Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-08
Judge Gary Sentences the Condemned
Anarchists to Suffer the Extreme
Penalty ofthe Law.
He Reviews the Testimony and COmbats
the Objections TO His instructions
to the Jury OF Trial.
spies Tells why Sentences OF Death should
not be Passed Upon Him, Making
Powerful speech.
A NEw rnIAL RrrusEp


ruled the motion for new trial IN ibe
eases OF the anarchists charged with the
Haymarket massacre, and confirmed the
verdict of the jury that Spies, Parsons,
Fleldeu, Schwab, Engel, Fisher and Lingg
should be hanged, and Noebe should
suffer imprisonment fourteen years Ia tho
state penitentlary. The court, owing 20
the intercession of the counsel Tor the
prisoners, deferred passing sentence upon
them until O'Clock this afternoon,
sENTRNCE rAssRD.
| CHICAGO, LII, Oct. TAT o O'Clock
this morning few police paced back and
forth In front OF the criminal court build.
Ing "Fhls Is sentence day. said many
| pedestrians as they hastened towards the
court IN hopes Of entering the presenceof
Judge g ry, and witnessing the
sensational scenes, but only ore In
ten could get by the guards az
the outer door, and by 10 o'clock the dlsS
appointed ones formed quite an Assem-.
blage on the corners and In front OF the
courthouse building at 10 O'Clock the
prisoners were In their seats They were
not stolld aud Indifferent as often before.
change had come over some OF them and
they All exhibited evidence Of great
concern. Judge Gary, In delivering his
decision, reviewed az considerable length
the evidence brought out at the trial, and
said concerning the instructions to which
exception was taken by defendants con
the question OF Instructions, whether
these defendants or any % them did
anticipate or expect the throwing OF the
bomb on tho night OF May Is not
question which | need to consider be-
cause the instructions did not 20 upon
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TO tind them guilty II they believed they
participated In throwing the bomb or
encouraged or advised the throwing OF
the bomb, or had knowledge that II was
TO be thrown, or anything of that sort.
Tue conviction has not gone upon the
ground that they did have any actual par
ticipation In the act which caused
the death OF Defagan, but upon
the ground, under the instruction
that they had generally, by speech and
print, advised o large class to commit
murder, had left the occasion, time and
place TO individual within ana caprice Of
the Individuals 80 advised, and that In
consequence Of that advice, and IN pursu-
ance OF 1t, and Influenced ny II,
somebody not known did throw
the bomb that caused DeEagan's death
Now, under these circumstances, In the
time, each OF these orators at the Hay
market still more inhamed the public
mind when they advised the people
TO use force, and some man,
do not say identified, but say un-
Identified, some man In that
crowd when the police approache,, with u
bomb OF Lingg's manufacture, killed De
Eagan. All who have advised such &C.
lion are guilty OF his murder. II anything
can be proved by clrcumstantial evidence,
that IL proved that he threw that bomb
In sequence OF the influence which
these teachings had and this advise by
speech and printing over course OF two
years. that the man who threw that
bomb had been educated up 20 II by the
teachings Of these defendants The case,
az said before, ~ unprecedented.
There Is no example Of any
There IL no precedent OF any case like
this having become subject TO judicial
investigation, but the principle Of law is
well liked. The court then passed 10 the
objections urged against the form Of SEN
tencc, and quoted from the l09th
Illinois on the point, and said there
were nothing in the circumstance
Of this case anything less than murder.
The Instructions In regard TO man
slaughter might have been refusedi there
was no reason for them at all. Passing
the alleged disqualification Of the
Jury on accohat Of having read
reports in the papers Of the crime,
and having formed opinions thereon,
he thought the New York decisions set
tied the case, and that II verdict were 10
be get aside for the reasons urged, II
would be the surest way 10 bring about
AZ o Vsh U hn M la
which the government could be main
tained and law administered. He
concluded by saying ~ think,
upon the whole, the proof is that
no case could be tried Of such magnitude
as this with less In the way Of irregulauty
u proceeding IN the trial than was done
In this case. The motion must DO over
ruled"
The court then addressed the prisoners
as follows; 1PriHogers at tbs bar, for
the first time during this painful and pro-
tracted proceeding, It is my duty 70
speak 10 you aud call upon you, indiyid-
ually aud separately, now 70 say whether
yon have anything 10 say why sentercc
should moi be passed upon you according
% the yerdlct OF the Jury, / Will first
call upon Mr.. Neebe.r
Capt. Blaok-Let me suggest 70 yonr
hOno- that am advised that defendants
expect 10 speak 10 response to this sever.
ally, at considerable length. Wonld II
not DO better now 70 adjourn
until O'CLOCK?
Court then adjourned 70 2 D. M
When court was opened this Afternoon
the aeiepdRpf, Spies, ot once addressed
the court win manuscript Ia hlId, he
said "Y0ur honor, Va addressing ths
conrt I speak a. the representative Of one
class addressing the representatives Of
! will heRi0 with the words
Addressed 800 yeera ago ON similar mo-
IiOn ~ The Yenelian doer, who, address
Ing the court, said; NY de-
l0llntlaia,.d On En,lrth pnneN