The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-08
What the Condemned Anarch-
lists Had to Say.
THEIR sPIFFIRE UTTERANCEs.
Judge Gary Said: There is No tx
ample OF Any Such Crime Having
Been Committed"
The Anarchists.

motion for a new trial, reviewed at con
siderable length aIl of the evidence
brought out at the trial, and said: The
case is unprecedented. There is no
example of any such crime having been
commi tied. There is no precedent of
sny case like this having become the
subject of judicial Investigation,
| but the principal of law is well
| fixed. I think upon the whole
| proof that no case could Toe
| tried of such magnitude as this
with less in the ways of irregularity of
proceeding in the trial than was done in
this case"
On being asked If he had anything to
say, spies, commenced by saying" Your
Honor, in addressing this court. /
speak as a representative of one class
addressing the representative OF
| another. l will begin with the words
addressed 500 years ago, on similar
motion, by the venetian dOge, who, ad
{ dressing the court, said: My defense
is your accusation, caused of my al
legged crime in your history" l have
! been indicted on a charge OF murder, as
! an accompl ce or accessory. Upon this
| indictment have been convicted.
There was no evidence produced by the
| State to show. or even indicate, that
! [ had any knowledge of the
man WAC threw the bomb, or
that myself had anything to do with
it. Not the slighteeHevidence was ever
produced to show THAT had anything
| to do with the throwing of the missile,
unless you believe the testimony OF the
accomp ices of the States attorney and
Bontield, the testimony of Thompson
| no M
to show that l was responsible tor it,
then my execution of the verdict is
nothing but wilIful, malicious and delib-
/ crate murder, as foul murder as may
be found in the annals of religious, pol
itical or any other sort of prosecution"
Spies then reviewed the evidence pre-
scented by the prosecution and charged
the States attorney and Bonfeld with
conspiracy to commit murder. Spies de-
voted some time to the discussion Of
Socialism and said: You want TO
stamp out conspiracy, you resemble q
child that is looking for his picture be
hind a mirror What you see, and
what you try to grasp In our movement
is nothing but the creations of your
own bad consciences. Ii you want to
stamp out conspiracies and agitators.
you must stamp out every factory lOid
who has made his wealth upon the I'M
paid labor of his employees, and the
landlord who has made his money from
the ground down and oppressed labor
ers and farmers. If you think that you
can crush out ideas, which are gaining
ground every day, by sending US to the
galloWs; and you can suppress truth,
for that is all we have been preaching,
you will fail" Then, Furnishing his
arms wildly, spies fairly ashrieked:
81 shall die proudly and deiiantly for
the cause of Justice. There is Socrates,
there is Calico, there is Giordano
j bruno, there is Christ. Why the num-
Der cannot be estimated of those who
have trodden in these paths, and we
are ready to follow"
/ Michael Schwab then took the floor,
In a stentorian tone of voice he began:
at is not much have to say, and
would not say anything at ali, did not
fear that silence would look like cow
ardly approval of what has been done
here. | am condemned to die for writ
ing newspaper editorials" The Anar-
chist then went on to justify those
articles, by going over in detail all the
real and imaginary evils of the accum
ulation of capital and the injustice
of the relations between employer
and employed. Then followed dis
QUESTION of the principles and theories
of Socialism and Anarchism.- he con
cluded by disavowing all knowledge OF
the man who threw the bomb, and pro-
tested that he intended to do no violence
at the Haymarket.
! Oscar Neebe was the next speaker.
He had no sooner taken the floor than
he burst into violent abuse, calling tbs
States I Attorney GrinRell. cur,
\ and his assistants, MeSsrs, walker
and Furthmann scoundrels, saying
that there was only one gentle
man in the crowd and that
was Ingraham. The police were
assaulted in peculiar phraseology, and, IN
short, Neebe's speech was a TRADE OF
abuse, villifying the police and autnorl-
ties. Abandoning himself TO wild ap-
peal to the Judge to hang him with the
others, he cried; ut would be more
honorable to be strangled by the neck
than 10 Cie by inches. My Vile and
children will then be at ease sometime,
! but they can never get over tiff their
husband is sent to Joliet. Hang me,
YOUR Honor, with my comrades.
i Adolph Fischer came next. He COM
menced Your Honor. you ask
me to say why sentence OF
Il death should not be passed
/ upon me: / protest against my being
sentenced to death, because have com
mitted no crime. I was tried IN this
J Jury room for murder, and was con-
yieted for Anarchy. don't deny that
I was one of the parties VINO SUMMONED
the meeting in the Haymarket' put l
know NO more about the throwing OF
the bonn than Grinnell does, perhaps.
! DO not deny that I got up q circular,
and had line nut IN calling on the
workingmen to come armed. had my
reasons. am not convicted because l
am a murderer; am convinced because
am an Anarchist. have never
been a murderer, but l Know q GER
tain man who IS on Ine Tay, a. 10
becoming murderer, and that Is ms
: States attorney, Grinnell4 because he
|, has pIaced men here upon the stand
whom he knew would swear falsely, in
/ q case where eight lives were at Stake
An Anarchist loves his principles better