Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
ORCHARDS
TESTIMONY
IS REFUTED
Two Swear He Was
Not at Scene of
Explosion
Former Detective Lays
Bare Secrets of
PinkertOns
Tells How SIeuths Gained Access to
Inner Councils of Miners Feder-
alton and Even Handled
Strike Funds
BY Associated Press.


BOISE, Idaho, June 29.-Morris
Friedman, a former employe of the
Pinkerton detective agency at Denver,
who published his adventures and
many of the confidential reports and
records that passed through his hands
in an attack on the agency, was wit
ness today in behalf of William D.
Haywood. He told how the Pinker-
tons had sent spies into many of the
important unions of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners.
The call from the defense for Fried
man to take the stand produced one OF
the sensational periods of the trial. He
is striking looking young man with
shock of black hair and hav-
ing a face of a decidedly He
braic type. Heavy thick glasses
magnify his large dark eyes, and his
smooth shaven face is very pale. by
name and occupation number he 1den-
titled dozen detectives who succeeded
in entering into the miners unions
and he produced voluminous copies OF
the reports they made to the agency
for transmission to the mine owners
Friedman was a confidential official
stenographer under Detective McPar-
land and so he testified it was part OF
his duty to recopy the reports OF tine
operatives as they reached the office.
Friedman said in several instances
that the detectives sent out by the
agency in behalf of the mine owners
managed to get themselves selected tc
high offices in the unions, and in a
couple of instances they carried their
daring roles to the extent of sharing
all the hardships of real strikers and
being finally deported from the country
with real strikers who went out before
the militia came. Ten feet from Fried
mans chair sat George W. Redell, who
as a Pinkerton detective, worked up to
leadership in the Telluride union and
turning to him by direction of Clarence
Darrow, the witness identified him
Redell smiled and touched his chest as
Friedman pointed toward him.
Detective Had Strike Fund
Friedman said that one Pinkerton
operative became chairman OF the
strike relief committee at Globeville
and as such had charge of all funds
and food disbursed there by the local
union and general federation.
Friedman said that under instruc-
tions from his superiors at the Pinker-
ton agency this man first tried to beg
gar the federation by the lavish eX-
penditure in behalf of the strikers and
failing in this he cut the rellef down
to the lowest point of stinginess In the
hope that members of the union might
censure Mr.. Haywood.
Friedman was twise interrupted to
give way to other witnesses and did
not get beyond the identification and
a brief sketch of each operative en-
played in the espionage of the fedora
tion's strike operations, and the 1den-
tification of several confidential re-
ports. The latter were not read and
will not be offered in evidence until
Monday morning, when Friedman VIII
continue his testimony.
The examination did not show wheth-
err Friedman entered the employ OF the
Pinkertons as a spy in behalf of the
labor organizations or his decision to
make public his knowledge and the
documents he took was reached after
he was employed.
Refute Orchards Story
Aside from the introduction of Nor
ris Friedman the defense oHered a
large amount of testimony covering
Orchards credibility, the dispute as to
the time Orchard sold his interest in
the Hercules mine, the treatment OF
lack Simpkins while a prisoner in the
idaho "bull pen," another motive for
the murder of Detective Lyte Gregory,
the whipping of men friendly to the
strikers at Cripple Creek and the cir
cumstances under which the processes
of the civil courts at Telluride were
disreparded by the military authorities.
Two witnesses swore that on the day
the bunker Hill and Sullivan mill was
DESTROYED Harry Orchard was at Null
len which is eighteen miles from
Wardner. They located him in a poker
game and one of them, Patrick McHale,
a barkeeper, swore that he sat IN the
game.
BY various means, including SHOW
ing that McHale is gambler, the
prosecution endeavored to break down
this testimony, but both witnesses neld
to their stories.
]. H. Ramey who formerly operated
stage lines in North Idaho, testlned
that Orchard came to him on May 2,
1899. and offered to sell him his inter-
est in the Hercules mine for $400. Or
chard has testified that he nnaily sold
his interest in the mine III tepruary'
1897. Frank Hough, who said ne was
sent to the "bull pen" in North ldaho
in 1899 for reasons that he never knew,
described conditions in that military
prison and told how negro soldiers re-
quired Jack Simpkins to stand for six
hours in the sun of a July day, refus-
ing him water, and kept him up by
menacing him with their bayonets.
Another cruelty witness was William
Amole, once a watchman in the Port
land mine which acceded to the de-
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