The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-02
[Chicago special. ]
How the Condemned Men Received the
News.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
The anarchists were all pleased with the
news, and if they eventually escape all pun
Isl ment it is safe TO say they won't again
play with edged tools. When seen by
reporter Parsons was seated in his cell. He
had his feet against the grated door and his
chair tilted back at an angle of forty five
degrees. Asked what he thought of the
granting of the supersedeas, he said 1t
struck him very fayorably, and he was glad
to hear it. He didn't know to what extent
the influences brought to bear in the trial
before Judge Gary would affect the decision
of Supreme Court Justices on q motion for
a supersedeas, but he was pleased to see
that they had cut no figure. He thought
the decision of Judge Scott in granting the
writ was in itself an evidence that the con-
viction OF himself and the others was a
violation of the law.
If you get out of this scrape do you
think YOU will talk and write in the future
as you did in the past2" he was asked.
Il can't say whether l would write the
same things and preach the same doctrines.
For my part, am willing to say the rascali-
ties, oUtra es, and robberies to which the
working classes have been subjected some
times get the better of a man who feels for
them. and leads him to say things he
It's a good deal like politics, where the
leader of one party abuses the leader of
the other, but after the campaign is over
everything settles down 10 quiet again"
Fischer was not much surprised TO hear
the news, as he thought all along that the
writ would be granted. He believed, how
ever, that if Judge Scott was of similar
material to Judge Gary there would have
been no hope at ALL
Fielden was not disappointed over the
news. as IT was Just about what he expected.
He was uncertain what business he would
engage in if he finally got clear of his
present troubles, and was unable TO say
what influences might be brought to bear
upon him to change the opinions he had so
freely uttered in the past.
Schwab couldn't say he was much sur
prised at the news, for his attorneys had as
sured him that everything was favorable TO
the granting of the writ. He thought similar
disturbances to those of last May would oc-
cur again, but intimated that he wouldn't
be mixed up in them. I'VE Germans. he
said, "are more radical and outspoken in
our views than Americans, because We have
seen the same state of affairs produce the
same results in the old country, and, in
raising our voices against the further OPP
preston Of the working people, only tried
to avert the disasters that have overtaken
them elsewhere"
Spies was expecting the supersedeas, but
would not have been surprised had it been
refused, after what he hnd seen at the trial.
He said he was not ashamed of anything
he had written in the past, although admit
ting he might have said some unreasonable
things. Concluding, he said: MY course
in the past may not have been wise, but l
never willingly harmed anybody in my life.
If the verdict is sustained. henceforth any
man can be arrested and dragged to prison,
tried, convicted, and punished for any un-
lawful act committed Ivy persons known or
unknown
Neebe believed all the time that the SUI
persedeas would be granted, and never felt
alarmed over its being refused,