The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-30
SLEUTHS SP|EDON
MINERS WORKINGS
SENSATIONAL EXPOSURE OF
METHODS USED IN MOVER
HAYWOOD CASE.
LABORS INNER CIRCLE"
Rddled by Man Formerly Employed
by the Struggle
Between the Miners and
Owners Portrayed.

New York April 29.--With the an
usual admission that "a trial edition
has been hustled west" came an an
nouncement today Of the publication
OF what purports TO be an exposure
OF the methods of the Pinkerton de
tective agency, particularly with ref
erence to the Moyer-Haywood Petit
bone case
Its publisher is the Wiltshire Book
company and the author, who gives
his name as Morris Friedman, asserts
that he was for three years a
stenographer to James Mcfarland
head of a branch OF the detective
agency in ncncer, Col, who brought
to light the evidence upon which the
three officers of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners will be tried one a
charge of completely in the murder of
Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho on May
8 in Boise City.
This trial edition" evidently Is to
he rushed to the part of the country
most concerned with the trial, but
for what purpose is not announced.
A. Pinkerton. principal of the agency
in New York, said this afternoon that
is was only another manifestation Of
a propaganda of the federation to
arouse sentiment for the accused men
They are trying it east, west,
north and south, wherever they think
it will do the most good" said Mr.,
Pinkerton. They ans trying it in
every way possible We have moth
ing to say about the book, of course,
now. If it exceeds legal limits that is
another matter. do not know Fried
n. do not .eeall that he was
ever an employee. / have not read
what he has written.
Halter Drawing Closer.
These men are beginning to see
the halter drawing closer, and they
are beginning to ralize that the fate
of those who are accused is to be left
10 jury in a courtroom after trial,
and they are trying to shape the
tiaI.'
Stripped of the conclusions drawn,
all Of which are highly favorable to
the men and eondemnatory Of the
detective agency and of assertions
which do not appear 10 be supported
by documentary evidence, the book is
4 Ihfilling picture Of the labor situa-
ton in the mining district in west
during the years of 1902 to 1905. II
shows the titanic struggles between
the employers and employees in many
in Nebraska. Colorado,
Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona and Cali
fornia II details the attacks. fight
ing. explosions, wrecking and assassi-
nations, the arrival of troops, the
bullpens, and finally the adj
vent of the secret operatives of the
Pinkcrton agency. 1t describes the
work of several of these men, and
although it criucises them in the
5evercst terms. il admits they accom-
plished the purpose for which they
were hired
Pinkerton Labor Spy.
II refers slightly to John Mitchell,
Of the United Nine workers Oh
once, and finally lays bare
Or pretends to lay bare, the inside
workings of the detective agency, its |
methods and manners.
II riddles the accusation that there |
was an elmer circle" in the fedora |
ion which directed the attacks, aud |
Uses Mcfarland as central figure
for it's condemnation.
THE Pinkerton Labor Spy is the /
itlo cf h' F
~ he outset the autaor after de /
sciibins to organization of the ma
.ional agency. of which the two
brothers, Robert A. Pinkerton and |
A. Pinkerton. Of Chicago, are
principles. speaks of what be calls
he marvellous growth of rthe agency /
Within fhq 1ast fhrea Yeas. y /