Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1907-07-05
AMONG Miners /!
MANY DOCUMENTS FROM PlNkER.
TON AGENCY READ TO jury.
STATE DOES NOT OBJECT
Former stenosrapher Friedman %
tends His Taking Of the Papers
--Wellsce Tells Of Misuse
OF Militia.

Boise, ldahO. - MoTris =,
the Young Russian stenographer
who left the employ OF the Pinkerton
agency at Denver to write book IN
which he published certain CORE
spondence Of the agency that passed
through his hands. was again the prlh-
cipal figure In the Steunenberg muir
der trial Monday.
More than half Of the courts DAY
was occupied in reading to the jury
COMES OF the documents which Fried
man took from the Pinkerton records.
They were chiefly the daily reports OF
secret agents operating as spies
among the unions and union men a.
Cripple Creek, Victor, Globeville, Col
-orado City, Trinidad and Denver, ana
showed a complete surveillance OF the
Western Federation Of Miners and the
United Mine Workers of America dur
ing the labor troubles in Colorado IN
10000. Pinkerton men sat In the
federation convention at Denver IN
1904 reporting all proceedings.
State Calls Him Traitor.
The prosecution offered no opposi-
ton to any feature of Friedman's tes-
timony, and no objection to the intro
duction Of any one Of the documents
that the defense obtained through him,
and when Friedman was handed over
for cross-examination 1t endeayored to
ascertain II Friedman had any more
reports or letters bearing on the gen.
eral issue. 1t attacked Friedman on
the ground that he had played the
Pinkertons false, had violated his
pledge to them and had stolen the
documents which he produced, but the
witness would not admit that he had
stolen the papers and would not allow
Senator Borah to call him "Pinker-
ton" He insisted that it was not
stealing to take information that had
been obtained by the fraud and deceit
of secret service men, and declared
that the public service which he per-
formed in informing the people OF the
methods of the agency fully justified
anything tnat ne nad done.
Wallace Tells of Riots.
Another interesting witness was
James I. Wallace, an attorney OF
Cripple Creek, who served with the
militia, first as private and then as
a lieutenant, during the strike Of
10000. He related several instanc D
as tending to show the misuse of the
power of the militia by the mine own
ers; gave the criminal records of
some of the gun fighters imported by
the mine owners; told Of the working
of the card system; recited the cir
cumstances connected with the loot
ing of the union stores and newspa-
per Office, and swore that he saw X.
G. Sterling, chief detective for the
mine owners, fire the first shot in the
Victor riot the day of the Independ.
ence station incident.
Three Deny Orchard Story.
Boise, ldaho.-Max Malich. Joe Me-
he,ich and Billy Altman, yariously i'm.
.plicated In alleged misconduct at
Globeville, Denver and Cripple Creek,
on the word Of Harry Orchard, went
on the stand Tuesday as witnesses for
William D. Haywood and made denial
of Orchards testimony.
Malich swore that Orchard, and not
he, suggested the inhuman plot of
lynamiting boarding house full of
nonunion smeltermen at Globeville,
and that Orchard originated the idea
of killing William Mcdonald, one of
Malich's business rivals.