Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-07-28
THU DEADLY BOMB PLOT
Strong Evidence Against Parsons,
Spies and Fielden.
The Murderous Plan They UnfOlded to
a Reporter.
Bombs to be Hurled at the Police and Mil
tary from Housetops'
Revolutionary Utterances OF the Shiain-
Gus Trio of Anarchists.

Anarchists moved silently into Judge
Gary's court, this morning. There
was a serious, thoughtfullookin Spies
face as he took his seat, and indeed q
sombre melancholy seemed to brood
over the entire gang with the excep-
tion of Lingg.
Immediately upon the opening or
court, William Seliger, who is regarded
as the principal witness for the state,
was put on the witness stand. The
courtroom was crowded and the tes-
timony was listened to with the keen
est interest. Seliger testified that he
lived in Sedgwick Street, and had as a.
boarder Louis Lingg, one of the de-
PENDANTS. On Monday night witness
attended meeting of the Carpenters
Union at Zepf's Hall. At the meeting
copies of the "Revenge" circular were
brought in and distributed by Ballat-
Ear Rau.
'Did you work at your trade Tues
day ?"
mo"
"What did you do that morning2"
OOU up dU sOO ~ C1OCks 141uGG
came. | had previously told him I
wanted those bombs removed from
my dwelling. He told me to work dill
gently at them and that they would
be taken away that day. took some
coffee and after a. while worked at
some bad shells, filling the holes"
"Look at the shell [ now show you;
(handing the witness a leaden sphere
about the size of q small turnip) did
you work at these shells?"
eyes"
"What did you do?"
81 drilled the holes. It took me
about half an hour"
"Where was Lingg?"
"At meeting on the West Side. He
came back about o'clock"
"Did you speak to him ?"
e'He said to me | did not work very
much; l ought to have done more. I
told him I had no pleasure in the
work. Then he said: we will have to
work harder this afternoon
Mr.. Ingham, who conducts the ex-
animation, offers the shell in evidence.
"Did you have any conversation
about bolts?'
eyes. Lingg told me to 60 to place
on Clybourn Avenue to get some bolts
to put in the shells. got about fifty
bolts"
"Who worked with your"
"Huebner. Munzenberg and Hew-
mann; we worked I'll the afternoon"
"What room did you work in ?"
SIN the front room at 442 SedgWick
Street, in Lingg's room, and in the
rear ROOM
"What did Lipgg do?"
"First he worked at the gas-pipe,
putting in the tubes"
3eTubes like these9" Mr.. Ingham
presents two wrought-iron tubes
inches long.
GLOW many bombs were made that
afternoon?"
ST can't tell"
ga dozen ?"
ooh, more. Perhaps forty Or fifty;
can't say exactly"
Chow many round bombs ?"
81 can't tell exactly.
"Were the round bombs cast that
afternoon?"
mo"
''Who cast them?"
''Lingg cast them once alone in the
rear room of my store. That was six
weeks before May 1.'
':Where was the first bomb you ever
saw?"
Gin Lingg's room, some time before
that. Perhaps two or three months
before"
Witness conversed with Lingg at the
time and the latter told him he was
going to make bombs also. He saw
some dynamite in Lingg' sroom. Lingg
told him every workingman should
have dynamite and to learn to use it.
There was going to be an agitation"
he said, and all workingmen ought
to learn the use of dynamite.
On the Tuesday afternoon when they
were making bombs, Linggo said the
bombs would be good ''fodder" for
the capitalists and the police, who
might try and protect the capitalists.
The bombs ought to be completed
that evening as they were to be used
that night, Lingg said. When witness
left the house in the evening,
Lingg accompanied him, and they
carried little trunk contain
ing the bombs. Witness said the
bombs were round, and some of them
were pipes. They weighed about fifty
pounds. They were all loaded with
dynamite and had caps fixed on them.
While they were carrying them they
met Mitzenberg, and the three of them
carried the trunk to Nef's Hall, SO
Clybourn Avenue.
They took them in through side
door and into q hallway. There the
trunk was opened and several people
came to look at it's contents. saw
three or four men take bombs. I took
two and put them in my pockets.
Then we went away, leaving the
bombs in the passage-way. The
hall back of Neff s saloon, witness
said, was called the "shantv of the
Communists. Anarchists and So
cialists all used to meet there. When
he left Neff's saloon, Lingg, Thicker
and Gustave Lehman were with him,
and they were afterwards joined by
two men of the Lehr und Weir Verein.
All had bombs.