Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-18
THE LAST WORDS.
The Closing Speech in Behalf Of the
Defendants in the Chicago Anarch-
isl Trial Is Begun.
Capt. Black strenuously Asserts that u
Has Not Been shown who Threw the
nay Market Bomb.
NEARING THE END.

CHICAGO, ILL, Aug. l7.-Tbis Is the
fiftieth day of the anarchist trial, ano
Capt. Black began the closing plea for the
prisoners Capt. Black began his argu
ment as soon as the jury were seated.
He said May 1t please the court and
gentlemen of the jury, on the morning of
May s, 1856, the good people OF Chicago
were startled at an event which happened
at the hay-market. Fear is the mother OF
cruelty, and perhaps that will account in
some measure for the bitterness with
which the state has prosecuted this case.
The serious question which confronts us,
however, is to what extent you, gentle.
men, in your deliberations, NAV
be influenced by passion or preiu
dice. On the night OF May 4,
a dynamite bomb was thrown
at the hay-market in this city and ex.
ploded. 1t caused widespread havoc and
loss Of human life. But the moral re-
sponsibility for dynamite does not rest on
socialists. This explosive was given to
the world by science. We might well
stand appalled, at the dread results this
terrible agent is capable of producing.
Capt. Black reiterated that dynamite, so
far as the origin of Its manufacture was
concerned, had no connection al all with
the doctrines Of socialism, and he laid
down this TO be rule of
law the Jury should follow in
their deliberations. "When man is
charged or thought to be charged with
crime, as in this case, people must show
who threw the bomb, who did the deed,
and must show that these defendants
were concerned directly with the guilty
man."
He then proceeded to enlighten the
jury that the state mistook their func
lions altogether The speaker said the
counsel for the state were wrong when
one OF them advised the jury that upon
them 1t depended to maintain the law and
government, because these defendants
plotted against the state. They
were revolutionists, 1t was said,
but that was not true. There could
be no revolution except when the
heart of the people rose to express
some great wrong Continuing, the
counsel gave some scientific account of
dynamite and experiments with it as an
agency Of mo6ecn W. Rare. Then he de-
elared dynamite was In the world to stay,
and these defendants were in no wise re-
sponsible for it. But the Newmarket
bomb was thrown on the night OF May 4,
and murder resulted from it, Who was
responsible? The men who threw the
bombp No one else. He argued that
these defendants could not~be convicted
as accessories before the fact. He
said the state had, all through tie
case, attempted to secure convic
ton by appealing to the iury's
prejudice and passion, and absurdly de- |
claring that the security of our institu-
lions depended on the punishment of
these men.
Capt. Black then took up the line
adopted by the attorOeys who had pre-
ceded him for the defense. He urged |
that Gilmer was not to be credited, and /,
while Thompson's story is less vulner-
able, still it had been directly contra
ulcted In various essentials by four Wit |
nesses for the defense
Capt. Black, on the converting of court |
this afternoon, quoted from the testi- |
mony OF Mr.. English, reporter, that the |
witness was instructed by his paper to |
take only infimmatory passages of
Parsons speech at the hsy-market. The
following was read as sample. at be.
hooves you, il you do not want your
wives and children to perish from hunger,
to arm yourselv S in the interest of your
liberty and your rights" The speaker
held that there was nothing in the above
TO warrant that Parsons was then speak
Ing in brief Of an alleged conspiracy. A
further circumstance proving that no
violence was contemplated that night con-
sisted in this, that when a black cloud
came up and rain was threatened an ad-
tournament was proposed.
After having reviewed the circumstap-
ual evidence connected with the yarious
u' PENDANTS the speaker exclaimed: "Now
what about Lewis LinggS" The prosecu-
tlon proved that Lingo gave some bombs
10 one lehman, who buried tle missiles
IN or near Ogden's Grove, where they re-
NAMED until dug up blythe officers under
tne guidance OF Lehman. This certainly
ulu not prove that Lingg gave the bombs
w oe tnroWn at the hay-market meeting.
Sapt' Black claimed that Lingg, as
oomo maker, could not even be brought
IN connection with socialism or anarch-
ISM, because as member of the Cabinet
Makers union, he only carried out the
order OF that organizat alton to make Ger.
tain experiments. In this con-
nection Capt. Black reiterated
IS statement OF the forenoon that no
distributor or middle-man in the hand
ing OF dynamite or other dangerous ex
pioslves could be held responsible as an
accessory to any murder committed nv
means OF these explosives. Referring to
Selieers testimony impeaching Lingg,
tne speaker sharply criticised the prose.
sutton Tor what he termed making a bar
gam win an old and experienced Grim
ihal IN order to put moose aroand a {
10y neck, and regarding that testimony I
VI 'ne accomplices, Capt. Black informed
tne Jurors they must exercise the utmost
caution. N'iNos'
AT this point several OF the iurors re.
quested termination of the oratorv Tor
lne DAY and an adjournment was conse- s
Iuenuy ordered. Capt. Black announced
mat ne would finish tomorrow forenoon /
sha In the afternoon States Attornev |
Srinneil will begin the closing argument. {