Connecticut western news., 1907-07-04
HITS AT MINE OWNERS
Militia Officer SWears SIeuth
 Started Victor Riot.
WAR ON THE FEDERATION.

Reports Stolen by Pinkerton Employee
 Tell How Detective Promised to Ma
 nipuIate Relief Funds So as to Create
 Sentiment Against Haywood.
 Boise, Ida. July 3.-The defense in the trial of William D. Haywood when it. was resumed before Judge Fremont Wood prepared to spring the greatest sensation in the case thus far with startling expose of the methods of the Pinkerton detectives against the West ern Federation of Miners in the at tempt to show that Harry Orchards crimes were in reality a result of Pinkerton-mine owners conspiracy.
 The secrets of the Pinkertons, scores of whom became members and even officers of the Western Federation of Miners and then made reports to the representatives of the Mine Owners association, are in the possession of Clarence S. Darrow, counsel for the defense, having been turned over to him by Morris Friedman, former em- ployee of the Denver Pinkerton office.
 More than half of the day was Occu- pied in reading to the jury copies of the documents which Friedman took from the Pinkerton records. They were chiefly the daily reports of secret agents operating as spies among the unions at Cripple Creek, Victor, Globe vile, Colorado City, Trinidad and Den yer and showed a complete surveil- 4I~ nf Miners and the United Mine Workers of America during the labor troubles in Colorado in 19O3-4. Pinkerton men sat in the federation convention at Denver in 1904, reporting all proceed ings.
 fsy To Get Men Oppose Union.
 The first of the detectives reports showed that an operative named A. w. Gratias handled the federation's relief funds at Globeville during the strike and that Gratias cut down the relief in order to crea-e sentiment against Haywood The succeeding reports dealt with the federation convention in Denver in May and June, Tye4, the actions and sentiments of the miners and the proceedings of the district convention of the United Nine V orll CTS of America in Colorado in 1903.
 In his report Gratias said some of the men were asking if he thought the strike would be settled soon. 'I told them" he wrote, ''that I heard nothing of settlement or anything that would indicate settlement, 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 did not win before that time.
 "Now that the convention is over, I will again take personal charge of the relief work and will carry out the in- structions I received from MT. Cary, Pinkerton manager, about week ago in regard to cutting down the relief as much as possible, so as to cause dis satisfaction 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 William D.. Hay wood by saying that I carried out his instructions
 Max Maich Contradicts Orchard.
 James l.. Wallace, an attorney of Cripple Creek and an officer in the Colorado militia at the time of the Cripple Creek strike, at the Haywood trial here swore that he saw K. \C. Sterling, a detective for the Mine Own ers' association, fire the first shot that started the rioting at Victor on June 6, 1904. Wallace served with the mili- tia first as a private and then as a lieutenant during the strike of 1903-4.
 Max Malich one of the men implicat- ed by the testimony of Orchard, made his appearance as a witness in behalf of William D. Haywood. He directly contradicted all of Orchards story re- lating to him.
 Malch was the leader of the Austrian. smelter workers at Globeville and con- ducted saloon and store and hotel there during tile strike. Orchard testi- fled that Malich proposed to him that he dynamite hotel at Globeville fill ed with nonunion men and offered him $100 to blow up the store of William Mcdonald, a business rival, and pri- vately informed the prosecution that Malich had burned himself with ''Pet- tibone dope" while preparing to burn his own store and had later burned his store with "Pettibone dope" and that Malich had agreed to help him with an alibi when he killed Detective Lyte Gregory.
 Malich swore that Orchard had pro- posed destroying the nonunion hotel and the killing of Mcdonald and that he had refused to have anything to do with either crime.
 He also denied all knowledge of Pet tibone dope" or it's use in his store and swore that Orchard told him that but for Governor Steunenberg he would be a rich man and that he would kill him.
 $96,ooo Stolen by Paying Teller.
 New York, July 3.-Reports in circu.