Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-26
GUILTY.
80 Say the Jury in the Anarchists
Trial.
Spies, Schwab, Fielder, Parsons, Elschees
EAke1 and Lingg Sentenced to Hang
Neebo Gets fifteen Year,
Scenes In Court.

EAkel ond LtneG Sentenced to Hang
Nesbs Gets Fifteen Year,
Scenes In Court.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-N was known late
last night thst verdict in the anarchist
cases had been reached and ths brief time
in which the jury veto 5tit led to the con
clasion that 1t was not favorable
to the defendants. At, ten o'clock last
evening their labors had been completed.
At s: 80 iii the afternoon they had retired,
and thus within seven hours they had vif.
tually concluded that the svidenss was
sufficient to convict all but one Of
the men of murder in the first degree.
the penalty for which. according to the
laws Of illinois; is death.
As eafly as sin o'clock 4 swarm Of peo.
pie tbegan gathering about Judge Gary's
court room. Only the janitofs had arisen
and they were sleepily sweeping up the
rooms and corridors Of the massive build
iiE In which few hours later, seven OF
the gfeatest criminals ever brought before
4 bar of justice, were to hear their doom.
Within the court room the judges
and attorneys were In secret c0nsulta-
ton and IL was decided not to
admit more than one hundred persons In
addition to tho privileged characters. Sew
eral relatives of the accused who sought
their former seats were directed to places
behind the limo of police. Mrs Parsons
was given seat in the rear Of the room be.
tween two police officers.
When the jury entered at $50 o'clock,
escorted by dozen bailiffs, the judge had
not yet arrived.
At GAS he reaclsed the court room. BY
this time the court room was
fairly crowded. The court eDj0ined
absolute silence when the jury had taken
seats in the box. Then the foreman handed
In the following verdict:
I'VE, the jury. find the defendants, Aug
ust Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden,
A. r. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George
Engel and Louis Lingg guilty Of murder
and conspiracy as charged In the indict.
ment, and fix the penalty at death. We
also find Oscar Neebe guilty of murder
in the manner charged in the indictment
and sentence him to fifteen years in the
penitentiary."
At the request of Captain Black, of the
counsel for the defense, the jury was polIed
each man answering in q firm voice. The
Judge then thanked the jury for their pa.
thence and discharged them. Captain Black
said he desired to move for new trial. On
request of States Attorney Grinnell, the
motion was continued to the September
term.
When the verdict was pronounced, q few
eric, were heard from the rear of tho
court room. Somebody said Mrs Parsons
had tainted. Strong men wiped their eyes
when the limp body of the unconscious
woman was carried into an adjoining room.
Lingg seemed unprepared for the verdict.
He changed color. Tears streamed out rom
his eyes and he seemed completely broken
down. Parsons, Fielden and tho Spies
brothers bore up bravely under the fearful
burden Of the verdict.
The motion for q new trial, 1t is expect
ed, will be heard early next month. II
overruled, Judge Gary will pronounce SEN
tence and fix the date for the carrying out
of the death penalty. The case will then
60 to the Supreme Court for a review. 1t
Is the generally expressed view of lawyers
that the Supreme Court will not interfere
II Judge Gary refuses new trial, As tho
court, it is cOntended. ruled with great lib
erality toward the defendants counsel, and
read to the jury nearly every instruction
asked for on behalf of the defendants.
As the condemned men were being led
back to the Jail through the elevated IRON
passage way Fielder required support;
Lingg and Engel walked firmly and showed
little emotion; Spies and Fischer looked
pale but retained their strength, and
Schwab t0ttered behind Parsons. but it was
on Neebe that the blow fell heaviest He
had been confident Of acquittal. While
seated in the bailiff's Office last night he
was asked by Bailiff SeIden: "What will
you take right now as compromise sem
tence?" mot one hour" stoutIy declared
he. As he entered the Jail on the march
from the court he looked like . corpse,
his haggard cOuntenance speaking unutter-
able woe.
The court room was quickly emptied,
the crowds pouring out to join tho cheering
thrOngs in the street.
HISTORY OF THE TRIAL.
The trial of the eight anarchists who were
to-day convicted and with one exception
sentenced to be hanged, has been In pro-
yress fifty-six days, of which about three
weeks was occupied in the empaneling of
Jury. The evidence was closed on the
ifty-second day after the case had been
jailed. The defendants we're alleged to
nave been the plotters of and active par.
Elephants in the Haymarket riots at Chicago
" May 4, the throwing of bomb at which
'esulted in the killing of seven police Off
:ers and the manning of number
If others. They were all charged with
murder. Although it was not alleged that
Ill were guilty of the act of throwing the
fatal bomb. they were all believed to be
equally guilty on the ground of having
with each other to do the act
which resulted in tho slaughter Of the
police officers. The judge held the law
vas that IL the defendants were parties to
IN anarchist conspiracy, they were all
like guilty Of murder, although the date
Il the conspiracy might not DO fixed. The
particular crime of which the defendants
rave been found guilty was the murder Of
officer NJ j. Degan; and the theory Of the
prosecution was that at meeting
leId at Greif's Hall on May s. As well as
It other times the defendants participated
n q determination that in tho event OF .
collision between the police and the strikers
certain organizations should meet at certain |
,laces; that committees should be appointed |
o attend tho places where attacks BY the |
,olice might be expected and report attacks |
o the armed sections; that such attacks |
night be resisted and police stations and
nd other public works destroyed, and that |
he act causing the death Of began, namely |
he throwing Of tho bomb was the result In
which oil of defendants alike participated
"A family passed through Hanni-
al, Mo-, recently, bound West, that
ttracted attention. The father was
ix-footer and weighed fully two hum
red and twenty-five pounds. The