Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-27
THE ANARCHISTTRIA
MORE STARTLING TESTIMONY GIVEN
DURING YESTERDAYS SESSION.
Pinkerton's Detectives Testify-Riot,
Plumber, Confusion, Murder, and
Theft, Aided by Dynamite.
lBy telegraph to the Dispatch.

uCl oil TIE ADarcn'SfS tr1hi tnS Wceh,
It is expected, will witrcss several new
ard startling developments after vast
quantity of testimony similar to that
slreldy given by Detective Jansen has
been taken from other detectives who
have for various purposes been employ
cd to watch the movements of the Chi.
caro- dynamitards fer the past two
yt'-s--some Of them in the pay OF the
Citizens Association and others in the
service Of the Pipkerton Agency at the
ins;arce of foreign Governments. A
dozen witnesses will be called to give
the substance Of the incend'sry
speeches made by Parsons. Spies.
and Fielden at the Haymaiket
on the evening of May 4th preceding
the bomb massacre. The prosecution
expects to rest its case by next Saturday,
although it may take State's-Attorney
GIinnwell little lorger to get in al
the available evidence, much Of which
has Unexpectedly come to hand s'pcs
the tiial commenced. The story pub
lisbed in q New York paper Saturday
regarding an alleged interview with
Ignatz Swobotka, in that city, in which
Swobotka is made to confess that he
threw the fatal Hsymarket bomb, finds
no confirmation among the authorities
here. The opinion of those who have
bad the most to do with the invest'gs-
ton Of the case and with the direction
of the efforts that have been put forth
to find the real bombtbrower, or to
ascertain who be is, BIS settled down to
ore Of two Iersons-viz., the ms1 who
was Shot and killed by Officer Maiden
or Rudolph Schpaubel, the machinist,
who has made his escape. Circum-
stances point the most clearly to the
latter.
The full force Of the testimony of TIE
Pinkerrou men will hardly be under
stood until more Of it is put in. De.
tective Jannen is only one Of five Of
Piakerton's olde-t officers who were
put to work early last winter to find
out how much the Anarct'7t crowd
actually meant by their speeches, aud
who in TIE prosecution of their work
penetrated the Anarchists dens, took
part in their most secret conclaves, lis
tened to their instructions to their
dupes, and reported day by day to Mr..
W. A. Pinkerton, their employer.
Pinkerton bad been employed by a
PAL " of TIE largest property-owners in
the city 10 make the investigation. His
men we're not EN- .,'oyed to &C.
cuse or convict any Jouy. They were
instructed TO report facts SIMPLY
as they found them, and their
testimony is therefore not open to
The objection winch Is usually urged
with force against detectives evidence
that it is procured to convict. A. G.
Jensen, the detective whose disclosures
occasioned the ,ensatiop Saturday,
took the stand this morning first, and
the examination Of the witness vas re-
sum,i by Mr.. Foster, rho asked cOn-
cerring the witness version Of the con-
yersation which took place between
Spies and e. aged gentleman on the oc-
caslon Of tie parade on Internationally
of last year. Spies, looking at the
militia, said thew would not amount to
much in the event Of riot; that q
| hslf-dozen dy ,ami bombs would scat
ter the soldiers in every direction. The
witness said ne did not know who this
man was. Witness reported daily to
the agency in writing, and there writ
ten reports he obtained from clerk
at the agency. The name of l.. 6.
Gage is endorsed on the reports,
but the witness does not know Mr..
Gage. The witness said that on May
81, 1885, Fielden made a speech dc
claring that the Government could be
over,hrown by force only, and on an
other occasion Fielden told the witness
that force was to be used May LIST.
This year, on August 10Th, Parsons,
speaking Of the street-car mems strike,
said that if Inspector Bontield was
shot a social revolution would be in
augursted.
William A. Pinke-ton, chief Of the
National Detective Agency, testified
that he had employed detectives to
ferret out the secret doingi Of the
Anarchists. but this was ordered
stricken out, and Pinkerton left the
stand.
Mr. Grinnell read the following no
tice in The Alarm Of October II, 1885
- An armed section Of the American
Group meets every Monday night a
No. 81 west Lake street."
W. p. Freeman, newspaper re-
porter, said that at a meeting on the
lake front on April 25th Parsons spoke
saying if the workingmen we're driver
to star vation they would unfurl the ban
ner Of liberty and fraternity and SWEEP
everything before them, and pointed
to red flag as he spoke
He urged bis hearers to take up arms
Spies spoke in German. Fielden said
the workiDgmen could only enjoy TIT
(, Aits Of their labor by force. Tit
witness was at the Hay market. lie
saw Parsons on wagon, who frequent
" cried "To arms :" in his speech
Fielden discussed legislation, and said
it was useless to attempt any thing BY
legislation /; force was the only rccou's'
left. The witness saw Parsons, Spies
and Fielden on the wagon, and be alst
thought he saw Schwsb. When tn
police came up he heard them give
the command to the crowd to dispense
which was followed by tie explo7ior
and firing. Witness crouched behinc
the wagon until the firing ceased. On
DISCRIMINATION witness said he die
not hear the remark attributed t
FieIden-"We are peaceable."
Joseph Crenhut, city tenement-houst
inspector, was called, aud testified tina
be was present when Spies told a re
porter how the ranks Of the police could
be decimated by dynamite. Witness
was in the 4rbeitef Zeitung on tn
afternoon Of Mag Sd, and saw Spie
prepare the " Revenge " circular. Thu
witness trembled violently during hi
examination. He has been recognized
as Socialist, and did not wish, appa
rontly, to be q witness in the case.
The examination of Jose II Gruen
hut was resumed at the opening OF tn
afternoon session. and the witness, re