Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-08-14

cred the 'worKIng-men come armed
clause out Of the Revenge" circularin thu
presence of Spies and Schwab. Mrs
Holmes. the AnarehiStic editress or tn
Illrm, took the stand and swore to seeins
Parsons and Fisher in Zepf's Hall at the
time the bomb exploded
Intense interest was awakened when II
the afternoon Fielten, n OF the defend
ants took the stand. He preferred max.
inc an affirmation 10 taking an oath, and
the Judge allowed him 10 affirm. Tie
foli a graphic and vivid story o.
his experience in the riot, the au
dience listening with strained at
| IGNITION. Arising in his chair, he illus
trated how, when Captain Ward had or
dered the meeting TO peaceably dtSperSe, hi
| had bent forward TO the captain and re-
piled in conciliatory tones: Why, cap
lain, this is a p~eaceable meeting" He told
now the people 'howled in agony" as
| they frantically tried to escape the
| terrible storm of bullets poured on them
| from the ranks of the police after the ex'
~rlosion. He denied that he ever had Il re-
volver or ever fired a shot in his life. He
gave what seemed a fair synopsis of his
speech to the crowd, including his advice
TO throttle the law" Referring to the
testimony of the Pinkerton detective,
Jansen, regarding a certain conversation
with himself in December, he said he knew
long before that that Jansen was Il de-
tective aud that if he wanted to talk about
dynamite he would not have been such a
fool as to talk about it with Jansen of all
people.
CnIcAGo, August a-Fielden, one of
the several defendants, resumed his testl.
mouv in the Anarchists, trial Saturday
morning. Witness said he never told De-
tectiye James Bontield that he escaped
from the Haymarket meeting through
Crane Bros alley. On cross-eXamination
Fielien said he became a member of the
International W~orking-men's Associa-
ton in 1884. Soon afterwards he
Joined the American group of Anarch-
istS. In answer TO a question as
to bow long ho had been of the belief that
the condition of things must he overthrow
bv force. witness said he did not know as
he had ever been of that belief. He had
away l,rli~-sa thatat would have 10 he
overthrow II way or another. Witness
did not know for certain whether in his
speech he used this language; There are
p"remOnitiOnS of danger. The press say
the Anarchists will sneak away. We are
not going to-" He would not like to
deny using it, hut thought he ought to
allowed to explain what he mean if ho
use it. After being locked up for three
witness could not be expected, he
said. to remember If he used the language
attributed to him. Other extracts from
the reported speech of the witness ut the
Haymarket meeting were read, and he adj
using such language substantially.
lie thought he used the expression, refer.
ring TO the law: Keep your eve upon it;
throttle it; kill it, or it will kill YOU In
explanation of his use of these words, wit.
ness said he meant ii in a general way,
1,,rt pE n RntNt,1ltnny, ~ atA,. n,l .o,v,
I'VE will kill the Democratic party.n
Fielden in conclusion swore hat he did
not know of the presence of a dynamite
bomb or any thing of the kind at the
meeting until after the explosion oc-
CURED,
Mrs. Oscar Neebe, wife of the defendant
was called. She was not permitted
to testify on behalf of her husband, and
for that reason was Immediately relieved.
MIR. Foster had the big package of dyna-
mite so often alluded to brought into
court, and the witness L~innemeyer,
who had testified to having calcimined
the AJbtter-Icitgtg office, and looked
for his missing brush in the closet at the
back of the editorial room on May 4, was
placed on the stand and swore that on the
day in question no such package as the one
produced was on the shelf in that closet.
stephen Ingram undertook to corrobo-
Henry Spies account of the where
abouts Of August Spies on the night of the
tragedy, but became badly mixed, and
contradicted the former regarding
the shooting at himself and his brother
near the wagon. There was no shooting
there, he said.
At the conclusion of the days session q
witness named John Bernett swore that he
saw the man who threw tho bomb; that
said man was standing on the west side of
Desplaines street, about thirty-eight feet
from the alley, and that the bomb was
in a northerly direction. 1t did
come from behind the boxes on
the sidewalk. Witness could not
recollect as to whether he had
not said on the It'll of May, in
the presence of the States Attorney, that
the bomb was thrown from behind the
boxes. Witness watched the bomb from
the time it left the hand Of the thrower UNI
til it exploded. He knew at the time it
was thrown that it was a bomb.