The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-30

Former Ernploye Of Pinkertons Gives Sensational
Testimony at Trial of William
D. Haywood.
District Judge of Colorado Tells the Story of How the Courts
Were 0veraWed by Militia.

Boise. Ida, June 29.-Morris Fried
man. a former employee of the Pinker-
ion 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 to-
day in behalf of William d Haywood,
told how the PinkertODs had sent spies
into the many of the important unions
of the Western Federation of Miners.
Created d Sensation.
The call from the defense for Fried
man to take the stand produced one eof
the sensa tiOnal periods of the trial. He
is A striking looking young man, with
a shock of black hair, and of marked
Hebraic type. Heavy, thick glasses
magnify his large dark eyes, and his
smooth-shaveu face is very pale. By
name and operating number he identt-
fed a dozen detectives who succeeded
I'm entering or getting very clOse'tO the
miners unions i'm Colorado, and he
produced voIuminous copies Of the re-
ports they made to the agency for
transmission to the mine owners.
Friedman was a confidential stenog-
Tapher under Detective MCFARLAND and,
so he testified, it was part of his duty
TO recopy the reports of the operatives
as they reached the office.
Detectives in the Unions.
Friedman swore that in several in
stances the detectives sent OutAby the
agency in behalf of the mine owners
managed to get themselves elected to
high office in the unions. and in cou-
pie of instances they carried their daT-
ing roles 10 the extent of sharing all
the hardships of real strikers and being
finally deported from the country with
real strikers who vent out before the
militia Ten feet from Friedman's
chair sat George w. Redell who, as a
Pinkerton detective, worked up TO lea
dership in the Telluride union, and,
turning to him, by direction of Clarence
Darrow, the witness identified him, Re
dell smiled and touched his chest as
Friedman pointed toward him.
Would Lay Blame on Haywood.
Friedman said that one Pinkerton
operative became chairman Of the
union strike relief committee at Globe
vile, and as such had charge of all
funds and food disbuTsed there by the
local union and general federation.
Friedman said that under instructions
from his suDeriOrs at the PinkertOn
agency this man first tried to beggar
the federation by the lavish eXpendit-
uTe in Denal1 OF the strikers, ana, Iall-
ing in this, he cut the relief down to
the lowest point of stinginess in the
hope that the members Of the union
might censure Mr.. Haywood.
Reports to Be introduced.
Friedman was twice interrupted TO
give way to other witnesses, and did
not get beyond the identification and a
brief sketch of each operative en-
ployed in the espionage of the fedora
TONS strike operations, and the identi-
fication of several of the confidential
reports. The latter were not read and
will not be offered in evidence until
Monday morning, when Friedman will
continue his testimony The eXamina-
ton did not show whether Friedman
entered the employ of the PinkertOns
as a spy in behalf of the labor organi-
zfations or his decision to make public
Nhis knowledge and the documents he
took was reached after he was en-
ployed.
Orchard Again Refuted.
Aside from the introduction of Nor
lis Friedman. the defense also offered
a large amount of testimony covering