The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-31
A DIABOLICAL PLOT.
Details of the Anarchist Scheme
of Bloodshed and Ruin.
Several OF the Followers OF the Red Flag
Turn Informcrs--Thcir Startling Re-
cital-strong Evidence Against
Spies, Ficlden and Lingg.
AxAncmsrro xEcKs IN DANGER.

ANARCuIsTiC NECKs IN DANGER.
CHICAGO, July 20.-Nine police officers
and three private citizens gave evidence
yesterday on behalf of the prosecution in
the trial of the Anarchists. Two important
points were made: First that Fielden fired
on the police with a revolver about the
time the bomb was thrown: second, that
Spies as early as February, 1885, had been
working as an organizer for armed revolu
tion which was to begin with the seizure OF
Chicago about May /, 1885, when an at
tempt to enforce the Eight-Horr law would
leaye thousands of working-men idle and
ssdy ns rsS sS sn esas in scheme tSs wpT Pyoms o
plumber. Spies attempted to get the
officers of the Knights of Labor As
sembly of Grand Rapids to join the sch eme,
and the president of that assembly, Luther
ness on the stand yesterday. The evil
dence that Fielden fired on the police was
abundant and conclusive, and seemed
sufficient in itself to put n halter around
the neck of that individual. Detective
Bonfield , S testified s to arresting r, Spies
with Spies, after his arrest, on the Hay
market tragedy, he (Spies) stated that he
approved of the method used to extermin-
ate the police but thought it premature
Uudb Uut UlIIle uuu UOO uTIlNeu W StuTU Uue
revolution. The witness exhibited II num-
Der of dynamite cartridges. fuses, re-
volvers, dirk made from file and other
things which he found secreted in the Of
flee, of the Arteiter Zeitung: Spies paper,
and the organ of the Anarchists.
CHICAGO, jury 2l.-in yesterdays pro-
ceedings in the trial of the Anarchists the
evidence rendered by the prosecution was
the most important, but at the same time
the least sensational yet offered. This at
1nnc i., t1a ,;,,,.x ,f tnt,
Grinnell. The prosecution occupied most
of the forenoon session in proving that
the riot at the Mccormick works
May was instigated by few Anarchists
led by Spies; that Spies, after melting that
riot wrote and circulated i'll nflammatory
and lying accounts of the outbreak, with
intent to incite the working-men ofthe city
to further riot; that it was in defiance of the
active opposition of the leaders of the
strikers that Spies and his gang captured
the Mccormick riot, and melted that meet
ing to attack the non-union working-mcn; T;
and generally, that that riot was directly
the work of the Anarchists in the carrying
out of their plot to sack and plumber tho
city, as described in the testimony of the
witness Moulton the previous day.
The testimony presented in the after
noon clearly proved that Spies was the
writer of the mysterious "Ruhe" notice in
tn. the A. Areei'sr Z! that being the signal
armed forces of the Anarchists; that
sponsible for the incendiary screeds
in the Areeiter-zeitn"g; that Spies was the
Spies, Neebe and schwab, directly and
the other prisoners, indirectly, were re-
sponsible for the circulation of mur-
derous Anarchistic literature such
as Herr Most's Science of Revolu-
tha tionary Warfare" and that alt,ogetherr,
riot, the throwing of the bomb, the publ
cation of the Alarm and .4rbeiter- Zeitung.
the issuance of incendiary circulars and
proc amations, and tho manufacture, stor-
all an integral part of a general and pre-
meditated plot for the murder or over
throw of the police force and all law-abid-
ing citizens. and the seizure of the city by
the Anarchists.
CHICAGO, July 23.-Only two witnesses
were examined in the Anarchist trial yes
terday-William Seliger and his wife.
Seliger lives in small house on the rear
of the lot at No. 442 Sedgwick street. and
1t was in this house the bombs
May 4 the date of the explosion,
some forty or fifty bombs were made at
Seliger's. The prisoner Lingg. who lodged
ut Seligers, seems to have been the chief
worker, five or six others, of whom Seliger
was one, acting as his assailants Lingg
bombs and casting bomb-shells. For
tubular bombs he used sections of metal
pipe of an inch to one and n half inches
in diameter; for spherical bombs he cast
ieaden shells i'll cup-shaped mold, melt
ing the lead in a ladle on the kitchen stove.
Small iron bolts and nuts were imbedded
in the dynamite, and each shell sealed
with Illuminating cap and fuse attach
ment. 1t was unquestionably one of these
bombs that was thrown IN the Haymar-
ket
The forty or fifty bombs made that after
noon were packed in trunk and carried
to No. IS Clybourn avenue about O'Clock
by Lingg ,and, seliger. Here they were
rear room where each Anarchist could
go in and help himself. Several
conspirators equipped themselves with
bombs, all OF them being at the
deadly three-sided tile,dirks. Lingg and
Seliger armed themselves like the rest.
The two proceeded to Larrabee street
police station. They consulted on
whether they should Immediately throw
bombs at that station or attack Web
eager to begin; Seliger was cowardly
and held Lingg back. Lingg had been de-
tailed to attack these stations-to make
such disturbance" on the North side
that the police would be prevented from
massing at the West side, where the prin-
cipal disturbances We're to be made. The
two conspirators tramped between the
two stations and eventually saw
the Larrabee street patrol-wagon load
ed with police starting off to the scene
of the Haymarket explosion. Lingg then
excitedly prepared to throw u bomb at the
patrol-wagon. but by trick of his more
cQYardly companion was delayed in his
object until the wagon had driven of IN
safety.
The witness acknowledged he was afraid
of his life, and so had written letter, the
substance of which was that Setback had
eXtorted information from him Lnder
threats He swore that this was untrue;
that he had been a voluntary informer,
clean breast of all he knew He had
never been promised immunity for making
the statement. The cross-eXamination
further showed that Lingg knew before
the Haymarket meeting and was anxious
ly awaiting tidings at the time it occurred.
The witness had been in Jail or in hiding
almost all the time since, being afraid OF
an attack by ono of his quondam brethren.
Seliger's examination occupied almost
five hours. and then his wife took the stand
and ccrrotorated the chief facts of his tes-
timOny. The only new thing in her evil
dence was that Lingg. tried to make hid
ing-place for the bombs within the wall of
acknowledged that she hated the whole
business, and would have been glad to
throw all the bomb makers into the street
that Tuesday afternoon.
CHICAGO, July 23-Yesterday's evidence
at the Anarchists trial very materially
forwarded the case for the State. The pros
ecution occupied the day in producing
proofs OF the bloodthirsty mouthings OF
Spies Parsons. Schwab and Fielden at
the lake-front and other meetings. The
fact that the Arbeiter- Zeitung office was the
central distributing point OF Anai CHS sup
plies, including dynamite, arms and revo-