The Osceola times., 1886-08-07
THE DEFENSE BEGUN.

CHICAGO, August Tine Aharculsts
resumed the wearing Of their red bontoh-
naires yesterday morning, with the ex'
ceptlon OF Spies, who discarded the one
proffered him by female sympathlzer.
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
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
plmented the jury on its patient endur-
ance of its trying position and asked that
each member give the same close atteh'
tion to the evidence produced by the de-
fense. 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 IL the opening OF the case for the
State. The States attorney had sald that
he would produce in court testimony
proving who threw the bomb. Had thls
been done? Mr.. Salomon claimed 1t had
not. Proceeding to the charges against
the prisoners, Mr.. Salomou said they
were not charged with anarchy and
socialism, but, as shown by the lndlct-
mcnt, the charge was the murder OF
Matthias j. Deegan. The law, the attor-
ncy said, did not provide any
clause which declared or could be
construed to declare that the delcn-
dants had committed murder. Mr. sal
omon read from the statutes To snow
that the evidence brought against the
the defendants did not prove that thsy
were accessories to murder. lie then
read from several authorities to show
what constituted the ofcnsc OF conspira-
| cy. II the State had case at all, 1t was
on the charge of murder or conspiracy,
and upon no other. lie would read, he
| said, from the reports as to the nature OF
| the evidence necessary to convict OF
murder or conspiracy. 81 viii read
these" said Attorney Solomon, "ior the
Information of the jury, and for the
judge as we'll"
Continuing. Mr.. Solomon said the de-
| PENDANTS could he 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, "are not murderers, or
thieves. or burglars. They are not Grim
| inals, bat 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 principle
| which is the eradica OF 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 iOrtl
| with the single object in view of bette.
! ing the condition Of their fellow.mcn."
! The defendants, the attorney declared,
| had right TO preach their doctrines and
make converts. II the people wanted social
| ism or anarchy they would have it. The
| law could not put down Socialism any
| more than it could suppress RepCb blican-
| ism and destroy Democracy. "You
! fought i'm 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. II they use
| dynamite they use Il 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 Iiaymafket
| on the night of the ith of May to eX-
| erCisc the right of free speech; to hold a
pcaccablc meeting for The purpose OF dis
cuSsing the interests of laboring men.
| We do not believe that any OF the dcien
| dants present once thought of the posi-.
| hihty Of such thing as bomb being
| thrown at that meeting, but we see In
! the action OF the police an in.
| credible animuS. We see In them
deyilish design, Il Genlish de-
! sign, an intention 10 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 md
never had revolver. We expect to
show you that 1.-THE Witnes, Gllmcr, is
a constitutional aud 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'> testimony is abso-
/ lutely valuelcss. We expect to prove
| that on the night of the llaymarket meet.
| ing Mr.. Schwab did not speak to Spies,
as has been testified to, but that he left
! the meeting some time before the explo-
| ion occurred. We expect TO show that
| Parsons and Fischer left the meeting ear
| ly and were seated in Zcpp's Hall, drink.
| ing a glass of beer when the bomb cx.
| ploded. We shall prove that Necbe
was at home, and expect to show that
he had no knowledge Of the meet
| ing, You 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 10 do, and there is no law prohibit
ing his having dynamite in his house #
he choose. We expect to show that none
OF these defendants fred shots at the
llaymarket meeting and that the first
shots were fired by the police"
Mr.. Salomon concluded reasscriing 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 nc.
quttal. AZ the conslusion of Mr..
Salomon's address the cou 1T adjourned.