Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-22
did YOU do that morning?'

| | had previously told him | wanted those
bombs removed from my dwelling, He told
mo to work diligently at them and they
would be taken away that day. took
some coffee and after awhile | worked at
some bad shells, filling the holes
Look at the shell | now show YOU
lhanding the witness leaden sphere about
the size of small turnip.) did yOu work
at these ShcllS:'
Yes"
What did you do"
II drilled the holes. 1t took ne about
half an hour"
Where was Lingg2'
At Il meeting on the West Side. He
came back about one o'clock"
Did you speak 10 him.
He said to me that did not work very
much ought to have done more. told
him had no pleasure in the work. Then
he said, We will have To work harder this
afternoon.
Mr. Ingham, who conducted the cXami-
nation, offered the shell in evidence
Did You have any conversation about
boltS?'
Yes; Lingg told me to 90 to Il place on
! ClybOuTn avenue to get some bolts to put
| in the shells got about fifty bolts.
"Who worked with you?"
''liucbncr, Nuremberg and Hcwmann;
we worked all the afternoon.
What room did YOU work in?'
I'm the front room at No 4i2 Sedgwick
/ I nn1 in tl,. rpur
room
"What did Lingg do;"
First, he worked ut the gas pipc-put-
! tiu@ in the tubes. y
Tubes like these" Mr.. lmgham pre-
scntcd two wrought-iron tubes about two
nchTGiS3 Ti3R IN hiIiia hiIiiagGlcr and sig i9Gh" arcr-
noon?"
Il can't tell"
"a dO2cn?'
"Oh. more. Perhaps forty or tny; |
can't say exactly
"lOw many round bOmbs?'
II can't tell exactly
Were the round bombs cast that after
nOon?"
No"
who cast them
"Lingg east them once alone in the real
room of my store That was six weeks be
fore May |.
Where was the first bomb you. ever
saw"
In Lingg's room sometime before that.
Perhaps two or three months before.
DYNAMITE STORED IN LINGG's ROOM.
Witness c0nvcrScd with Lingg at this
time and the latter told him he was going
to make bombs also. lie saw some dyna-
mite in Lingg'S room. Lingg told him
cvcry workingman should have dynamite
and learn to use it. There was going to be
an agitation" hc said, and all working
men ought Ia learn the Use of dynamite.
On the Tuesday afternoon when they
were making bombs, Lingg said thu bombs
would be good 'foddGr" 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 wit
ness left the house that evening Lingg ac-
companied him, and they carried little
trunk containing the bombs.
Witness said the bombs were round, and
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about 30 pounds. They were all loaded
with dynamite and had caps fixed on them.
While they were carrying them they
met Mitzenbcrg, and the three OF them
carried the trunk to Nef17s Hall, No. D
Clybourne avenue They took them III
through a side door and into n hallway
There the trunk was opened, and several
people came to look at the contents. 81
saw three or four men take bombs. tOOk
two and put them in my pockets. Then we
went away, leaving the bombs in the pas
sageway.'
The hall back of Neff's saloon, witness
munists" ts"-COmmunists, Anarchists and
Socialists all used TO meet there. WhcT
he left NefT's saloon, Lingg, Thiele anC
Gustay Lehman were with him, and thcl
were afterwards joined by two men of tl'
Iehr und Wehr Vercin. All had bombs
Tell what you were going TO do tina
night"
WANTED To BLOW Up THE STATION.
"A disturbance was to De made on thu
North Side That was arranged previously
Other disturbances were TO be made on tn
West Side to prevent the police from mass
ing at any one point Lingg said disturb
ances should be made all over the NOrtl
Side to prevent the police from going to th'
West Side. As they passed the LArrabi
street police station LiDgg said il would be-
beautiful thing TO throw in couple ol
bombs From Iarrabie street he and LlngG
went up to the Webster avenue station. !
, patrol wagon came up-Lingg said he wa
going to throw in bomb; that it was tn
best time to do it. i said il was not
good time, that it would be useless. Ling
; became excited and wanted me TO give hin
some fire from my cigar. / went into
!, hall and struck a match-as if ] was gOiG
to give it to him. The patrol wagon passc
before the match lighted. Iingg wante
i 10 follow the wagon. He thought ther
was trouble on the West Side and wante
s to know what il was. persuaded him
20 home a little before III O'Clock. Ling
: asked me if had seen notice in the pc
per that the armed men were TO hold
, meeting on the West Side. He showed m
J a CODY Of the Arbeiter ZeifHAg, and pOinte
; to the word 'Ruhe. which he said mean
that there was TO he a meeting and tha
= everything was 10 be turned upside down.
The word ''Ruhe" was a signal for all {
, the armed men to assemble on the We
!" Side. The word was selected to give th
> men notice that there was to be troubli
' Lingg and / went to Neff's Hall AGAR
where a number of others were. HERNIA
o said to Lingg in a very angry voice, ''io
/ are the cause of it all" Then some on
s told of the Haymarket affair and said tha
!. a bomb had killed a great many. Ling
# said nothing. On their way home, Ling
+ said that even now he was seolded, jibed :
y for the work he had done; that his brotf
lers in the cause did not appreciate hin