The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-09
ANARCHISTS.
Fielden Claims Discrepancies
in the Testimony.
a GBEAT STRIKE IN CHICAGO.
O,,nion as to the oIeOmargarine Law
Railroad RuHnor-WesternU Union
DirsCtOrs-Othsr Notes.
The Condemned Anarchists.

CHICAGO, October 8.-The crowds
Who beseiged the criminal court this
morning for admittance to Judge Gary's
court room, was larger and earlier than
at any time during the Anarchi, is trial,
The speeches.whieh the condemned men
are making in their own behalf. and the
fact that the dates for their execution is
TO be given to-day being responsible for
this. Only a small portion of those
vho sought admission were successful.
When court was opened, George Engel,
one Of the defendants, at once began
his speech. Engel recounted his ex-
psriences in Germany, where he was
horn, and recited the hardships and
tvrannies the people we're forced to sub
nit TO there He came to this country
sought work in Philadelphia, and
Chicago, and found the same state Of
affairs existing. Capitalists became
-:ch bv their oppression IF the working
class. Engel then made study of the
question. He read &.1ry Georges
hooks. and became a Soc ,alist. Engel
became very bitter in his,
remarks about AmeI 1can courts and law
hsk0-e ne concluded. He spoke until
II o'clock. Sam Fielden then spoke.
He related in substance what he had
said Upon the witness stand and de-
clargd he never had been guilty of any
violence. He declared that the news
papers had either, misrepresented or
misunderstood him and tat they were
responsible Tor his death. He declared
he had never urged the sacking of
wholesale stores. Before he had con-
cude5 speaking the court adjourned
until O, clock.
Fielden. in his speech, turned his at
tanttOn to Whas he claimed to be the
discrepancies between the testimony of
those who had sworn to his having said,
Here come the bl )od hounds now"
Is the police came up, and made an able
and sTgUmentative comparison of the
testimony given by these witnesses. He
referred 10 Benfeld's evidence as 1.-The
testimony OF truthful James Benfield."
He went on as fol ows, to speak
Of his acts on the fatal niSht:
The worst newspaper in Chicago
admitted that it was extremely
doubtful whether Fielden shot
or said, you do your duty and I will
do mine, or here come the blood
hounds There is nothing in proof
that did not walk away peaceaoly. l
vent away peadeably. Lieutenant
Steele said so on the stand"
In The afternoon Fielden continued in
much the same strain. He declared:
III ara to be convicted, / am to be
hanged FOR telling the truth After I
had esCap ped from the Haymarket meet
ing went home. The explosion of the
BONO was as much q surprise to me as
any Of the policemen. I resolved, like
any honest man, to tell the truth. i
thought that when chey found out the
facts l wou d be released. l said
let them confess all they like. so SIS
they tell the truth. The great Socialist
who lived n his world over 800 years
ag0-Jesus Christ-left these words on
record, and the principles of justice and
right have never been expressed in Ian
guage better than his: Better that
ninety and nine guilty men should 60
unpublished than one innocent man
should suffer" He concluded thus:
We claim that We are convicted, not
because we committed murder, but BE-
cause we we're very energetic in advo-
eating the rights OF labor"