t is charged
that when Orchard was arrested on
the charge of the murder of former
Governor Steunenberg, he was in
duced by the Pinkertons to make a
confession duplicating Haywood,
Meyer, Pettibone, Steve Adams, Jack
Simpkins and a number of other Of
ficers and members of the Western
Federation to such an extent that in
dictments would be secured against
them. In furtherance of the mine
owners conspiracy, it is charged
that further discriminating evidence
was manufactured by the Pinkertons,
in support of Orchards confession,
so that Haywood, the secretary and
treasurer of the Western Federation;
Meyer. the president of the organiza-
ton; Pettibone, former chairman of
the executive board, might he con-
victed of the crime and executed,
while many other officers and men,
bers of the federation were placed in
jeopardy on trial on similar charges
of conspiracy.
A review of the evidence intro
duced in the course of the last five
days brings the inevitable conclusion
that counsel for the defense will en-
deavOf to prove to the satisfaction of
the jury that the Pinkerton agency
and the Mine Owners association,
with the knowledge and approval of
the governor of Idaho. the former
governor of Colorado, the former ad-
jutant general of Colorado and other
influential people, conspired to se-
cure the death by hanging of VIM. ID.
Haywood. Charles H. Meyer. and
George Az Pettibone, and that i1sci-
dentally the mine owners are indi-
reetly responsible for the killing of
/ men in the Independence depot.
The evidence. SO far introduced by
the defense goes to prove that Or
chard. knowing of the blowing up of
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan con-
centrator in 1899, of the explosion in
the tVindicator mines, of the blowing
up Of the Independence depot, of the
killing of Gregory and of the explo-
flion at Bradley's residence in San
Francisco, accused himself of having
committed the crimes and the mur-
der of II men, while in fact, he had
little or no personal connection with
any of them. Witnesses have sworn
that Orchard was not at Wardner on
the day the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
concentration was blown up; that the
facts connected with the Vindicator
tend to the conclusion that the ex-
plosion was accidental; that while
Orchard may have been present when
the independence depot was destroy
ed, Steve Adams was in fact the man
who was employed by the mine own
ers to blow up piece of useless
property. but that blunder resulted
in loss of life; that Lyte Gregory
was murdered by persons connected
with the United Mine Workers and
. not at the instance of the Western
Moderation of Miners, and that Or
\hafsa possessed a mania for boast
of the commission of great