The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-03
News OF THE DAY.
BY Telegraph.
THE ANARCHIST WOMEN.
Wives and Swecthcarts of the Con.
dcmncd Chicago Bomb Throwers.

dcmncd Chicago Bomb Throwers.
Chicago. Nov. 3.-"Do You know
why Lingg Is such a favoritc among
female anarchists? Z" asked socialist
yesterday. No; it isn't because he Is
handsome. II is for the reason that
he is apparently indifferent to his fate
| mean by this that he exhibits that
brayado or dare devil recklessncss
which wins the admiral on of callow
girls and harc-brancd women. Be-
fore he was captured up near the Hin
man Street Station, week or more
after the Haymarket riot, he was not
known outside of the armed group.
The ferocity with which he fought
Officers Lewenstcin and Shutter when
they overpowered him in his friends
house attracted the attention of an
archists all over the city
Young girls saw in him a hero,
and when the trial began many of
them came to the Criminal Court for
no other purpose than to see the young
man who was so bold as to defy the
law and its servants. They saw in the
bomb maker q good-looking fellow,
who, to all appearance, was as stolid as
a statue of Justice above his head.
AS the story Of his dcvclish work was
drawn from the mouths of the wit
nesses these girls--thcse reds in pet
ticoats-began to think that he was
just too brave and too nice for any
thing. They wrote letters to him, and
shook the tips of his fingers through
the iron lattice work of the Jail. Kisses,
the only Anarchistic token Of friend
ship, passed between them. There
were pledges Of undying love for one
another, and before half the spooney
girls knew Just what they were doing,
Lingg was setting dates for orange
blossoms. beer and German band.
hear that Spies is going to get mar
ried in Jail. Perhaps there will be
double wedding, the bomb maker
figuring as the other groom"
The pretty woman in black who snt
all through the Anarchists trial. said
nh altache of the criminal court, SIS
August Spies staunchest friend in
Chicago. She belicvas the al CHI
Anarchist innocent of the charge upon
which he was tried, and | have no
doubt that she would readily exchange
places with him if she was positive
tina, By so doing he would gain his
liberty. They arc more than friends
August and this little woman in black.
Each longs to take the other by the
hand and walk up to the altar: but
then there are the bars and the terri
b,c sentence of death. They may be
married before the hangman builds
the tree of death for the groom, but
II will take place within the walls OF
the Jail and in the very
atmosphere of the grave. ! watched
the little woman in black while the fl
cry leader ofthc reds made his elo-
ouent and defiant plea before Judge
Gary. Charmed with the fiowery pas
ssges of his phillippid, she would
toss her head about in piquant admi-
ration: but when the speaker, with
knitted brow, Kissed and Numbered
his bitter sentences against Grinnell
and the jury, the woman sat as notion
less as a statue. Her eyes blazed with
a latent fire, her cheeks grew red with
excitement and her breath came short
and fast. watched her all through that
speech. but the only time her eyes fill
cd with tears was when the pale and
curly haired-prisoncr declared that
ifdeath was the penalty forproclaining
the truth he would proudly and def
sntly pay the price. 1t was then that
the little woman in black wept in the
folds other handkerchief"
The Catholic Church and the Knights