Omaha daily bee., 1907-06-30
DETECTIVE ON STAND
Former Pinkerton Employe Testifes
for Haywood Defense.
SECRET REPORTS IDENTIFIED
Findings of Spies Sent Among Miners
Are Produced.
DETECTIVES JOIN UNIONS
DETECTIVES JOIN
UNIONS
Number of Them Serve as officers and
on Committees.
ALIBI FOR HARRY ORCHARD
Testimony shows that He Wns In
Gambling House in Mullen al
Time of Bunker Hill
Explosion.

man, a former employe OF the Pinltertoa 1
detective agency Ut Ionver, who pub J
llshed his adventures and many OF the
| confidential reports and records that pass i
through his hands, In an attack on the
| agency was witness today IN behalf OF
William d. Haywood, "n1 told how the
| Pinkertons had sent spiss into many Ut
the important unions Of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners. The can from the de-
fense for Friedman 70 take the stand pro-
duced one of the sensational periods oe
the trial He Is a striking looking young
man with a shock Of idack hair and OF
marked Hebraic type Heavy, thick siasses
magnify his large dark eyes and his smooth
shaven face is pale. BY name and operating
number he identified dozen detectives who
succeeded in entering or getting close to
the miners unions in Colorado. and he
produced voluminous copies Of the reports
they made to the agency for transmission
to the mine owners Friedman was &
confidential stenographer under Detective
Mcfarland and, so he testified. II was
part of his duty to recopy the reports of
the operatives as they reached the office.
Friedman swore that in several instances
the detectives sent out by the agency in
behalf ef the mine owners, managed to
get themselves elected to high ONCE in
the unions and In a couple of instances
they carried their daring roles to the ex-
tent OF sharing all the hardships OF real
strikers and being finally deported from
the country with real strikers who went
out before the militia. Ten feet from
Fredmans chair sat George Redell who
as a Pinkerton detective worked up to
leadership of the Telluride union and turn
ing to him by direction Of Clarence Dar-
row. the witness identified him. Redell
smiled and touched his chest as Friedman
pointed toward him.
Friedman said that one Pinkerton opera
tive became chairman OF the union strike
relief committee at Globeville and as such
had charge of all the funds and foods
dsbursed there by the local union and
general federation. Friedman said that
under instructions from his superiors at
the Pinkerton agency this morning tried
to beggar the federation by the lavish ex-
penditure In behalf of the strikers and fail
ing in this, he cut the relief down to the
lowest point OF stinginess in the hope that
he members OF the union might censugo
lIr Haywood.
! Friedman was twice interrupted TO give
way to other witnesses and did not get
beyond the Identification and brief sketch
tv3f each operative employed IN the esplon-
age Of the federations strike operations,
and the identification of several of the con-
ldential reports The latter were not read
and will not be offered in evidence until
Monday morning. when Friedman will con-
tinue his testimony. The examination did
not show whether Friedman entered the
employ of the Pinkertons as a spy in be-
half of the labor organizations, or his de-
csion 10 make public his knowledge and
the documents he took was reached after
he employed.
AIibi for Orchard.
Aside from the introduction of Morris
Friedman the defense also offered a large
amount OF testimony covering Orchards
credibility the dispute as to the time
Orchard sold his interest in the Hercules
mines, the treatment of Jack Simpkins
while a prison in the Idaho bull pen."
another motive for the murder of De-
tevtlve Lyte Gregory the whipping OF men
friendly 10 the strikers at Cripple Creek
and the circumstances under which the
processes OF the civil courts at Telluride
were disregarded by tho military authori-
ties Two witnesses swore that on the day
Bunker Hin and Sullivan mill was de-
strOyed Harry Orchard was at Muliean,
! which is eighteen miles from Wardner.
They located him in poker game and one
of them-Patrick McHale a barkeeper,
swore that he sat in the game. BY various
means, including a showing that Nc
Hale is a gambler the prosecution en-
"
witnesses held to their stories.
]. II. Ramey. who formerly operated
stage lines In north Idaho, testified that
Orchard came TO him on May q 1899. and
offered to sell him his interest in the
! Hercules mine for 800. Orchard has testi-
} fed that he finally sold his interest In the
I mine IN February, 1907. Frank Hough. who
said he was sent to the bull pen" IN north
Idaho in 1899 Tor reasons that he never
{ knew, described conditions In that prisons
and told how negro soldiers required Jack
Simpkns TO stand for six hours In the hot
! sun Of a July day, refused him water and
kept him up by menaclng him with their
! bayonets. Another cruelty witness was
William Amole. one of the watchmen on
the Portland mine, which acceded TO the
demands OF the strikers at Cripple Creek
and continued to work with union men. In
> picturesque language and real good humor
Amole told how after he first driven
from the district he sneaked back 10 get
his furniture only 20 be rounded up by
the militia. The soldiers released him, but
as he left the ofice of the citizens alliance
he was set upon by a party OF armed
masked men. He testified that they took
, him six miles outside Of the town and
there cruelty whipped him with revolver
/ butts and backsnakes
: Judge stevens TestInes.
Judge Theron Ttevens now OF Goldheld.
New, but once OF the district court at
Telluride. traced the history OF the rela-
> tions between the courts and the soldiers
in the troublous DAYS Of the strike He
1 testified that when the deportees tried 70
use the injunction 10 get back 10 their
homes the governor returned the district
TO the control OF martial law and that the
writ Of habeas corpus ana the subsequent
order for arrest for It's disobedience against
, the mill authorities In the case Of Charles
II. Meyer were both disregarded by Cen
! eral sherman Bell and Captain Buikeiy
3 Wells The judge thought things had been
> very quiet IN the Telluride district. but