The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-08-19
EVIDENCE ALL In.
The Taking of Testimony in the
Anarchists Trial Concluded.
Stories of the Principal Defendants
what the Defense Claims to Have
Proven-Arguments of the
Lawyers.
THE ANARCHISTS.

CHICAGO, August 2-flelden, one ol
the several defendants, resumed his testi'
mony in the Anarchists, trial Saturday
morning. Witness said he never told De
tective James Bonfield that he escaped
from the Haymarket meeting through
Crane Bros alley. On cross-examination
Fielder said he became q member of the
International Working mems Associa-
ton in 1884. Soon afterwards he
Joined the American group of Anarch-
lists In answer TO question as
to how long he had been OF the belief that
the condition of things must be overthrown
by force, witness said he did, not know as
he had ever been of that, belief. He had
always believed that it would have TO be
overthrown one way or another.
After being locked up for three
months witness could not be expected, he
said, to remember if he used the language
attributed to him. Other extracts from
tho reported speech Of tho witness at the
Haymarket meeting were read, and he ad-
mitted using such language substantially.
He thought he used the EXPRESSION refer
ring TO the law: keep your. eye 'npon il;
throttle it; kill it, or It will kin you" In
explanation of his use of these words, wit
ness said he meant it in a general way,
Just as a Republican orator wonld say
I'VE will kill the Democratic party"
Ficlden in conclusion swure that he did
not know of the presence of q dynamite
bomb or any thing of the Kind at the
meeting until after the explosion oc-
Cured.
At tho conc usion of the day's.session a
witness named John Bennett swore that he
saw the man who threw tho bomb; that
said man was standing on the west side OF
Desplaines street, about thirty-eight feet
from the alley, and that the bomb was
thrown in northeriv direction. ltdid
not come from DehInd the boxes on
the sidewalk. Witness could not
recollect as to whether he had
not said on the It'll of May, in
the presence of the States Attorney that
the bomb was thrown from behind the
boxes. Witness watched the bomb from
the time il left tho hand Of the thrower un.
til it exploded. He knew at the time it
was thrown that it was bomb.
CHICAGO, Aug. l0.-Three oftho Anarchist
prisoners, Schwab Spies and Parsons,
were placed on the witness-stand yester-
day. Schwab was examined by MIR. Foster
us TO his whereabouts the night OF the Hay
market slaughter, and denied in whole aud
in detail the statements concerning him
sworn to by the witnesses Thompson and
Gilmer and corroborated' the story OF his
travels to Deering and his speech-mnking
there as told by the various witnesses ex-
amined in his behalf. He refused TO say
whether or not he was an Anarchist
Spies was the next witness lie gave an
account of the Mccormick meeting and
his part therein. The person who called
stood over hundred feet from him
and spoke in tongue he did not
then understand. His blood boil
ed" when he saw the police fir
ing on the women and children. Some
body told him two people were killed and
home and wrote the Revenge circular,
heading it .Workmen, To Arms p He
read in the five O'Clock paper that five or
six were killed, and then he
changed the 'twon in the circular
at the Hay market meeting and denied in
full the stories of Witnesses Thompson
and Gilmer as to his (Spies) having
lighted the bomb. He had had four
bombs at the Arbeiter-ZeituHg office;
left two. He didn't know either
of the men. In talking with the re-
porter, Wilkinson, he had explained street
warfare with dynamite to the reporter,
using Market square and the tunnel in his
illustrations. The word 'Ruhe" was in
serted with batch of general an
nouncements on the request OF somebody
unknown. Balthasar Rau told him about
three O'Clock, May 4, that il the word
"Ruhen was in that afternoons issue of
the paper 1t was signal for the armed
section to be ready to defend the people
IN cdS6 bub DOliCo u
The dynamite in his drawer he had bought
for experiments, and he also kept it
to supply the reporters with sensations
when they called on him. He knew moth
ing of the big parcel OF dynamite found in
the office. He always carried a revoly-
err but happened not to have one with
him the night OF the riot. On cross-exam-
nation witness raid that he had other OBJ
jects than that curiosity in his expert
ments with the dynamite, but did not
state what they were. Spies acknowledged
that he wrote the Revenge" circular to
resist the police. The climax in
the cross-examination came when
Ingham handed Spies letter and
asked him il be had replied to it The let
ter was from Herr Most TO "Dear Spies
and related to the proposed shipment of
twenty to twenty-five pounds OF smedi-
cine'' (dynamite) TO the scene of the labor
troubles then going on in Hooking valley.
Spies admitted having received the letter
but could not remember that he had re-
piled to it,
Parsons next testified, and said that
after his remarks at the Haymarket meet
ing he went TO Zepf's Hall, and was at the
latter place when the bomb exploded. AT
the request of counsel he gave in substance
his speech made at the Haymarket He
spoke for long time, and his gesticula-
ton and elocution were calcu-
he WINS really addressing an audience. He
told his audience, in the course of his re
marks, that the Chicago Times bad adyo-
Gated throwing hand-grenades at striking
seamcn, that the Ttibips advocated Civ
ing strychinia for tramps, and that Tom
Scott advocated using rifles upon the rail
road strikers. He urged them to defend
themselves by the use of arms and
dynamite. He said that he advocated
the use of dynamite by working-men MS a
defense against those unlawfully attack
ing them. When he used the words, TO
Arms" he meant that working men should
provide themselves with arms with which
to defend themselves against force, if
necessary.
In cross-examinntion he practically adj
mitted advocating dynamite-he advo-
Gated any thing necessary to success
Both he and Spies declared themselves An
archists without hesitation or equivoca-
ton.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE defense called 70
the witness stand yesterday ii. l.. Gilmer.
He was asked il he had not, in an inter
Wow with w. A. Graham, a reporter, on
May said that the man who threw the
bomb lit it himself. Witness replied in the
negative. Graham was then called and
said that Gilmer did tell him in the
interview referred to. that the bomb
was lighted by the person throwing
it,; that that person had his lack
turned towards him ((5ilmer), but he
thought he would know him if he saw him
again. The defense then rested its case,
and evidence in Iebuttal was taken This
consisted mainly in the testimony Of wit
nessess who knew Gilmer Ex-United