Huntsville gazette., 1886-08-07
THE DEFENSE BEGUN.

| The Case for the state IN Vtne CihcaSo +An-s
archist Trial Rested and the Defense Be-
| gun-Lawyer Solomon Would Have the
| Jury Believe the Prisoners are all Phi
Ianthropists, the States Witnesses Liars
4 and the Police Fientissir Murderers.
CHICAGO, August 1.-The Anarchists
resumed the wearing of their red bouton-
naires yesterday morning, with, the ex;s
ception of Spies, who discarded the one
profered him by a female sympathizer.a
| The, defendants, Spies, Schwab, .Fiefdefi :
and Fischer have colorless faces shoW-,
/ ing the evident effect of the trial. The
| young bomb maker >Lngg, is .the only
| one of the cluster on trial-who appears.
\ to carry himself ir'an unconcerried man :
4 ner. The courtroom was crowded as
usual. -
The state, ,safter the introduction. OF,
4 little unimportant testimony, announced =
| its case closed, andethe opening for the
defense was begun. Some routine mo-
4 tions by counsel for the. defense were
made and disposed OF by the court.
Attorney Solomon then rose and opened =
the case for the defense. First~he CON-
plilnented the jury on its patient efdur-
ance .of, its trying position and asked that
each member give the same close atten-
tion to the evidence produced. by the de- >
4 fense, as they had to all that had been
presented by the State. .-r-4
He asked the jury to decide whether
the States attorney had fulfilled his PROM
ises in the opening of the case for the
State. The States attorney had said that
he would produce in court testimony ].
proving who threw the bomb. Had this
been done? Mr.. Salomon claimed it had
not Proceeding to the charges against
the prisoners, Mr.. Solomon said. they ,
were not charged with anarchy .and
socialism, but, as shown by the intlict- ~
ment, the charge was the murder of.
Matthias J. Deegan. The law, the attor-
ney said, did not provide any
clause which declared or could be
I,constrned to declare THAT the 'defen-
'dants had committed murder. Mr.. SAL z,
onon read from the statutes to show
that the evidence bropght- against the ;.
the defendants did not prove thatdhey
were accessories to. 'mhrder.s He thehfs
read from several authoriti es, to show :,
what constituted the offense OF conspira-
cy. If the State had case at all, it was
on the charge of murder or conspiracy,
and upon no other. He would read ). nc =
said, from the reports as to, the nature Of i,
Ethe evidence necessary to convict. OF
murder or conspiracy. -+'I@swill peaa \
these" said Attorney Salomon. y. M s.f2r the
Information of the jury, and Tor the
Judge as we'll"
Continuing, Mr.. Salomon said the de-
| fendants could be held for cohspli'aGy II II
| it was proven that the meeting in Which, !
they took part was called for the purpose
of killing the police. "THese defend- :"
ants" he said, Stare not murdereTs, or
| thieves. or burglars. They are not Grim
inals, but are possessed of feelings''of
broad humanity. They have not desired
| to appropriate. the goods of Marshall
Field to their own use, but all they have
| done has been in support OF a principle
| which is-the eradication of asocial wrong.
! They have not advocated assassination
or recourse to'arms on account Of per
sonal feelings against any man on earth,
but all their efforts have been put forth
with the single object in view of better
ing the condition of their fefloW-men.' = m
The defendants, the-sattorney.decla
had right to, preach their doctrines and
make converts. 1.-THE people wanted social :
ism or anarchy they would have it. The,
law could not put down Socialism any
more than it could suppress Republican
ism and destroy Democracy. "You
fought'in5the nebellion,'' said Mr. Sao-
mon, s'to put down slavery so that one
man should not own another; tlrese de-
PENDANTS believe that there :are white
slaves, and, therefore, put forth. their ef-
forts toward their liberation. II they use :.
dynamite they use it for that end only. .
/ We do not desire to 90 into the evidence
presented here because we do not be- VIZ
| lieve it proves any thing. We expect.
IN these
have done murder or have conspircdj 10
do murder. We expect to prove that
these men assembled at the Haymarkets
on the night ofthe 4th. Off May to- ex-
ercise the right of free speech; to holda
peaceabe meeting for the purpose Of dis :
cussing the interests of laboring men,
we do not believe that any of the. defen-
danls present once thought OF the posi-
!. ,bilIty of such a1hing as a bomb being
thrown at that meeting, but we see in
the action of the police an in
| credible animus. We See in them
deyilish design, a. fiendishs de-
sign, an intentionft to destroy every lifc
| on that market We expect to show you
| that Mr. Felden fred no. shot at that
meeting and that he had not then and
never had "A, revolver. We expect to-
1 show YOU that 1.-THE witnes, Gjlmer, is
a. constitutional and a professional
liar; we do not believe that. in n.
the minds of the jury the testimony of
| sworn witness Is necessary to. establish
the fact that GiImcr's testimony is at4J- !:
luteIy yalueless. We expect to. prove
that on the night of the Haymarket meet
ing Mr.. Schwab did not speak to Spies,
as has been testified TO, but that he left
| the meeting some time before the expio-
ion occurred. We expectto Show that (
| Parsons and Fischer leftt meeting ear
ly and were seated in Zepp's Hall, drink
ing glass of,beer when the bomb ex-
ploded. We shall prove that Neebe
was at home, and expect TO show that
he had no knowledge Of the meet
Ing. You are familiar with the
movements Of Lingg. The evidence
| in no xay connects him with the throw
ing of the bombs, and if ne made bombs
he did nosmorea than he fadaperfeet
right to do; and there isnolaw prohibit.
ing his having dynamite in -l'is.hQuse Il
| he choose. We expect, ,toshow than none
! II fen Aatltc firnd Sh0fS n the