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THE CI I CAG 0 TRIBUNE. SATURDAY. AUGUST 1886---SIXTEEN PAGE 01 I ikl -1 i AUGUST A rf 3 crk-rf-rviNkr TRIBUNE: TPLE1 CI IICAG 0 1 1 LIBU7s SATURDAlcST 21 86 PIIVTI.164:. I 18 11 1 I i liberally subsoribed A HISTORICAL TRIAL im Bon of 1 ing 18e ry Ju era anc THE GREAT CRIME OF MAY 4 AND THE MEN WHO PERPETRATED IT wd of Anpe walla Schaaea. ehista bave and they x.

The Lehr the anarcb ic thblow when to. Rudolph Sohnaubelt was arrested on suspicion of having thrown the bomb, but was soon released. May or Harrison also issued a proclamation prohibit-mg the gathering of people in crowds or processions on the streets. May 7 George Engel, Gustave Stanger, and William Se prominent Socialists, were arrested by the police on suspicioo and the former IgifiP, turned loose. SeVerai ..01.7.,, ft.

4 )1, Attorneys Who Prosecuted and Those Who Defended the Anarchist PrisonersSummary of the Evidence Presented in Court The Jurymen Who Convieted the spiratorsStories of the Informers-. Pie Wen, Spies, and Parsons in Their Own Behalf. The night of May 4, In obedience to the order of Chief of Police Ebersold, six companies of police, numbering 174 men, under command of Inspector Bonfield and Captain Ward, assem a contest over his election, in 18SO, the Anarchists had to give up the fight because their funds gave out, and they have not touched the ballot-box since." "Do 'you think there will be any trouble in case the prisoners are hanged'?" "No. I don't think there will be any trouble whatever. All that we expect is that more people will become Anarchists than ever.

We don't believe another Jury will find them guilty, and are confident of their getting a new trial. The verdict is very bard On the wives of Fielden and Fischer, as they are both In a very delicate condition, and It may result Dimity. The fatAilies of the deferments have been supported by a fund whicn receives liberal contributions." Mr. Belk added that nearly $4,000 bad been subscribed to the defense fund, and the services of the lawyers up to date will cost $5,000 At the late picnic SI.000 additional was added to the fund, and Mr. Belz thought money would pour In after today.

The Arbetter-Ztliatig said In its columns yea-. terday: TERRIBLE. SEVEN OF THE AectrsED CONDEMNED TO NEEBE TO FIFTEEN VEANS IN THE une.1I have noticed frequently of late that one of the mornimg paners saiu "Tug TetattNE was trying the If this be so allow me to most heartily congratulate you on the result, as the case was most satisfactorily disposed of; and I may add that a tile of Tun TRIBUNK during the time of the Anarchists' trial is now and will in the future he Very interesting reading. IL F. G.

Good Work in GrinnelEs Office. The State's Attorney has been peculiarly fortunate in having ler an assistant in this case Mr. Edmund Furthmann. He was not Only thoroughly familiar with all tne work of the case from the first, but the fact of his being both a German and a lawyer made his work invaluable. ile3'ond all this he has been a man without thought of rest or leisure since May 4, and Mr.

Grinnell has been unmeasured In his terms of praise for the efficient aid rendered by Furthinann in the gigantic task of looking up and preparing the evidence and handling the oillerent witnesses and prisoners whoso knowledge made up the vital points in the prosecution. lie has had a wide experience in detective work during his connection with the office of the State's-Attorecy and ail the qualities brought into action by his untiring energy made his labors with the detectives in the areliminary investigation and in the trial of the case invaluable. mass of the people undoubtedly rejoice over the verdict, which is of the utmost importance for the holy name of humanity and for mankind. But the arch-- traitor dwells at present in a conviees garb on Blackwell's Island. arid we trust that the crowning point of this renuirkably successful criminal prosecution of the Chicago Anarchists will be Johann Most's extradition to the authorities of the State of Illinois.

There can be no reason why such a request should not be granted in time. One of the prisoners, Adolph Fischer, when he heard the verdict, is said to have muttered: "This is only the origin of anarchy." lie made a mistake, for this is the end of anarchy." The World, in an article beaded The Triumph of Law," says: Through no feelings of a revengeful character, but through a deep sense that circumstances demand it. the people of the United States will commend the verdict of the jury in the trial of the Chicago Anarchists. They will do this because it was justified by the evidence. and because it was necessary that the status of the peculiar crime involved should be distinctly and; emphatically established by the eourts.

In no other way could the fact be so eftetively set forth, both at home and abroad. that the laws of this country are adequate to meet this imported description of murder. We constitute a free nation, but there is no resting-place for anarchy among us. It will be crushed here as surely and as swiftly as it is in Europe. The announcement is made In a leurful manuer, but in one that is strictly legal.

The Sim: The law the Anarchlste defied 4f---; 4 i 4 Cof i ----------7--- 0- 0 1 crtZ.v., 64e444rtzt a in speaking "It makes than ever to ach boldness. such business ongress c11I in of prohibiting to this country. have no business a here, and men es." e. Randall of Pennsylleaden over the result -erring to the Pennsylvania ticket, be said it was a proIe and an aegressive one a referring to the jury's verdict In the case, -adge Dunes W. Fitzgerald of Cincinnati said that it Wgiii a just verdict and that be hoped that no exceptions would set it aside.

Ile said that there were always tecnnical errors in a case of such magnitude. but be thought that the law now is that technicalities weicb do not involve some substantial injustice do not count. lie had noticed none in the present case that would affect the verdict. eenator M. C.

Murphy. New York, said that the Verdict was the most important occurrence in the history of Chicago: the greatest since the tire in IST1, which. be said, pureed the city and made it what it is today. but the result of the trial of the Anarchists yesterday, he thougUe was a grand commentary on the just administration of the laws of Chimera, William Windom, of Minnesota expressed a similar delight over the result. C.

H. Fargo" I do not know but we are very niueb satisfied. Anarchism is a great detriment to buseiese, and anything that hurts Anarchism we are very much pleased with." M. D. Wells" We are very much pleased.

We feel that it is all right. It shows that we have got a Government, and they are going to protect us." "I was nervous," said Mr. Eames, President of the Commercial National Bank, "lest the jury should not hang them ale I regaid it as a just and righteous verdict. Property will now be more secure, and business-men generally will feel relieved. now that they know we have some law here, and that it can be enforced.

They have bad occasion to doubt it of late, but this verdict will give them new confidence. I think the jury deserve the thanks of the community." MOTION MADE l'Olt A NEW TRIAL. The verdict which is told in the hues above was delivered this morning to Judge Gary by Osborne, the foreman of the jury. The petty knaves gathered on the corner of the street were astounded, and on the announcement of the verdict broke into hurrahs. The Judge, however, ZfM very palehe himself had not expected it.

Grinnell had evidently looked for it, and of a certainty he had his grounds for this. Marshall Field and the people of his stripe have much inhum an muchmoney. NVhitt say the people to the verdict! They at first thought it impossible, beyond belief. At first we would not believe it, but later certainty grew on us. Capt.

Black made a motion for a new trial. Grinnell made no objection and Judge Gary will hear the motion the next term in September. If he denies the motion, nothing but the appeal remains. We ourselves are too moved to be able to say anything further today. 4.

Andrew Hamilton and ebotiel A. Enda' 1g were added to the uel eaell, II. Brayton was secured July 9. A. li.

Was added to tbe list live days later. Jon h. Greiner and G. W. Adams were captured he day, dilly ld the panel was compLee.rit by rr, acceptance of Howard Taylor Sanford rid th tweltt a Juror.

5 The Twelve Good Men and The following saetelies of the juryttes wc1 be of interest: II. T. SANFORDXi son or the dect-asE I Lawyer Sa rn nrd. co- prier of the Superior 1 Court Reports of New t.s. York.

The ju nio is '24 years old. and re- '14. I sides at Oak Park. He ift is employed as toucti- 'jr Cr clerk in the freigbt department of the Chicago Northwest-e -er i ern Railroad Coin- pany, where 13e has worked for the last fifteen months. Be- fore coming to Chicago he leas a petroleum, broker in New York.

He was bora in New York, and is married. Ile has no cburea affiliatious now, but until leaving home he attelldee the Baptist Cburch. He is a mem. ber or the Railway Clerks Mutual fientet Association. Mr.

Sanford said be bad se i eytopathy with those whose oblect it waste overthrow the law, and be knew of Anemia. ism only as he had react about it in the neve i papers. He bad an opinion bota es to i throwing of the bomb and the defendants connection therewith, and vies prejudiced. but could try the ease fairly. Mr.

Sitilor4 1, has a thoughtful face. his forehead nt high and his hair growing low above Ms eeed and uncombed. He wears a World mustaele, and shaves his cbm. His lips are thick, and the lower part of his face shows strength or character and determination. lie probatly weighs 150 pounds, his size is medium, amt be is a neat dresser.

I C. B. Toanls 47 years old, a saleFman it I tbe Putnam clottsing house, and wee born near Elmira, N. Y. At (1,.

1 the outbreak of the t- a it l.e AVar he enlisted.in the Sixth New York 1 I Heavy Artillery. lie A li ved Mn iinesota tor after sixteen years afr 5.7 .2 the War. He is a member of the Bap- tist Claurch, and lives at No. 1013 West Polk street. MAJ.

JAILES IL CoLELives at Law iiiii, is 43 years old. and was born at Utica, N. 0 Y. During 4 is early 1 life he was employed Th as a railway clerk. -1 He enlisted in the Irl i 1 Forte-first Ohio Reg --a ilk .1: merit at Cleveland.

in Idea, and has lived 1 in Vermont, Massa- busetts, Ohio. Ten- nesse and Illinois. 'I' Ile came to Chicago from about siX years ago. Ile has e.d engaged chiefly ai a bookkeeper. but ter out of employment from last April 1 taken on the jury, with the exceptional few days he put in instructine Ms try freight bands on the Burlington Rod dying tbe recent strike.

leis a member of tr. Episcopalian Church. S. C. RANDALLIs 2'3, 3-ears olo sha is salesman with J.

tillIUM111111 Witil J. C. I SC HNAURELT, THE BOMB-THROWER. bombs were fouud in A the zirbeiter Zeitung 1 '11 office. and Cu being ex- ,31 Derimented with, dee 1 7 4 4 covered to be filled L.

I 1 with dynamite. 0111- 7 cers Barrett and Muel- ler, wbo were injured by the baymarket el bomb, died at the Couu- ty Hospital. May 8 the Arbetter Zettung a reappeared. Officer T. Flavin died that der GEORGE ENGEL.

from his wounds. et A Many saloons and other places suspected of being resorta of I Socialists, in dillerent part of the 't were raided by the ii-r4, an olice, arms and Socialistic literature seized. May 9 Officer Niebolas Sneehan died from bis wounds, tmd also Franit Louis, a shomnstaer. Joseph WILLIAM SELIGER. Stamek, a tailor, was MS found to have died from a pistol-shot wound received the previous Tuesday.

The Anarcbists were severely denounced from the pulpits of many local eburebes. May 10 a number of bombs were found under sidewalks on Clybourn avenue and streets in the northwest portion of the city. Mar 11 the Anarchist prisoners engaged counsel for their defense. The police reported officially that sixty-six of their number were injured at the baymarket. May 14 a total Of was found to bave been subscribed by citizens for the relief et the wounded policemen.

Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker. was 452-, arrested that day on euspleion of being the 'y bomb thrower. Tbe fs, IA Arbetter Eettung reap- P. g' peared on the street May 15. Lingir is be- CI 41 lieved to be the man 'N.

-1 made the fatal bomb. May 16 Offieer Thomas Redden died from bomb and bullet 'wounds. May 17 Chris- deo' Van Spies was released 7 on bail. 1 1 4.44'e ADVISED TO USE DYNAMITE. blen at the Desplaines Street Police Station in nticipadon of trouble at the havmarket square meeting.

About 10 o'clock it was decided to disperse the gathering. Tbe companies moved toward the crowd. Beaching the wagon on which the speakers stood. Capt. Ward ordered the assemblage to disperse.

A few iseoondi after Le spoke a bomb was throwu, followed A JUST VERDICT. i 1. l'. 1)I. 1 rt 4,, ti.rkt, 1.4 'N.

do, Co, tr. 1 P' CAPT. WARD. LOtaS L1NGG Before the Grand Jury. Judge Rogers instructed the grand jury that anarchism should be suppressed.

May LS the grand jury began the examination of witnesses. May lig Theodore Frick, Spies' bookkeeper, testified that the latter bad received packages from Johann Most which were believed to contain explosives. May 21 Gustave Lehman, Lechtner, and Au TO3 leo ex( rut drt. col to Inc Na ha! 46 thu Th 801: Fit 011 pet ate tuu TR th se cUr we to Id to the hot rtl dot eut str, ty Ws en rot her U30 Qu. ton say ette W01 hii 1014 alit antl tirn tipt Zet, du( tit wh, He lug anti the Mel wb, In rice, hol, 3011 Hal or pro libr nice et tor, Ger evit Vaughan, seedsolan, No.

45 La Salle street, and was born In Erie ti! It Was Expected All the Thee 'A), the State Workers for the Cause. The attorneys for tine State always relied on a verdict of guilty. They maintained that there was no aoubt concerning the result. Had been at the bar, they could have Produced testimony corroborative of Gilmer and Thompson, which was excluded under the rules of evidence. They greatly regret, too, that Balthazar Rau was not ludicted for murder with the condemned teen.

There was not Sufficient evidence concerning him before the grand jury, however. The most important points against him were developed during the trial and by the witnesses for the defense, and especially by Spies and Schwab. There is some talk of getting Ran and Most indicted for the capital crime by a future grand jury. It can be said with jUBtlee that the attorneys tlid not expect the conviction or Neebe after the witness Schnieder bad "flunked on them. Had 601i-seder testilleil in accordance with his first stoly to Capt.

Schaack Neebe would have shared the fate of his co-conspirators. The Socialistic labor unions, however, reasoned" with him, and thus saved their friend Neebe from the gallows. The most active worker for the deHese was Capt. Walters, or Welchers, whom swore Wan drilling the armed sections. He, It is said, procured the "pairs" of witnesses, sarcastically referred to by Mr.

Grinnell in bis closing speech, and he tried his arts on tue informers. It is said he got Schnieder over. The troops of Anarchist perjurers who testified for the defense, the police say, were drilled by him. His knowledge of English le limited, sir they might have tald more consistent stories. Black and Foster.

it may be mentioned, would have nothing to do with Waithes. They refused to bold any intercourse with him. Bele another Socialistic leader, the Irish dynamiter Gleason, and George Scbilling were 11.180 active workers" tor the defense. st, k- -r, ---7. The Stale's-Attorners Opinion.

Statea-Attorney Grinnell said the verdict was strictly in accordance with the facts and the law. "What are you golug to do with the other conspirators?" he was asked. "We shall have them all tried under the indictment for conspiracy. Tnev shall not escape. We will push the case to the very end." "Will you order the immediate rearrest of the indicted conspirators?" "No.

I think not. I guess their ball Is sufficient to bold them." Did the verdict exceed your expectations?" "No, sir. I was greatly pleased with it, and yet I fad te see bow any other verdiet was possible to a conscientious jury. I confess I had some suspicions that some of the jury might be timid, and I ant glad to fiud I was mistaken." Receiving the 'News at the Jail. Probably none of the thousands ot people in Chicago who were not at the Court-House and yet awaited the verdict with deep Interest were more anxious for the news during the morning hours than three occupants of the County Jail.

These were John Apel. Tom Brown. and Williani Schneider, wets were held for conspirany in connection with the haytuarket riot. When the cheering arose in the streeta, they clamorously demanded the cause. A moment later George Schilling, the bocialist leader, came in.

His face was a study in chalk-white and his lip trembled visibly. Ile was ushered Into the presence of the expectant trio and announced the verdict. Apel and Brown stood dazed, while Schnei- der staggering back wit 11 his hand to his head, recovered himself and pitched headlong upon Schilling, crying, "My God, this is horrible." A few minutes laters Aoel's release, signed by Mr. Grinnell, was received at the jail. The liberated Anarchist fairly danced with delight while his less fortunate companions howled dolefully.

When Mr. Grin-nett was asked why be discharged Apel from custody, he said: "The man is a giddy, harmless young fool and don't know what he is about. If be does not know bow to enjoy his liberty be will be back In the jail very shortly. S'elinelder and Brown are not very Lad, though they are worse than I will probably admit them to bail." Sirs. Capt.

Black has offered to schedule a25.000 and become surety for Brown and Schneider. Blark Crawford of the Trades Assembly. Mark Crawford was asked what he thought of the verdict. The verdict is all right," he said, "but it does not reach tar enough. The whole crowd of law-breakers should be hangedand that includes Capt.

Bonfield and Mayor Harrison." "Mr. Harrison?" VeS, he's primarily responsible for it all. More than a year ago a labor committee waited on Ilarrison, and Lola him wnat was going to happen. He thought he knew it all, and he laughed at them." "Did that committee wait on the Mayor especially to warn him about the Anarchists?" "It didjust for that, and nothing else." Were you on that committee?" "I was." And you anticipated this bomb-throwing?" "Certainly. We knew the bombs were being made, and we knew the action of the Auarchtete would injure the labor cause.

We asked Mr. Harrison to stop the Lake-Front meetings, but he would hardly listen to us. The Anarchists of Chicago have done more harm to the labor movement than the capitalists have. They allied the eight-hour movement as dead as a door-nail. Why, Me wholesale men and large merchants were tumbling over each other in their haste to fail into line until the bomb was thrown, and then the work of years was neutralized and the movement killed." "Why do you call Bonfield a law-breaker?" Weil, because of his action during the street-car striae and because of his breaking up that meeting at toe haymarket.

Remember I bare not a word of apology for the Anarchists. I think today's verdict was fully justis fled. I think the whole crowd of Anarenista should be banged. But that doesn't clear Harrison's and Bonfield's skirts." A Fund for the Jury. CHICAGO, Aug.

of The In view of the long and close confinement endured by the jury in the Anarchisa trial and the display of manly courage evidenced by their prompt and tearless verdict, I beg to Suggest the propriety of startmg a subscription for the purpose Of raising at least $1.000 for the benefit of each juryman. I ant far from being rich, but would gladly give e25 for this purpose. and will deliver same at your office the day you may start the subscription. VV. Cs E.

CHICAGO, Aug. 20.tEditor of The Tribune. The long agony is ever. Law has triumphed. Anarchy is defeated.

The conspirators have been promptly convicted. Let them be as promptly punished. The "twelve good men and true" whose honesty and fearlesness made a conviction possible should not be tor-gotten. They have performed their unpleasant duty without ilinching. Let them be generously remembered.

liaise a fundsay 000to be presented with, the thanks of a grateful people. E. A. atriaORD. Mr.

N. B. Ream. in Fpeaking to a TRIBUNE reporter, thougnt it woula be eminently proper to start a fund for the purpose of indemnifying the jurors who so patiently sat Lir eight weeks at the trial, thereby losing In business and time and endangering their health, for which they were so meagerly paid by the county and then in vouchso-s which will be cashed nobody knows when. Mr.

ileum thought it was not proper to mention this while the trial was in progress, but now that it Is over be is willing to beau the list with the sum of S500. 'Thus will the schoolmaster who so nobly sacrificed his vacation be in a measure and so will the others who, being mostly, if not alt business-men, were greatly inconvenienced by their selection as jurors. will be justillect in their execution, and a prompt. stern, and necessary warning will be afforded to a of exotio criminal, for whom there is no room in this land. Chicago deserves tbe thanks and gratithde of every community in tne country, and line bas them in the fullest measure." Herald: It wilt be a timely and wholesome warning to Anarcbists not only in Chicago, but in New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, or wherever they may be found.

that the red flag Of anarchisul "cannot be openly run Up with Impunity in Chia country. The verdict is of National importance, and the Jury that so promptly and leariesly rendereci it bag done a National service. lorkerZeitung: It is clear that a verdict of guilty hardly would have been brougnt in had not the representative citizens of Cbicago been anxious for an opportunity to declare in a way and manner that could not be misunderstood that they, as a wbole, abhor Socialism hi its doctrines and its evidences of existence. A Socialistic Organ Uses Hard Language. The Volks-Zettung, recognized as the Socialist organ of this city, heads its editorial article on the verdict "The Court of Lynchers in Chicago," and says: By the means of this verdict the Chicago jury gained the immortal prestige of having branded the American bourgeoisie forever with the brand of the west infamous class brutality ever heard of.

Diva rough. brutal. reckless manner the ruling class has shown itself to better advantage than ever before in any of the despotic countries of Europe. This is not the place to Criticise the theories and tactics of the convicted men. We see in their innrderers only the representatives of class hatred, and in the convicted simply their victims, martyrs of their convictions, and tins feeling will be found in the hearts of all honest and brave proletarians of America.

Instead of rooting out the belief of the necessity of a revolution by force. the order-boring official murderers in Chicago will soon tind out that they have sowed a very had seed when they sent their victims to the gallows. They will drive the hundreds and thousands of those who hitherto believed in peaceful development Into the arms of open. bloody. relentless war.

The blood they spill will conie upon their own heads. and for their own damned whieh they, in their stupid idiocy. beiieved they could protect, they have dug a The Boston Press. BOSTON, Neste, Aug. Record says: The only thine to be regretted about it is that the decencies of modern civilization decree that no more painful death shall be visited upon these criminals.

Hanging is to light a punishment for the merit a of such villains, but such us it is the sooner it is over the better. Says the Journal: The jurors, undeterred by riny menace have done their duty ender their oaths, and have promptly convicted all of the accused of murder in the first degree with the execution of, Neebe. This result is a vindication of law and authority against the crimes of men who have no thOre claim for consideration at the hands of society than so many wild beasts. Globe: "All lovers of true civil liberty and self-government will rejoice in the conviction of the Chicago Anarcaists engaged in the wholesale murder committed on the baymarket." Post: "With due regard to the rights Of the accused and with all haste consistent with the solemnity of the proceedings the men who in Chicago defied- their associated fellow-men with death-dealing weapons have been fairly tried and of murder. There can be no word of palliation for their crime.

To talk of them here as martyrs to liberty would be to speak of highwaymen whose knives had already scratched the throat as conscientious but misguided gentlemen. To permit them to escape the sentence, which has now been pronounced, would be to establisa to that extent the anarchy they advocate." Prom Philadelphia. Pitteanstrenta, Fa. Aug. The Philadelphia Record will say: The verdict Is merciful, because it will end the bomb-throwing in this country.

Press: It is a terrible but just retribution for the ghastly crime of which they were guilty. The conviction and sentence of seven men to the gallows, all in a single verdict. is an assertion of the majesty of the law as striking as it is unprecedented. Times: Of the righteousness of the verdict there will be no two opinions among law-abiding people. Now that the Anarchists are convicted there should be no unnecessary delay in carrying Out the sentence of the court.

A Milwaukee Opinion. MILwAt KEE, Aug. 20.The Herold says in an article headed The Wages of Sin" about the verdict: The verdict is well able to maim the condemned pale and tremble, as they hardly expectee it at the beginning of the trial, though later on they ought to have anticipated such a result. But the verdict will be accepted by the public generally as eminently just and the condemned have no reason to complain. They had full opportunity to clear them selves of the charges and could nut do it A Cincinnati Anarchist's Views.

CINCINNATI, 0, Aug. Anarchists of this, city are greatly depressed by me verdict in the trial of their brethren in Chicago. They have gathered in knots today at their various haunts and discussed the situation, and can find little comfort in the outlook. It is elaimed that tbe organization numbers over 1.200 raembers in Cincinnati, and they have two or three well-drilled military companies. The views of the great majority were expressed by Dr.

A. Otto Walster, editor of the Cincinnati Zcitano. theeaRoof the local Anarchists. "We are much turprised at the verdict," declared Walster. The Judges charge was very fair, and I don't see how a verdict or guilty could be given in view or the law and facts in the case.

Every one of us thinks it an outrage." "Since the men have been convicted, what will the Anarchists do about It?" -If the men are hung I predict more awful trouble in Chicagoahan they ever had before. It will be a dangerous insult to the people." i by a tremendous explosion. A fusillade of pistol-shots froin the sidewalk on DesplaineS street, near Randolph, The shots were returned by the police, and after the tiring was over the ground was found to be covered with wounded policemen, several of whom were dying, while a number of citizens were wounded and one killed outright. The pollee were taken to the Desplaines Street Station. as were also eeverai while a great many of the latter were assisted to neighboring drug- stores to bave the-r wounds dressed.

The services of more than a dozen surgeons were soon obtained for the injured policemen, and It was found that Deicer Deiran of the West Lake Street Station was dead, while sixty-six others were wounded by pieces of the bomb and pistol-snots, six of them fatally. The injured men were removed to the County Hospital and their homes as soon as practicable. Apart from the citizen found dead twelve others were wounded. The Pennsylvan. Firks! Ia.

and raised on bis ii IF father's farm. Ile 7 0Ettne to Chicago tit ree .0 4-- ear ago, and successively a hotel dwiaeirtebrealonci re 1 bis 're-nt employment last yea. He Is ft member of the felversalist Church. TTIEOLtOftfl DENE Enls a shipping eleik la the employ of H. H.

King Co, acid is 27 years o.d. He was born in Minnesota 0, and lives at SVoed- we' lawnyark. Ile came to Iffecago with hiS parents when 2 rears old, Ile is not tied, and although a Protestant. has no re- preferences. tr FRANK a -widower, t'9yeaN, old.

with throe Rad his employment A Is that of a salesman in the carpet depart- A men of Marshall 1 gb, -s Field's retail Store- 1,, -w ile as born and at 'LI' and belongs to the Episcopal Church. -rit! to. 11 7 1 5 a member or the rui 13 a sitipt)itig elelk la ct ti- trc 1 a year 1 4 k43J-- 1 r. -4--M6 T----1 i IN I Meeting In New York of Sympathizers with the Men Convicted in Chicago. NEW YORK, Aug.

20.iSpeciaLlUpwards Of 700 men and a few women went into Irving Hall this evening to talk about the verdict against the Chicago Anarchists. The meeting had been called several days ago, an advertisement appearing in Fretheit, Most's paper, Published now in Hoboken. The first speaker was A. Schlag, a saloonkeeper on Fifth street, who lett hie almost empty place to be looked after by his wife during his absence. He made a Very tong and dry address, reserving the Vie-lent words that he would have liked to utter out of a wholesome fear of police interference apparently.

His speech wee almost all introduction, dealing with the oft-repeated denunciation of the capitalistio society and enterprise. Ills sallies at first called out some sympathetio applause. but after a quarter of an hour of tue familiar phrases tne men near the platform began to shout "Chicago!" Scblag was not to be removed front the even tenor of his way, but continued to speak, and disgusted voices exclaimed, "Endlichl" (at last). Ile treated this portion ot his speech, bow. ever, very temperately for an Anarchist, and allowed his audience to punctuate it with significant words.

He took the ground so strenuously upheld by his party that the Chicago police interfered with the constitutional privilege of free speech, and asked: What if the police should come in a crowd in here to interrupt our meeting? Shoot them" howled a half hundred voices. The orator did not enforce the point, but proceeded to refer to the condemned brethren in the West. Hardly had ne got the words Gut of his mouth when the crowd shouted in a big chorus Beebe, Bache (reveuge). Tho next speaker suited the impatient An- I archists much better. He was a young Man named Schultze, and he opened without delay on the topic of the hour.

The Chicago at- fair," be said, "bas not killer' Anarchism in America, as our enemies boast. The more oppression. the more means taken to suppress us, the wresting from us of the Doycott and like acts of tyranny, the more strength we gather. The cause will grow, fighters will increase ready to folloWin the martyred paths of our comrades in Chicago, and when the universal revolution comes, as will before capitalism is aware, there will be the end of all law, of all Injustice, of all police." This was very interesting. arid the speaker's hoarse utterances roused the audience to a considerable pitch of enthusiasm, of which, by the way, there seemed to be more than of grief and indignation.

But it was Kaiser, the following sneaker, who really poured out balm to the Anarchistic 'warts. He is a collarless. sandy-haired, nervous young man. and be shook a trembling. bony band in the air in the whole course of his fiery: speech.

Almost at the beginning be shouted: Wbat shall we say in answer to Chicago? A hueured thousand bombs?" This provoked the wildest cheering, and It was nearly a minute before he could continue. He dwelt upon the propaganda by deed" doctrine at length, and repeated threat after threat against police and capitalists. Ile promised innumerable bombs and bloody warfare for oppressors, East as well as West, and the crowd bowled and tossed bats in the air and waved bands and arms in sympathy. Then there was another long speech devoted to denunciation of the press and other things in the good old peaceful Anarchistic fashion, after which the Cnairman read a preamble and resolutions that condemned tne action of the Judge and jurors in Chicago, expressed deep Sympathy with the condemned, and closed with "(In with Anarchy." These were adopted, of course. by a unanimous vote.

Victor Drury, a well-known local agitator, had been announced to speak in English, as were two others, but none of them were in tile Everything bad been thus far in German. It looked as if the meeting would have to get along without anything in the National tongue, when a Russian with an unpronounceable name came to the platform and spoke a language that was meant for English and approached it at a respectful distance. Men and women," be said, "if von had all been men and women the Chicago infamy would not have occurred. It is a strange thing that Americans are convicted in America for free speech; doubly strange that a Russian has tense in an American meeting to speak in Englisn about the indignation that all Ameris cans should feel about the horrible murder that is contemplated in Chicago. No American bad the courage to come here and express his mind.

When Jesus of Nazareth was about to die be said something to his disciples about baptizing them with tire; so now 1 bear from the West, from Our eondemned comrades. the seven lesuses of Chicago. a great voice saying, We will be baptised with tire, ane we shall baptise you likewise with It is the fire of revolution, without which there can be no progress." The biblical student than bad a good deal to say about the Judge who acted in the Cuicaeo trial, and made an impassioned appeal for revenge, to which a few of his hearers responded with faint applause. To most of them his words were all Greek. Ills peroration was this: "We are not here to express sympathy only.

Let us determine to assist in the great work. When it comes to the question of action how many of you will have the 6ourage to stand up and act? You are afraid you will be discharged tomorrow morning if you do anything against capitalism, but if you do nothing against capitalism will you get any of the capital? No, you will get simply starvation wages. Let us take up the right where our brethren in Chicago left it. Let their courageous work be like the biblical leaven, and leaven today means dynamite. Learn bow to mime it and get the courage to use dynamite and all Other engines of the revolution." The meeting after title adjourned highly satisfied with itself.

Opinions, Notes, Gossip, and Interviews on the Subject of the Trial. It Is said that Rau has fled the city- He has not been seen In his accustomed haunts for toe last four days. The bill from the Revere House for boarding the jury although not yet itemized in full. will not be less than 52,7100. The livery biil IS estimated at It was rumored yesterday that the An.

archistio Defense Committee received $5,000 from Vote Anarchists of Germany tor the defense of the prisoners. The rumor could not be traced to any delimit source, but it was widely circulated it 2....," 4LA, "r.a. lit 4r--- sib -----ti rs 0 de ale 1 I 1 ANDREW ITAMILTelN--IS a hardware residing at No. 1521 Forty-first street. he was born in Nova N.

Scotia and has resided twenty veers in -r east. Ile is married and his age is 41 ears- wife attends tbe 3let tionist Church. but he is not a member. although a payer of pa w-rent. it't -Is a FN, '11 '-j-1 4 i a A st gust Fischer were arrested.

May 22 Cant. Schaack testified before the grand Jury that the Anarchists to sack aud burn the city May 4. Schnaubeit was wanted by the police but could not be found. May 25 the grand jury 'painted August Spies, Schwab, 'Selman- belt, Fiacher, Fieldeu, Lirtgg. George Engel, Oscar Neebe, and Parsons for murder.

and Christian Spies, John Apel, William Schneider, Tomas Brown, tmo a large number of others were indicted for conspiracy, riot. and unlawful assembly. June 14 Oscar Neebo, whose share in the conspiracy and its results was not considered to be so well established as that of the other prisoners was admitted to bail in the sum of $17,000. The same day Balthazar Rau, the advertising agent of the Arbetter Zeitung. who was alieged to be one of the movers in the bomb-throwing conspiracy, was arrested at Omaha through tbe elforta of Assistant State'sAttorney Furtlimann.

June 6 seven of the Indicted Anarchists were arraigtied and pleaded not guilty. William Sedger, the Anarcbist informer, at whose house Lingg ran his bomb factory. through fear of Anarchist vengeance disappeared, but after a vigorous search by the police be and tits wife voluntarily turned up at the East CDIC1120 Avenue Station next day. June 15 Officer Nels Hansen, the seventh victim of the baymarket riot, succumbed to his terrible Injuries. Transfusion, of blood was attempted as a last resort, but the tin-fortunate officer was beyond human remedy.

June 18 only eighteen of the sixty-seven officers wounded at the baymarket bad reported for duty, many of toe wounds having proved very difficult of cure. Spies, Schwab, Neebe, and Fielden mode applications June 20 for separate trials, but their motion was overruled. The Beginning of the Tried. The trial was commenced before Judge Gary In the Criminal Court June 21. and the sensation of the aay was the voluntary surrender of the missing Anarchist, A.

R. Parsons, Who 7 -e CHARLES 27 yeari old al was born in 31liwaukee. Hs is now em- 1 ploved as a clerk me wood-mantel shop or Charles L. Page 3 7- 03. lie is and has no church aildia.

latter were also removed to the County Hospital. May 5 the police arrested August Spies, Curls-Can pies. Nichol Schwab, and Samuel Fieldeu, avid Lbw titt! tve for me! trol LIEU ecic ful Lit the sot Lit lcre t4e1 the jici iau In WI I Pet cit II pri tiu (Ay tie! oar a to thf 1 Zualtz, 'z 1 54 s. t'S) ,7, nir i. i I ,1 I.

i nt I I uralt, THE ARBEITER-ZEITUNG." A I .1. I E. of 010 WeVlet Echoolresides at En- 4i- Nt ewac)Otlyd9e airSs oul di arri was born at Lyons, near Rochester, N. tol arid in Lila Yonager clays attended the 'Methodist Church, though not a church- ne and de tuember now. Ile bad planned to spend his vacation fishing with friends.

ot a i the 136 State street. He and is 49 years old. tins no children, and 14.4- at No. 3212 Groveland 4-4 4 Park. Ile has been in the music business in Chicago for the last twenty-three years.

He is a tre hn e-tiker, not believing in tion or the supernatnral. liut net an lolls. B. tittLESERIs it clerk in the fi-cf department ot the Chicago Northwestern Railroad. and nsides at Humboldt Park.

He is 2,1 years 1 ld and was born at Columbus, O. He is a Alethodist A Church member. I ripal of tlia 1Vet 4 ti .7 Lu to-, ber ot the finu c't ,...,,.4 lot lo Itivitr al. 1)ut uot ali i it vierk in the fre'43 IA, 0 14- A The following were received hy Acting-Chief Bonfield Hist night: Per-nos-into. Pa- An.

ailFee1er4 Eberttold of Chicago: Accent my congratulations on your success iu convicting the noirderers of your police. ROGER ILISI ARA, Chief Detectives. JERSEY CITY, N. Aug. Ebereold: Accept ray congratulations on the conviction.

Law and sarder are, BENJAMIN AfiURPHY, Chief Of Police. In the reports of some of the papers, Judge Gary, in the instructions to the jury of his own motion. is made to 8S that if the evidence proves the innocence" of the oefendants, then it watt the duty of the jury to acquit Attention having been called to this by several attorneys, with the statement that If such, language was used it was a fatal error, and avoulti undoubtedly cause a remanding of the vase, Judge Gary was cotestioned in regard to it, as the reports ot the papers dittered materially. The Judge used no such language, and the word innocence did not oceur in that connection. The point made wits that unlese the evidence proved the guilt of the defeedaute eo fully there was no reasonable doubt of It it was the duty of the jury to acquit them.

The jurors fees in the case were paid yesterday. They amount to the followitat sums, including mileage: C. B. Todd, fifty-even dare, i114.40; T. E.

Deniter. filly-eight days, Sittletti; S. C. Randall. sixty days.

S120.10: Frank S. Osborn, fifty-four days, aloa.lo; Andrew Kamilton, filly-one dare C. A. Ludwig, forty-nine days, aeS.5e: James H. forty-tour days, A.

H. feed, tairtynine days, J. u. Greater, thirty-nine days, Georee W. Adams.

thirty-nine days, Waal; H. T. Sanford, thirty-seven days. ala; James it. Coie, sixty-one doys, $122.70, total.

el.laa. Unless the jurymen can find some Patriotic banker who will take the votinty certificates at par, they have to discount them heavby or wait till next March for their money, the county being out of funds. Henry liendlxen, a wooden-legged newspaper vender stationed et the cerner of Washingtou and La Salle streets. welle reaping a harvest in selling ble papers contaiume the news of the verdict in the Anarchist case, gave voice to the expresaion that the jury ought to be hanged." Instantir he watt eurrounded by fifteen or twenty citizens. who moved upon him in a threatening mariner, crying "Lynch Wm," Hang him.

the dog." etc. (Meer C. J. Morris of the Central Detail reacued the frightened fool. however, and succeeded in Locking bum up at the Central Station.

lie was taken to toe Armory Police Court when the crowd of excited citizens had left tne precincts of the station and fined Sa by Justice Meech on a charye at eorderly conduct. The fellow reallg meant nottung by his talk, but he made it at the wrong time. One of air. Griunell's efficient assistants is 51r. James M.

Purcell. the efileint stenographer of the Criminal Court. Mr. Purcell is young lu the ptactice of his art, but he has few superiors In his department of lielustry. Ills experience began in Chico only three or four years ago: since that time his talent has been employed mainly in the courte, and he is one of tee very few stenographers who.

no matter bow difficuit the case, never made a failure. In teat be was one of a corps of stenoirraphers who renorted the Presidential eonventiens of that year for one of the city papers, and. notwithstanding the peculiar difficulties of that description of stenographic yok, his "copy was equally perfect with that of the veterans. Since his appointment to his present position be has successfully managed his end of the department of criminal justice. In the Anarchist eaaes lust closed.

from beginning to end. his work was noted for a tnotiougnness which is rarely seen in or out of court inuring the progress of the trial the transcriete of testimony made by him and tinder his oireetiou numbered some 0.000, typo-written pages. Mighty interesting CHICAGO, Aug. 2O.Editor of The Tribe? l'is. 1 'Olt 4 tt'4N 4 4::, .2.

tik k- sr VI i tosrether with Oscar Noebe, Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Sobwab, stud all the printers in the ArbeVerZeitung office. With the exception of the first-named four prisoners tney were all allowed to depart after being examined by the police. 1 I 41..

I. PARSONS. '4'k' 1S 7 1 k.f.-4,.L.Ii: 1, 1 7 11 5 -d V.y 1 (Ptlel I 11 i li 11 79' 0 4 .1 Bele, Its Editor, Thinke It Will Boom from Now On. Gustav Bel; the managing editor of the who has been a daily attendant at and who reported the proceedings of the trial for his paper, was seen at his sanctum last night and asked his opinion about the trial and the result. "I don't believe everything went straight la this trial.

The Anarchists in tins city think that money was a large factor in tee result. flow an intelligent jury can deliver suet' a verdict is beyond my comprehension. The jury went too far In their verdict. The sentence of Neebe was especially severe and outrageous. There was nothing whatever proved against him and he bad nothing against him except what was charged la the indictment.

will Anarchism increase? I should say so. It is just as Capt. Buick said: 'Kill the man and Ins death will act as seed? Since May I our subseriptien-list has nearly doubled until now it numbers over 8,000: tbiuk that Capt. Black di a very well. but Foster took a stand we dal not like.

Spies. I thins, would rather have bad Foster not say anything at all teen what be diti say; but of course Spies didn't want to say anything. although be was very much disturbed. The lawyers, however. had a good deal of work to do.

and they aid it. Zeisier was better than Walker, in my opinion. Grinneli did the best he could because he is the tool of Marshall Field. McCormick, and others. who told him what to do, and be followed their instructions and not the people's.

Pol.ties was back of it ail. Ills reputation and political aspirations were at stake. Gilmer is a liar. He needed a job, and they gave it to him. Thompson Is In the employ of Marshall Field.

ana it is the same with Jansen, the detective. We expected that the prisouers would be acquitted, and that should have been the verdict. The aefenaants were tried on principle and convicted on principle, and not for the murder of Matthias J. Began. This was what we expected them to do If they convicted the prisoners at all.

The Anarchists have tied to propagate their ideas bv toe ballot-box, but Wnett they elected Frank Stauber Aldermaa and there was FROM THE OUTSIDE. et en of du tu Cut btl of tie Sa or Se 11( et, Ai pa br re th, 11, tr, of ENGLISH OPINIONS. The Eugliah Dailies on the Result. LONDON, Aug. 21-4 a.

re.INew York her. ald'a Special CabledThe Conviction of the Chicago Anarehiste and their capital sentence are the sensational topic of the hour in London. The Government organ, the elorning Post, thus congratulates CnIcago: In this trial at Chicago the American people have shown very clefirly and forcibly that they will not allow their hospitality to be abused. They have sheltered meu who conspired against the Government id other countries. They have ve even ni 10Wed 1 hem to couspire on American soil but when German Anarchists made an attack upon the laws of the 'United States it was seen et cnee that toleration might be carried too far.

Charity beeine et borne, and from sound mutivcs of self-protection the legal authoritiee of Chicago have given their revolutionary guests a salutary lesson. The leader then paeses to the Irish event in that city, and of the speeches of Messrs. Fitzgerald and O'Brien at the convention remarks: A war aitainst English rule in Ireland has been openly threatened. Thero is no doubt that some of the men present at that eotivention have been coenizent of the intrigues of the inurderous thine who have attempted to destroy life and property in London. It thus very Illogically concludes: Americans have shown by the verdict and sentence in the Anarchist trial that they give short shrift to foreign miscreants who have assuiled law and order in the 'United States.

It may in time become desirable that some international action should be taiten for the suppression of such wine whether they are Nihilists from Germany or dynamiters from the school of O'BonovaierZossa, are the enemies to The whilom Radical Chronicte has an editorial In a similar strain. It arrives at this couelusion: Now that the American Government has expressed so clearly its refusal to differentinte between destruction of life end property on alleved motivee an the same offenses without that lame excuse, it min hardly refuse to complete the negotiations so receutly begun ferlhe conclusion of en ex raditiott lrenty expressly intended tc deal with crimes committed wider the veil of eulitics. ') a ti a LI L. 1 l'''; G. W.

ADAN1--Is 27 years old alai 11C, tiled in Michigan for the last 611 months la. selling i ixed paints for a. Clinton street firm. He is a painter by by trade. having 0,, i pa i inted for ten years.

Li 1 He lives at the resi- -7-1k, 1 deuce of hie brother II I in Evanston. Aiii ears old and, has la- 4..., 1t-; I A 4... 1 pc I I 1 II fi I I walked quietly into court with bis counsel. Capt. Black, and tonic his seat beside his indicted fellow-Anarchists.

A by Cant. Black for leave to withdraw the plea of not guilty and enter a motion to quash ltw indfctment was promptly overruled by Judge Gary, and the tedious work of securing a Or jury commenced. Twenty-one Twenty-one days A were consumed in the effort to se- i cure twelve men --'1---- 'C, wbo were willing 1.i to wive the de- t' -4' fndants an un-itt ti-1, iased trial on the evidence. Maj. James R.

Cote. iv the first olected June '23. 1 6. C. a the -w.

se -t cond juror. wsse' -r secured June 40- Theodore Denker was also selected i the Bart day. C. B. Todd was as'- JtD(18 GARYeepted the next day, and Frank S.

Osborne, the fifth Juror, was accepted July 1 ftia941 I Maniteatations of Approval from New York. NEW YOUK, Aug. 20.The verdlet of the jury sn the case of the Chicago) Anarchists IS universally commended in this city. The Eticning Post days: The importance of this result can scarcely be overestimated. It is a formal notification to nil Anarchists in this countu and out of it that they cannot carry on their infamous trade any morti safely in America than they can at home.

The CommPrcial Adrerti.ser says: This is the death-blow to anarchy in America. The remaining thugs of the Lehr und Wehr Verein are not of the species that will risk their lives fur the unholy cause they have heretofore championed. and Low their associates are doomed to death the others will retire to their slums and do their growling under their breath. The Staats-Zeitung, commenting on the Chicago verdict, bas the following: The verdict is perfectly in aceorilance with the letter. as well as the spirit.

of the Saw. declaring the fullest responsibility of the intelleetual author of crime. nil we do not believe that there is as much as shadow of a chance left for the Prisoners to be saved from the gallows. The 'me two women were arrested again several times during the day. but were released.

The publication of the paper was also suppressed. The same day Officer Madden of the Desplaines Street Station attempted to arrest a Socialist named Re nhold Krueger. or Big Krueger," in a saloon at the corner of Desplaines and Fulton streets. The officer was shot through the lungs, while his prisoner was allot through the bead and groin and died several days later. May tl a fund was started or tbe relief of the wounded polcemen and their families.

which was of the When the twelve men were sworn NI bell began tbe opening for Ole cution, which took lesi that' two ha; in dedvery. no said be Would provi the Anarch eta were armed lu tbe tOt purpote Of murder. and that tbe tbrowir4 Art Thu st the buYtnerket ineetthif were swore Nit Ofi' to oroiir ell lei 11 tej.

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