The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-07-28
A STRONG CASE.

Tragedies--The Authorship Of the ERE
venge" Circular and other Bloodthirsty
. Literature Fastened Upon Him.
CHICAGO, July 2i.-There was no really
terday, but that which was given wa. in:
teresting as part of the general chain OF !
evidence against the defendants. Adolph |
Fischer received hard blow from Detect |
i've siayton. States Attorney Grinneii
py three weeks. The defense, in its tuLn.
will occupy at least q week.
Officer J. A. West testified he was uv Une
Mccormick reaper factory AT $3.50 o'clock
three $ blocks west. Witness could SEQ peo.
pie on the top of car. As the bell rang
the men came out from work. The crowd
came and pitched into the men and beat
some of them. There were 5000 or 1000 in
Counsel for defense objected to this tes-
timony as incompetent, saying there was
no Justice in defendants being held ac-
countable for every street row that oc-
sssrsa p41vas MI Mis- anss s.s ssa ssp they
they were attempting to prove
that Spies invited the crowd to make
an attack upon McCormick's, and
then proceeded down town, without witt
ing to see the effect, and lied about it
and got out the circulars for the meet.
ing May 10 exasperate the working class
es against the iaw-abiding citizens andthe
officers OF the law.
The court then said that II on May the
police were defending peaceable citizens
against the assaults Of these non-peaceable
people, and IL that was the act the circulars
complained Of and il they called upon
the populace to revenge the act OF the
| police at that time, and called an armed
meeting. and IL it is necessary to know If
| the act Of the police was an attempt to pre-
serve the peace and defend peaceable citi-
zens then it is necessary to find out what
| Al 30 Mn.
| in order to see what the objectof the meet
ing on May was. The evidence was ad-
missible.
Officer West, resuming, said that when
separated to the right and left The crowd
| attacked them and fired rsvolvers into
them. Witness tried to tell the crowd that
Mccormick had agreed to the demands Of
the men and advised thom to leave the
| men alone and go home. Witness and his
companion, Officer Tom Conlon, were bad
ly beaten by the crowd.
James L. Frazer 1872 Marshfield avenue,
| and employed near McCormick's, was at
the meeting held there May 8, and saw
Spies was. very much excited. He
spoke in German, and jumped up and
down, carried away with excitement.
There were between 5000 and 1000
people present When tho bell sounded at
McCormick's and the men came out Of the
factory some man lifted his hand. and mo.
tioning toward the reaper works cried
LET us go up there and kill those 'scabs "
The crowd, OF the greater part thereof, SCI
out to attack the men; then Spies slid of
his platform and started for Blue Island
avenue in the direction of the street cars.
Frank Harester q Bohemian, testified
that he worked in undergrad and lived
in Chicago eleven years. He was presi
dent of the Lumber-shovers' Union. Ht
remembered the meeting May 3. A com
mittee was appointed to see the bosses tt
request them to adopt the eight-hou
system. The meeting was called to heal
the report of that committee. One speech
had already been made before the hour a
which the meeting was to be held. 1t wa
to be held ut three o'clock. When he go
there one speech had already been made
He got there and told the speaker, whom
he did not know, that it was not his dut,
10 make speech. He kept him from
speaking. Witness told the people t,
keep quiet and not listen to the speaker
or the thing would culminate in the same
way as in 1877. He tried to keep the peo
Cornick's, and he tried to keep them bacl
and to get them to go home. He was not
; Socialist. He told the people not TO lister
to the speakers, because their words wer;
Officer Ruben Slayton testified that h
} had been fourteen years on the police force
He arrested Fisher May at the Arbeiter OF
ficc. He searched him. The pistol, 44-c"li
| eon-dClluS One NpIOuuceu)S Jue Del
and sheath and lance file, fuse and ca
. and five cartridges were found OH his pei
son. The pistol was loaded. He said. h
> carried the pistol to protect himself, a
he carried money; he said he was CON
; positor and worked there for two year,
. He did not want to be searched. The bel
| was under his coat He arrested Fielder
! the same day at his house, 110 West Pol
street. He said he took n car from th
meeting to Twelfth and Canal streets an
| pDt his knaa drassaI fhara He eaid a tyn
} | hurt at the meeting.
} Theodore Frichie, business superinten
: dent of the Arbeiter Zeitung, testified tina
, he had occupied that position since May
was superintendent Of the editor
: al department. Schwab was an ed
torial writer, Parsons was editor 9
the A'arm; The paper produced was i
5 letter. box" and the second was 'Ruhe
The manuscript produced was also i
: Spies hand writing 1t was the copy fror
| which the Revenge" circular wa
} printed.
, Fricke was shown a copy Of Johan
: Most's Science of Revolutionary Wal
t fare" He said he had seen that book /
} the library In the Arbeiter Zeitwng building
> and had seen Hirschberger selling 1t d
S SSnc.A At At bes ogseps psuas Gs0vs sps
Parsons. Fielden, Schwab. Neebe an
t Fischer were present. Fricke identifie
1 files Of the Alarm and Ar6eiter ZeiiMmg an
ofthe Fackei and Vorbote, sunday and weeI
l ly editions of the Arbeiter Zeitung.
; Assistant States Attorney Edmun
Furthman took the stand and said that
: had found tho manuscripts shown in th
l composing-room OF the Arbeiter Zeitusg o
May 8: They were hanging on hooks o
8 the printers cases.
t Mr.. Furthman occupied nearly an hou
? In reading to the jury the translations &
3 the German articles. An editorial on Ma
: 4, referring to the Mccormick affair, said
''Six months ago we told you working me
: | that II you wanted the eIght-hOur system so
, | must arm yourselves. 1t was said in answe
, to that, that II the working men wei
.. hours n the I. sunday clothes: What d
, you say nowy Would you have failed ye
terday II our advice had been followed
: Yesterday the police murdered at McCO
m ck's four OF your brethren, and wounde
: some twenty-five more. II the workinTme
3 few little snappers IN the shape OF revolver
! had leen thoroughly armed, not one Of I'll
, | murterers would have escaped"
: The attempt to hang Officer Casey wa
styled "a .praiseworthy deed" All OF th
articles abused property Owners and th
police, called the latter murderers, an
/. urged the workingmen to arm themselvt
Z and attempt to secure their rights by fore
: : The militia were made sport Of and calle
: the Arbeiter Zeitwng an editorial paragrap
4 calling upon all who condemned the brl
. talities OF May 8 to attend the Haymarks
meeting. ..rs
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