New-York tribune., 1886-05-28
NOSTEXHORTED ALL TO ARM.
Evidence AGAINST THE ANARCHISTS.

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e,v1rs AND BOMBS NORTHUMBERLAND INcEN-
DIARY REMARKS.
c.ora. of heavily bearded foreigners watched
yohn Most the Anarchist. with apparent approval
A. he sat and blinked and screwed mp his NOUN I'D
fLe General Sessions Courtroom on the second DAY
~ h,s trial before Recorder Smith for melting
riot Most had been brought from the iombs hann-
cnffed to an obscure prisoner lie oD)ecled 10 '9
disgrace His associates, Adolph Schench "hu
John Braunschweig. took the situation more eaSht'
Police Captain McCullagh sat beside tne prose prose
cutting officer. Assistant District Attorney ,T
made long and earnest opening OF I,;o Inc uo' Hill
iury He described the meeting nj ,'crfhanla ~, III
IN Secoud-avc on April %, when ScheucN plo'"rIn VI
and Most and BIauuschwclg maze spceo"o', ~ ~
said that men such as me ~ who souht oniy TO
improye their condition Men OF TINS stamp stamp @ Wnu
sit in liquor stores and gnzze oee,' Wv thny dare
NOT commit themselves, should be repieSseu. MOST
he said. walked up and down win a gun Oh ms
shoulder and adN1ca'fn Inv use read many of the
Sentences winch the witnesses afterward testlhed
that they had heard or ,..: a..
Joseph c. Bruner, Central Office detectiVc. res
tilted that he attended the meeting at Germania
TIall The witness who understands German de-
scnbed Mosts speech Schenck PRESIDED al rI, ,np
meeting Circulars calling on the socialists TO arm
were distributed. Most advocated the FORMATION
Of rife clubs He said that capitalists onioyet Ia,
laborers should have. Workngmen snom.h hodmn arm
Themselves against the capitalists. lie marcheu up
mud down with rifle, and SAID that theV couiu oo
tain 900 900 of them Policemen were on'y In11 In1
take arms against the police bandits. Biaunsch"eig
MADE "A similar speech -.:
Charles VI. Ahlstrom, who attended the meeting,
lint d,l not believe in the teachings OF Most, testl-
fed hat Most advised the men TO arm tncnls"I'cs
not only with rifles but with bombs ana other ex,
piosivcs, which could be made from gas pipe nileu
with an explosive substance. or from g1ass 'nDeS.
The wives could help by taking sticks, winding
clothes around the ends and dipping the clothes III
petrolcum and then setting ire 10 buildings
Policeman John Meyer Joseph Martin and
Policeman Louis Roth gave similar testi-
nony to what took tGs woIE RaSe en- are not To
parade on Nav they must ask PERMISSION OF me
DO ice. If POO. 600 men were to go out with arms
II would not be necessary to ask for permission
Now is the time for political revolution. Not only
could arms and bombs be used but the women
dows on the police. Il don't call this the
United Statcs' he cred. but tthe dlSunted states
Btaunschwelg made speech IN similar saraln
The witness testified that the sentiments
of Most and the other speakers seemed
10 meet with approval from the audience
Charles r Schq7 VINO Is IN anG I%1 heard M"s saw
among other things some OF You nave "alches
Why don't yon sell them IT 1t is necessary III order
10 huy nrms You can get rifle for $G or arepcat-
lug rife for 81 which can Kill twelve poiiceheh
Policeman Kcnn heard similar language and tes;
tilted that Most also said that If his bearers could
not afford to buy guns they could arm themselves
with revoIvers and if they were not allowed 70
conceal them they might wear t"t EN- ope,i me
might carry longer and could use the IN as
walk ing sticks until they were needed Tor othcr
purposes
Sergeant Jacob Won Gcrichten, who arrested Most
MAY H. testified that he had been looking Tor HIM
for two weeks. lie found him at No. l9o Ailen-st.
The officers broke in the door and stumbled over
the bed. Nest was carried from the room. Inc
Iiic produced was fonnd in closet, and theTo was
also a polIccman'S club and large number OF
pamphlets some of which were by Most himself
One of them described the manufacture o1 dyna-
mite. The prosecution closed with the testimony
OF Policeman Bissert, which was similar to that OF
other officers
lhe only witness called for tho defence
before the adjournment was William Fle'On,
a reporter who attended the meeting He corrobo-
III ed most of the witnesses for the prosecution eX-
cep that the remarks were placed IN a slightly
different relation. The last questions Mr Fellows
asked him III cross-examinatlon were:
Q.-Dd not Most say something about the meeting OF
MAY l3l Yes. ,,
q What dli he say Ale said that their demand
for eight hours would probably be more quickly granc
II they had rifles over their shoulders lusle'u Oi
torches. =, %,
probably he called witness.