Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-22
is 1T LOADED?
Judge carey objects to Loaded Bomb
Being Introduced into the Evidence
In the Anarchists Trial.
The Landlord OF Louis Lipgg, who Helped
20 MAX. the Bombs, u Put on the
stand--A Straight story.

entire gang with the exception OF Lingg
Immediately upon the opening Of court
william Selliger, who is remembered as
the principal witness for the state, was
put upon the witness-stand The court
room was crowded. His testimony was
listened 70 with the keenest interest.
Selliuger testified that be lived on
Sedgewick street, and mad as boarGer
Louis Llngg, one Of the defendants. On
Monday night the witness attended a
meeting Of the Carpenters' union at Nef's
hall. Az the meeting copies of the ere.
yenge circular" were brought In and dis
tributed by Ballatzer Raeu.
Did you work at your trade Tuesday,
No.
What did you do that morningl
got up. At 1880 O'Clock Lingg came.
I had previously told HIM that wanted
those bombs removed from my dwelling.
He told me 10 work diligently at them
and they would be taken away that day. |
| took some coffee, and after awhile |
worked at some bad shells filling holes,
etc.
Look at the shell | now show you,
thanding witness loaden sphere aboul |
the size Of a small turnip Did You
work at these shellsf
Yes.
What did you dol
/ drilled holes; 1t took me about half
an hour.
Where was Lingg?
At q meeting on the West side. lie
came back about II o'clock
Did you speak 10 himf
He said 20 me | did not work very
much ! ought TO have done more. He
then said we viii have to work harder
this afternoon
Eugham, who conducted the examlna-
tion, offered the shell 10 evidence.
Dld you have any conversation about
the ballsl
Yes Lirgg told me to go 10 place on
avenue and get some balls to
put in the shells | got about fifty four
balls
Who worked with your
lluebner, Manzenberg and lIewann.
We worked all the afternoon.
What room did you work in2
In the front room at No. ii2, Sedge
wick street, IN Llngg's room and ir the
rear room.
What ala Lining dor
First, he worked at the gas pipe, put
ting In the tubes.
Tubes Ike these2 CMr. Bingham pre-
SCENTS two wrought iron tubes about two
inches In diameter and six inches long.)
Yes.
How many bombs were made that after
LoUn2
can't tell
A dozeuy
On, more perhaps forty or Glty can't
say exactly.
How many round bombs?
can't tell exactly.
Were the round bombs cast that after
noony
No,
Who cast theml
Llngg cast them once, alone in the
room OF my store. That was six weeks
before May /.
Where was the FIRST bomb you ever
SAW
In Lingg's room, some time before
that perhaps two or three months before.
Witness couversed with Lingg at the
time and the latter told him he was going
TO make the bombs. lie saw some dyna-
mite IN Lingg's room, Llngg told him
every workingman should have dynamite
and learn how TO use II. There was going
TO be an agitation, he said, and all work
ingmen ought to learn the use of dyna-
mite On the Tuesday afternoon, when
they were making bombs, Lingg said that
the bombs would be good fodder for the
capitalists and police who might try to
protect the capitalists, and that the bombs
ought to be completed that evening as
they were to be used that night.
When the witness left the house In the
evening Lingg accompanied him, and
they carried a little trunk containing the
bombs. The witness said some OF the
bombs were round ana some of them
were pipe, They weighed about nfty
pounds They were ali loaded with dy- |
Mantle ana had caps fixed on them |
While they were carrying them they met |
Nuremberg, aud the three of them carried |
the trunk to Neff's hall, No, 90 Clayborne |
avenue.
They took them through side door
and hallway There the trunk was
opened Several people came to look at
its contents. | saw three or four take |
bombs took two and put them In my |
pocket. Thea we went away, leaving the
bombs In the passagewey. The hall back |
OF Neh's saloon, the witness said, was
called "the shanty OF communists, AN
archists and socialists All used to |
meet thore When hs left Neff's saloon |
Lingg, Thlrlen and GuBtaye Lehman |
were with him, They were afterward |
Joined by two men OF the Lehr und Weir
Vereln, All had bombs.
Tell what you We're going to do that
night?
A disturbance was TO be made on the |
North side. That was arranged previous
ly Other disturbances were to be made |
ON the West side TO prevent the police |
from massing At any one point. Lingg
said disturbances should be made all over |
tho North side TO prevent the police from |
going TO the West side. AS they passed |
Larrable Street police station llngg said |
IL would be a beautiful thing TO throw In |
couple OF bombs From Larrabie street |
he aud Lingg went up TO the Western |
Avenue station, A patrol wagon came
up, Llngg said he was going TO throw |
bomb, that II was the best time to |
do IL, | said II was not good time,
that II would be useless Lngg became
excited and wanted me To give him |
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