Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-27
ANARCHIST SECRETS
BEING LET OUT BY WHOLESALE BY PINK
ERT0N DETECTIVES.
Written Records Of the Meetings Of the Dynamite
ConspiratOrs- Damaging Sensations Still CON-
ing Out And More Ready Of the Same
Kind Where They Came From.

CHICAGO, July 26.-The full force and
meaning of the testimony oS the Pinkerton
men in the Anarchist trial will hardly be
understood until more of it is in. There
is more of it TO come. Detective Jansen
is only one of five of PinkertOn's oldest
officers who were put to work early last
winter to find out how much the Anarch-
ist crowd actually meant by their speeches,
and who, in the prosecution of their work,
penetrated the Anarchist dens, took part Ill
thir most secret cOnclaveS, listened to
their instructions to their dupes, and re-
ported day by day to Mr.. w. \. Pinker-
ton, their employer Pinkerton had been
employed by a party of the largest property
owners in the city to make the inveStiga-
ton and furnish the information obtained
rs he got it. His men were not employed
to accuse or convict anybody. They were
instructed to report facts simply as they
found them, and their testimony is, there
fore. not open to the objection which is
usually urged with force against a detec-
tiye's cvidcnce-that it is procured to con-
Wet.
4. G.. Jansen, the detective, whose dis
closures Occ:lsiOned n sensation, Saturday,
took the stand this morning first, and the
examination Of the witness was resumed
by Mr.. Foster, who asked concerning the
witness version of the conversation which
took place between Spies and IN aged gen
tleman on the occasion of the parade on
Decoration Day Of last year, when Spies,
lookin" at the militia, said they would not
amount to much in the event OF riot;
that halfa dozen dynamite bombs would
scatter the soldiers in all directions.
The witness said he did not know who
this man was. Witness reported daily to
the agency i'll writing, and these written
reports he obtained from the clerk ut the
agency. The name of l.. j. Gage Is en-
dorScd on the reports, but the witness does
not know Mr. Gage.
Witness said that May 81, 1~~5, Fielden
made 4 speech declaring that the Govern
mcnt could be OycrthTown by force only, !
and OH another occasion Fieldcn told wit !
ness force WAS t. Dc used ON May lSt OF
this wear. August 18th Parsons, speaking
OF the street car mems strike, said that II |
Inspector Bonfcld was shot the social rev
olution would be inauguratcd.
During the crOSs-eXamnatIon JaSen
said Parsons snd Ficlden were at the first
meeting of tbe armed section, and he
thought Engrl also.
CHIEF PINKERTON On THE STAND.
William \. Pinkcrton, Chief of the Ma !
tional Detective Agency, testified that he
had employed detectives to ferret out the
secret doingS of the Anarchists, but this
was ordered stricken out and MIR. Plnker-
ton left the stand.
MIR. Grinnell read the following notice
i'm the ALdiTn,, of October Il, l~~5: The !
armed section of the American Group
meets every Monday night ut No. 81 West
Lake street"
W. p. Freeman, 4 newspaper reporter, !
said that ut the meeting on the lake front,
April -, Parsons spoke, saying Us the
workingmcn were driven to starvation they
would unturl the banner of libcrtvSand
fraternity and sweep everything before
them, and pointed to the red tia%
as he spoke He urged his hearers
to take up arms. Spies spoke in German.
Fielden said workimgmcn could only en-
iov the fruits of their labor by force. The
witness was at the HaEmarkct. lie saw
Parsons on the wagon, who frequently
cried ''TO Arms, y in his speech. Flcldcn
discussed legislation, and said it was uSc-
less to attempt anything by legislation.
Force was the only recourse left.
Witness saw Parsons, Spies and Fleldcn
on the wagon and he also thought hc saw
Schawb When the police came up he
heard the police give the command to the
crowd to diSperse, which was followed by
the explosion and the firing. The witness
crouchcd behind the wagons until the
firing ceased.
On the crOSS-cNamination, the witness
did not hear the remark attributed to
Fielden, I'VE are peaccable.
BITTER FEELING AGAINsTTHE PRISnNEIS.
1t is probable that the defense will Oc
cupv three weeks or Il month in the pre-
sentatiOn of testimony, and, II 50, the
original estimate that the tria, would OC-
cupy three months will prove more than
correct. States Attorney Grlnncl said
this morning that he had yet over twenty
members of Anarchist clubs in reserve,
whom he could call it it was found that
any branch of the testimony so far given
needed to be strengthened. The opinion
prevails; and is entertained even by
the friends of the prise IerS, that II Will he
impossible for the defense to break the ter
riblc chain Of evidence which has been
forged: but whether they can bee Onvictcd
of murder, or simply Of trcaSonablc con-
spirlcy, is a point upon which there is Il
difference of opinion among the members
of the legal profession. Meanwhile, rs de
tails OF the Anarchists schemes, plots and
plans have been gradually unfolded, the
public Indignation which was manifested
at the time oi the Haymarket horror has
returned. and were it not for the fact that
the prisoners are confined in the building
in which the trial is in progress, and have
not therefore to be taken into the street, II
is question whether lynch law would not
be brought into play.