Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-22
THE BOMB THROWERS
TIE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO Ar.
ARcHIsTs CONTINUED YESTERDAY.
Startling Testimony by 0ne Of the An
archists-Lcuis Lingg Indicated as
Bomb-Maker and -Thrower.
lRy telegraph 10 the Dispatch.l

ing Of the court William Seliger, who
is regarded as the principal witness for
the State, was put on the wit
ness-stond. The courtroom was
crowded, and the testimony was
listened TO with the keenest inter-
est. Seliger justified the expectations
Nbich had been raised concerning bis
testimony. lie said that Louis Lingg,
one OF the defendants, boarded with
him, and that himself and Lineg had
made a great many Of the bombs such
as was used at Usynarket, and that
himself and Lingg and another man had
distributed trunkful Of bombs to the
anarchists on the day Of the Uaymar
ket affair. his testimony indicates that
Lirgg Is The nan who threw the bomb.
Selger testified that he lived in Sedg
wick street and had as . boarder Louis
Lingg, one of the defendants. On the
Monday night before alluded to wit
ness attended meeting of the Carpen-
ter's Union at Zeph's Hall. At the
meeting copies of the " Revenge >" cir
cular were brought in and distributed
by Balthazar Rau.
"Did you work at your trade Tues
day 2"
No"
What did you do that morning p"
Il got up at 1880 o'clock. Lingg
came. had previously told him 1
wanted those bombs removed from my
dwelling. lie told he to work dill
gently at them, and that they would be
taken away that day. | took some
coffee, and after awhile | worked at
some BAD shells, filing holes"
" Look Of the shell now show you
Handing witness leaden sphere about
the size Of small turnip.)
did you work at these shells"
YES"
" What did you do?"
81 drilled holes. It took rae half an
hour"
where was LiDgg?"
"At meeting on the West Side. lie
came back about / o'clock"
Did you speak TO him."
- Yes lac said | did not work very
much ought to have done more.
told him THAT / had no pleasure in the
work. Then he said, We will have to
work harder this afternoon ="
Mr.. Ingham, who conducted the eX-
animation, offered the shell in evidence.
did youhayo any conversation about
bolts?"
" Yes Lipgg told me to 60 to place
on Clybume avenue to get some bolts
to put in the shells. / got about fifty
bolts
Who worked with you?'
"Huebner, MAnzehburg, and Her
mann. We worked all the afternoon"
What room did YOU work in?"
4" In the front room at AZ Scdgwick
street, III Lirgg's room, and in rear
room"
&" What did Lingg dO?"
lie first worked at the gas-pipe,
putting in tubes
Tubes like these" Mr.. Ingham
presented two wrought.iron tubes about
two inches i'll diameter and six inches
lcrg
eyes"
GLOW many bombs were made that
afternoon
&" / can'ttell."
" \ DOZEN"
"0b, more; perhaps forty or fifty.
! can't FAY exactly
How many round bombs?"
g can't tell exactly
Were the round bombs cast that
afternoon.
"No.'
who cast them"
"Lireg cast them once-al1ne N the
rear room of my store. That was six
weeks before May the lsl.'
" Where was the first bomb you ever
saw >"
In Iirgg's room s0mo time before
that. Perhaps two or three months
before"
Witness conyersed with Lingg at The
time. and tho latter told witness ha was
gcirc 10 make bombs also. J. saw
some dynamite in biugS's room. Llngs
told HIM every workinguan shoull have
dynamite and learn to use it. There
was GONG 10 be an agitation
be said, and all the FOrSlngmen
ought 20 learn the use Of dynamite.
On Tuesday afternoon, when they were
making bombs, LiOgg SAID the bombs
would be "good fodder " for capitalists
and the police who might try and
protect the capitalists. The bombs
ought TO be completed that evening. a.
they were to be used that night, Lings
said. When witness left the house IN
the evening I.ingg accompanied him,
aud they carried a little trunk con.
tanning bombs. They were round,
and some Of them were pipes.
They weighed about fifty pounds. !
They were all loaded with dynamite,
and had caps fixed IN them. While
they were carrying them they met Nit
zenberg, and the three carried the trunk |
to Neii's Hall, 10. So Clybarne Avenue. |
They took them in Though a sido-dOor |
and into the hallway. There the trunk |
was opened, and several people came to |
look NJ the contents. Saw two or three |
men take bombs. | took two aud pa. |
them il my pockets then went away, |
leaving the bombs in the passlge-way. |
I no hall back Of Nef's saloon was
called the shsfty Ofthe Communists
and Socialists all used 20 meet |
there. When he left Nef's saloon |
LIngg, Thielen, and Gustav Lehman |
n eru with him, and they were after
words joined by two men of the Lehr-
und Wehr-V erein. All had bombs.
TEL what. you were going to do |
that night "
&" 4 disturbance was to DO made on |
the North Side that was arranged
for previously. Other disturbances |
were to be made on the West Side TO |
prevent the police FROM massing at any !
upe point. Lingg said the disturbances
shoald be made all over the North |
Side to proven, the police from going |
to the West Side. As they passed the
Larrabee-Strect police-station Lingg |