Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-22

| Ingram who conducted the examination
offered the shell in evidence.
Did you have any conversation about
bolts?
Yes; Lingg told me to go to place or
| Claiborne avenue to get some bolts to pei
in the shells | got about fifty bolts.
Who worked with your
| Hubbener, Mansenberg and Hermann
we worked all afternoon
| What room did you work in?
| In the front room at No. 442 Sedgwick
street, in Lingg's room and in rear room
What did Lingg do?
He first worked at gas pipe putting il
tubes.
Tubes like these? Qngram preseots two
wrought iron tubes about two inches in di
ameter, and six inches long,
Yes
How many bombs were made that after
can't tell.
Oh, more; perhaps forty or fifty; cam
say exactly.
How many round bombs?
| can't tell exactly.
Were the round bombs cast that after
noon?
No.
Who cast them?
Lingg cast them once, alone in the rea:
room of my store; that was six week be
Jore May 1st
Where was the first bomb you ever saw
In Lingg's room some time before that
perhaps two or three weeks before
Witness conversed with Lingg at the time;
the latter told him he was going to make
bombs also; saw some dynamite6in Lingg's
room. Lingg told him every working man
should have dynamite and learn to use it;
there was going to be agitation, he said,
and ali working men ought to learn the use
of dynamite On Tuesday afternoon when
they were making bombs Lingg said bombs
will be good fodder for capitalists and po-
lice who might try to protect capitalists;
ming, as they were to be used that night.
in the evening Lingg accompanied him and
they carried little trunk containing bombs
Witness said some of the bombs were round
and some were pipes; they weighed about
60 pounds; were all loaded with dynamite
had caps fixed on them. While they were
carrying them they met Mr.. Zinbery, and
three of them carried the trunk to
Neff's hall No. So Claiborne avenue
They took them in through the side door
and hallway. Here the trunk was opened
and several people came to look at the con-
tents saw three or four take bombs. l
took two and put them in my pockets; then
We went away leaving the bombs in the
passageway of the hall back of Neff's sa-
loon. Witness said it was called the shan
ty of communists Anarchists and social
lists all used to meet there.
When he left Neffs saloon, Lingg Thur
ley and Gustave Lehman were with him
They were afterwards joined by two men;
Lehr and Weir; all had bombs,
Tell what you were going to do that
night
Disturbance was to be made on the West
was arranged previously; other
disturba noes were to be made on the West
Side to prevent the police from massing at
any one point Lingg said disturbances
should be made all over the North Side to
prevent the police from going to the West
Side. As they passed Larabie street sta
lion Lingg said it would he beautiful
thing to throw couple of bombs. From
Larabie street he and Lingg went to Web
ster avenue station. A patrol wagon came
up; Lingg said he WAS going to throw in a
bomb, that 1t was the best time to do it. |
said it was not a good time: that it would
be useless. Lingg became excited and
wanted me to give him some fire from Lit
.igar. | went into the hall and struck a
match "a if | was going to give it to him |
The patrolwagon passed before the match lit. |
Lingg wanted to follow the wagon; thought |
here was trouble outside; wanted to know |
what ii was. persuaded him to go home |
! little before IL o'clock Lingg asked me |
f | had seen notice in the paper that |
.rmed men were to hold a meeting on /
West Side. He showed me copy of the
Arbeiter Zeitung: pointed to the word !
3uhr, which he said meant there was going /
o be a meeting that evening; that the city /
vas going to be turned upside down
The word ''ruhr" was the signal for all 1
rmed men to meet on the West side I
lall again where numbe of Others were.
hermann said to Lingg in very angry
-oice = gu are the cause Of it all. Then
omeone told Of the Haymarket affair and
aid that the bombs had killed great many
.ingg said nothing. On the way home,
-ingg said that even now he was soolded
nd jibed for work ne had done: that his
rothers in the cause did not appreciate
Ne had our bombs under the sidewalk; it
7as about midnight when we reached
ONE
Witness identified a number Of imple
lents used by them in the manufacture Of
oHbs and described how dynamite and
Their stun was brought into the house.
illness knew Engle. he belonged to some
ecialis'ic group. Had often heard Engle
lake speeches saying every workingmAn
lould make bombs.
Ingram here holds up piece and asks.
3 this the way a bomb looks when ready
, go off,
Court asks: Is that loadeds 4
Yes
This is no place for it. said Judge
larry.
Inspector Bonefeld offered to take them