Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-30
NEARINH TIE END
me Testimony for the state in the
Trial Of the Chicago Anarchists
VIII be Closed To-Day.
Police oaiesr Tells OF Lingr'a BoaAtf,i
Taik on the Occasion OF Bis Arrest.
Exploding the Bombs.
cncAao,s ANARcnrsrs


the jury by tomorrow evening.
Dr. John b. Murphy attended many Of
the wounded officers at the Desplaines
street station. He was called there at
about II O'Clock, and on going into the
station saw ten men stretched out groan.
Ing IN agony. Up stairs he found Oflcer
John Barrett with hole In his side big
enough to admit two fingers Some
twenty-siN or thirty officers were at
tended. The doctor described the nature
OF the wounds.
William Thompson, the young man who
gave such damaging evidence against the
leading anarchists on Tuesday, was re-
called by the defense and questioned very
closely, hut did not vary any OF his
original statements.
The states attorney brought out the
Tact that he had been compelled to move |
from his house, owing to the visits OF |
aunerents OF the anarchists, who sought |
10 intimiGate him from taking the stand. |
Officer Michael Hoffman testified TO |
finding the bomb near Ogden grove which |
bad been pointed out by Informer Leah
man. The same witness also told of the
vast amount Of deadly missiles found
under the house OF Anarchist Thielen.
Lieut.. Bowler was called, and exhibited
TO the jury the torn, blood.stained uni
forms of the wounded police officers
Capt Black protested strongly against
such evidence being submitted and de-
clared that twas only for a sensational
purpose.
Mr. Ginnell replied, with some feeling,
that If he had desired to produce SEN
satiOn to illustrate the murdeTous char
acter OF the assault at the hay-market, he
would bring In the survivors of that night
on stretchers and expose their wounds.
Capt. Michael Schaak took the stand.
On the afternoon OF May IA, when Lingg
was locked up at the Chicago avenue
station, the witness asked him whether he
was at 81 Lake street on the night of
May 3, and he replied that he was. He
said nc had made dynamite for use at the
hay market Lingg said he hated the
police because they had attacked the peo-
pie at McCormick's, and because they
were friendly to the capitalists. When
asked why he did not light the police
with guns instead of dynamite,
Lingg replied that the militia had
guns and the socialists had to use dYna-
mite. Lingg said he made ,hree kinds Of
dynamite He had learned how to make
10 by reading books. When the witness
hexamined Lingg's trunk he found in 1t a
false bottom and a quantity OF fuse. The
witness said he knew Spies and was at
the Arbeiter Zeitung Office frequently.
The witness had talk with Engle on
May Is when the lattor confessed that he
had been at the meeting at "a West Lake
street May 3; when Engle's wife visited
him, Engle broke down and wepl
at her Gliding him for
,,lo htF,anlf a., v,nuIAfnt,
He replied, "mamma, | am cursed with
eloquence. Louise Michael served for u
cause. She Is woman. | am man,
will stand II like man"
Capt, Schaak explained the result Of
his experiments in exploding the bombs
found among Lingg's effects and tn,
; havoc they occasoned. Lingg declared
that he had prepared the bombs TO us,
them against the Gatting guns Of thu
militia In the great revolution which haC
commenced. Six persons, he said, hat
called at his house May I, TO Obtain
bombs.
Adjourned TO Up, m.
At the opening of the afternoon SEES
sion Capt, Schaak explained, upon the re
quest OF Mr.. Ingham, the nature of hi
experience with the fuse found among
the effects of Lingg. al also ex
perimented with dynamite cartridges,
said the witness. az had one inserted
, into stone, weighing, perhaps, 80l
, pounds. The explosion broke the stone
, into atoms"
DISCRIMINATION by Mr.. Foster
I "What Lingg said to you, captain
was substantially this, that ther,
was to be a conflict between
the police and Gatling gum
on the one side and the laboring men on
the other, and that he was making those
bombs to use when that time Gamer"
! CHATS about it, only he said the time
! had actually come" replied the witness
: "Those experiments you made were fol-
your own satisfactIonPh
, "They were made TO enable me tc
: testify to the character OF the stun tina
was found"
= Gas matter OF fact" queried Foster
"you woke up Engle In his cell ate
midnight TO interrogate him, did yo'
not2"
"Well, / don't remember II did, ant
suppose did, / had right TO DO ii.n
"Did you know Of the two detectives d
your station who went to Lingg's Gel
late at night and exhibited rope, sayinl
they were going to hang him2"
~ do not" replied the witness al d.
4 not believe anything of the kind wa
t done"
+ Eff. L. Gauss was next called ant
4 asked TO read his translation o
+ portion OF the sheet entitled 9TH
Anarchist, Volume No. IL Thu
paper was published at the Arbeite
Zeitung Office, and in a notice requested
that subscriptions be sent TO G. Enele
+ The 1rst translation read was that OF TN
announcement of publishers. In Thu
It was stated that the objec
OF the paper was 10 promote the
, anarchical doctrine. Other articles
lamented the oppression Of capital ant
advocated revolutionary principles.
Eugene Zieger, an editorial writeI
, on the Free Presse, identified
} some manuscript written in German 4
) be- In the handwriting OF Schwab. TIT
! manuscript was that Of the celebrated
: HBlood" editorial published in thu
| Arbeiter Zsitung Of May 4
The prosecution then caused number
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