The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-12

or encouraged or advised the throwing II
that bomb, or had knovle lge that il was To
be thrown, or anything OF that kind. The
conclusion has not gone upon the ground
that they did have any
ACTUAL PARTICIPATION
in the act which caused the death OF De-
gan, but upon the ground, under the in
structiOns, that they had generally by
speech and print advised large class {
commit murder, and had left the occasion,
time and place TO the individual will ard
caprice of the individuals so advised. and
tnat in consequence of that advice and in
pursuance of il, and influenced by il, some
one not known did throw a bomb that
caused
DEGAN's DEATH.
Now, under the circumstances, in the in
famed state of the public mind at the time
each of these orators at the Haymarket
was still more inhsming the public mind,
when he advised
THE PEOPLE TO USE FORCE
and some man, do not say identified or
say unidentified some man in that crowd
when the police approached, with q bomb
OF Lings' manufacture, kills began, all
who have advised such action are guilty of
his murder. If anything can be proved by
circumstantial evidence that is proved,
that he threw the bomb in consequence of
the influence which these teachings and
this advice by speech and by printing over
course of two years; that the man who
threw that bomb had been
EDUCATED UP ToIT
by the teachings of these defendants. The
case, as i said before, is unprecedented. |
There is no example of any such crime |
having been committed; there is no pre- |
cedent of any case like this having become |
the subject of judicial investigation but |
the principal of law is well fixed"
THE COURT
then passed to the objections Urged against |
the form of the sentence and quoted from
the lO9th Illinois on the point and said |
there was nothing in the circumstances,
anything less than murder. The instruc-
lions IN regard to manslaughter might
have been refused. There was no reason
Tor them at all. Passing to the alleged
iisqualifcations of
THE JURY,
,n account of having read reports in the
papers of the crime. and having formed
opinions thereon. H thought the New
York decisions settled the case, and that If i
1erdicts were to be set aside for the rea-
ons urged, it would be the surest way to
'ring about anarchy, Tor there would be
10 way in when the government could be
maintained and the law administered. He
by saying: al think upon the
Whole proof that no case could be tried OF
UGH magnitude as this with less in the
ray OF irregularity OF proceeding in the
rial than was done in this case The mo-
ion must b. overruled." The court then
the prisoners a. follows:
PRISONERS AT THE BAR.
For the first time during this painful
nd protracted proceeding it is my duty to /:
peak to you and call upon you individ-
ally and separately, now to say whether
on have anything to say why sentence
hOuld not be passed upon you according
D the verdict of tn jury. will now call 5
pom 4
Mr.. NEEBE.
Captain Black, "let me suggest to your
onOr that / am advised that the defen-
ants expect TO speak in response to this
syerally at considerable length. Would
not be better now to adjourn until two 8
clock" The court then adjourned ]
i'll o'clock p. M. G
When the court opened the defendant O
pies at once addressed the court with =
Manuscript in hard. He said:
"1our Honor, in addressing this court Q
speak as the representative of one class
ddressing the representative of another. b
will begin with the words addressed five v
undred years ago on a similar motion by
he Venetian Doge, who addressing the .
,urt, said:
MY DEFENSE Il YOUR ACCUSATION, r
he cause OF my alleged crime is your his :.
ny. have been indicted on a charge Of
urder as an accomplice or accessory.
pom the indictment
HAVE BEEN CONVICTED. c
There was no evidence produced by the h
ate to show or even indicate that J had Il
~ knowledge of the man who threw the Il
Dmb, or that myself had anything to do p
it'll it. Not tn slightest evidence was u
er produced to show that had anything CT
do with the throwing uuless you believe d
e aocomplices of the States Attorney and .
onheld, and the testimony of Thoms on =,
ID Gilmer. III there was no evidence to -
ow that / was responsible for it, then / -
v that my execution and the verdict is ~
thing but wilful, malicousneSs and de- e
'erate murder, as foul a murder as may =
found in the annals of religious, politf ~
!, or any other kind of persecution.
JUDICIAL MURDERS .
We in many cases been committed where tr
= representatives of the states believed in
Fir victims to be guilty of the charge ar
" were accused of. In this case the
,resentatives of the state cannot shield do
smselves with similar excuses, for they i
emselves have fabricated most of the ds
timony which was used as pretense to mn
lyict us. We were convicted by ba
A JURY PACKED TO CONVICT 20,
charge the states attorney and Bon
d with heinous conspiracy to commit tn