The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-03

tney wauteo 10 XIII, out TO OVorturn SyStemS.
He said Elelden spoke very loud. He said there
was no use for the people to attempt to do any
thing by legislation. During Fielden's speech
the crowd began to leave. While Flelden was
speaking some one said: "Let US adjourn to a
hall" Flelden told them he was nearly through.
police approaching He heard some one
warn the crowd to disperse. Some
one on the wagon said, ''This is a peacea-
Bile meeting" The bomb exploded within Sec
ond or two afterward The witness did not hear
any one exclaim: Here come the police blood
hounds" or any exclamations of that kind. he
heard no pistol shots before the explosion of the
bomb. The witness saw the bomb thrown. The
man who threw the bomb was standing behind
some boxes near the sidewalk, about twenty feet
south of the alley. He was positive it
was not thrown from the alley. I'M
mediately after the explosion of the
bomb there was pistol firing. The firing
came from the police first After the explosion
the witness joined the crowd at the foot of the
stairway and ran west on Randolph street The
witness said that prior to the meeting he asked
Inspector Bonfeld about the trouble in the
southwestern portion of the city. The inspector
said tho trouble with these people was that they
brought their women and children with them.
The inspector remarked that he would like to
get three thousand of them together, and he
would make short work of them"
On cross. examination. the witness said he had
called on Captain Schaak several times to report
QlSOrGeFly disturbances at meetings OF Lno oal-
vation Army. He had visited the poice-staticns
on several other occasions to enter complaints OF
various kinds. He did not know either Captain
Ward or Inspector Bonfield He attended the
meeting to hear what the Socialist speakers had
to say, as he had the impression that the papers
did not represent the facts respecting this class
of meetings fairly. The cross examination of
Simon was continued until the noon adjourn
ment without being concluded.
The cross examination of Simon occupied
f,11l bolF of fho
session, but without apparent result.
AT this point the defense commenced the In
PRODUCTION of long line of witnesses to corrobo-
rate the new theory of the defense in regard to
the throwing of the bomb. 1t was sought to be
shown that the deadly missile came not from
near the speakers wagon into the ranks of the
police but arose perhaps thirty feet south of the
wagon, and was hurled through the air in north
westerly direction, and, therefOye, in a manner,
toward the speakers wagon. Another novel
feature was the Offering of evidence 10 prove that
Spies went, not unlimited, to the meeting on the
Black road, out of which grew the riot at Nc
Cormicks, and which was made occasion for the
Haymarket gathering. Spies the defense
claimed by their witnesses, went there on the in
visation of the delegate of the Lum ber- showers
Union TO the Central Labor Union Of which the
lumoer-shovers' organization is a part.
john Ferguson, ianitor of the building at
Clinton and Washington streets, who is also
proprietor oe small tailor shop at that place,
and has lived seventeen years in Chicago. was
the first witness after Simon. Ferguson testified
that the speeches of Spies and Parsons in the
Haymarket we're not at all incendiary. After
listening to Fielden few moments, the witness
heard some one interrupt with proposition to
adjourn The crowd was beginning to dwindle.
The witness himself left, and had reached the
southwest corner of Randolph and Desplaines
streets He saw the police rush OUT of side
street and "whrl down" the street. They were,
coming very rapidly. One of the officers repeat
edly ordered the police to hurry up Suddenly
there was a report, and he saw the flashes of
pistols.
Where were the fashesp interjccted one of
the attorneys for the defense.
They were ali in the middle OF the street,
south Of Randolph street." replied the witness.
s'Dns you see any flashes on either side of the
strcHs 11ilare the crowd stoodW
''Nd sir"
vious to the coming Of the police, the crowd was
very orderly.
'iAre you Socialism asked Mr.. Zeysler for
the defense.
mo, sir" answered the witness
'An Anarchist"
mo, sir"
ga Communism
Again the reply was negative, and the witness
was turned over to the States attorney, whose
questioning was brief and on the whole,
unproduc.ve.
The next witness, Ludwig Zeller secretary of
the Central Labor Union. was. the night of
May 4, at No. 81 West Lake street until quar-
ter past 10. He went to the Haymarket and
took up position few steps south OF the lamp,
facing the wagon. He heard no reply from any
one on the wagon to Captain Wards command
to disperse. He saw light arise from point
ten or twelve feet south and fall in the middle
Of the police. The course of the bomb was IN a
northwestery direction. After the explosion the
witness ran south. He saw no citizens shooting,
but many falling. The witness was here asked
by tho defense in regard to a meeting of the
Central Labor Union May 2. Zellers aid he
was there, representing Cgalsmakers UnoD
No. 10. The delegate from the Lumber showers
Union made request that the Central Labor
Union send good speaker to meeting that was
to be held on the Black road. Fielden and Spies
were named as specially desirable.
On cross-examination the witness said that he
once belonged to the South Side group of the In
ternationalists, but ceased to be member last
December. He denied being an Anarchist but
admitted that his place of residence was No. 81
West Lake street, the noted gathering place OF
the Anarchists.
Carl Richter, an intellectualooking German,
who is at present worker in the fancy leather
trade, but who has been an actor in a German
company was at the Haymarket meeting. He
stood in the first alley north of Randolph street,
leaning against the lamp post Richter's testi
mony corroborated that Of the preceding wit
nesses but contained little in addition. The wit
ness said he was not Socialist, an Anarchist or
n Communist, ard had never belonged to any
labor organization. He is married has lived in
the United States fourteen years, and is reg
stered voter
In the cross-examination it was ascertained
that the witness does not live with his wife, and
that large portion of his time in this country
has been spent as a saloon keeper and bartender.
A carpenter named Friedrich Liebei, another
spectator at the Haymarket meeting, testified
that he arrived there about o'clock. He stood
near the lamp-post in the alley, on the east side
of Randolph street The evidence given by
Liebe was substantially the same what had
just been sworn to by Ferguson, Zeler and
Richter Many questions were put to Liebel ard
to all the other witnesses who testified during
the afternoon that they had stood near the
mouth of the alley, as to whether Spies or
Schwab were seen by them to enter there. The
witnesses for the defense one and ALL were posi-
tive, so far as they knew, that neither of the two
defendants went near the alley that night. The
inference evidently intended by the defense was
that previous testimony for the State, that Spies
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