The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-07-31
A DIABOLICAL PLOT.
Details of the Anarchist Scheme
of Bloodshed and Ruin.
Several OF the Followers OF the Red Flag
Turn Informers-Their Startling Re-
cital-Strong Evidence Against ..
Spies, Flelden and Lingg.
ANARCHIsTIc NEcKs IN DANGER.

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the preparation of the accused for the
riot. He had attended their meetings, and
detailed what they had said and done in
advance of the outbreak No offer had been
made to him to testify in this case. All the
conspirators had been told by the police that
they should tell the truth, as that would
do them more good than if they did not
Witness had been solicited by some of the
conspirators to go back on the story he
had told the police, and proposition had
been made by some of them that all should
meet and agree upon what they should tell
on the witness stand
Bernard Schrade told of the Anarchists
drilling, of the passwords and signs used
to get them together, and of the distrbu-
ton of bombs, but his testimony was not
given so openly or with the freedom and
accuracy of detail shown by Waller. II
was evident that under some pressure
Schrade had weakened. Judge Gary
would not allow the prosecution to ask the
witness what he had told the detectives.
1t was intimated by the counsel for the
State that Schrade had been manipulated
by the defense.
Lieutenant Steele gave an honest and
manly account of the moving of the police
on the meeting and the massacre that fol
!owed-as promptly denying that he saw
the bomb thrown as asserting what he saw
and heard Lieutenant Quinn's testimony
went much further than Lieutenant
Steele's, in that he stated that he saw
Flelden, or the speaker, shoot at the police,
and that the sef-same individual was the
one who said: "Here come the blood
hounds-you do your duty and rll do
NINE" and 1--WE are peaceable."
CHICAGO, july 20,-Nine police officers
and three private citizens gave evidence
yesterday on behalf of the prosecution in
the trial of the Anarchists. Two important
points were made: First, that Fielden fired
on the police with revolver about the
time the bomb was thrown; second that
Spies as early as February, 1895, had been
working as an organizer for armed revolu-
ton which was to begin with the seizure of
Chicago about May l, 1856, when an at
tempt to enforce the Eight-Houraw would
leave thousands of working,-men idle and
h ns re eR results n scheme 6a v pTom of
plumber. Spies attempted to get the
officers of the Knights of Labor AS
sembly of Grand Rapids to join the scheme,
and the president of that assembly, Luther
" Moulton, was the most important wit
ness on the stand yesterday. The evil
dence that Fielden fred on tho police was
abundant and conclusive, and seemed
sufficient in itself to put a halter around
the neck of that individual. Detective
Bonfield testified to arresting Spies
and Schwab, and said that in an interview
with Spies, after his arrest, on the Hay
market tragedy, he (Spies) stated that he
approved of the method used to extermin-
ate the police. but thought it premature
that the time had not arrived to start the
revolution. The witness exhibited num-
Der of dynamite cartridges fuses, re-
volvers, dirk made from file and other
things which he found secreted in the Of
flee of the Ar6eiter Zeitang. Spies paper,
and the organ of the Anarchists.
CHICAGO, July 21.-In yesterdays pro-
ceedings in the trial of the Anarchists the
evidence rendered by the prosecution was
the most important, but at the same time
the least sensational yet offered. This at
least is. the opinion of States Attorney
Grinnell. The prosecution occupied most
OF the forenoon session in proving that
tho riot at the Mccormick works
May was instigated by few Anarchists
led by Spies; that Spies afterincitng that
riot, wrote and circulated inhammatory
and lying accounts of the outbreak, with
intent to incite the 'working-men ofthe city
to further riot; that it was in defiance of the
active opposition of the leaders of the
strikers that Spies and his gang captured
the meeting which Immediately preceded
the Mccormick riot, and melted that meet
ing to attack the non-union working-men;
and generally, that that riot was directly
the work OF the Anarchists in the carrying
out OF their plot to sack and plumber the
city, as described in the testimony of the
witness Moulton the previous day.
The testimony presented in the after
noon clearly proved that Spies was the
writer of the mysterious ''Ruhe'' notice in
the Arbeiter Zcitung, that being the signal
for the opening of the revolution by the
armed forces of the Anarchists; that
Spies and Schwab were directly re-
sponsible for the incendiary screels
in the MISUNDERSTANDING; that Spies was the
author of the Revenge" circular; that
Spies, Neebe and Schwab, directly, and
the other prisoners, indirectly, were re-
sponslble for the circulation of muir
derons Anarchistic literature, such
as Herr Most's Science of Revolu-
tionary Warfare;' and that altogether,
the Haymarket riot, the Mccormick
riot the throwing of the bomb, the publ
cation of the Alarm and Arbciter- Zeitung
the issuance of incendiary circulars and
proclamations and the manufacture, stor-
age, and distributions of explosives were
all an integral part of a general and pre-
medtated plot for the murder or over
throw of the police forco and all law-abid-
ing citizens, and the seizure of the city by
the Anarchists.
CHICAGO, July 22-Only two witnesses
We're examined in the Anarchist trial yes
terday-William Seliger and his wife,
Seiger lives in small house on the rear
of the lot at No. 442 Scdgwick street, and
1t was in this house the bombs
were manufactured. The afternoon of
May 4, the date of the explosion,
some forty or fifty bombs we're made at
Seliger's' The prisoner Lingg, who lodged
at Seliger's, seems to have been the chief
worker, five or six others, of whom Seliger
was one, acting as his assalants. Lingg
had previously practiced making
bombs and casting bomb-shells For
tubular bombs he used sections of metal
pipe of an inch to one and half inches
in diameter; for spherical bombs he cast
lleadon shells in cup-shaped mold, melt
ing the lead in a ladle on the kitchen stove.
Small iron bolts and nuts were imbedded
in the dynamite, and each shell sealed
with Illuminating cap and fuse attach
ment. 1t was unquestlonably one of these
bombs that was thrown in the Haymar-
kct
The forty or fifty bombs made that after
noon were packed in trunk and carried
to No, IS Clybourn avenue about s O'Clock
by Liugg and Seliger Here they were
distributed, the box being left in
rear room where each Anarchist could
go in and help himself. Several
conSpirators equipped themselves with
bombs, all OF them being at the
deadly three-sided file-dirks. Lingg and
Soliger armed themselve; like the rest.
The two proceeded to Larrabee street
police station. They consulted on
whether they should Immediately throw
bombs at that station or attack Web
ster avenue station first, Lingg was
eager to begin; Seliger was cowardiy
and held Lingg back. Lingg had been de-
tailed to attack these stations-to make
such disturbances" on the North side
that the police would be prevented from
massing at the West side. where the prin-