, 1886-10-08
THE ANARCHISTS.
The Motion for a New Trial
Overruled.
The Bomb Throwers Re assert
Their Innocence.
A Hundred Thousand Dollar
Fire in Montana.
Judge Gary's Decision.

f'1 oib mt INV Wei
dict that Spies, Parsons, Fielder, Schwab,
Engel, Fischer and Liugg should be
hanged, and that Neebe should suffer i'm
%prisonment for fourteen years in the state
penitentiary.
Judge Gary, in delivering his decision,
reviewed at considerable length the evil
dence brought out at the trial, and said
the case is Unprecedented. There is no
example of any such crime having been
committed; there is no precedent of any
case like this having become the subject
of judicial investigation, but the principal
OF law is well fixed. | think upon the
whole no case could be tried Of such Il
magnitude as this with less ways Of ir-
regularity Of proceeding in trial than was
done in this case.
Spies commenced by saying: Your
honor, in addressing this court | speak as
a representative of one class addressing a
representative of another. | will begin
with the words addressed 500 years ago
on a similar motion By a Venetian doge,
who, addressing the court, said: My de-
fence is your accusation. the cause Of my
alleged crime is your history | have
been indicted on a charge of muir
der as an a%ccomplice or accessory.
tpOu tnlS luulCtulcut L nave Dttu COIL
victed. There was no evidence produced
by the state to show, or even indicate that
| had any knowledge of the man who
threw the bomb, or that | myself had
anything to do with 1t. Not the slightest
evidence was ever produced to SHOW that
had anything to do with the throwing
of the missile, unless you believe the tes-
timony of the accomplices of the states
attorney and Bonfield, the testimony of
Thompson and Gilmer. If there was no
evidence to show that | was responsible
for it, then my execution is nothing but
wilful, malicious and deliberate murder,
us foul a murder as may be found in the
annals Of religious, political, or any sort
OF prosecution.
Spies then reviewed the evidence pre-.
scented by the prosecution. and charged
the states attorney and Bonfeld with
conspiracy to commit murder. Spies
devoted some time to discussing social
ism, and said: You want 10 stamp
out conspiracy. You resemble the
child that is looking for his
picture behind a mirror. What you see
and what you try to grasp in cur move
ment is nothing but the creations of your
w bad copsciences. If YOU want to
stamp out conspiracies and aeitators, you
must stamp out every factory lord who
who has made his wealth upon the unpaid
labor of his employees, and the landlord
who has made his money fron ground
down and oppressed laborers and farmers.
If you think you can crush out the
ideas which are gaining ground every day
by sending us to the gallows; that you can
suppress the truth-for that is all we have
been preaching-you will fail" Then
f1ourishing his arms wildly. Spies fairly
shrieked, 81 shall die proudly and defiant
ly for the cause of justice. There is a
Socrates. there is a Calico; there is a
Giordano Bruno; there lisa Christ Why,
the number cannot be estimated OF those
who have trodden in these paths, and we
are ready to follow them
Michael Schwab then took the floor.
In a stentorian on of voice he began:
1T is not much | have to say and |
would not say anything at all did | not
fear that silence would look like cowar6ly
approval Of what has been done here. |
am condemned to die for writing newspa-
per editorials. The anarchist then
went on to justify these articles by going
over in detail all the real or imaginary
evils OF the accumulations of capital and
the injustice of relations between employ
er and employed. Then he followed with
a disquisition on the principles and theo-
ries of socialism and anarchy. He con-
cluded by disavowing all knowledge of
the man who threw the bomb, and pro-
tested hat he intended to do no violence
at the haymarket.
Neebe, the next speaker, had no sooner
taken the floor than he burst into a vio-
lent fit of abuse, calling States Attorney
Grinnell a cur and his assistants, Messrs.
Walker and Furthmann, scoundrels, say
ing there was only one gentlemen in the
crowd and that Was Ingham. The police
were assailed in peculiar phraseology, and
in short. Neebe's speech was a TRADE of
abuse viliiying the police and authorities
Abandoning himself to a wild appeal to
the Judge to hang him with the others he
cried:
1T would be more honorable to be
strangled by the neck than TO die by
inches. My wife and children will her
be at ease seine time. but they can never
get over it if the husband and father is
sent to Joliet. Hang me with my com
rades."
Fisher came next. He commenced
Your honor. you ask me to say why
the sentence of death should not be passed
upon me. | protest against my being
sentenced to death. because | have com
mitted no crime. | was tried in this jury
room for murder. and | was convicted for
anarchy. | don't deny that | was one of
IN ,Ps s'i heymarket hnt tnew No more
about the throwing of the bomb than
Grinnell does. do not DENY that | got