The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
THE DEFENSE.
The Other Side of the Anarchists'
Case.
Testimony to Prove that the Police Did
All the Shooting -Esta abiishing Aiibis
for schwab and Parsons Eieiden
on the Stand.
TRYING TO SAVE THEIR sEcKs.

CHICAGO, aug. 3-ln the Anarchist trinl
Mayor Harrison was the first witness for
the defonse yesterday. He told how he had
attended the Haymarket meeting on the
night of May 4,and listened to the speeches
of the Anarchists. His object was to sec
for himself whether or not there were any
indications of violence, intending to
order the meeting dispersed at the first
wild outbreak. He had como to the con.
clusion that the meeting was harmless
affair and went home leaving Inspector
Bonfleld in charge of the police Mt the Dcs-
PLANES street station, having first ordered
all the reserves at the other stations to be
sent to their regular duties. Under cross.
the day Of May 4, he received an account
of n rumor that the freighthouses OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee e. st. Paul railway
were to be burned on that evening at the
rumor had caused him to attend the demon
stration at tho Haymarket, but nothing
occurred during his stay there to warrant
his taking action to break up the meeting.
B. Sinionson was the second witness for
the defense He is travelling salesman for
Rothschild & Brothers, ,lothiers, and
native of Chicago. He had been at tho
Haymarket meeting, and had gone from
that place to the Desplaines street station
during the early stages Of the gathering,
and had held a conversation with In
spector Bonfield, Captain Ward and Mayor
Harrison. Bonfeld. he said, had told him
that IL women and children were not in
the crowd he would take the police down
and clean them out; that IL he could get
three thousand of them together way from
the women he would make short work of
them. He had beer present on the Hay
market when the bomb was thrown. 1t had
on the sidewalk twenty feet south Of the
alley; 1t had fallen among the police; fir
ing had commenced Immediately after, not
from the crowd. but from the police. He
was most positive on the latter point, and
hung to It tenaciously under the hottest
cross.examination of which Attorney Ing
ham is capable.
Carl Richter, journeyman harness
maker, maker we working at Fenton = Co.'S, was
near the mouth of the alley from which
it has been stated the bomb was thrown
on the night of the Haymarket meeting
and, in effect, contradicted the States wit
ness, Gilmer, as to Spies or Schwab enter
that the firing of pistols came from the
police and not from the crowd, SO far as
he was able to see from the point he occu
pied s
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-The proceedings in
the Anarchists trial yesterday began with
the testimony of Dr. James ID. Taylor, sew
enty-six years of age and rather deaf. He
had been at the Haymarket meeting from
menced until after the bomb was exploded
He contradicted the States witness, Gil
mer. as to the point from. which
the bomb was thrown, and cor
roborated the testimony, of Simonson
He swore that the the pistol-firing
had commenced simultaneously with the
report of tho bomb explosion, from the
police officers and not from the crowd. He
sworc that he did not see one shot
fired by the members Of the retreat
inp GRO yXd
L. Nj. Moses, of No. 3Ol Randolph street
was put on the stand to testify as to the
general reputation of Harry Gilmer for
truth and veracity. He testified that it
him under oath; and he gave the names of
several others who had. he said like views.
One Of these. Austin Mitchell, was
called, but upon being asked If he knew the
bors for. truth and veracity he an.
swered "No." He was excused, and
Mrs ID. ?. Lee took the stand She had
heard L. N. Moses say that he would no !;
but that was all. Frank STEINER told his
story Of the riot, but the only new thing in
it was that Fielden had said or shouted
Stand" Immediately after the explo-
sion. Joseph KutscheE who was shot
twice during the riot and was under
arrest for short time, swore that the
bomb was thrown about twenty-five
feet south of where he Stood and that he
stood about five feet south of the alley.
John D. Brixey and John Gar
under oath. An 4rbeiter- Zeitttng compost
tor named Urban, member of the Central
Labor Union, testified that in response
to a request of some delegates from the
bor Union had requested Spies to
speak at the Mccormick meeting Monday.
The witness swore he saw revolvers In
the hands of the police as they came up to
a..
shooting was all done by the police Gleason
was an Irish Fenian and chief Of revolu-
tionary society in Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Engand He H. ackno%lsdged haying ad
Bonfield because Of his action in tho street,
car drivers strike. Two Germans, named
William Sahl and Eberhard Hirsemengel,
testified through the interpreter concern
ing the scenes at the Haymarket, their
extent the theory of the defense that the
police were the HsSi ossors.
CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Il the trial of the
AuEuss Ia
and build as Spies. swore that he was at
the mouth OF the ley with a friend named
Albright during the latter part of the
speeches and until the explosion, and that
up he and Albright went into the alley,
struck matches and lit their pipes. This
testimony is considered very important
by the defense, their contention heing that
Gilmer mistook the witness for Spies and
afterwards concluded that Spies was light
ing a bomb, when it was really Krumm
lighting his pipe. krumm was posi-
tive that Spies did not come into
the alley. Tho witness was greatly
confused in cross-examination. He swore
that there were no boxes on the side
walk and that the bomb fell twenty feet
south of the alley, both of which state
ments were undoubtedly wrong. William
Albright corroborated Krumm's evidence,
and also swOre he heard shot before the
bomb exploded and that 1t came from the
direction of the police.
Fred Groh, the secretary Of the Carpen-
ters' Union and August Krause chairman
of the meeting of the union at which En-.
gel spoke, were called to prove that Engel
did not recommend his hearers TO save up
money to buy revolvers, nor did he say
that a revolver at three or four dollars
was good enough to shoot police with. This
was in contradiction of Officer Wienke's
testimony. utrlI
The defense also tried to get in some tes-
timony showing that Bailitf Kelly OF the
Desplaines street police station had
warned q friend against being at the
meeting, the inference being that the at
gard!ess OF what the speakers might
say, but this was ruled out An attempt
wns also made to show that Seliger. the
informas had stated that his confession
was ex.0rted from him by the police under
threat Of punishment aud by promises of
liberty, and that the substance of 1t was
false, This also was ruled out. In rebuttal
of Gilmer's statement that he saw, or
thought he saw, Schwab at the speakers
wagon when Spies was lighting the fuse In
the alley, or about that time, witnesses
were called to prove that schwab was then
lr<,U tnvny lax Il