The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-10-16
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
The Hsymsrket Murderers' Last Chance
Gone-che Judges Remarks.

/
The convicted Chicago Anarchists
We're taken into court on the 7th to
hear the decision OF Judge Gary on the
motion for a new trial. The court
room was packed with spectators, and
/ many who were unable TO gain admit
/ tance stood on the sidewalk several
/ hours, almost blockading traffic.
/ Judge Gary, in delivering his decision.
reviewed at considerable length the
evidence brought out at the trial, and
/ said concerning the Instructions to
which exception was taken by the de-
/ Tense: con the question of theinstruc-
/ tons whether these defendants, or any
OF them, did anticipate or expect
the throwing of the bomb on
the night of the 4th of May, is
not a question which | need to con-
slider, because the instructions did not
go upon that ground. The jury were
/ not instructed to find them guilty If
they believed that they participated
IN the throwing of the bomb, or en-
| couraged or advised the throwing OF
that bomb, or had knowledge that it
was to be thrown or anything OF that
sort. The conviction has not gone
upon the ground that they did have
any actual participation in the act
which caused the death Of Deegan, but
upon the ground, under the instruc-
tlons that they had generally, by
/ speech and print, advised a large class
to commit murder and had left the
occasion, time and place to the indi-
vidual will, whim and caprice of the
| individual so advised; and that in con-
sequence OF that advice and in pursu-
ance of it, and Influenced by it, some
body not known, did throw the bomb
that caused the death OF Deegan.
'Now, under these circumstances, in
the lnt1amed state of the public mind
at the time, each of these orators at
! the Haymarket was still more infam-
ing the public mind when he advised
the people to use-force, and some man
I do not say identified, say unidenti-
tied-some man in that crowd, when
| the police approached, with bomb OF
Lingg's manufacture kills Deegan; all
who have advised such action are
guilty Of his murder. Ii anything can
| be proved by circumstantial evidence
| 1t Is proved that he threw that bomb
IL consequence of the influence of these
teachings, this advice by speech and
| printing over a course OF two years
The man who threw that bomb had
been educated up to it by the teach
lngs OF these defendants. The case, as
| SAID before, Is unprecedented. There
Is no example of any such crime hav-
ing been committed; there is no prec-
edent OF any case like this having be-
| come the subject of judicial investiga-
ton; but the principle of law is well
| fixed"
The Court then passed to the obiec-
tions urged against the form of the
sentence and quoted from the 109th
Illinois on the point, and said there
was nothing in the circumstances of
this case anything less than murder
The instructions in regard to man
| slaughter might have been refused
| There was no reason for them at ALL
| Passing to the alleged disqualification
or the jurors on account OF having
read reports IN papers OF the crime
and having formed opinions thereon
ne thought the New York decisions
settled the case and that if verdicts
were to be set aside for the reasons
urged, it would be the surest way to
bring about anarchy, for there would
| be no way IN which government could
! be maintained and the law admins
tered. He concluded by saying: 81
think upon the whole proof that no
case could be tried of s1ch magnitude
as this with less in the way OF nregu-
larity OF proceeding in the trial than
was done in this case. The motion
| must be Overruled."
/ A.
ner, when the prisoners were called up
on to make any remarks they deemed
fit before sentence was passed upon
them by the court. Inresponce Spies,
Schwab, Neebe and Lingg harangued
! the court until time for adjournment,
all taking the ground that under the
| decision of the court in their case all
men were liable to be hanged for mur-
der.
On the 9th, Parsons, the last of the
| convicted Anarchists to address the
/ court, finished a speech lasting several
| hours, after which sentence was pro-
nounced by Judge Gary. Following is
the full text of the judges remarks in
| passing sentence:
/ am quite well aware that what you
| have said although addressed to me, has
| been said to the world yet nothing has
| been said which weakens the force of the
/ proof or the conclusions therefrom, upon
which the verdict is based. You are all
men OF intelligence and know that if the
verdict stands it must be executed. The
reasons why it shall stand | have already
sufficiently stated in deciding the motion
Tor new trial. | am sorry beyond any
power of expression for your unhappy
condition and for the terrible events that
have brought it about. / shall address to
you neither reproaches nor exhortation.
| What | shall say shall be in the faint hope
| that a few words from place where the
people OF the state OF Illinois have delegated
the authority to declare the penalty of a
violation of their laws, and spoken upon
an occasion so solemn and awful as this,
may come to the knowledge of, aud be
needed by, the ignorant, deluded and mis-
| guided men who have listened to your
| counsels and followed your advice. 1t is not
the least among the hardships of the
peaceabe, frugal and laborious poor to
| endure the tyranny of mohs who, with law
I-less force, dictate to them under penalty of
peril to limb and life where, when and upon
what terms they may earn livelihood for
| themselves or their families. ANY govern
| ment that is worthy OF the name will
| strenuously endeavor to secure to all with
| in its jurisdiction freedom to follow the
lawful vocations and safety for their prop.
erty and their person while obeying the
law, and the law is common sense. Itholds
each man responsible for the natural and
probable consequence OF his own acts. II
holds whoever advises murder is himself
guilty of the murder that is committed pur
suant to his advice, and if men band to-
gether for forcible resistance to the exc
cution of the law and advise murder as a
means OF making such resistance effectual
whether such advice be to one man to mur
der another, or to a numerous class &c
murder men OF another class-all who art
so banded together are guilty OF any mur
der that is committed in pursuance of such
advice.
The people OF this country love their in.
stitutions they love their homes; they Low,
their property. They viii never consent