The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-08-05

about four miles southwest from the CEN
ter Of the city, aud made u most desperate
! resistance. He was armed with revolv-
or about fourteen inches long-a
most murderous looking weapon-and
did his best to shoot the officers, in
tending, according TO his own account 10
shoot himself afterwards. A bucketful Of
bombs, a cigar-box filed with cartridges, a
lot of metal, solder, bolts and nuts, shells
and carpenters tools, and q cold chisel,
brought into court all OF which
had been found in Lingg's bedroom,
| besides another extra big revolver
and Winchester rifle His trunk was also
brought in. After the police brought the
trunk from Lingg's lodgings to the East
Chicago avenue station they found it had
false bottom, and the space between the
false and real bottom was found 20 be
| filed with dynamite. The bolt-nuts found
in his room are exactly similar TO the one
shot into the tailor Hahn at the Haymar-
ket explosion.
CHIcAGo, July 90 : States Attorney
Grinnell said yesterday morning that he
thought he would complete his testimony
this evening. The defense will use about
ten days but the State has considerable
evidence in rebuttal The defense will at
tempt 10 impeach the truthfulness of NJ
M. Thompson and Harry Gilmer
Harry Gilmer, the witness who testified
on Thursday that he saw Spies light the
fuse and Schnaubelt throw the bomb, comes
of good family His father was Hon
Thomas W. Gilmer, formerly Governor
of Virginia and member OF Congress,
and afterward Secretary of the Navy,
when he was killed, together with Mr..
Upshur, Secretary Of State, David Gar
diner, and several Others, by the bursting
of Commodore Stockton's big gun ON board
the frigate Princeton during pleasure ex-
curson on the Potomac, February 2S, 1874.
In the trial yesterday DIR. j. II. Murphy
gave graphic and narrowing account of
the effects of the bomb and the sutferings OF
the wounded and dying. He had attended
nearly thirty of the victims of the eS
plosion some of them at the Desplalnes
street station and others at the hospital.
Describing in detail the wounds OF the
chief sufferers, he told CHASTITY story of
mangled bones and ragged, quiyering
who caught the full force OF the ex.
ploding shell. Some pieces OF she'll that
left but n small surface wound had torn
great jagged tunnels through lungs,
liver or intestines, while others that
had torn of Jumps of surface flesh
The incidental description of the suf-
ferings of Jacob Hansen, Timothy Flavin,
Lawrence Murphy, Nicholas shannon,
Thomas Redden aud Bernard Murphy
were extremely painful TO many OF the
listeners, and moved some OF them TO
tears.
a quantity of clothing Of the murdered
and wounded policemen was exhibited,
bearing blood stains and bulletholes and
rents torn by pieces of shell. They were
identified as the garments worn by the un-
fortunate policemen who fell at their posts
of duty at the Haymarket Captain Black
opposed this exhibit, but the States At
torney said that he ought TO be satisfied II
they did not bring in men on stretchers
dead and dying, TO show the deadly work
Of tho prisoners,
The young man Thompson, whose recall
had been requested by the defense took
the stand during the forenoon session, but
Mr.. Foster had nothing OF Importance 10
ask him. nor did his answers in any man
ner impair or weaken his important testi-
mony.
Police Captain Setback described an in
terview with Lingg the day the latter was
arrested. Lingg freely confessed he had |
made dynamite bombs and intended 20 use |
them against the police. He had bought |
the dynamite in a store on Lake street, |
had learned how 10 use 1t from
Herr Most's book, and had experimental |
successfully with some bombs OF his own |
make. Captain Setback then described his |
experiments with some OF Iingg's dyna- |
mite, and exhibited as evidence OF It's |
power the broken metal and plank already |
referred TO. The bombs, cartridges fuse, |
etc, were also put in evidence.