Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-13
LAST OF THE REDS.
Defensive Speeches by the Prieo
The Death Sentence.

were taken into court on the 7th to
hear the decision of Judge Gary on the
motion for g. new trial. The court
room Was packed with spectators, and
many who were unable to gain admit
tance stood on the sidewalk several
hours, almost blockading traffic.
Judge Gary, in delivering his decision,
reviewed at considerable length the
evidence brought out at the trial, and
said concerning the instructions to
which exception was taken by the de-
tense: tOn the question of the instruc-
tions whether these defendants, or any
of them, did anticipate or expect
the throwing of the bomb on
the night of the 4th of May, is
not question which I need to con-
slider, because the instructions did not
60 upon that ground. The jury were
not instructed to find them guilty if
they believed that they participated
in the throwing Of the bomb, or en-
couraged or advised the throwing of
that bomb, or had knowledge that it
was TO be thrown or anything of that
sort. The conviction has not gone up
on the ground that they did have any
actual participation in the act which
caused the death of Deegan, but upon
the ground, under the instructions,
that they had generally, by speech and
print, advised g. large class to commit
murder and had left the occasion,
time and place to the individual
will, whim and caprice of the individual
SO advised; and that in consequence of
that advice and in pursuance of it,
and influenced by it, somebody not
known, did throw the bomb that
caused the death of Deegan.
''Now, under these circumstances, in
the infamed state of the public mind
at the time, each of these orators at
the Haymarket was still more infam-
ing the public mind when he advised
the people to use force, and some man
i do not say identified, say unidenti-
fed-some man in that crowd, when
the police approached, with bomb OF
Lingg's manufacture kills Deegan; all
who have advised such action are
guilty of his murder. Ii anything can
be proved by circumstantial evidence
it is proved that he threw that bomb
in consequence of the influence of these
teachings, this advice by speech and
printing over g. course of two years.
The man vino threw that bomb had
been educated up to it by the teach
ings of these defendants. The case, as
| said before, is unprecedented, There
is no example of any such crime hav-
ing been committed; there is no prec-
edent of any case like this having be-
come the subject of judicial investiga-
ton; but the principle of law is we'll
fixed"
The Court then passed to the obiec-
tions urged against the form of the
sentence and quoted from the 1O9th
Illinois on the point, and said there
was nothing in the circumstances of
this case anything less than murder.
The instructions in regard to man.
slaughter might have been refused.
There was no reason for them at all. |
Passing to the alleged Disqualified
ton of the jurors on account Of hav-
ing read reports in papers of the crime |
and having formed opinions thereon,
he thought the New York decisions
settled the case and that if verdicts |
were to be set aside for the reasons
urged, it would be the surest way to
bring about anarchy, for there would |
be no way in which government could |
be maintained and the law admins |
tered. He concluded by saying: 81 |
think upon the whole proof that no
case could be tried of such magnitude |
as this with less in the way of irregu-
larity of proceeding in the trial than
was done in this case. The motion
must be overruled."
An adjournment was taken for din
ner, when the prisoners were called up
on to make any remarks they deemed |
fit before sentence was passed upon
them by the court. Inresponse Spies,
Schwab, Neebe and Lingg harangued
the court until time for adjournment,
all taking the ground that under the
decision of the court in their case all
men were liable to be hanged for mur-
der.
The following day was taken up by
Fielden and Engel in remarks in their
own defense. Parsons began to adj
dress the Court, but had not finished
when an adjournment was taken.
On the 9th, Parsons, the last of the
convicted Anarchists to address the
court, finished speech lasting several
hours, after which sentence was pro-
nounced by Judge Gary. Following is
the full text of the judges remarks in
passing sentence:
I am quite well aware that what you
have said. although addressed to me, has
been said to the world; yet nothing has
been said which weakens the force OF the
proof, or the conclusions therefrom, upon
which the verdict is based. You are all
men of intelligence and know that If the
verdict stands it must be executed. The
reasons why it shall stand I have already
sufficiently stated in deciding the motion
for new trial. I am sorry beyond any
power of expression for your unhappy
condition and for the terrible events that
have brought it about. shall address to
you neither reproaches nor exhortation.
What shall say shall be in the faint hope
that few words from place where the
people of the state of Illinois have delegated
the authority to declare the penalty OF a
violation of their laws, and spoken upon
an occasion so solemn and awful as this,
may come to the knowledge of, and be
needed by, the ignorant, deluded and mis-
guided men who have listened to your
and followed vOur ad vice It ia |