The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-07-28
THE BOMB THROwERS.
William Ssliger Test;fss That Louis Lipgg
Manufactured the Bombs in
His House
And Distributed Them to the Anarchlsts
ut Nefrs Hali-JudRe Gary orders
tho Bombs Removed From
the Court Room.
ro,,nru nays PROCEEDINGS.

the Court Room.
FOURTH DAYS PRoCEEDINGs.
CHICAGO, July 2o.-There were few mr.
occupied chairs In Judge Gary's court yes
tcrday. The first witness called was William
Sclger. He is thin-fcatured, darkroom
plexioned man, wearing heavy moustache
and goatee. He testified that he was car
penter; had lived in Chicago three years and
q half; previous to that time he lived in
Silesca. lie lived at 422 Sedgwlck street
and Louis Lingg Zone Of the defendants)
boarded with Seliger stated that lie was |
at meeting of the Carpenters Union, of |
which lie was corresponding secretary, on |
the evening Of May 8. He was not at the |
meeting at No. "a Lake street, but lie was |
Invited to 20, and lie identified In the |
columns Of tile Arbettcr Zeitung the German
letter .Y" as the call for the EARNED men,
to meet on that night He stated the armed
men were part Of all the Socialistic organ
izatiOns; there were some Of them not armed.
He testified that lie saw the "Revenge'' cir.
cular. 1t was brought there the evening of
May by Bethauser Tau. He further tes-
titled that the next morning at his
house, at the request Of Lingg, lie
worked at some lead shells filling up the
holes. He identified a shell shown him as
similar TO those lie was working on. Wit.
ness stated that he told Lingg he wanted
'those things removed from his house and
Lingg told him tn work diligently on them
and they would be taken away the next
day. He stated that during the day and
evening he made about forty or fifty bombs,
and that Lingg. in his roOn was working
at pieces of gas pipe. Witness had talked
with Lingg about dynamite and its objects.
Lingg had said that dynamite was for the
working,nan and they should learn how to
handle 1t. Bombs. he said, were going to
be good fodder for the capitalists and for
tile police when they came to protect the
capitalists. On the night Of May 4, Lngg
| and witness left the latter's house about
$50 o'clock with box weighing about
| fifty pounds. The box contained loaded
| bombs and was taken to No. SO Clybourne
! avenue, known as the "Shanty of the Com.
munists," and Neff's Hall. At the place
| the box was opened, and the witness saw
three or four persons take bombs, but could
| not tell their names precisely. The witness
took two ''pipe bombs" From Grers Hall
Lingg, Thieben, Gustave Lehman and the
witness went to the Larrabee street police
station. Lingg and the witness halted there
while the others went in ahead. 1t had
| Dtcn previously tIlut u uiStuIU-
ance should be made on the North Side that
evening to prevent the police from inter-
fering on the West Side. While Lingg and
lie were In front of Larrabee street station.
Lngg SAID it would be a beautiful thing If
they stepped to the corner and threw a
bomb into the police station. Two men
were sitting out in front Of the station, and
I.ngg said IL any more came out they could
shoot them down. They then went ia
Western avenue station, and from there
came back to North avenue and Larrabee
street. While standing there q patrol
wagon came along, and Lingg wanted
TO throw a bomb. He said that
was the best chance they would have, but
witness thought It would be without effect.
"Lingg," continued the witness, ''became
quite excited and said should give him
light l was smoking q cigar and
jumped into the front hall Of store and
pretended to be lighting match. delayed
purposely. pretending to be lighting my
cigar. Otherwise lie would have thrown the
bomb. When the wagon passed gave hin
the light. The patrol wagon was completed,
manned as 1t passed.. Llngg wanted to val
till the patrol wagon came back, but pre-
vailed ON him to 70 home, where we arrived
about eleven o'clock" Lingg called the
witness attention to the word "Rulie' In
the Arhcltcr Zeitung. Witness did no
know the meaning of the word ''Ruhe' til
Lingg there and then told him what i
meant
Lingg went on to say that every thnl
was to 20 topsy turvey. The word 'Ruhe'
was to call meeting Of the armed men a
No. 81 West Lake street and 1t was also {
signal of trouble. After this conversation
Llngg and the witness went to Netf's Hal
OH Clybourne avenue where there we're sew
eral persons present. Witness heard thert
that bomb had fallen at the Haymarke
which had killed and wounded many. ON
of tile men present said to Lingg in an angr!
tone "You are the cause of it." Witness
and Lingg got home again little afte
midnight. On the way witness hit
his bombs under an elevated side
walk on ScIgel street. Lingg also lai(
something there. but witness did not SCI
what 1t was. He believed they were bombs
The next morning Lingg, in conversation
with witness, said he did not care about TIN
HaymaTket affair IL only the wOrkingmel
got some advantage from It. Continuing
the witness that he first saw dynamite II
his house six weeks previous to May
Lingg brought 1t there. Lingg had tOl,
him that he had made eighty to one hun
no lad been o member and financial secre
tary of the Northwest Side group, whicl
was also o branch Of the InternatiOna
Workingmen's Society. His last numbe
In that sOciety was 70.
At this point counsel for the State pro
duced pipe. which the witness proceede,
J to identity as similar to those In question
.. The Judge learning that 1t was loaded'ex
.. pressed his opinion of the improperly o
, bringing In deadly weapons of that sort int
court of justice and Capt Bonticld wa
commissioned to unload them OH the lax
front The entire formidable array O
bombs, coils Of fuse, fulmenatery caps etc.
was then removed from the court room.
Re examined by Mr.. Grnnell the wltnes
said that when lie left homo he hid In
house on Twenty second street through fea
Of the Socialists. He saw In the paper
J when tllis case would be tried and came
; CAPTAIN Scllaack voluntarily.
Mrs Seliger. wife of the preceding vii
ness, was examined In the afternoon an
corrob0rated In detail her husbands test
| mony In regard to the manufacture Of bong
In Seliger's house