Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-05
POINTED TESTIMONY.
Making Things Look Blue for the
Anarchists.
Detectives and Reporters Have Their Ia.
Dings-Somo Hot Strikes-The Man
Who Threw the Bomb and tho
Men Who Coached Him.

CHICAGO, July 27.-At the Anarchists
trial this morning, Whiting Allen, news
paper reporter, testified that he was a,
the Haynarket meeting. Parsons In his
speech said: "What good are these
strikes going to do3 What are you going
to gain by them? Do you think you are
going to gain your points No, you will
have to go back to work for less than
you formerly received" When he taen-
toned the name Of jay Gould
some one cried ont, "Hang him! u
"Tirow him in the lake!" Parsons said
mo, no; that won't do. If jay Gould
were put ort of the way to-day, another
Jay Could, or ole hundred Jay Goulds,
woqH rise up. I. is not the man, but
tte system, tina: ought to be destroyed ~
The witness said the crowd seemed en-.
tirely i'm sympathy with Parsons and an.
piauded him frequently.
Mr.. Allen was at Zcff's Hall when the
explosion occurred. At the Haymarket
ne saw SIZES, Parsons, Fieldcn and, he
ihongb., Schwab, but was not tain of
the litter
Detective Cosgrove was one OF the off,
GERS detailed 10 attend the Haymurket
meeting. lie testified particularly re-.
garding the speech matie by Parsons.
Inc crowd present he estimated at two
thousand, and II was very unruly and ex-
cited. Plrsons, near the close of his
speech, frequently cried, "To arms"
wDlcp served to greatly increase the cx-
In v,,it
tDe wagon TO the police station to report
ue exact condition OF affairs, and when he
went to the station the last time to report
che character of Parsons incendiary
utterances tho police were mastering
down Desplaines street. The witness
went ahepd and remained behind tele-
graph POLE when the firing commenced.
His recital of the order to dispcrse, the
Explosion of the bomb and the firing into
The police ranks did not vary from the
former narratives. lie was addressed by
an officer standing near him, who stated
nc was wounded, and in helping him
away from the scene they came across
the dead body of Officer began.
Detective McKeogh was present ut the
Haymarket and gave similar version of
The speeches and firing
Il. l.. Owen, reporter, saw Parsons
mt the corner of Randolph and IIalstead
streets shortly before the Iaymarket
meeting began. lie asked Parsons where
The meeting was 10 DO held. Parsons
replied that he did not know "Why,"
remarked the witness, s'you are going to
speak, aren't you?" "No," replied Par.
sons, II Pin going to the South Side"
oayln" this Parsons started for street
car but drew back, and slapping the
witness familiarity on the back, remarked:
"Arc you armed? Have you any dyna-
mite about your" Parsons then moved
away. His wife accompanied him. AL
most at the same time he saw MAYOR
Harrison, and Schwab, who was running
across the street, almost ran into IIarri-
son. He did not see Schwab again that
night. He heard Spies, Parsons and
Ficldcn speak, and his recital of their
utteranccs varied very slightly from
the former accounts. The witness
raw the approach of the police,
and running ahead of them mounted an
iron stairway at the corner of Randolph
and Dcsplaincs streets. lie heard the
warning OF the police 10 dispcrsc very in
distinctly, and Immediately aftcrward
flcndish cry from the wagon followed by
The explosion Of The bomb. The witness
first fire. The witness testified that he
saw shots from the east side of the street
and up to that time the police had not
lred.
Ii. L. IIeincman, q German reporter,
was present at the Hay market at half
past seven. He saw Parsons and Schwab
In the vicinity, the former at the corner
OF Randolph and Halstcad streets. He
also saw BalthauSer Reue an hour later.
He saw the bomb rise from the alley, and
also saw shots fired at the police from
the north side.
Spies, In his speech, began by dcclar-
Ing that the meeting was to be peace.
able one, but in his speech gave a version
OF the Mccormick riot with which he in
tended 10 infame the crowd.
"Werc you formerly a member of the |
'lnternational?' the States Attorney |
asked.
Eyes, sir" replied the witness.
"When did you cease to be member" |
"Two years ago."
"Whlch of the defendants belonged to |
the society while you were member"
"The only one know positively was
Neebe. lie belonged 10 the same group
as myself"
''Dld you meet others of the defendants
at that time?''
"Yes; Spies and -Schwab. and think
Parsons"
"That was when Herr Most was here
and made some speechcs?"
"Ycs."
Sand 1t was on account of those
speeches that you severed your conncc-
ton with the Intcrnationalists?"
eyes, SIR"
"WhO did You see on the wagon on the
night of the Haymarket meeting?"
81 saw Spies, Schwab, Fielder and Ru-
dolph Sehnarebet. The latter knew as
. member of the lntcrnationalists."
The court adjourned at one O'Clock un.
til 2 p. m.
The next witness placed upon the
stand was Louis Haas, detective be.
longing to the Central station detail. He
was an eyewitness to the scene of the
riot, and said as the police came up he
heard some one in the crowd say: "lIere
come the blood-hounds." ssYou do
your duty and we will do ours" His
elected nothing new.
Cross.examincd, the witness said that
the "blood. hound" sentence was uttered
as the police came up, and that scarcely
= minute elapsed before Captain Ward IS
sued the order TO dispcrsc. The sentence
was spoken loudly aud distinctly enough
10 be audible, he thought, to any one
who had not started to leave the place.
He had repeated the ''b,Ood-hound" SEN
tence to some of his brother officers at
the Central station, but not Sergeant
Quinn. !
Apparently an opposite answer as to I
Quinn would have indicated to Captain !
Black, the attorney for the defense, con- :
1ucting the dissemination, that {
Quinn would not have recollected the ,
sentence had not his memory been I