Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-20


"You're only Socialist"
eyes" (The answer was prompt
The DISCRIMINATION Of the witness
was conducted by Captain Black to
show that, from the nature OF the base
ments constructio1, very little secrecy
could have been had for the meeting.
Subsequent questions by the lawyers
for the Stale showed that Grief either
did not know or would not tell whether
guards were posted by the "IpsiIons "
10 insure secresy.
Officer John Z. Dog 10 was called. lie
identified Fielden as the man who said,
"Now's your time"
please point out Fielden to the
Jury" said The States attorney.
The witness feebly turned his chair,
and raising his left arm, the right hang
irg by his side, said " That is the
mar-thlt man sitting there"
officer Spierling testified to having
seen Fielden fire a pistol almost stimuli
taroousiy with the explosion Of the
bomb.
The remainder Of the afternoon was
occupied in the examination Of Detective
James BCnGeld. who arrested Spies and
Schwab on the day following the massa-
ere. Numerous articles found in close
proximity to Spies editorial desk we're
shown. Among them was n piece Of
fuse five riches long aud Eliminating
cap. \ huge revolver nearly a foot
lorg md beautifully plated was also ex-
hbited.
Particulars of the arrest Of Spies and
the hrjeacr /dfung compositors and
the results Of the search Of the prem
ises were made the subject Of appa-
rcnny endless questions by the defence,
but without a3y evident result except
topreyent the introduction Of any more
Witnesses. When the hour OF adjourn
ment was reached the jury looked COM
ple:ely tagged out. The police and
States attorney are considerably disap-
pointed q the turn taken by the testi-
mony Of the Anarchist Schroeder, who
was expected to corr0borate what
Gottfried Waller swore to Friday and
Saturday. Schroeder made sworn
statement before trial certifying the
truth Of the story, exactly simila, with
hat told by Waller; but on cross
examination he Contracted This. Cap
tain Schaack said to a reporter that he
was disappointed at the Outcome of
ScbrOder's examination, but be sail IT
would make bat little difference in the
final result, on account Of the great mass
Of corrohorative evidence which the State
will make to follow Walters story. It
is said that no less than thirty mem
Gera e lie notorious " Lehf- ind Weir
Ncian" will be put on the stand
dmjrg the trial and testify to
tie plans Of the prisoners on the night
Of May 4!h. Tho Lehr- ind WEIR
Vcren. Of which the witness Waller
n ne Anarchists trial vas member,
al1 whose plottinss agaias, society
DO re'ailed 80 Tho jury, was organized
IT, 1915. and on April iGth of that year
was incorporated under tie laws Of the
State. The corporators were about
thirty German and Bohemian Socialists,
whose object was TO train and drill in
military fashion and Get ready for =
great conflict between capital and labor,
which the ogitators Of that class have
for many years declared was TO come.
Tie Society attracted but little pub
lie notice until the year 1879,
when the Legislature passed law ere
a,irg State militia ard forbi9diHe The
formation q private military organiza-
tious without license from the Cover
nor. The law caused a great deal Of
discussion among lawyers, many Of
whom believed it was ID conflict with
Toe United States militia act. In De-
cCmbtr, 1870, the Lehr- and Wehr-
Ve1cin, then forty strong, parsded in
Ire streets of Chicago armed with
rifles. 1T their head rode Herman
presser, . workingman and Socialist,
Carrying his sabre. Presser was ar
rested. and vas indicted under the new
law, because his company had refused
to take out the required license. His
case was aEcn NJ, and as test case
a, was tried in the Criminal Court and
fined SO. The case vas appealed 10
the Illinois Supreme Court, and su5se-
4uently 20 the supreme Court Of tho
United states. In both courts tho new
lay was sustained.
The Lchr- uud Weir Vorein never
par.ded in public after that, and It was
I0>t sight Of; but the members never
ce-sed TO drill and own military wea-
pcrs. Daring six years they have
cltatly increased in numbers, anu at
she time % the Hsymarket riot there
were ia groups III the city.
1t has been no secret for years, "
SAID well-known labor aGitator this
morning, that the iehr- und WEIR
yefa.n we're training 10 fight the police.
They have drilled in their halls and
have steadily increased il numbers IN.
III there are probably 200 OF 900 Of
them"
"What class Of people are they
" They are Socialists OF the ultra
type. Every Socialist who Is IN favor
of dynamite is among them ; most Of
them have served in the army in the
old country, and bate government and
law. The men who first formed thu
! society were not dynamitards, but they
were men who believed that the only
way for working people to secure their
rights was to fight"