Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-29
CHlCAGVS ANARCHISTS.
TIE Grounds ON which the Attorneys
Of the Doomed Men Ask for
New Trial.
The indianapolis Saloon Keeper Relates
tho story OF tho stranger aud the
satchei.

CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 2s.--Capt. w. p.
Black and thu other attorneys for the
seven condemned anarchists, to day f!cd
a0ldaylts in the criminal court 20 support
their motion for new trial OF the cele.
brAted case The aflldayits recitc the
usual plea that the verdict Is not sup
ported by the evidence, and also urges
that the counsel for the state employed
form Of argument which was
calculated TO prejudice the jury,
The chief point urged, however, is
the story teiegraphed from Indianapolis
shortly after the conclusion OF the trial
20 the eject that q stranger entered a
drinking ssloOn In that city, one or two
DAYS before the HaymaIket massacre, and
exhibited satchel, intimating that a
slaughter would occur In Chicago In a
few days The theory OF the defense Is
that this mysterious stranger had a guam
tity of dynamite bombs, and that he Is the
person who, In all likelihood, threw the
bomb into the ranks Of the police. The
manner in which the jury was summoned,
before whom the defendants were tried,
IL also objected TO.
THE PLEA IN FULL.
CHICAGO. III, Sept. 2S.--The written
motion for new trial in behalf Of the
doomed anarchists, and several afiidayits
In support OF It were taken to the states
attorney to-day. The motion cites the
following TO sustain the motion:
1. The verdict In said court is contrary
TO the law and the evidence.
9, There is no evidence in the records
supporting or justifylng said verdict.
8. The court erred IN giving the several
Instructions asked and given on behalf OF
the people.
4. The court erred in refusing to give
the several instructions which we're asked
on behalf Of the defendants and refused
by the court
8. The court erred In admitting i'm
proper, incompetent and irrelevant
material testimony offered on behalf Of
the people.
G. The court erred in excluding certain
testimony offered In behalf OF said de-
PENDANTS.
I. The trial OF said cause was not had
Def ,re, nor was the verdict therein rem
dered by an impartial Jury.
8. There was misconduct upon the part
OF the officers OF the law in the selection
and summoning OF the jurors in said
cause, so that the persons summoned I'M
der the various special venires issued In
said cause were not impartial Jurors, but
were with special reference to their
known or supposed prejudices against the
defendants, and for the purpose Of insur-
ing conviction of the defendants In said
cause.
.. There Is newly discovered evidence
touching the issues involved In the said
cause.
TO- The closing argument OF the states
attorney was improper In its statement of
substanti tive matters not in the evil
dence, in its appeals TO the prejudice aud
passions Of the jury, In Its mlsstatements
OF the issue aud in Its ahuslveness towards
the defendants, all having natural ten
dency TO mlSlead the Jury and prevent q
fair and impartial verdict
H.. The court erred In It's several rul.
ings as 10 the qualifications Of Jurors and
their competency, and In refusing to allow
the defendants TO ask of the Jurors GER
tain questions proposed TO be put Il
them, and also In allowing to the stat,
more than twenty peremptory challenges
in the cause.
u. The court erred In modifying tn,
Instructions asked in behalf OF the de
fendants
10. The court erred In overrullng tn,
motion OF the defendants Spies, Schwab
Fielder and Nelbe for separate trial.
There were eight afiidaylts In supper
Of the motion. John Sarrell made atll
dAVit that he was not an anarchist
and that on one Sunday morning
following May he had hear,
Juror Randall say In reference to Spies
Fischer, Fielder, Parsons and others tina
they ought to be hung. The defendant
themselves set forth Jointly that sine
their trial certain evidence, such as tn
aiiidavlts OF Deluse and reports Of opiI
Ions expressed by the Jurors, has come I
their knowledge and they will
better prepared for a second defens
John Phillips Deuse, saloon keep'
at indianapolis, whose story WAS printe
In the papers at the time he first made
public, asserts and swears that at
O'Clock on q morning IN May, OF this yea
an unknown man, wearing mustacl
and dressed In dark clothes, came to b
place and settling small satch
on the bar asked for q driD
Taking his whisky, the customer said
came from New York, and was on his W
TO Chicago. Speaking briefly about I
neuulpE lhuuI tiOupiNo tho obiout
closed with the remark that the saloo
keeper would shortly hear Of trouble
Chicago. Pointing to his satchel, he &C
tinued; 81 have got something in he
that will work. You will hear OF 1t soor
Shortly following this episode the ne
OF the Haymarket tragedy reach
Deluse. Tho deponent appeals TO Q
tain Oscar Speith as witness to I
strange conversation, and this individ
follows in an affidavit as TO the truth
the statement, Jacob T.. Bleter OF lndi
apolis testified that he heard Spe
tell on the last Saturday In May OF
Incident with Deluse's strange custom
Thomas Morgan, a reputed socialist,
elares that he heard Juror Denker's
at don't make any difference whethe
is like him or not, he and the WI
crew ought 10 be hanged" Nor
swears that Denker made this staten
at woonlawn on May 10 dispute {
corning certain portrait OF Spies \
daily newspaper and Its resemblance
the original Thomas s. Morgan, the
OF the foregoing. The deponeut uph,
the truth Of his fathers afildavit.
The counsel for the defense promise
anldavit AZ an aariu data iunnaarl