The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-02
Witness Reads Stolen Copies
 of Agencies Reports
SECRET AGENTS AS SPIES
Friedman, Pinkerton stenographer on the Stand in Haywood Trial, Tes- tifies for Defense-Prosecu-
 ton Doesn't Object.

Boise, Idaho, July 1.--Morris Friedman, the young Russian stenographer who left the employ of the Pinkerton agency at denver to write book, in which he published certain correspondence of the agency that passed through his hands, was again today the principal figure at the Steunenberg murder trial.
 Fore than half of the courts day was occupied in reading to the jury copies of the dots which Friedman took from the Pinkerton records These were chiefly dahy reports of tho secret agents. oper- ating as spies among the unions, and un.-.i men at Cripple Creek, Victor. Globeville, Colorado City, Trinidad and Denver showing complete surveillance of the Western Federation of Miners and United Mine Workers of America by a well-established espionage during the labor troubles in Colorado in 1903 and 1904.
 Pinkerton men sat in the convention in D-nvas in 1904 and reported all proceed ings. None of the reports that were produced by Friedman and read 10 the jury Dy Clarence Darrow contained other than general references to the collateral issues of the trial, but they were offered in substantiation of the counter claim of the defense. that the Pinkerton agency ! conapired for the destruction of the West err. ederaton of Miners, and the lives 4 of it's leaders. The prosecution offered no opposition to any feature of Fried mans testimony and no objection to the N introduction of any one of the doca- imeats that the defense obtained through s'sim, and when Friedman was handed over
 coss examination the prosecution en-
 red to ascertain if Friedman's char
 [ tnd the notes which he produced . were ot a creditable nature. The witness kwou.d not admit that he had stolen the E pa oers Eand would not allow Senator Bo- q fah to ed. him asPini1erton.
 M He insisted that it gas not stealing, N that information had been obtained in 6Apnaking use of his notes, anh the purpose HA, informing the people of the methods vi the agency fully justified anything that Hhe had done. He said that if he had H known this trial was coming, he would 6lhave taken many L.o ore letters and reports. Al Senator Borah pressed him to tell Just F what records .nere were in the Pinker- 4 ton office at Denver bearing directly on this case, and while the witness said Rhe could not tell him of any particular Hone, he remembered many letters writ Hter by Detective Mcfarland, in which Mall manner of crime was laid at the door #of the Western Federation of Miners. James l. Wallace, an attorney of Grip pie Creek, was another interesting wit ness. He served with the militia first as a private and then as a lieutenant during the strike of 1903 and 1904 He related several instances tending to show the misuse of the power of the fbn criminal records of some of the gun fighters imported by the mine owners; told of the wording of the card system; recited the circumstances connected with the footing of the union stores, and Il newspaper office. and swore that he saw lN. C. Sterling, detective of the mine Il owners, fire the first shot in the Victor 9 riot the day of the Independence station j. explosion.
 Friedman Recalled.
 M With the opening of the trial, Mir Oar 4frow for the defense recalled to the stand { Morris Friedman, the stenographer for Hlmerly employed at the Denver office of 1.-the Pinkerton detective agency. Fried f man was introduced by the defense to ex- E pose the Flnkerton methods of dealing with the Western Federation of Miners @ Friedman spent the first half hour of his q stay on the stand this morning in iden- Al tifying many reports from secret opera tives, which, he says, he made copies of while in the Pinkerton office He also a identified three letters said to have been f written by James Mcfarland, superin- tcndent of the Pinkertons in the west, and the records of several operatives.
 Senator Borah for the state asked per- mission to examine the letters signed by Mcfarland. but was refused
 "I have not decided whether to offer these letters in evidence" exclaimed MT.
 
 appear discourteous, I must decline for the present
 The prosecution offered no objection to the introduction of reports of the detec- lives in evidence, and many of them were read to the jury by MT. Darrow.
 Pnkerton Reports Read.
 The object in putting them in was to correct the testimony of Friedman giving last Saturday to the effect that the Pin kertons placed spies in the different locals of the Western Federation of Miners with instructions to report daily. The first report read was from operative No. 42, A w. Gratias. It was dated June 29. 1904.
 Gratas was in charge of distributing relief to the striking miners. Tn his re- port No. he said some of the men were asking if he thought the strike would be settled soon. T told him. he wrote. mat 1 heard nOlnlIS or settlement or anything that would indicate a settle ment; that the strike would last long time yet: and also that I believed the union would have to give up by next fall if we didn't win by that time.
 To Blame Haywood.
 Now that the convention is over will again take personal charge of the relief work and will carry out the instructions l received from MT. Carey (Pinkerton manager) about a week ago in regard to putting down the relief as much pos sible so as to cause dissatisfaction and get the men against the union. I will put the blame for not giving the men more relief as much as I can on W. D. Haywood by saying that I carried out his instructions"
 The next two reports read from opera tive No. 5 were detailed accounts of the proceedings at the Western Federation of Miners convention which he attended as d delegate. There was nothing out of the ordinary in the proceedings and no 6ships of an i1ifammatory character. AHarz$;A~ Mo