The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-30
Witness Gives Noted
 Agency a Black Eye.
ENT SPIES INTO UNIONS
Detectives Got Themselves Elected
 to High Union Offices.
The Call for Friedman to Take the stand Produced . Sensation in the Haywood Murder
 Trial.

Boise, Idaho, June 29.-Morris Fried man, former employe of the Pinker- ton 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 witness today in behalf of William D. Hay wood. He told how the Pinkertons had sent spies into many of the important unions of the Western Federation of Miners.
 The call for Friedman to take the stand produced one of the sensations of the trial He is a striking look ing young man with shock of black hair and of marked Hebraic type. By name and operating number, he identi- fled a dozen detectives who succeeded In entering or getting ciOse to the min CTS unions In Colorado and he produced voluminous copies of the reports they made to the agency for transmission to the mine owners. Friedman swore that in several instances the detectives managed to get themselves elected to high offices in the union and in cou- pie of instances carried their daring roles to the extent of sharing the hard ships as strikers and being deported from Insecurity. Friedman was twice MllEfEuptEu tO klVG way lO 0tNtE WAL- nesses and did not get beyond the Identification and a brief sketch of each operative employed in the espion- age of the federation and the identifl- cation of confidential reports, The latter were not read and will not be offered in evidence until Monday when Friedman will continue his testimony. Aside from Friedman the defense also offered testimony covering Orchard s credibuity. the dispute as to fine time Orchard sold his interest in khe Herr cules mine, the treatment ~ ack Simpkins while a prisoner in tna 4ssa3fo "bull pen.r another motive for the uaiag- der of Detective Lyte Gregory the whipping Of men friendly tp tho striiz- CTS at Cripple Crock and tha etrssiaya- stances under which the process uf tle civil courts at Telluride were disre- garded by the military authorities
 !. H. Ramey. who foxmerly operated stage lines in North Idaho, testified that Orchard came to him May 2, 1899, and offered to sell him his interest in the Hercules mine for $400. Or- chard has testified that he finally sold 1t in February 1897. Frank Hough who said he was sent to the bull pen in North Idaho in 1899. for reasons that he never knew, described conditions in that military prison and told how ne- gro soldiers required Jack Simpkins to stay for six hours in the hot sun of a July day; refused him water and kept him up by menacing him with their bayonets.
 Judge, Theron Stevens, now of Gold field, Nevada, but once of the district court at Telluride, traced the history of the relations between the courts and the soldiery during the strike. He testified that when the deportees tried to use the injunction to get back to their homes the Governor returned the district to the control of martial law and that the writ of habeas corpus and the subsequent order for arrest for its disobedience in the case of Charles H. Mover were both disregarded by Gen. eral Bell and Captain Wells The judge thought things had been quiet in Telluride but under cross examina- tion said that some men had been killed in an attack on the Smugglers Union's men and that subsequently, Arthur Collins, manager of the mine, was murdered.