The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-08-06
THE DEFENSE BEGUN.

gun-LaWyer Solomon Would Have the
Jury Believe the Prisoners are all Phi
lanthropists, the States Witnesses Liars
and the Police Fiendish Murderers.
CHICAGO, August 1.-The Anarchists
resumed the wearing of their red bouton.
naires yesterday morning, with the ex.
ception,of Spies, who discarded the one
proffered him by female sympathizer.
The defendants, Spies, Schwab, Fielden
and Fischer have colorless faces, show
ing the evident effect of the trial. The
young bomb maker, Lingg, is the only
one of the cluster on trial who appears
to carry himself in an unconcerned man
ner. The courtroom was crowded as
usual.
The state, after the Introduction Of a
little unimportant testimony, announced
its case closed, and the opening for the
defense was begun. Some routine mo-
tions by counsel for the defense were
made and disposed of by the court.
Attorney Solomon then rose and opened
| the case for the defense. First he com.
! plimented the jury on its patient endur-
ance of its trying position and asked that
kaach member give the same close atten-
/ 4ion to the evidence produced by the de-
| tense, as they had to all that had been
| presented by the State.
! He asked the jury to decide whether
the States attorney had fulfilled his prom
/ ises in the opening of the case for the
| State. The States attorney had said that
| he would produce in court testimony
| proving who threw the bomb. Had this
| been done? Mr.. Solomon claimed 1T had
not. Proceeding to the charges against
the prisoners, Mr.. Solomon said they
were not charged with anarchy and
| socialism, but, as shown by the indict-
ment, the charge was the murder Of
| Matthias j. Deegan. The law, the attor-
ney said, did not provide any
clause which declared or could be
| construed to declare that the defen-
| dants had committed murder. Mr.. Sal
/ Omon read from the statutes to show
/ that the evidence brought against the
/ the defendants did not prove that they
were accessories to murder. He then
| read from several authorities to show
| what constituted the offense of conSpira-
| cy. If the State had case at all, it was
| on the charge of murder or conspiracy,
and upon no other. He would read, he
said, from the reports as to the nature Of
| the evidence necessary to convict OF
| murder or conspiracy. 81 will read
| these" said Attorney SalOmon, "for the
| information of the jury, and for the
! Judge as well.''
Continuing, Mr.. Salomon said the de-
! PENDANTS could be held for conspiracy if
| it was proven that the meeting In which
/ they took part was called for the purpose
of killing the police. "These defend
| ants,'' he said, stare not mUrderers, or
inals, but are possessed of feelings of
| broad humanity. They have not desired
! to appropriate the goods of Marshall
/ Field to their own use, but all they have
done has been in support of a principle
! which is the eradcWi on of a social wrong.
| They have not advocated assassination
| or recourse TO arms on account of per-
! sonal feelings against any man on earth,
! but all their efforts have been put forth
with the single object in view of better
ing the condition of their felloW-men."
The defendants, the attorney declared,
had q right to preach their doctrines and
make converts. If the people wanted social
ism or anarchy they would have it. The
law could not put down Socialism any
more than it could suppress Republican
ism and destroy Democracy. "You
fought in the rebellion" said Mr.. SalO-
mon, 'to put down slavery so that one
man should not own another; these de-
PENDANTS believe that there are white
slaves, and, therefore, put forth their ef-
forts toward their liberation. If they use
dynamite they use it for that end only.
We do not desire to go into the evidence
presented here because we do not be-
lieve it proves any thing. We expect
fully to prove that none of these men
have done murder or have cOnspired to
do murder. We expect to prove that
these men assembled at the Haymarket
on the night of the 4th' of May to ex-
ercise the right of free speech; to hold
peaceable meeting for the purpose of dis
cussing the interests of laboring men.
We do not believe that any of the defen-
dants present once thought of the posi-
thrown at that meeting, but we see in
the action of the police an in
credible animus. We see in them
devilish design, a 6endish de-
sign, an intention to destroy every life
on that market. We expect to show you
that Mr.. Fielden fired no shot at that
meeting and that he had not then and
never had a revolver. We expect to
show you that Ithe witnes, Gilmer, is
constitutional and a professional
liar; we do not believe that in
the minds of the jury the testimony of
sworn witness is necessary to establish
the fact that Gilmer's testimony is absO-
lutely valueless. We expect to prove
that on the night of the Haymarket meet
ing Mr.. Schwab did not speak to Spies,
as has been testified to, but that ne left
ion occurred. We expect to show that
Parsons and Fischer left the meeting ear
ly and were seated in Zepp's Hall, drink
ing a glass of beer when the bomb ex-
ploded. We shall prove that Neebe
was at home, and expect to show that
he had no knowledge of the meet
ing. Yon are familiar with the
movements OF Lingg. The evidence
in no way connects him with the throw
ing of the bombs, and If he made bombs
he did no more than he had perfect
right to do, and there is no law prohibit
ing his having dynamite in his house if
he choose. We expect TO show that none
of these defendants fred shots at the
Haymarket meeting and that the first
shots were fred by the police"
Mr.. Solomon concluded reasserting his
belief in the absolute lack of evidence
connecting the prisoners with the Of
fences charged against them, and asked
the Jury that their verdict be one Of ac-
quittal. At the conslusion of Mr..
SaIomon's address the cou rt adjourned