Show DETECTIVE FIRED SHOT THAT THE RIOT I Officer of the Colorado Militia Tells How Hor I f Trouble Was Brought on at atI w I I Victor Pinkerton h Stenographer Concludes His Story Day of Sensa Sensations Sensations at the Trial of Haywood Boise Idaho I ahu July Juh 1 Morris Fried nan Llan the young Russian stenographer wIo left the employ of or the thc Pinkerton geney r at Denver to write a book in which hIth he published certain correspond r nee flee nc of or the tho agency that passed through his II hands hanth was again today the principal pal figure at the murder der trial More ore than half of the courts day v as In reading to the jury jul copies pies of If the documents which Fried TIT VI r took from the Pinkerton records These were oro chiefly chietI the th daily dail reports of or secret agents a operating as spies among the zhe unions and union men at Cripple rek Victor Colorado City t Trinidad and amI Denver and showed a complete Surveillance of the Western Federation of Miners and the United Mine Workers of America during the labor abor troubles in Colorado lorado in Pat Pilkerton kerton men sat In the federation 4 at nt Denver in 1904 1901 report Jw r I g all proceedings Offered as Proof of Conspiracy None op of the reports of letters that vere ere produced by Friedman and read to the jury jur by b Clarence larence Darrow con ther other than general references to the collateral c Issues of the trial but they the wore were re offered in substantiation of fi Vi counter claim of the defense that the Pinkerton agency conspired for the thee e of the Western estern Federation of ot Miners and the lives of its leaders The prosecution offered no opposition Ha to tt any an feature of Friedman nony and no objection to the introduction tion lion of any anyone one of ot the documents that t hr defense obtained through him and w h Ih n fl Friedman was handed over oyer for it to as ascertain certain if Friedman had any an more re reports reports reports ports or letters bearing on the general issue It attacked Kriedman tiedman on the ground round that lie ire had played the Pinker Pinkertons tons ions falsely had violated Yi his pledge to them and had stolen st len the tIle documents lie produced but the witness v not admit that he had stolen the tho and would not allow Senator Borah to call all him a a Pinkerton Friedman Felt Justified He H le insisted that it was not stealing to o take information that had been ob obI F t I lined by the fraud and deceit of secret service erke men and declared that the public service which he lie performed in informing the people of the methods of the th agency fully fUll justified anything that he had done lie said that had he ho known this trial was coming up lip he would have taken many more letters letter and reports Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Borah pressed him hint to tell just what records re there were in the Pinker Pinkerton ton office bearing directly on this case and md while the witness ss said he could not tell tchI t H of any particular ono one on he remembered many letters written by b Detective in which all man manner mannel mannor nor ner of crimes were laid at the door of the Western Vestern Federation ion of Miners Sensation of the Day DayA Another A interesting witness ss was wao James J L I Wallace an an attorney of Crip Cripple rip ripple pie Creek who served with the thc militia as a private priva and then us s a lieu lieutenant tenant luring during durin the strike of He Hc related several instances i as tending to show the misuse of the power of ot the militia by the mine owners gave gac the criminal records of some of the gun gunfighters gunfighters fighters Imported by the mine owners told of the working of the card system s system s stem tem recited the circumstances con connected connected connected the tile looting of the union store storer anti ann a newspaper office ollice and swore that he aw saw K G Sterling chief de tie detective for the mine owners fire lire the first shot In tIle the Victor riot the day da tho the Independence station was blown up The Colorado Bull Pen M l E White Whit an organizer for or the Western Federation was the last wit witness witness witness ness ness and brought the thc trial participants back to griat grat gr at good humor with the drollest kind of a ft tale of his arrest by the militia with all the pomp and of war tar times the activities of the vermin In the bull pen and his happy happ release by a brother Woodman of the World who command commanded comman ed the militia Counsel for the tile defense said today toda that they might fright succeed in finishing with all of their th lr witnesses Hay Haywood HaywoOd wood wo d and Moyer Moer by the end df tf this week Their Thelt plan is to reserve these two principals for tor the tile last The de do defense defense has prepared pr pared its draft of instructions Instructions the state stat is working Up its re ye rebuttal rebuttal case so the end of the thc trial ap approaches approaches approaches WORK OF PINKERTON SPIES DETAILED I BY FORMER STENOGRAPHER ON THE STAND tLc opening of r f the tie trial today Mr Ir Darrow fir fw the defense recalled to the Morris Friedman the stenographer rl employed d at the Denver oHice oice of cof f the time Pinkerton Detective agency agene Fried Friedman FriEdman man inami was introduced by the tIme defense to ex se the Pinkerton methods of dealing nith ith the Western estem Federation of or Miners liners Friedman spent pent the first half hour of ofis is s stay sta on the stand this morning In hi Iden f many man reports from secret opera lives which h he says he lie h made copies of 0 while hile In the Pinkerton office He lie also identified three letters said to have hwe been written by bv James of the time Pinkertons in the west and the records of several opera lives Borah for the state asked per perI i I to examine the letters signed by b v but was refused I 1 have not decided whether to offer trese iese letters officially in evidence ex 3 Mr Darrow and while willie I do not want ant to appear discourteous di I 1 must de do deI doine I Ine lne for tor the present Reports Read to the Jury The Time prosecution offered no objection to o he introduction of reports of the de In evidence and arid many of them were vere read ra N t the Jury jul by b Mr Ir Darrow The Time object In putting them In was to corroborate the time testimony of o Friedman RIen g en last Saturday to the effect that the Pinkertons placed spies in the different of the Western estem Federation of Min Mm lin linus dally daily dall irs us rs with Instructions to report The first report read was from opera 1 C No Xo 42 A G Gratias It was dated Denver June 9 1904 Gratias was In Inch ch rge of distributing relief to the striking strikIng striking ing miners In his report No Xo 42 said some cf ef the time men mn were asking if he the time strike would be b settled soon Would Lay Blame on Haywood I 1 told them he wrote that I T heard n thing of a settlement or 01 anything that old Indicate a settlement that the strike would last a long time tim yet also that I believed the union would have hae to give up UI by next fall if we did not win by b that liat time Vow No ov that the th convention s over i r will aps again in take personal charge of tile the re relIef lIef work and will carry carr out the Instructions tons received from Mr Ir Cary Pinkerton manager about a week ago in regard to tot toc c t Citing tUng down the tile relief as much mU h as pos so as to cause dissatisfaction and K ft t the men against the union I will put the Ilie blame for not giving the men mn more re rf lief ilef as much as I r can an ami on W Y D Haywood by b saying that I am carrying out his In Instructions instructions I The next two reports read from opera op operative ra ratin I tive tin No Xo 42 were detailed accounts of the proceedings at the time Western stern Federation of Miners convention which he lie attended as asa asa asa a delegate There was nothing out of the time ordinary in the time proceedings and no speeches of an character Cripple Creek Reports Mr Ir Darrow next read rf ad reports from Phi Ihl Philander lander P Bailey known as operative No xo 9 They The were dated from Victor Colo Cole during the Cripple Creek strike One of these letters was purely purel formal forma detailing the proceedings of a union meeting The letters developed nothing against the tile law lawand lawand lawand and order of the time district as having been mentioned by the speakers or interviews with members of the union Following Baileys reports came came those of an sn operative named Ralmer Raimer in Cripple Creek Raimer Ralmer declared under late of Sept 9 1803 1903 that the miners claimed to have all ail the best of It but unless ss there was a break In the Mine Owners association association association tion the tile operative thought their claims were wOre doubtful Raimer reported that he heard no radical talk or threats from the miners and ad that each miner acted as a committee of one to stop all disputes and disturbances The soldiers and miners seemed sef med to be growing quite friendly and many man of the soldiers expressed sympathy for the strikers To show sh w that the tho th Pinkertons invaded the coal mining fields of Colorado where time tile United Mine Workers of America Amelca con controlled trolled the miners reports were werf read from I operative No Xo 38 Robert M I Smith The conventions Smith attended was wao open to the public but he lie reported r port d at length as asto asI asto I to the time routine rf proceedings I Independence Depot Explosion I Mr Darrow next rend read two lengthy re reports reports reports ports from Pinkerton Operative J N Londoner now assistant as superintendent in inthe Inthe inthe I the Denver office The ports imports r were from Victor Vietor Colo Cob at the time of the Inde Independence depot June 6 1904 DOl Londoner told graphically of the Intense i excitement prevailing In the Cripple Creek Cr ek ekI j I district at this time and the threats made madej j against the time union 1 I l was made a deputy deput as soon as I 1 showed my face fa e I wrote and I I was told to kill any an union man or sym sympathizer sympathizer who spoke to we weThe The operative added that at the time of Continued on Page 2 Z I DETECTIVE FIRED SHOT THAT STARTED THE RIOT Continued from Page 1 his writing there here was strong talk of or tak taking taking ing mg the leaders l aders Of or the union from the bull bun pen anti hanging them The citi elti citizens zens demanded the resignation res of or Sheriff Robertson He II declined They got a rope and put p t h a noose about his neck He Ire was Riven given five minutes la In a which to decide Robertson looked at the mob He then tat sat down and wrote his resignation Boys he said I know you ou have got the drop on me mc and I know hang me if I dont resign n Riot at Victor Londoners reports next told of the speech made by C C Hamlin secretary of ot the Mine Aline Owners association Hamlin Ham Hain Hamlin lin had spoken less than five lve minutes minute when the firing began There is no doubt that an attempt was as made to kill kIU Hamlin he added as one of ot the bullets grazed his hand The soldiers wore called out and some were stationed on house tops Without a request to surrender they the began to fire Into union hall and continued until a white flag was displayed laed In union hall several hundred rifles three barrels of ot ammunition ammunition ammunition tion and a big supply of or provisions were found Altogether eighteen men were killed at Victor Under date of ot June 23 29 1904 Londoner re reported reported reported ported from Victor that In a search of the union hall ball he had found the photographs of two nonunion men On the back of each picture was a cross This said aliI Londoner I am told is the plan of marking men for death Start of All the Trouble Troubled Just before the luncheon recess was tak taken taken en tn Mr lr Darrow began to lead from the reports report of Operative A II H Crane who was secreta secretary rr of or the union at Colorado City and who is charged by b the defense with having done much toward starting the strike which led to all the Cripple ripple Creek disturbances Cranes re reports reports ports were simply detailed statements of or his dally daily movements his consultations consultation with the men and his advice to them to hold out and win the strike Recess was ordered until p m After the recess Mr Darrow continued to read from the reports ports r of the Pinkerton O operatives es sent from rom the mining districts In regard to the report of or J N K Londoner London r rIt it was shown hown that this operative was not only employed by b the Mine lIne Owners asso association association dation but was supposedly working against the military and with the pro proprietors proprietors proprietors of the Portland mine which was continuing to employ union men and was not disturbed during the strike After Aft r the Independence e depot affair Londoner was afraid the Portland mine might be at attacked attacked tacked taked as a result of the high feeling against the union I was satisfied serious trouble would develop in a few hours wrote Londoner and too I believed the Portland mine would be attacked and the property pro pert de destroyed destroyed I therefore boarded the 50 a am am am m Short Line train for tor Colorado Springs to acquaint the client of ot the condition of ot ota affairs a Explosion Part of a Plot The defense claims the railroad oUt officials rials knew that the Independence depot was to be blown up just prior toe to the ar arrival arrival rival rial of the ZO R a m train the Idea being not to kill anybody but to hold the affair as an attempted outrage on the part art artof of the Western estern Federation of Miners In Inthis Inthis Inthis this connection Mr Darrow laid special emphasis on that part of Operative Lon Londoners Londoners Londoners doners report which read i The killed miners were blown Into un unrecognizable unrecognizable recognizable masses of flesh and bone and ana when n hen the crowd beheld this sight Eight it moved them to tears and then drove them into a frenzy of indignation I talked with a ayoung young oung miner named Miller employed at atthe atthe atthe the mine He said he was with within in a short distance of the Independence depot when the explosion occurred He claims daims the Florence and Cripple Creek train was running slower than usual and that the train actually stopped before the explosion and within a few yards ards of the depot Letters from Mr Ir Darrow concluded his Ills reading by bythe b bythe the introduction of two letters written by b bIr Mr Ir and one written to him The first McFarland letter was addressed to George B Bangs general superintend superintendent ent of the agency at New Ne York and had to do with Operator Crane who had been overpaid 50 5 on an expense account while working in the Chicago office Mr Mc Ic recommended that Crane be al allowed allowed lowed to retain the extra money mone in view of tt the years service he rendered at the smelters In ill Colorado City and the indignities tips ties he suffered while there The second letter from was also addressed to tt Mr Bangs Ban and had to todo todo todo do v with ith a letter leUer written by J Edwin Gold Goldwasser wasser if f the Dewitt Deitt Clinton High New ew York City asking for information mation regarding re the condition of affairs in m Cripple ripple Creek at the time of ot the de deportations deportations by Governor Peabody Mr Ir McFarland recommended that the information desired dt should not be he given Law Violated by Peabody While a great e t deal hat was done dune by Governor Peabody in the emergency omer which existed in Colorado for a R year jear ear or r more past i h 1101 approved by hy me by 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