St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-28
BE Saw Spies, Schwab and scbnaubelt
Prepare for Throwing the
Deadly Bomb.
They Thought cone Would be
Enough and So indeed it
Proved.
A Stenographtc Report Presented o.
Spies VilIainous and Incen-
diary Speech.
The Anarchist Trial.

early this morning with number OF. b0u-
quets. When the anarchists were brought
in from the jail the woman in white rose
in hurry, and quickly running over to the
prisoners. rendered each one OF them a
bunch of flowers.
In the afternoon the first witness was Louis
Haas a detective belonging to the central sta
ton detail. He was an eyewitness of the
scenes of the riot and said that the police
came up he heard some one in the crowd say:
HERE COME THE BLoODHOUNDs;"
you do your duty and we will do ours His
examination ELECTED nothing new. Cross
examined, the witness said that the 'blood-
hounds sentence was uttered as the police
came up, and that scarcely minute elapsed
before Capt Ward issued the order to dis
perse. The sentence was spoken loudly and
distinctly enough to be audible, he thought,
to anyone who had not started to leave the
place. He had repeated the bloodhound"
sentence to some of his brother officers at the
central station, but not to Sergeant Quinn.
Apparently opposite answer
to Quinn would have indicated
to Capt. Black, the attorney
for the defense conducting the cross exam
ination, that Quinn would not have recollected
the sentence had not his memory been fresh
endesby the witness. An effort to induce the
witness to contradict his testimony before
the coroner's jury was not materially sue
cessful. When Percy English was called to
the stand Spies leaned forward eagerly and
his cOuntenance bore
LOOK OF INTENSE INTEREST.
Being one of the Oldest reporters on the
city press, Mr.. English was known to Spies
and Parsons as a stenOgrapher who never
neglected to take verbatim whatever he
wished to reproduce in his paper. The wit
ness testified that he was present when the
Haymarket meeting was called to order by
Spies. Not caring to be observed, he took
his shorthand notes with q short pencil in
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difficulty in turning the pages, the
report was broken in places, but the
portion which he had intact, he sad was
verbatim. The substance Of the speech as
produced by Mr.. English the as
heretofore published and often referred to in
the progress Of the trial, but the reproduction
of the exact language had a profound effect,
and as he heard his own denunciations of
capitalists coupled with precise repetition
of the dark and sanguinary threats accom-
panying them, Spies face grew livid and
damp with perspiration. The defense made
use of every possible preteXt to interrupt the
witness with objections of every sort, which
were generally overruled The witness also
read his stenographic notes of Parsons
speech, which came next. This was
TIE STAR SPEECH
in the program. The speaker waxed warm,
and endeavored to impress his hearers with
the necessity of preparing to defend their
lives and interests at once. War had been
mick troublel and they must take up arm
against their OppressorS. Cross-eXamined
witness aSSented to the interrogative state
ment of Mr.. Foster that when persons in the
crowd, referring to Mccormick and other
capitalists, shouted Hang him. hang him
now both Parsons and Spies said that now
was the time, and counseled present modera-
ton. Mr.. Foster observed that the paper
containing the witness published report con-
tanned only those utterances which appeared
70 hn inc dinpxr O-Nda SI-nd xuitno haI
instructed to suppress all conciliatory Ian
guage used. The witness replied that such
instructions had not been given him. The
most interesting and probably
TIE MOST VALUABLE TESTIMONY
of the afternoon was that of NJ NJ. Thornton,
an employee in the wholesale store of Marshal
Field & Co. The witness, who had been on
business to the West side, was returning to-
ward the river on Randolph street when the
Haymarket meeting was assembling. Stop
ping near the entrance to an alley, a short
distance from the speakers wagon, he saw
Spies mount the wagon, inquire for Parsons,
and descend to the ground. Shortly after
Spies, accompanied by man who had been
pointed out to him as Schwab, passed by him
into the alley.
Mr.. Grnnell-Did you hear any words
spoken by either of the men?
WitDeSS-l heard the words "piStolS" and
"police." Then de of the men asked the
other, would lone be enough?''
Witness-The men came out of the alley
and went West on Randolph street. l knew
there was to be speaking, and
FOLLOWED THEM
to learn where the speaking would take place.
Ihey went west to HalStead street and | fol-
lowed Near Halstead they were Joined by
third man, whom had not seen before.
Mr. Grinnell, (handing the witness photo
graph of Schnaubell-Does this resemble the
man whom you saw join Spies and Schawb?
Witness-Yes, sir.
Mr.. Grinnell-What happened then?
Wftness---The three men started towards
the Haymarket. went along, and once when
quite close to them saw Spies hand the
strange man something which he put in his
right hand coat pocket A moment later l
passed by them and heard Schwab say; "Now
If they come give 1t to them Before 1
was out of hearing heard Spies reply: II
don't think we can, for they won't give us
chance tonight The witness
men back to the Haymarket where
by this time quite a crowd had assembled.
Spies mounted the speakers wagon, and the
witness lost sight of the other two. The
cross-eXamination was long aud tedious.
Mr.. Foster was
EXASPERATING TO THE WITNESS,
and the witness was defiant to the attorney.
The court was frequently obliged to inter-
fere, while the state attorney aroused the ire
of Capt. Black by his efforts to protect the
The first conversation the witness had heard
between Spies and Schwab, when the words
''pistols'' and police were used, was ex-
splained from the standpoint of the defense
by the following question by Mr.. Foster:
s.Now were not the words you heard
speaker and police and did not the subse-
ouent query, will one be enough? refer to
speakers to address the meeting, which was
the subject of Conversations. The witness
was confident that he had not mistaken the
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he had no means of knowing absolutely to
what they referred.
The testimony of Thompson was
a SEVERE BLOW
to the defense. 1t proves, as nearly as the
mistaken testimony of one man can, that
Spies, Schwab and Schnaubest had agreed,
before the Haymarket meeting was called
to order, to throw dynamite bomb among
the police should they attempt to disperse
them. 1t places Spies in the position OF
personally arming the bomb thrower and
identified Schwab as his enthusiastic
abetter. Though the witness did not swear
that the article he saw Spies hand to
S0hnaubeSt was bomb, the inference to
that effect was nowhere more plainly
marked than on the white face of Spies.
The almost frantic, but utterly futile eff
forts OF the attorneys for the defense to
make the witness impeach himself, showed
how well they recognized the weight of the
evidence he furnished. At one stage in the
cross examination the witness said that such
Ind such were his opinions. Mr.. Foster
reiterated. Il don't want your opinions:
they are not worth straw" and when the
states attorney demonstrated at such harsh
treatment of the witness, Foster reioined
loudly, land have the same opinion of
bis testimony" Altogether the testimony
of Thompson has apparently done as mucb