Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-02
SAYS P|NKERTON
MAN FIRED FIRST
IN VICTOR RIOT
Detectives in Miners
Councils
Colorado Attorney Takes the Stand In
Defense of HayWood-Inmate Of
Bull Pen Tells Humor-
GUS Story
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BOISE, Idaho, July morris Fried
man, the young Russian stenographer
agency at Denver to write book, in
which he published certain correspon-
dence of the agency that passed
through his hands, was again today the
principal figure at the Steunenberg
murder trial. More than half of the
the jury copies of the documents which
Friedman took from the Pinkerton rec
ords. These were chiefly the daily re-
ports of secret agents operating as
spies among the unions and union men
at Cripple Creek. Victor, Globeville,
and showed a complete surveillance of
the Western Federation of Miners and
the United Mine Workers of America
during the labor troubles In Colorado
in 1904 Pinkerton men sat in the
federation convention at Denver In 1904,
reporting all proceedings
The tone of the reports or letters that
were produced by Friedman and read
to the jury by Clarence Darrow con-
tanned 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 conspired for the
destruction of the Western Federation
of Miners and the lives of it's leaders.
No Objection Offered
The prosecution offered no opposition
to any feature of Friedman's testi-
mony and no objection to the introduce
ton of any one of the documents that
the defense obtained through him, and
when Friedman was handed over for
cross-examination it endeavored to as
certain If Friedman had any more re-
ports or letters bearing on the general
Tissue. 1t attacked. Friedman on the
| ground that he had played the P1nker-
| tons falsely, 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 a "Pinkerton."
| He insisted that it was not stealing to
take information that had been OBJ
| tained by fraud and deceit of secret SER
vice men and declared that the public
service which he performed in inform
| ing the people of the methods OF the
agency fully justified anything that had
| been done.
He said that had he known this trial
was coming up he would have taken
many more letters and reports. Sena-
tor Borah pressed him to tell just what
| records there were in the Pinkerton Of
flee at Denver bearing directly on this
case and while the witness said he
could not tell him of any particular one
he remembered many letters. written
| by Detective MCFARLAND In which all
manner of crimes were laid at the door
of the Western Federation of Miners.
Shows Misuse of Militia
| Another interesting witness was
James l.. Wallace, an attorney of Grip
ple Creek, who served with the militia
first as a private and then as lieu
tenant during the strike of 1904. He
related several instances as tending TO
show the misuse of the power OF the
militia by the mine owners, 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 circumstances connected
with the looting of the union stores
and a newspaper 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 the Inde-
pendence station was blown up. ....
M r. White, an organizer for the
federation, was the last witness and
brought the trial participants back to
great good humor with the drolleSt
kind of tale of his arrest by the militia
with all the pomp and circumstance
of war times, the activities of vermin
In the "bull pen" and his happy re-
lease by a brother Woodman of the
World, who commanded the militia.
Counsel for the defense said today
that they might succeed in finishing
with all of their witnesses except Hay
wood and Meyer by the end of this
week. Their plan is to reserve those
two principals for the last. The de-
Tense has prepared it's draft of instruc-
tions, the state is working up it's re-
buttal case so the end of the trial ap-
proaches.'