The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-25
Good Work of the Chicago
Detective Force.
A PRETTY STATE OF AFFAIRS.
Discoveries OF Dynamite and Plots
to Sack and Burn-Other
News Notes.
The Anarehi.ts


and Gotilied Jaborsky. for whom war
rants were issued yesterday. were ar
rested to-day and jailed to await trial
on the charge OF having introduced and
urge 1.-The adoption. at an unlawful as
semblage, of resolutions endorsing the
actions OF anarchists during the hay
market riots in Chicago. IL had been
stated previous TO their arrest, by de-
tective who was working on the case,
that these men knew more about the
whereabouts OF the noted Chicago Par
sons than they chose to reveal This
detective states that he knows positively
that Parsons passed through a small
town in Northern Kansas soon after the
riot, with the intention of escaping to
Canada, but was obliged TO change his
course on account of the serious delay
to travel by the washouts on the rail-
roads, and started for the south, pass
| ing through this city on the way and
comforting with his brothers while here.
/ IL this should prove to be the
/ truth of the matter, the arrests
made here to-day are important ana
tend to substantiate the statement tel
egraphed from Florida that Parsons
had been seen there, presumably on his
way 10 Cuba.
CHICAGO, May pa morning paper
publishes to-day what purports to be
the testimony OF Captain Setback yes
terday before the grand jury in relation
to the instigators of the recent Hay
market slaughter. This testimony, as
printed, is sensational in the extreme,
but not incredible, and-it is anticipated
that the developments Of the next few
days will prove the truth o. much of it.
Captain Setback, IL is said, told the
Jury the following facts, resulting from
the investigation by the police depart
ment. He had witnesses 70 prove that
the prisoner Lingg had manufactured
number of dynamite bonds from ma
terial obtained at the office of the
Arbeiter-Zeitung. Three persons were
associated with Lingg. one of whom is
under arrest. The second section of
the captains testimony was listened TO
with breathless silence. 81 think, :"
SAID Schaach, that ! have got 70. the
bottom of this business. In a couple of
} days I will have 1t all. but want a
little more time; then can prove
beyond doubt that this Anarchist CON
spiracy has existed here for years.
There are two divisions of it, one is an
agitating section. Money is set apart
cialist Section. Besides this there is an
armed party, and anarchist section.
These drill and are trained in the use of
explosives. think / can prove that
there was a welllaid plan TO sack andburn
districts in Chicago on May 4. 1t would
have been carried out but that the an
archists lacked THE nerve and were un-
prepared for the vigorous action of the
police. Men were told to set fire to GER
tain houses in the northwestern portion
of the city, and others were told off to
/ l. 10 "a.
while others were to use bombs at the
meeting if the police attempted to dis
perse It. / think can connect every
man OF the Socialists now in jail with
this. The houses TO be burned in the
northwestern section of the city were to
be selected Unfortunately. The pur-
pose of the burning was to attract the
attention Of the police to that section.
and to draw them away from the main
points of attack, Haymarket Square,
and the police stations. The early dis
persal Of the crowd in the square, the
premature throwing OF the bombs-for
it was premature-and the determined
resistance If the police. frightened the
would-be incendiarles and those who
were to attack the police barrack. in
detail. A juror asked where the wit
. nesses to prove these conspiracies are.
In the lookup of police stations"
Setback replied. 81 can produce as
many of them before the Grand Jury
as may be deemed wise and necessary.
They have confessed their completely
> to me. have explained to the States
attorney and am acting under his in
, stfuctions." ~
Ever since the night of the
) riots, and the day following.
, when the search of houses was
commenced, the police OF North Avenue
Station and residents of the district
: have been finding bits of dynamite, gas
pipe cartridges and rife cartridges in
; houses, on the prairies and under side
, walks in their Immediate vicinity. A
|, little over week ago. q number OF dy-
Mantle cartridges wrapped up In a piece
of red oil cloth were found under the
, sidewalk; next day q boy on .Qiaid
Avenue found some rife cartridges and
few days after this, another boy took
to his mother for inspection some
fifty round that he had picked up on
. the prairie. To-day some small boys
were playing ball on Robey Street. near
the old Chicago & Pacific, or the Bloom
ingdaie track, when the ball went into
the gutter and under the sidewalk; a
boy had to crawl under, and, while
!. looking for his ball. found piece OF gas
, pipe and reported more where that
, came from. He told his father and the
police were notified. They searched
and found under the sidewalk on the
West side of Robey Street and less than
, two feet south of the railroad track,
that a small hole had been scraped out.
In this hole there were thirty pieces OF
gaspipe, one and one-ouarter inches in
diameter. and eight 70 ten inchesin
length. wrapped up in piece OF red
oilcloth. OF these thirty we're loaded
with dynamite. being stopped at one
end with round blocks OF wood. Fuse
about eight inches in length was at
tached to each, and all were ready for
immediate use. The last piece was not
loaded, but seemed 70 have been re
Gently cut, as the oil was on its end. In