The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-08-26
FOUND GUILTY.
The Jury Returns a Verdict Of Guilty
Of Murder
Against the Participants Of the Hay
market Massacre.
Spies, Schwab. Flelden. Parsons.
Fischer, Engel and Ling.
Receive Death Sentences -Neebe Gets
Fifteen Years in the Pen.
The Anaral SITS.

tuL66Q 1CdrS Id tH6 E6u'
The Anareh stss
CHICAGO, I'LL, August Is, 1855
Toward the close Of his speech Capt.
Black became very violent In his re-
marks directed at the police, and. what |
appeared 70 be q defence Of socialism. |
The Haymarket meetiDgs he sAids was |
called for the purpose OF discussing the
common good Of those participating. II
had gone on peaceably. 1t was
peaEing peaceful close, had,
in fact, began dissolution when, e.
believe, gentlemen. the police made an
understandable and unjustified and outrA-
geous invasion OF these citiz sus' rights.
Inspector Bonfield ordered the formation
Of that column which began the march
Of death, continued Capt. Black. l
ask you, gentlemen, Oh your Oaths be-
fore God, who. was responsible for
the Haymarket massacre? ln-
spector BOnfield had not marched would
there have been any murder? When
peaceful meeting is on the eve Of disso-
luton, can 8 petty police official take the
law in his own hands and compel them
to disp rse? That were anarchy; that
were chAos-chaos of constitutional
right. charge no legal responsibility
here, but ask you, gentlemen, who
was the man who precipitated
followers of the great socialist Of Judea
sought and spread the great principles of
the teacher there were those who thought
by crucifixion to gtrangle the great truth,
but IL would not be strAnRled, 1t burst
forth In spite of the puny efforts of the
foes and enVeloped the world. Captain
Black then concluded his address to the
EolI rhnza Aofpn6Rnfa afand
IN this room true to their convictions
Let us change the convictions; let US, if
we can by argument, let US
persuade them If we can that they shall
not do violence. But l tell you that il
the only answer you have to them i the
hemp aud moose, You are turning back
70 the barbarism OF 1900 years ago. You
are turning back to the crime of those
past centuries; you are recreent 70 the
blOuRht aud inspiration of God in this
great hour OF our civilization. Until you
can blot cut Jesus Christ from the
worlds history until you obliterate his
teachings; until you can seal up his doc-
tFine of fellowship, brotherhood and love
within some cAsket, set upon 1t some seal
OF absolute despotiam and cast it into the
same sea of oblivion, whose wave will
never stir; until then you cannot drive
socialism out Of the world; until then
you can't make men stop thinking; until
then when men see wrong, oppression,
ipiustice, poverty, crime and death, they
viii think, advise, and hope for q
brighter tomorrow II there comes
from the state an appeal for vengeance;
Il you are told to think Of the dead who
died In their place OF duty on
that sad day and night; II, again, there
are mentioned to you the tears that fall
upon these fresh made graves and you
are asked under the old tex;ations to
give life for q life and one for interest,
eight for seven, say to you again, is 1t
right? Will the tears of those widows
with whom we weep ba avenged be-
cause few graves dishonored break the
sweet green earthf plead for life. l
do not have to satisfy
you that my theory may be correct
that is within reason; and If 1t be within
reason then there arises that reasonable
doubt which shelters every man. Gen
tlemen there are the last words Tor
These eight lives; they are in your hands,
with no power TO whom you are an
sTerable but God and history, and 1 say
to you in closing only the words OF
that divine socialist: as ye would that
others should do to you, do ye even
80 to them.
The knowledge that States Attorney
Grinnell would begin the closing ADDRESS
in the anarchist trial upon the assemb-
ling of court In the afternoon had a
tremendous effect on the public. Half
an hour before Judge Garry
took his seat the four Off 5ers on duty at
the main entrance Of the criminal court
building were obliged to close the doors,
SO great was the pressure from the out
side. The thousand or more persons
then striving for admission were in
formed that the court room was already
packed to its utmost capacity. Several
prominent lawyers, who had watched
the progress of the trial from Its begin
ming, were sternly refused admission
by the exasperated dOOrkeepers,
and even one or two belated reporters,
whom they knew perfectly well, were
forced to use strategy TO gain entrance
of the trial the galleries OF the court
room were opened, and they were almost
instantly packed.
Mr.. Grinnell devoted the first part of
his address to comparing the defendants
TO the revolutionists celebrated in hist0-
~. Why, he said, these men have been
compared to George Washington.
Then, gentlemen, let these de-
PENDANTS be taken out OF this
court room and crowned with gariands'
A little further on Mr.. Grinnen, Discus
sing the question o. free speech, referred
to Jno. Stuart Mill's advocacy Of that
right, while, however, he declared that
person was directly responsible for what
ever unlawful effects might result from
his utterances. The bearing of the de-
PENDANTS which had grown somewhat
confident during the address of Mr..
3. ster and Capt. Black changed
yisihly before Mr.. Grinnell had
spoken dozen sentences. From
Spies to Eugel the line was one Of pale,
anxious demeanors. Their evidence OF
anxiety increased when Mr.. Grinnen i'm
pressing upon the jury the great I'M
portance of the case. s0id: When the
bomb exploded in the Haymsrket the
sound OF that explosion echoed all
around the world. After enlArging upon
this point the states attorney explained
to the jury the nature of the Indictment
against the defendants and the
penalty which the law allowed
them to impose. The indictment
was murder and the penalty could be
q sentence TO the state penitentiary for
any number OF years over fourteen, or the
extreme penalty-death. While the In
dictment specified the murder Of one
man it covered the murder of seven po-
lice officers. II the jury acquitted the
defendants IL acquitted them Of the muir
der Of all these men. The stSte had no
appeal and no one ct the defendants
could be again indicted and tried for any
of the offenses covered In the present
0Es
appeal, however, and this state
of things made 1t incumbent
upon the jury to use due elaboration In
arriving at the decision. The states at
torney next turned his attention to some
portions of Captain Blacks address. He
was particularly emphatic In his
reference to Captain Blacks statement
to the Jury that it was their prerogatiVe
to ignore, II they choose, the instructions
Of the court ia weighing the evidence.
That remark. declared the states at
Orney, Is tho most extraor-
mary illustration OF what con-
stitutes free speech that we have
had here. In no other country would
lawyer expect such q declaration to be
listened to. Gentlemen, It Is the pro-
vince OF the court to instruct you upon
the law. Before you conclude to disre-
gard those Instructions, let me ask you
to hesitate, pause, consider. ME. Grin
nell devoted considerable time 70 Illus
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