The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-29
TELL OF THE BULL Pen
One of the Victims Describes the
Treatment Given Miners in the Fa-
nous "BuI Pen" in 1S99.-CoIored
Troops Mistreated the Prisoners
Other Testimony.

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was Dominick Flynn, merchant OF
Mullen, Idaho, who declared that Har
ry Orchard on the 29th day of April
1899, the day of the explosion at the
| Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, was
playing poker in his place. Flynn is
the second witness to testify that Or
chard was in Mullen the day ne said
that he helped to light the fuses un-
der the mill at Warder, eighteen
miles distant. On cross examination.
Flynn said he never saw Orchard af-
ter that day. He gave the names of
the poker game at the time of the
explosion.
Patrick McHale, a bar tender at
Mullen, testified that he played poker
with Orchard in Flynn's cigar store
on the 29th of April, 1S99 and had
never seen the man since. He was
positive that Orchard was at Mullen
on the day of the explosion. The po-
ker party was made up of Forest
Clark, a retired mining man, Col
man, Dominick Flynn, Orchard aid
himself, McHale said.
Frank Hough, of Wallace, Idaho
who was in the "bull pen'' in 1899.
place. He said Jack Simpkins, accus-
ed of completely in the Steunenberg.
was a fellow prisoner. The prosecu
ton objected to the testimony as ito
the "bull PEN but it was admitted
upon the statement of Attorney Oar
row that it was intended to show the
motive of Simpkins for acting with
Orchard, botn men, it being alleged
having a grudge against Governor
Steunenberg.
Hough said that from 300 to 400
miners were crowded in the ''bull
pen" during the hot months of 1899.
One fourth of the men were i'll most
of the time. The prison was guarded
by colored troops of the regular ar
my. Hough told of an incident on a
made to stand six hours in the sun
without water. Every time he at
tempted to sit down the soldiers train
ed their bayonets on him. The wit
ness did not see them jab him with
the bayo1ets.
Hough swore that Orchard told him
at Wallace in the fall of 1905 that ne
had just come from Alaska. This is
the first mention in the case of the
defense of the supposed visit OF Or
chard to Alaska.
James H. Ramey, a former stage
driver and rancher in the Couer
D'Alene district, testified that he met
Orchard on the road between Gem
and Wallace May 2, 1899, three days
after the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
explosion, and Orchard offered to seH1
him a one-sixteenth interest in thef
Hercules mine for s400.
did he tell you he had given the
title of his property to man named
Cordova more tnan a year before this
timer asked Senator Borah o1 the
cross examination.
mo sir, did not ask him about
the title. l turned the proposition
down cold"
William Amole, of Denver, watch |
man at the Portland mine in Cripple |
Creek, up to the time the union min |
ers were deported, following the In
depot affair gave his ex-
perience during the deportation per
iod. He said he was arrested several |
times and finally was fogged by two |
masked men.
Boise. Idaho, June pa sensa-
tioa was created by the calling of the
next witness, Morris Friedman, wno
has written a book which he claims +
IS an expose of Pinkerton detective
methods Friedman says he is now
4 newspaper correspondent. He work
I'd as a stenographer in the Pi1ker-
.on Offices at Denver during the Grip
pie Greek strike. doing particularly
The work of James McPharland, who
worked up the case against the Wes
tern Federation of Miners. Friedman !
said he became thoroughly familiar |
with the ONCE work and methods Of t
the detective agency.