Evening star., 1907-06-30
EXPOSE BY AN EX-DETECTlVE
Spies Secured High Positions in the
Federation.
STORIES OF OTHER WITNESSES
One Sleuth Tried to Beggar the Union
by Giving Lavish Strike
Relief.

An ex-employe of the Pinkerton
detective agency yesterday told the
court in the Haywood trial how the
mine owners had kept watch over
all the miners unions by introduc-
ing paid spies into their midst
these men, the former detective
said, not only fomented trouble
with the authorities, but tried to
impoverish the miners by misuse
OF their funds and stirred ND in
ternal strife among the officials.
bolsE' Idaho, June 29.-Morris Fried
man. former employe of the PInkerton
detective Agency, at Denver, who pub-
lished his adventures and many Of the cor-
hdentfal reports and records that passed
through his hands in an attack on the
agency. was witness today in behalf NJ
william d. Haywood, charged with the
murder OF former Governor Frank Steunen.
perg. Friedman told how the Pinkertone
unions OF the Western Federation of Miners.
FRIEDMAN has shock of black hair and in
OF marked Hebraic type Heavy. thick
glasses magnify his dark eyes BY name
and operating number he identified a dozen
detectives who succeeded in entering or
getting close to miners unions in Colorado.
He produced voluminous copies of the re-
ports they made to the agency for trans
mission to the mine owners Friedman wa,
a ccnhdsntial steBographer under Detective
Mcfarland, and, SO he testified. # was
part OF his duty to recopy the reports OF
'he operatives as they reached the Office.
friedman swore that in several instances
'he detectives sent out by the agency in be-
haif or the mine owners, got elected to high
ofhces in the unions. and in a couple Of in
stances they carried their daring parts IN
the extent Of sharing all the hardshps Of
'eai strikers and being finally deported
from the country with real strikers. Ten
teet from F'riedmans chair sat George w.
Redell, who, as Pinkerton detective
worked up to leadership in the Telluride
union. Turning to him, by direction ~
Clarence Darrow, the witness identified Re-
deii' who smiled and touched his chest as
Friedman pointed toward him.
Had the Documents.
FRIEDMAN said that one Piakerton cper-
awe became chairman of the union strika
teheI committee at Globeville, and as such
Iiad charge of all the funds and foods dis
oursed there by the local union and gen.
eral federation. Friedman said that under
instructions from his superiors at the p,nL-
erton agency this man first tried to beppar
the federation by the lavish expenditure I'm
pehalf Oh the strikers; and, failing In this
ne cut the relief down to the lowest point
Vi s.ihsihess IN the hope that the members
OF the union might censure Haywood.
friedman was twice in:er upted TO Civ.
way to other witre: ses, and Old NOT p,t
beyond the Identification and hrief sketch
OF each operative employed in the espion-
age of the federation strike operations an,
the identification of save al of the con.
fldential reports. The latter were not read
and Will not be Offer ed in ev dence until
--ohday morning. when Friedman will con-
linue MS tes imoay. T. e eXa animation did
not show whether Friedman entered tho
emp oyment of the Pinkertons as a spy in
behalf of the labor organizations or
whether his decision t. make public his
knowledge and the documents he took was
reached after he was employed
Discrediting Orchard.
Aside from the Introduction of Morris
Friedman the defense also offered a Iarga
amount of testimony Covering Orchards
credlbiiity, the dispute to the tim,
Orchard sold his inter st in the Hercules
mine, the treatment of Jack Simpkins
while prisoner in the IDAHO bull pen."
another motivt for the murdsr of Detec-
tive Lyte Gregory, the whipping of men
friendly TO tie strikers at Cripple Creek
and the circumstances under which the
processes of the evil courts at Telluride
were disregarded by the mi itary authort-
ties. Two witnesses swore that ON the
day the Bunker Hill and Sullivln mill
was destroyed Harry Ore hard was at Null
Ian, eighteen miles from W&rGner. Trey
placed him n poker game and Patrick
Mciaie bark eper. swore that Re sat in
the game. BY various me ms in ludins a
showing that McHale is a gambler, the
timony, but both witnesses he TO ther
stories.
Experience of Amole.
]. H. Ramey, who formerly operated
stage lines in North Idaho. testified that
Orchard came to him on May =, 1850 and
offered to sell him his interest in the Her.
cu!es mine for $iOO. Orchard testified tina.
he sold his intsrS st in the ni2e in Zebra
airy, 1897. Frank Hough. who 6 id he was
sent to the bull pen" in north Idaho in
1899 for reasons that he nev-r knew, de-
scribed conditions in tFat mi tlry prison
and tod how negro settlers required Jack
Snpkins to stand for six ho.rs in the hot
sun Oh July day, refus d hini water AMI
kept him up by menacing him with bay.
nets. Another cruelty with was VIII
liam Amo!e, once a watchrnan IN the Port
land mine. which acceded TO TIE demands
of the strikers at Cripple Crses, AMI con-
tinued to work with union men. In pic
turesque language and good humor. Amoe
tod how. after he was first driven from
the district. he snedked fa-k TO get his
furniture, only to b. rounded up by the
militia. The soldiers released him, hut az
he left the office Of tn. Citizens Alliance