Connecticut western news., 1886-07-28
HOW THE BOMBS ARE MADE.
Positive Testim ony to Fix 6n the Chi cago Anarchists the Murder Con- sDiraCy,

In the trial of the Chicago anarchists, Vim. seliger was oh the stand: He had been in dicted for murder, but upon turning States evidence it was understood that the oh" ~ge would be dropped, although he has been kept locked up ever since he was first arrested:
 Witness said he lived in +Sedgwick street and had as a boarder Louis Lingg, one of the de- fendants. On Monday night, May 3, the wit pentefs' Union at Zcph's Hall. At the meeting copies of the "Revcnge" circular were brought in and distributed by Ballatzar Rau.
 "Did you work at your trade Tuesday,"
 s'No. At half-pa seven o'clock Lingg came. I had previously told him wanted those bombs removed from my dwelling. He told me to work diligently at them, and that they would be taken away that day. l worked at some bad shells, filling the holes. Lingg was at meeting on the West-Side. He came back about one o'clock. He told me to go to a place on Clybourn avenue to get some bolts to put in the shells. got about fifty bolts. Huebner, Munzenburg and Hewmann worked with me all the afternoon. We made perhaps forty or fifty bombs. Lingg had cast them some weeks before. Lingg worked that afternoon at the gas pipes putting in tubes"
 Two wrought iron tubes, six inches long and two inches in diameter, were shown and lden- tified by Seliger, who said Lingg had first showed him some bombs two or three months before
 Lingg told witness he was going to make bombs also. He said every workingman should have dynamite and learn to use it. There was going to be an "agitation," he said, and all workingmen ought to learn the use of dynamite. On the Tuesday afternoon when they were making bombs Llngg said the bombs would be good 'foddef'' for the capitalists and the police who might try to protect the capitalists. The bombs ought to be completed that evening, as they were to be used that night, Lingg said. When witness left the house in the evening Lingg accompanied him, and they carried a little trunk containing the bombs mostly round bombs and some pipes, all loaded with dynamite and having caps fixed in them. They carried the trunk to Neff's Hall, No. 5S Cly. bourn avenue. There the trunk was opened and several men took bombs. I took two and put them in my pockets. Then we went away, leaving the trunk with bombs in the passage way. :,
 'sTell what you were going to do that night" !"
 Disturbances were to be made on the north and west sides to prevent the police from massing at any one point. Lingg said disturb ances should be made all over the north side to prevent the police from going to the west slde As we passed the Larabee street police station Lingg said 1t would be beautiful thing to throw in a couple of bombs. From Larabee street Lingg and I went up to the Webster av- enue station. A patrol wagon came up and Lingg said he was going to throw in bomb that it was the best time to do 1t. l said that it was not g good time; that 1t would be use- less.
 sLingg asked me if I had seen notice in the paper that the armed men were to hold meeting on the west side. He showed me & copy of the Arbeiter Zeitung and pointed to the word sruh,' which he said meant that there was to be meeting, and that everything was to be turned upside down. The word ruth was a signal for all the armed men to assemble on the west side. Lingg and l went to Nef's Hall, where Q number of others were. Her You are the cause of it all.' There some one told of the Haymarket affair, and said that bomb had killed great many. Lingg said nothing. On our way home Lingg said that even now he was scolded and gibed at for the work he had done; that his broth CTS in the cause did not appreciate him. We hid our bombs under the sidewalk. It was about midnight when we reached home."
 Witness identified a number of implements used by them ill the manufacture of their bombs and described how the dynamite and other stuff was brought into the house. Wit ness said he knew Engel and that they be- longed to the same socialistic group. He had often heard Engel make speeches saying that every workingman should make bombs. Mr. Ingram here held up piece of gas pipe and asked: ssIs this the way bomb looks when it is ready to go off" The Court asks: "ls that loaded?" s'Yes, Your Honor"
 'This is no place for it," said Judge Gary. The bombs were then taken to the lake front to be unloaded.
 During the car drivers strike last year the delegates from the different groups used to meet every week at the Arbiter-Z -Zeitung office. Neebe, Schwab and Lingg were members of the groups The north side group had rifles and drilled with them
 Witness said he had been made no promises by the States Attorney or officers, who simply told him he had better tell the truth. He did not know that his testimony or statements would prevent his being tried for murder. The cross-examination was severe and searching, continuing after the recess, but the witness testimony remained unshaken.
 Seligers wife was subsequently, examined. Her testimony merely corroborated that of her husband.