Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-08-10
SCHWAB AND SPIES
Take the Stand and Tell About til
Riot at the Haymarket.


Riot at the Haymarket
CHICAGO, August 9.-August Spies and
Michael Schwab were both on the witness
stand to-day The rumor had been current
that Spies would take the stand and served
to attract the largest crowd that had thus
far visited Judge Gary's court. Out of doors
the crowd was as large as the one within the
court room. All the windows in the court
room and the doors were tightly closed and
the atmosphere was torrid. "Well, proceed,
gentlemen" said the court to the counsel
for the defense. The anarchists counsel
were holding close consultation. Their
heads rested together over the table
and they whispered long and earn
estly. Finally they retired to dis
cuss an important matter. quarter of
an hour elapsed, and then the counsel for the
defense entered, and the defendant Schwab
was put on the stand. ''Where do you ives'
asked Mr.. Foster Cecil 1O7 in the County
jail" laughter. CHOW, if this is repeated, said
the court, "l'll clear the room" Schwab
went on with his story. He left his home in
the evening of May at TAO; he looked at
the clock before departing from the house
and was sure of the time. Then he
went to the Arbeiter Zeitung office.
There communication was received over
the telephone requesting that a speaker be
sent to behring's. Spies was the speaker
wanted, but he was at the Haymarket, and
Schwab hastened there to find him, but
failed and saw his brother -in-1aw, Rudolph
Schnaubelt, then took a car east to Clark
street and boarded another going up Clay
bourne avenue to behring's. Schwab does
not know what time he reached the factory,
but he spoke to the strikers for about twenty
minutes, then stopped in saloon, had a
glass of beer and some lunch, and got back
home about eleven o'clock.
O. Were you ever in the alley at Crane
Brothers that night with Mr.. Spiess A. NO,
sir.
@. Did you walk west on Randolph street
with Spies two blocks, then return with h1mt
A. No, sir.
Did you see Mr.. Spies that night2 A. No.
sir.
O. Did YOU see Mr. Spies hand your broth
er-in-law a package that night in the alley at
Crane Brothers, and did you say anything
| like this: eff that won't be enough shall we
get another one?'' A. No, sir.
@. Did you see Mr.. Spies at all that night:
A. No, sir.
@, When did you see him at all for the
last time that days A. In the afternoon.
1 did not see him again until the next morn
| ing.
the Socialist Publication society, which is or,
| ganized under State law and by which the
| Arbeiter Zeitung was published. The SO
ciety, the witness said, exercised com
| plete control over the policy of the pa
Der and he was under their con
| troll as editor. Witness attended tne
| meeting on the Black road by invitation
| from some trades union delegates. When
he got there there were some very poor
| speakers addressing the crowd and the wit
| ness was almost Frustrated from speaking
| continually two weeks previously. He told
the men to stand together and if not thell
| ends would be defeated. "WhileI was speak,
| ing" continued the witness, 81 heard some
| one cry out and Immediately some two hun
| dred men detached themselves from the
group and ran off. did not know where
| they were going, but soon heard firing.
stopped speaking and asked what IL was;
| was told that part of the crowd had attacked
/ the sscabs' at McCormick's and the police
had been dispensing them. Then the police
| came up and I saw them chasing people
around freight cars. They were blind with
fear and the police We're firing at them
AS matter OF course my my, plooo
done almost anything. I saw, however, that
| I could do nothing, and took car and came
down town."
Chow soon after that was it you wrote the
editorial in the Arbeiter Zeitung of the next
day 2" 'I wrote it that evening""
1sYou wrote the revenge circular, sup,
pose, also 81 yes"
"Were yon still laboring unde the excite
ment of the scene and hour ~ 81 was.
was very indignant, and knew by the expe
rience had in the past that the butchery o.
the people was for the purpose of defeating
the eight hour movement. cannot accoun
for how the word revenge came into it."
Spies testified that he was getting dow
from the platform when he heard the boml
90 off. He supposed it was the pc
lice firing cannon. He had n
knowledge of it before. Gelmar's statement
: were false. The bombs and dynamite whic
the reporters had seen at his Office he kept {
E curiosities and for experiment. The wor
. | ssRuhe" was inserted in the Arbeiter Zeitur
by request of an anonymous contribute
Spies did not know what it meant until a
lterward. Witness testified to being bruts