The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-07-31

Inc witness acknowledged he was afraid
or his life, and so had written letter, tho
substance of which was that Setback had
extorted information from him under
threats He swore that this was untrue;
that he had been voluntary informer,
hoping, to escape by making q
clean breast of all he knew. He had
never been promised immunity for making
the statement. The REORGANIZATION
further showed that Lngg knew before
hand that there would be an explosion at
the Haymarket meeting, and was anxious
~ awaiting tidings ut the time it occurred.
The witness had been in Jail or in hiding
almost all the time since, being afraid of
an attack by one of his quondam brethren.
Seliger's examination occupied almost
five hours and then his wife took the stand
and corroEorated the chief facts of his tes-
timony. The only new thing in her evil
dence was that Lingg tried to make a hid
ing-place for the bombs within the wall of
his room, and that she prevented him. She
acknowledged that she hated the whole
business and would have been glad to
throw all the bomb makers into the street
that Tuesday afternoon.
CHICAGO, July By esterday's evidence
at the Anarchists trial very materially
forwarded the case for the State. The pros
ecution occupied the day in producing
proofs of the bloodthrsty mouthings OF
Spies, Parsons, Schwab and Fielden at
the lakc-front and other meetings The
TACT that the Arbeiter- Zcitung office was the
central distributing point of Anal CHS sup
plies, including dynamite, arms and revo-
lutlonary literature, was further empha-
sized by the introduction of the load of
dynamite and other explosive materials
found there.
The first witness yesterday was NJ H.
Williamson, newspaper reporter, who
testified to the action of the Anarchists on
the occasion of the opening of the new
fielden, speaking from the windows
OF the Arbeitcr-Zeitung Office, had offered
to lead an attack with bombs and all
other available weapons on the large stores
Of the city, Marshall Fields and G. P.
Kellogg's being mentioned as proper
places to begin with The Board of
Trade was also proposed as an OBJ
Ject of attack, and Board of Trade
men were to be murdered because ''they
were the scoundrelly robbers of the work
ingmen and had built that ediice from
the earnings of the poor" Parsons and
Spies showed the witness bombs and dyna-
mite in the Arbeitcr- Zeitung office.
The witness testified to various
meetings whero dynamite had been
preached by Spies Fielden, Parsons and
Schwab. Parsons explained to the witness
ohO VI StlCcu WulltIb WIFI DOmDS
and boosted of the strength and perfect or
ganization of the Anarchists of the city.
Several witnesses testified to Anarchist
supplies found in the Arbeiter- Zeitnna office,
and an expert in the use of explosives
gave testimony as to experiments he made
with the dynamite seized at the office of
the paper and showing its powerful char
acter. Officer Weinke, who appeared with
a bandaged head, having been shot during
the Haymarket riot, detailed tho substance
of speech made by Engel one Sun
day afternoon last February at an open
meeting at No. 703 Milwaukee avenue.
Engol advised the crowd to save up small
sum, so that each might be armed with q
three OF four dollar revolver, that kind
being good enough to shoot police with"
John j. Ryan testified to speeches made by
Spies, Parsons, Schwab and Felden at va
rious times when rifles pistols and dyna-
mite had been recommended Parsons
had stated that twenty-five cents worth
of dynamite would demolish tue Pullman
building, and advised that act. Harry
williamson, reporter, testified to stories
told him by Spies as to the use of bombs
and dynamite, and the condition and
objects Of the organization in the city
Joe Gruenhut, of the City Health
Department, described as Socialist
and writer of Socalistic literature, had
introduced the witness TO Spies, and had
been present at the principal invervew.
Spies told what was to be done and Gruen-
hut fixed the date it would occur-May |
or within few days thereafter, when
many working-men would be idle through
an attempt to enforce the Eight-Hour law.