Telegram-herald., 1886-07-22
PIPE BOMBS IN COURT
Judge Gary Doesn't Fancy
Their Presence.
STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST LIAGG.
A Witness Who Once Prevented Him
trom Throwing a Bomb al Po-
lice Wagon r. A Formidable
Array OF Bombs.

capied chairs ia Judge Gary court rocm
/ thi. morning The nrst witness called was
/ William Seiger lie is thin featured,
/ dark k-compleKionei man, wearing heavy
/ n.ustache aud goatee. lie testified that he
was d carpenter lie had lived in Chicago
three wears aud half Previous To that
| time he lived In Eeleau, Silesia. lie liYe.i
/ al 442 SetgSick-st. and LJuis Lingg.
one oi the defendants. boarded with him.
/ Sehger STATED that he was al meeting
! of the carpenters union. of which he
/ Was recording secretary, at Lepfs hall cor
/ ner Of Despaiues and Lake-sts-. on the
evening OF May lie was not at the meet
/ ing al - Lake-st., but Was invited 10 90,
and ne identified IN the columns of the ir-
/ beif,r /fifulg the German letter y as the
! call for al the armed men" 10 meet on that
| night tie stated the armed men were
part of all the soclahsuc organizations.
| There were some of the soclalistic Organiza-
tiOns which were not armed.
| lie testified that he saw Tie Revenge cir
cular. III was brought there the evening Of
MAY by Belthauser Rau tie further testi-
| Il, q that the next morning at his house al
| the request Of Lngg. he worked at some
| lead shells; filling up the holes: lie idenui
| lied shell shown hlm similar 70 those
| he was working on. Witness stated that he
! told Lingg he wanted those things re-
| moved from his house and Lingg told him
10 work diligently on them and they would
/ be taken away the next dav. He stated
| that. during the day aud evening, be made
/ about forty or fifty bombs and that Lingg
! in his room working at pieces of
gas pipe Witness had talked with
/ Iineg about dynamite and its objects
! Ltugg had said dynamite was for the work
ng:nen aud they IA uld learn how to han
! a.. le -.
/ good fodder for the capitalists and for the
| police when they came 10 protect
/ the capitalists On the night of May
4 Lingg and the witnesses left the
| latter house about $50 O clock with a box
weighing about fifty pounds. The box
contained loaded bombs and was taken Ia
! 5S Clyburn-ave., known as the Shanty of
/ the Communists and "NefT Hall" AT
! that place tue box was opened and witness
saw three or four persons take bombs, but
could not tell their names precisely. The
| witness took two pipe bombs. From
| Nefi's hall Lingg, Thieben, Gustave Leh-
! man and the witness went TO the Larabee-
ST. police station Lingg and the witness
| halted there while the Others went on
ahead. 1t had been previously
/ arranged that adisturbance should be made
on the North Side that evening to prevent
the police from interfering on the West
| Side While Lingg and he were in front of
| Lanabee-st station Llngg said it would be
/ a beautiful thing if hey stepped to the cor
ner and threw a bOmb into the police sta
too. T vo men were sitting ont in front of
the station and Lingg said if any more
I came out they could shoot them down.
/ They then went 10 Wehster-ave station and
then caue back to North-ave and Larabee-st
While standing there a patrol wagon came
/ along and Liugg wanted 10 throw bomb.
/ He said that was the best chance they
would have, but witness thought IL would
, be without elect. "Lingg' continued the
/ witness, became quite excited. and said
! should give him sOme-a ilght. / was
smoking cigar, and | jumped into the
! front ball of a store and pretended to be
lighting a match. / delayed purposely,
pretending to be lighting a cigar. Other
| wise he would have thrown the bomb.
( When the wagon passed gave him the light.
/ The patrol wagon was completely manned
as IL passed. Lingg wanted 10 wait rll the
/ patrol wagon came back. but / prevailed on
him 30 60 home, where We arrived about Il
/ O'Clock Lingg called witness attention
to the word "Ruhe' IN the drb,ifr Zeihtag.
| Witness did no, know the meaning of the
word Ruhe' till Iings then and there told
him what IL meant.
Lingg went on 20 say that everything was
10 20 tOpsy-turvy The word "Ruhe' was
10 call a meeting Of the armed men al 81
West Iakest., and also a signal of trouble
4 Alter this conversation Llngg and the wit
ness went to Neff hall on Clay oourne-ave
where there were several persons present
Witness heard there that bomb had fallen
at the Haymarket which had killed and
wounded many. One of the men present
said tO iingg in an angry tone, q" You are the
cause of it, Witness ami l. ngg got home
again a little after midnight on the
way witness bid his bombs under an
elevated sidewalk on Siegel-st Lingg also
lard something there. but witness did not
see what it was tie believed they were
bombs The next morning Lingg in con-
versaiion with witness, saii be did not care
about the Haymarket ALTAR If only the
I workmeu got some advantage for IL
Continuing, the witness testified that be
/ frst saw dynamite IN the house six weeks
/ previous 20 Nav I Ldnkg brought IL there.
IAngg had told him that he had made from
I eighty 20 one hundred bombs. Witness tes-
/ uhei that ne had been member and
Financial Secretary Of the Northwest Side
Group. which vas also a branch Of the In
ternauoual Workinemen SDcie'y. Ills
last number Iu that society Vas p Wit
/ ness knew Ergci whom be had heard
speak n Nef Hall az the meeting Engel
ssid every one should manufacture those
bombs for fhemseir yes as the pipes could be
obtsined without cost.
Al this point counsel for the STATE pro-
duced a ripc which the witness proceeded
% identify as similar to those iu question
The Judge learning that it was loaded *
pressed nis opinion 0f the iHpr0priefv o'
bringing deadly weapons ~ thar sort into
a court oi Justice and apt BDnde'd was
commissioned to unload then on the lake
front The entire formidable array ~ bombs
cols fuse fl'minafing caps. etc. vas t1en
removed flom the court
Cross examined hy SIR Foster the witness
saif 10 vas arrested ou May and made a
statement fo Cspf ~ehaack and Mr Furh
msn iu regard tu Nbat he bad fe-fi-
faf fo rofav Tie bad recei vef
$3.50 in aH from lapt Schaack 20
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