Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-09
THRY HAVE Said.
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ylted. considered 1t an honor to be
elected chairman Of that meeting. |
Neebe then abandoned himself 10 wild |
appeal for the judge 20 hang him
with the Others. He cried: II would be |
more honorable 70 be strangled by the |
neck than to die by inches. My wife and I,
children will then be at ease sometime,
but they can never get over Il II their |
husband and father is sent TO Joliet.
Hang me, your honor, with my COM
rades.
FISCHER on THE FLOOR.
Adolph Fischer's time came next, and
he waa on the point of admitting his con-
nectlon with the "Revengen circular,
when Salmon, mindful OF the bearing II
might have before the supreme court,
tried 10 check him. II was useless. He
said Your honor, YOU ask me
to say why sentence Of death
should not be passed on me.
| will not talk much. protest against
being sentenced to death, because ! have
committed no crime. was tried in this
room for murder and convicted OF an
archy. | do not deny that | was one OF
the parties who summoned the meeting
In the Haymarket, but l know no more
about the throwing Of the bomb than
Grinnel does, perhaps lees. don't deny
that | got up the circular. had a line
. put In calling on the workingmen to come
armed. had my reasons. | am not con-
victed because l am q murderer, but
because am an anarchist. have never
been murderer, but / know man who
| is on the way to become murderer
aud that is State Attorney Grlnnell, be-
cause ne has placed men here on the
stand who he knew would swear falsely
in case where eight lives were at stake.
An anarchist loves his principles better
than his life, and am prepared to die for
principles, ON account of holding which
feel am to be sentenced to death. That
is all l have to say.
Lingg then began speaking.
ENGEL on THE FLOOR.
After Lingg's speech, court, at a late
hour, adjourned until this morning. The
crowds which besleged the criminal court
this morning for admittance to Judge
Gary's courtroom was larger and earlier
than at any time during the anarchists
trial. The speeches which the CON
demned men were making in their own
. behalf, and the fact that the date for
their execution is to be given
to-day, being responsible for this. Only a
small portion of those who sought admis.
sion were successful, the entrances being
carefully guarded by deputies and police
officers, Many women fashionably
dressed were among the lookers-on. Sew
eral of the lady admirers Of August
Spies were present. OF the
friends and relatives of the prisoners in
court were Mrs. Parsons and her two
? children, Mrs. Neebe and her little boy
, Mrs Spies, Mrs. Captain Black Capt
! Setback and q large number of police ir
full uniform, and detectives were in and
? about the courtroom. A number Of
ladies' were given seats inside the raj
among the attorneys and reporters.
' When court opened George Engel, one
+ of the defendants, at once began speaking
in answer to the judges inquiries, as tC
r why sentence should not be passed upCr
9 him. Engel recounted his ex
perlences in Germany, where h
was born. He recounted the hardshipt
and tyrannies the people were forced L
: submit to there. He came to this countr,
! and sought work in Philadelphia and Chi
j. cago, and found the state of affairs ex
j, listing. Capitalists became rich by op
Y preston Of the working classes. Enge
t then made study of the question. Ill
read Henry Georges books, and became
a socialist. Engel concluded with TRAD
against the capitalists. IL was IL o'clocl
Il when he ceased speaking.
FIELDEN ON THE FLOOR.
Three minutes were spent by counse
and spectators in whispered discussion
and then Sam Fielden arose and preached
what he had to say by reciting poem
from the German Of Ferdinand Freili
gorth, entitled "Revolution.n Fielden'
speech was quiet and commonplace. Ii
related his connection with the anarchist
. the same as related on the witness stand
He said he had not intended to go to tn
Haymarket meeting, but went Their
a owing to seeing a little advertisement
!, and by seeing that advertisement ha(
q come to his death. He declared that tn
q newspapers had either misunderstood o
2 misrepresented him, and were the csus
? of him going to the scaffold. He had no
: advised the sacking of stores. He wa
} severe on the jury, and said some o
: them were dependent on the capitalists
: Before Fielden concluded court adiourne,
to 2 p. m.
: On the reassembling OF court Fielder
: resumed his address to the court. VIVA
does a man mean, said Fielden, when b
! says that he will "knife candi
: date" appointment Chicago paper says
= "Throttle the coal monopoly" Henri
= George says: "Throttle protection ;
> Does that mean to throttle James G
Blaine, who upholds 1t? II am to b.
y convicted / am to be hanged 70
= telling the truth, and 1t will be bette
y for that little child on the West side
who kneels by her mothers kne
every evening to ask why papa dom
come home, II she never learns to read
If this is to be so, then why not wlp
: out every school-house where the senti
ments of truth are instilled2 You
honor, after had escaped from the Hay
market meeting | went home. The ex
plosion of that bomb was as much sur
PRISE to me as to any policeman. re
solved like any honest man to tel
just what / had TO do with tn,
g calamity. thought when they founC
e out the facts / would be released. said
e let them confess all they like, so they tel
the truth. The great socialist who liyeC
= in this world over 1900 years ago, Jesul
: Christ, has left these words OIL
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