Riddell was forced to resign when Morris Friedman published the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy.
36 in the Pinkerton Agency, which charged $7,000 to the Telluride Mine Owners' Association for his services over a period of two years.
He was tasked with discovering an "Inner Circle" of conspirators in the WFM union, but he found no trace of any such group.
The Inner Circle theory had been promoted by James McParland, the head of Pinkerton's Denver division.
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