Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-07-02
Trial Still Furnishes Much
Interest on Side Of
the Defense
MCParIand's Clerk Continues
to Give Away PinkeftOn
Secret Methods
Other Witness Tell Of EX-.
pefience in Militia Dul
ing Big Strike

Boise, Idaho, July Il. Morris Fried
man, the stenographer who left the
employ of the Pinkerton agency at
Denver 10 write book in which he
published certain correspondence Of
the agency that passed through his
hands, was again today the princi-
pal figure at the Steunenberg MUIR
der trial. v rs 4 :..5 KS 's 55s. ..s
More than half of the day was oc-
cupied in reading to the jury copies
of the documents that Friedman took
from the Pinkerton records. They
were chiefly daily reports Of secret
agents operating as spies among
union men at Cripple Creek, Victor,
Globeyille, Colorado City, Trinidad
and Denver, and showed a complete
surveillance Of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners and United Mine
Workers of America during the labor
troubles in Colorado in 10000.
Pinkerton men sat in the fedora
ton convention at Denver In 1904
reporting all the proceedings. None
Of the reports read to the jury con
tanned other than general references
to the collateral issues of the trial,
but they were offered in substantial
ton of the claim Of the defense that
the Pinkerton agency conspired for
the destruction of the Western Fed
Grafton Of Miners and the lives Of its
leaders,. 5% A.
The prosecution offered no oppo-
sition to any features OF Friedman
testimony and no objection to the
Introduction of any of the docu-
ments, and when he was handed over
for cross examination it endeavored
to ascertain if Friedman had any
more reports or letters bearing on
the general issue. $$ t55 4; 4.
~. 1t attacked Friedman on the
ground that he had played the Pink
ertons false, had violated his pledge
to them and had stolen the docu-
nlents which he produced, but the
witness would not admit that he had
stolen the papers and would not al
low Senator Borah to call him a
Pinkerton. .s55
s He insisted that it was not stealing
to take information that had been
obtained by deceit and declared that
+ the public service which he per.
formed by Informing the people Of
the methods of the Pinkerton agency
fully justified anything that he had
done. He said that if he had known
this trial was coming up he would
have taken many more letters and
reports. RI ss S 3s
Senator Borah pressed him to tell
the jury what records there were In
the Pinkerton Office at Denver bear
ing directly on this case, and while
]. the witness said he could not tell
him Of any particular one, he re-
membered letters written by Detec-
tive Mcfarland In which all manner
OF crimes were laid at the door Of
the Western Federation Of Miners.
Another interesting witness was i.
] !, Wallace N attorney Of Cripple
Greek. who served with the militia,
first as a private and then as a lieu
tenant. during the strike Of 10000.
He related several instances al tend
Ing to show the misuse 81 power Of
the militia BY the mine owners; gave
the criminal records oil some Of the
gun fighters imported by the mine
owners; told Of the working Of the
card system related circumstances
connected with the looting Of union
stores and q newspaper once, and
swore that he saw X. d. sterling,
chief detective for the mine owners.
fire the first shot In the victor Riot
the day Of the independence station
incident.
NJ. p White. organizer for the
Western Federation, was the last