The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14

closet thoroughly forit, and that there was
no dynamite there nor any greasy spot on
the Shelf as described by tho detectives.
Theodore Lehnert swore that he,
Scanaubelt and August krueg-
or were together about ten o'clock or
on Desplaines street. near Randolph, and
that Schnnubelt went away with Krueger.
Witness was an Anarchist, n member
of the Lehr and Webr Vercin, and nc-
quainted with all the prisoners except
Lingg. Tho next witness. was taken from
the county jail, where he has been i'm
INJURED for connection with the conspiracy
since May s. His name Is William Schnei-
der. lie and Fielden and most OF the
market He was. on the wagon when
the bomb exploded, and he and Field
en- jumped off together and ran together
into tho alley. He was positive Fielden
had no pistol and fired at nobody with
section OF the American group. There was
what was called the international
Rifles" but they had no rifles or arms
Of any kind they merely practiced march.
who was also confined In the jail because
of his connection with the conspiracy, had
seen Parsons In .Zepf's Hall when the ex-
plosion occurred. had never heard Of the
ber of the American group. The
lent Parsons five dollars the night
Of the riot to help him to get out of the
city. The witness also corroborated most
Of schneider's testimony. Henry w. Spies,
brother of the Anarchist on trial. told u
sensational story to the effect that some
one tried to shoot his brother August as
he was jumping off the speakers wagon
when the bomb exploded; that he
received the ball himself, and that he
knocked the revolver out of the assailant's
hand clear under the wagon. He swore
that no followed his brother and Schanu-
back while they were looking for Par.
that schwab was not with his brother at
any time. Neither did his brother enter
Crane Brothers alley. He acknowledged
having told the State. officials and de-
tectives string of falsehoods as to his
whereabouts that night. August Krueger
said he was with Schnaubelt about ten
o'clock the night of the riot, walked
with him to Clinton street, on Randolph,
plosion occurred. John F. Waldo, printer
and member of the American Group, said
the police did all the firing. In cross-exam-
ination the witness swore that the police
fired two or three shots before the explo.
sion.
CHrCAao, Aug. 7.-Testimony was pre-
sented by the defense in the Anarchists
trial yesterday concerning Schwab's pres
ence at Deering from Q: 80 to 10:30 y. m. Of
May 4. 1t was also shown that Fischer
was at Zepf's Hall when the bomb
exploded. A weak attempt was made
to prove that at least one of the
policemen wounded at the Haymarket was
struck by police bullet. Evidence was
meeting, near McCormick's on May 3,
Spies advised the people not to go to the
factory. More evidence damaging to the
character. of Gilmer was introduced.
offered to prove that Fischer ord
cred the "working-men come armed"
clause out of the "Revengen circularin tho
presence of Spies and Schwab. Mrs.
Holmes, the Anarchistic editress of the
Alarm, took the stand and swore to seeing
time the bomb exploded.
Intense interest was awakened when IN
the afternoon Fieleen, one of the defend
ants, took the stand. He preferred max
the judge allowed him to affirm. He
told graphic and vivid story OF
his experience in the riot, the au-
dience listening. with strained at
tention Arising in his. chair, he Illus
trated how, when Captain Ward had or
dered the meeting to peaceably disperse, he
had bent forward to the captain and re-
piled in concilintory tones: why. cap
tain, this is n peaceable meeting" He told
how the people "howled in agony" as
they. frantically tried to escape the
terrible storm of bullets poured on them
from the ranks of the police after the ex-
plosion. He denied that he ever had a re-
| volver or ever fired a shot in his life. He
gave what seemed a fair synopsis of his
| speech to the crowd, including his advice
to throttle the law Referring to the
| testimony of the Pinkerton detective,
Jansen, regarding certain conversation
with himself in December, he said he knew
long before that that Jansen was n de-
tective and that il he wanted to talk about
| dynamite he would not have been such a
fool as to talk about it with Jansen of all
| DeODle.