Omaha daily bee., 1886-08-10

Schwab was put upon the stand. Schwab
testified he left home the evening of May at
from the house, and is sure of the time. He
then went to the Arbeiter Zeitung. There
communication was received oyer the tele-
phone requesting speaker be sent to
but he was at the Haymarket and
Schwab fastened there to find him, but failed
and saw his brother-n-law. Rudolph Schnau.
belt then took car east to Clark street and
boarded another going up ClybOurne avenue
to Deerlng's. Schwab does not know what
time he reached the Deering factory, but ne
spoke to the strikers for, about twenty min
utes and got back home about IL o'clock.
"Were You ever in the alley at Crane Bros.
that ATM night sit with spiesG'
"Did you walk west on Randolph street
with Spies two blocks, then return with
himT'
mo, sir"
..D "Dld you, see Spies that night9'
"Did you see Spies hand your brother-in-
law package that night in the alley at Crane
Bros.p and did you say anything like this:
~ That hat won't be enough; shall we get another
..p Did you, see Spies at all that night'"
,S mWfen did you see him at all for the last
I'm a. l. II the aft afternoon: ! did not see him
Before Schwab left the stand States At
torney Grinnell asked: DO you know
whire Schnaubelt is?"
He replied that he had been in Jail long
while and knew very little of the news of
the world.
I'VE can tell you if you desire to know"
said Attorney Zeisler.
"ie is in Cincinnati, isn't he9' said Grin
nelli H., ,, u.n,,os z.,,,ou
August Spies was. the next witness. He
gave an account of his connection with the
riot at McCOrmick's and then proceeded to
relate his version Of the Haymarket. He
word revenge was not on IT. When he
wrote the circular he was very much ex-
cited and believed six worktngmen had
oee vers % Ordinary @ speech. aNsi He did ne not % see
| Schwab that night and did not go into the
alley with Schnaubelt or any one else. No
one could have heard him c0nyersing in
| that Schnaubelt could not speak English.
did you light the bomb9'' inquired
| the lawyer
~ meyer aid,n replied Spies with smile. 49,
atins their claim that the armed
section had secret caucus, and
the the po!Ri Spies said G he y wrote the word
| "Ruhe" which appeared in the Arheiter lei
tung or, May T., He said the night before he
received the following letter: "Mr; Editor:
| 'Ruhe' in prominent letters"
He said he did not know 1t had any i'm
| port, but the next day BalthaZar Rau said IL
was decided by the armed section to have the
police poie % lie t'f told Rau that was was foosh and
| asked Fischer to inform the armed section
that it was mistake. Spies then described
| his arrest by the police. He declared
him him a dutch dog" "hound,', and :whelp''.
and made an attack on him Spies
| said he kept dynamite IN his office to expert
| ment with and carried q revolver, thinking it
was "a good thing to be armed" He de-
clared that on the night of the Haymarket,
| however, he had left his revolver with eX-
| Alderman Stautfer.
| The court then adjourned. Spies will be
crOss-eXamined this afternoon.
Fifteen minutes before the opening of the
seat in the court room. The fact that Spies
| was the witness under examination lent an
extraordinary amount of interest to the seS-
sion. He was cross-examined by lngham.,
Arbeiter Zeitung?
A. About six years.
Q. Were you editor in chief?
| A. No; there was really no editor in chief.
o. Were You not looked upon as head of
| the editorial department?
A. Not so by those connected with the
paper. The editorial department was gov
O. What position did Schwabhold on the
x. The same as did, that of one of the
editors.
q. And neither of you were responsible for
the character or expressions of the paper.
| A. No sir.
Spies, in answer tn further questions of a
| similar nature, stated that he was paid en-
ploye in the Arbeiter Zeitung; that he looked
| over the editorial articles before they were
published. but was not responsible for their
| tone.
q, Were you editor of the Alarm at any
A. took charge of it for short time once
| while Mr.. Parsons was absent,
@. How many bombs did you have in your
A. Four.
q. Where did you get them?
A. They were brought TO me some three
years ago by man who said he was from
q. What kind of bombs were these?
A. Iron, percussion bombs.
Q. What became of the man who brought
A. never saw him again. He said If
remember, that he was going to New Zea-
land
| A. / never got them; that is an invention
of that reporter. A man came there while
was at dinner and left them there. He left
bombs with the bookkeeber l never saw
During this examination Spies was very
uneasy, and his voice trembled perceptibly
His agitation increased when the cXamina
ton was continued as follows:
Q. How much dynamite did you have in
your office?
A. Two small packages
O. Where did you get it?
| A. OF q powder company.
Q. Why did you purchase this dynamite?
A. Oh, had read great deal about dy'
Mantle and thought would Investigate fur
thes
o. Why did you wish to investigate fur
ther?
A. Oh, on general principles. can't say
q. Did you ever experiment with bombs2
A. No, sir.
Q. Didn't you 60 to Sheffield, Ind, ant
| witness some experiments with bombs?
Witness answered eyasiyely, and the ques
tion being repeated in another form, the de