Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-08-28
THE ANARCHISTS DOOM,
SEVEN OF THEM TO BE HANGED.
End of the Triul-Charge to the Jury
-Neebe Gets Fifteen Years

Attorney, concluded his address this after
noon, and at o'clock Judge Gray instructed
the jury.
Mr.. Grinnell, the States Attorney, in cons
Guiding his address to the jury said he would
not ask the jury to take the life of Oscar
Neebe. He would not ask the jury to do
what he would not do himself. The proof
was not sufficient to convict Neebe, but some
If them, Spies, Fischer, Lingg, Engel, Fiel'
den, Parsons and Schwab, ought to have the
extreme penalty administered to them. The
Anarchists were deathy pale.
CHARGE OF THE COURT.
The court instructs the jury as matter of
law that, in considering the case the jury
are not to go beyond the evidence to hunt up
doubts, nor must they entertain such doubts
as are merely chimerical or conjectural. A
doubt to justify an acquittal must be reason
able, and it must arise from a candid and
impartial investigation of all the evidence in
the casa, and unless it is such that were the
same kind of a doubt interposed in the
graver transactions of life it would cause a
reasonable and prudent man to hesitate and
pause, it Is insufficient to authorize verdict
of not guilty. If after considering all the
evidence you can say you have an abiding
conviction of the truth of the charge, you
are satisfied beyond reasonable doubt.
The Court instructs the jury as matter
Of law that an accessory is he who stands by
and aids, abets or as lists, or who, not being
present aiding, abetting or assisting, has ad.
vised, encouraged, aided or abetted the per-
petration of the crime. He who thus aids
abets, assets, advises, or encourages shall be
considered as principal and punished accord
ngly. Every such accessory, when a crime
is committed within or without this State,
by his aids or procurement in this State, may
6e indicted and convicted at the same time as
the principal before or after his conviction,
and whether the principal is convicted or
amenable to justice or not, and punished as
principals. If the defendants attempt to
overthrow the law by force, and threw the
bomb, then the defendants who were in the
conspiracy were guilty of murder.
AS TO CONSPIRACY.
defendants were parties to it, they are guilty
of murder, though the date of elimination of
The conspiracy was not fixed. If any of the
defendants conspired to excite, by advice,
people to riot and murder, such defendants
are guilty of such murder as was done in
pursuance of said conspiracy. The imprac
ticableness of the aims of defendants is i'm,
material.
If the jury found that on the night of Nav
a meeting was held at which some of the
defendants were present, and it was deter>
mined that in the event of a collision between
the police and the strikers certain organiza-
tons should meet at certain places. that
committees should be appointed to attend at
places where attacks by the poliece might be
expected and report attacks to the armed
sections, that such attacks might be resisted
ard police stations and other public works
destroyed; and if the jury further found that
on the night of May some unknown person
threw the bomb which killed Deegan, and the
jury were not satisfied that the act causing
the death of Deegan was the result of any
act in furtherance of the common design
above stated, but might have been the I'M
| authorized act of an individual acting upon
his own responsibility, then none of the de-
| PENDANTS should be responsible for the muir,
der on account of the meeting.
ON THE COURTS BEHALF.
Having completed the lengthy instructions
handed up on behalf of the defendants, the
Court instructed the jury on its own behalf,
| as follows:-
Ii advice and encouragement to murder
was given, and if murder was done in pur-
suance of and materially induced by such
advice and encouragement, then those who
gave such advice and encouragement are
guilty of murder. Unless the evidence.
either direct or circumstantial, or both.
proves the guilt Of one or more of thefend-
ants upon this principle so fully that there is
40 reasonable doubt, your duty to them re-
4uires you to acquit them. If it does so
prove, then your duty to the State REQUIRES
you to convict whoever is proven guilty. The
case of each defendant should be considered
with the same care and scrutiny as if he alone
were on trial. II a conspiracy having vic,
lence and murder as its obj ct is fully proved,
then the acts and declarations Of each con.
spirator in furtherance of the c. l epir ICY are
the acts and declarations of each oue of the
conspirators; Lut the declaration of any con-
spirator before or after the of May which
are merely narrative as to what had been or
would be done, and not made to aid in car
rying into effect the object Of the conspiracy
are only evidence against the one who made
Them. What are the facts and what is the
proof the jury must determine from the ev.
Idence, and from that alone.
The jury then retired.
| THE VERDICT.
There was breathiess attention, when the
verdict which, condemns seven of the Anar-
chists to hang and gives the eighth fifteen
years in the Penitentiary was announced.
This was succeeded by intense excitement
The prisoners were ranged along the wall on
the south side of the courtroom hidden from
the public by line of policemen. Mrs
Schwab tainted, but no other demonstration
was made. The verdict was simply guilty
as charged in the case of August Spies, Fisch,
er, Lingg, Eugel, Parsons, Fielden and
Schwab, Neebe guilty Of manslaughter hi.
sentence being fifteen years in the Peniten.
tiary. Black rose and moved for a ne W trial
Grinnen objected to this being considered
at this term. Judge Gary said that such ,
motion was unnecessary at this time in an,
case. He then thanked the jury and sait
| there wOuld he no mora hnSiness for thai,