Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-29
WHERE SPIES WAS.

''ln the alley"
"And you noticed his high cheek
bonesw
We'll, saw him before"
"WhereW
"At meetings, but l didn't know his
name."
How. then, did you know it was
! SpiesP"
- learned it from the papers"
"Who was at the station the first time
you went there!"
Lieut.; Shea, Ripley and, l think, In
! spector Bonfeld."
'How did you come to 90 there?"
VI told you | received word at my
| boarding house"
"And that was before you told anybody
that you had seen the man who threw
! the bOmbY"
cit was"
HE DROPPED A REMARK.
Then how did the police come to look
| you up?'
THAT was from a remark made"
And on that occasion. two days after
the bomb was thrown, you said the man
| VINO threw the bomb had high cheek
bones, light sandy hair and blue eyes-in
other words, you described Schnaubelt to
the police, and didn't you know at that
time that Schnaubelt had been arrested P"
'l did nO:.'
When did you tell Mr.. Grinnell about
! this?"
81 think he was at the Central station
| on one of my visits there"
$50, then, Mr.. Grinnell knew this and
| you were not called before the coroner's
jury nor before the grand jury"
81 don't know what Mr.. Grinnell knew
or what he understood"
"Well. you told him you thought you
N ybN /,
| bOmbP'
Il think 500
THE CALL FOR THE MEETING.
August Heun, printer in the employ
OF verb ~ Klein, corner OF Market and
Randolph streets. testified. He set up a
portion OF the circular calling for the
Haymarket meeting. The witness OBJ
talned the copy of this circular from Mr..
Klein, and he got it from Defendant
tlscher, who came to the printing Office
about O'Clock on the morning of May 4.
Fischer wrote German version of the
case, and the witness is positive he wrote
the following: "Workingmen, arm your
selves and appear in full force"
THE LINE ORDERED OUT.
On cross examination by Capt. Black.
the witness said the above line was taken
out by IL O'Clock in the forenoon. An ex7
purgated circular was shown the witness
and he Identified it as the one printed
after the line was taken out.
Q.-Do you know who ordered the line
taken out?
This was objected to.
Odd you hear anyone order it taken
out?
"No, SIR"
"Dd you see 1t taken outw
al did"
"Were you told not to distribute the
circular containing this linep
~ was not"
SEARCH OF THE ZEITUNG OFEICE.
NJ. II. Marks, detective from the Cen
tral station, was at the Arbeiter Zeitung
office on the morning Of May 8. He testi-
fed: ~ met Neebe on the third floor
and told him | came there to make
search of that floor. He said:
'All right, you won't find anything but
paper and writing Materials There
was a desk in the room. | asked whose
desk it was. Neebe said it was August
Spies. On top of shelf back OF this desk
] found package of oily stuff. i asked
what it was, and Neebe said he
guessed it was preparation TO
clean type. This package was taken
to the Central station and proved
to be dynamite. This was the explosive
with which mining expert Buck experi
When the witness showed the bag to
Neebe Officer McKeogh was in the room
and Officer Haas at the door. Mayor
Harrison was in the building at the time
or moment before, but he did not ask
Neebe, what the contents of the package
were. Mrs. Parsons was also present. SO
were two young men who were writing, a
gentleman and alady and Detective Boyd.
ENGELS CRUCIBLE.
officer Martin Quinn testified that three
or four days after the Haymarket riot he
went to the house OF Engel and discovered
in the basement a sort of crucible made
of heavy sheet iron. Engel said the ma
cnlne had been brought to his house some
weeks before 10y man who said it was to
be used for melting material used in the
| manufacture OF bombs. Engel said he
told the man it could be used for no such
/ purpose in his house. The man placed it
in the basement, however, and went
away. The crucible was brought into
court and created considerable Of a SEN
satiOn. 1t stood about three feet high on
three strap iron legs, nd three or four
inches from the bottom was a small out
let through spout. The apparatus did
not look as though it had ever been ex-
posed TO sufficient heat TO melt lead.
BONFIELD AS AN EXPERT.
The crucible was closely inspected by
the defense, and Inspector John Bonfield
was called. He said the cruclble had
been brought TO MIN from EngePs house.
He had worked at the trade OF ma
chinist. He said the apparatus was a
small blast furnace OF the Find ordinarily
used in smelling metals. Fire, clay and
some other details necessary in putting
the apparatus to that use had not been
brought into court.
Capt. Black, for the defense, endcavored
10 snow that Inspector Bonfeld's testi-
mOay as an expert WAS faulty, and that
the apparatus could not be used for the
purpose named.
Lewis Mullendorf, a tinsmith. testified.
He swOre that he had made the apparatus,
or the principal part OF it, for Engel, who
took IT away when it was finished. The
cross examination was short, and did not
affect the testimony.
LINGG'S ARREST.
officer Herman Scbutter testified. He
told a thrilling story Of his arrest or LingR,
and identified the trunk marked "L. l. >"
which, with Its contents, Was found Rt
the house when Lngg was arrested.
Among the contents were a large navy
revolver, an iron ladle ana other iron i'm
plements. The witness said that when he
opened the trunk he found, besides the
articles mentioned, bomb which he