The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-08-05
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Anarchist Conspiracy.

Ev HLNIO OE The w ELM
Anarchist Conspiracy.
The testimony offered by the p:osecu-
ton in Judge Gary's court at Chicago
came to close on Saturday, 3ist nit, and
to the Lublic mind q chain OF positive evi-
deuce had been massed against the accused
that no power could sweep away. All the
surroundings OF the Haymarket riot OF
Nay 4, and the steps that led up to it have
been woven together with mastery and
startling fidelity, to the surprise Of noie
moro than to Lingx, Engel, Schwab aud
the others over whom the indictments for
murder hang, aud some of whom, in oil
seeming probability, will themselves hang.
The te stimoIy in the anarchist trial on the
eth WAS purely corroborativs OF what had
been given before. Whiting, Allen and
{. Il: futhill, newspaper reporters gave
added to tho volume Of facts gathered
from other sources. Two other reporters
aud Detectives, Cosgrove and keOgh made
up the array and strengthened The case
against the econspiratorsb by their testimony
NJ. Thompson, an employe OF Mar
shall, Field & Co., testified to stopping
near the entrance to an alley, q short
distance.from the speakers wagon, he saw
spies mount the wagon, inquire for Par
sons, hand him something, and descend
to the ground. The testimony of Thomson
was q severe blow to The defense. 1t
proves as nearly as the unshaken testi-
mony of one man can that Spies, Schwab
or Schnaubelt had agreed. before the
Haymarket meeting was called to order,
to throw q dynamite bomb among the
police should they attempt to disperse
them. 1t places Spies in the position Of
personally arming the bomb throwers and
identifies Schwab as his enthusiastic
abettOr.
H. L. G;lmer, . painter, testified that
while Fielden was speaking he saw some
one leave the wagon and start toward the
alley whore four or five persons were con.
versing. The witness was at the mouth Oi
the alley. At that moment some one said,
Here is the police" Then the man who
had left the wagon and joined the Al ties
In the alley lit match and placing j,
against something held in the hand of one
of the persons, fuse began to sizzle and
Immediately thereafter the bomb was
thrown. The witness was shown picture
Of Schnaubelt and recognized it as that ol
the man who threw the bomb. GilmeI
pointed out Spies and Fischer as two Of the
men he saw in that conference and Spies
~ the man that left the wagon and lighted
the match. Both SPIES and Fischer seem
ed greatly borne down by this testimony.
The Crucible used for melting lead FOL
bombs found in Engel's house was brought
he made it for Engel. The officer wi4o ar
rested L:ngg described that affair and the
finding OF a quantity OF bolts and nuts, foul
bombs and some piec-s of fuse. Several
other bombs and some iron bolts and nut.
were found behind Dashboard In Lingg',
room.
Drs. Murphy, Lee, and Baxter described
the wounds received by many of the
injured officers, whose torn aud bloody
uniforms were exhibited in court. Capt
Shack told Of experiments with fusc and
dynamite found at Libgg's house. =
also experimental with dynamite car
tridges." said the witness. had on
inserted into q stone weighing Ierhap
thirty pounds. The explosion broke thl
stone into atoms" Lung told him tina
on May six persons called on him t
procure bombs. When Engel's wifi,
yisited.him Eneel broke down and uept
and to her chiding for placing him in sucl
with eloquence. Louise Michel suffered
for cause. She is a woman. | am ma,
and will stand it like q man, Extract
were read from the anarchists paper
urging the use of the dynamite aud tn
s.BloOd" editorial OF the Arbeiter ZeitunI
Of May 4, shown to be Schwab's hand
| writing.
Frlday's testimony foreshadowed th
close Of evidence in chief by the prosccu
ticn. Liberal extracts were read from th
| Alarm edited by Parsons aud the Arbeite
Zeitung edited by Spies. Expert chemica
testimony was given by. Prof. Raines 9
Rush Medical College ard Prof. DeLafon
taine; the first named said: He had teste,
bombs found among the effects of Ling
aud Spies, and found that they had til
same constituents in almost the same rati
as the pieces of bomb taken from the bod
of Officer Degan. The bombs containe
lead, tin, antimony, iron and zinc, Th
] he 1tos 1no 4
per cent of tin and only traces Of the re
naming constituents.
Testimony was given OF the death Q
Matthias Deagan from bomb wounds ut til
Haymarket. An explosive test was mad
of five bombs found in different parts 9
the city in Lake Michigan. The dynamit
was sunk 2sft in water and explode
with the effect Of throwing stream 6
water six feet iu diameter 100 feet in th
| air. Hundreds Of fish wero thrown int
! the air with the stream and the surfac
was covered with dead ones.
A body was found in the lake at Fri,
Pa, on the sssh ult. undoubtedly that 9
Rudolph Schnaubelt who threw the bonn
May 4. The theory is that Schnau5el
had come down on one of the lake boats q
| a etowaway and had, in his haste to e
cape, fallen overheard. One of his leg
was horribly mangled. There were n
papers whatever upon his person. althoug
| ne II Al SUHlCleuL Iuehub lOE lululSuIu
needs. His clothes wero badly torn, o
IL the body had had rough usage. Th
body was Inferred tut will be exhumed.
Attorney SalomOn opened for the defans
with the extraordinary demand that til
defendant seebe be discharged, which me
tion was promptly denied. Mr.. Sa!omo
then made general statement of the lie
Of his side. The defense expected to prov
that none of these men had murdered {
conspired to murder, nor had th0y expec
ted q bomb would be thrown at the Ha.
market meeting. "But we see in the a.
tion Of the police an incredible animo'
We see in them devilish design, an inter
tion to destroy every life on that market
We expect to show you that Mr.. Fielde
fired no shot at that meeting, and that b
had no revolver" Counsel enumeFate
other points which the defense expected
prove said Neebe was at home during Il
riet: that there was nothing tC cODne'
Lingg with the bomb throwing, and
L,ngg made dynamite bombs he had pc
feet right to do 20.