St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-23
ANARCHIST ASSASSINS.
How Parsons, Spies and Their Fellows In
cited Their Followers to Commit
Murder.
Fielden's Offer to Lead Mob in Stacking
the Various Large Business Houses
of Chicago.
A Witness Who Regarded Mrs. Par
sons as the Worst of the
Gang.
The Revelations Made by Spies Re-
garding Anarchist Methods and
Intentions.
The Anarchist Trial.

CHICAGO, July 22.-Judge Gray's court
room was crowded as usual this morning,
when n. P. Williamson. formerly reporter
| for the Daily News, took the stand.
| Mr.. Williamson testified that he knew Par
sons, Spies and Fielden, and on the night the
| new board of trade building was opened he
| was detailed to follow the socialiStic process
! sion, which tramped through the down town
! streets. 1.-THE procession broke up at 107
Fifth avenue the Office of the Arbeiter lei
tung, and Spies, Fielder and Parsons ad-
dressed the crowd from the window Of the Ar
better Zeitung Office. Parsons was the first
speaker He called the police bloodhounds
and servants of the robbing capitalists. He
called the crowd to follow him and attack
several clothing houses, Marshall Fields
store being mentioned, and
HELP THEMSELVES
to what he termed the necessities of life.'
Fielden said the same thing. He offered to
lead the mob in an attack on the stores"
'sWhat was said about the new board of
trader Both speakers said the building
was put up out of money stolen Iom them
that everyone who did business there was a
robber and thief Witness went upstairs
into the office. Parsons was asked by the re-
porter why the socialists did not march upon
the board of trade and blow it up. He said
the police prevented it. swell, but your
party have revolvers. What preparations
further do you need?" asked Williamson.
1.-THE time hasn't come yet. When the time
does come we will meet the police with dyna-
mite and booms." when did he say the time
would Gomez" ''Some time during the year,
Parsons gave the witness
A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION
of what he meant and showed him a shell and
Illuminating cap. There was also guam
Jity of dynamite and a rediSh substance.
They we're kept in drawer in cabinet in
the Office. Parsons call for them and Spies
got them. Parsons said these explosives
were kept on hand in preparation for war
that was impending; that the laboring man
was being robbed by Scoundrelly board Of
trade men and others. The manner of war
fare was to hurl bombs from the honse-tops,
and in that way they could annihlate any
force OF police or militia that could be as
sembled. This conversation took place with
Parsons and Fielden standing by. On going
down stairs the witness met Detectives Tren-
horn and Sullivan of the Cottage Grove Ave-
nue. station. The officers went upstairs with
| the witness. and the statements were repeated
to the officers in the presence of the witness.
Some women
CARRIED RED FLAGS
! in the procession that night. Witness had
attended meeting at 81 Lake street, and heard
Parson and Fielden address the crowds.
Fielder on one occasion wanted the crowd to
| follow him to some store and get the neces-
| sites of life. Fielden advised the men to buy
| dynamite, saying that cents worth of dyna-
mite was worth more than all the guns and
| revolvers in the Union. Mr. Williamson was
severely cross-examined by Capt. Black, but
| the cross-eXamination only served to
| strengthen the testimony he had given. He
| mentioned by name the stores that Parsons
| had urged sacking. The witness was then
taken in hand by the prosecution. and testi-
! fled that Parsons had told him there were
! 5000 socialists in the city, and that whenever
| The time came they would be armed with
| bombs.
LIEUT.. SHEA, CHIEF OF DETECTIVES,
| testified regarding the search of the Arbeite
| Zeitung Office and the arrest of all the people
| in it, and identified the galley of type from
which the revenge circular was printed. He
| also gave the substance of conversation
with Spies after the latters arrest, in which
| he admitted opening the Mccormick and
| Haymarket meetings, but said he left both
| places before the trouble occurred. During
the cross-examination of Shea by Foster the
| lawyer was reprimanded for not treating the
| witness with proper respect. Lieut.. Beard
| followed and gave an account of the eXper-
fences of himself and his company Of twenty
eight at the Haymarket. His story differed
little from those already given. Of his
twenty-eight men, seven were injured.
Officer Wenke. one of the men wounded,
took the stand with bandage around his
| head He heard Engle early in the year make
| a speech advising the workingmen to carry
revolvers to shoot the police. Detective Jones
| testified concerning the matter he seized at
! the Arbiter Zeitung Office. Spies keys fitted
! numerous drawers in which dynamite and
| other explosives were found.
| II offer the keys in evidence said the
| states attorney.
! Hadn't you better restore them to the per-
son they belong top asked Captain Black.
II DON'T think he will ever need them again, -
| answered Mr. Grinnel.
Spies eyes started out at this, and the court
| took a recess.
In the afternoon,the first witnesses was Off
GERS Jones, McKeogh and Flynn. They testi-
fed to the finding of several thousand copies
| of the 'sRevenge" circular in the Office of the
Arbeiter Zeitung. A great many copies of
| other circulars
CALLING woRKINGMEN TO ARMS
were found at the same place. Several
| pounds of dynamite in one package were
| also discovered. John ]. Ryan, retired Off
| Ger of the United States navy, was the next
witness. He had heard Spies, Parsons,
Fielden, Schwab and Neele speak at Sunday
| afternoon meetings on the Lake front Par
| sons on one occasion declared to the crowd
| that the police and the constituted authority
were the natural enemies of the workingmen
| He advised each Individual present to pur-
chase rife. If money enough could not be
had for rifle, let him bny pistol. If pistol
was out of the question, then let him
| remember, he could get enough dynamite for
| twenty-five cents to blow up q building the
| SIZE Oh Inc fuliIQdn HEADQUARTERS. spies said
| the same things. The witness was about to
| cease his narrative when his eye accidentally
rested on Mrs. Parsons, who was eagerly lis
| tening for the slightest word having immedi-
| ate reference to her husband.
MRS. PARSONS"
added the witness, pointing and centering
| the gaze Of the court upon her upturned half
| Indian half negreSs yellow face and cleaning
| eyes, MRS. Parsons was one of the most vio-
| lent speakers" The wife of the anarchist sat
| proudly erect, scarcely breathing Then.
| flashing naughty glance at the spectators,
court and jury, she slowly turned to friendly
Mrs. Black, who sat beside her, and smiled
with evident pleasure at the mention of her
exploits as one of the most rabid of the an
arcbists After question Ryan was
| about to be dismissed by the attor-
neys for the defense when Parsons
| leaned forward and whispered earnestly to
| Capt. Black, who nodded and waved the wit
| ness back to the stand mir Ryan" said the
| anarchists lawyer, was not one of the
| speakers at those meetings an Irishman?''
| The witness shamefacedly acknowledged that
| there was on certain occasions man of that
nationality among the speakers. He did not
| know the fellows name. Parsons exhibited
! intense delight at the embarrassment of the
| witness and had another whispered consulta-
| ton with Capt Black. The latter at once
| piled further questions on the same subject
| continuing them while the witness remained
| a SDeDial
| effort to emphasize the statement that
| AN FRESHMAN
as well as representatives of other nationali-
| ties had taken part in the blood-thirsty ut-
terances of the anarchists. The course of
the defense in this particular was the sub
| ject of much comment in the court
room. Harry Wilkinson, a reporter for the
Daily News, followed Ryan on the stand.
Arlkinson's testimony was principally in re-
laJion to number of conversations had with
Spies in January. last. Witness was given
by Spies small spherical bomb, an exact
duplicate of the one exploded in the Hsy
market. Spies described it as 1.-The Gear. :,
and went on to tell of its superior destructive
power. Several thousand had been manu-
featured in Chicago. They were sometimes
distributed through the Arbeiter Zeitung
Office but generally only few were kept
| there for samples. AT the intersection of
two streets, and meetings would invariably
be held at such intersections, the crowd was