Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-08-19
INNOCENT LAMBS.
Such Were the Chicago Bomb. Throw.
ers, According to the Witnesses
for the Defense.
The Bloodthirsty Policemen Did All the
Shooting and All the
Killing.
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Announcer week or the anarchist trial has Como
and gone, and yet the end seems a long way of.
The chief gossip of Chicago is In respect to the
probable outcome OF this now celebrated case.
A great many express fears that the weakness
OF the law and the tactics Of the defense will to-
gether furnish means of escape for the eight
criminals, who are held to be at least morally
responsible for tho Haymarket riot and it's
dreadful results. Others 40 hold % ths
opinion that some Of them. at least. will bo con-
victed OF murder.
Tho deiense set up by the prisoners counsel
10 regarded generally as a very weak one
though probably the best that could be offered
under the circumstances. large number of
witnesses have been examined, nearly all of
whom were regular readers OF tho 6rbeiter
zettu'l0, and either avowed socialists or social
istic sympathizers- Most Of the witnesses thus
Iar examined by the defense have been called
Tor the apparent purpose of Attempting TO prove
q negative. Under the rigorous prompting of
the counsel for the prisoners they have been
made TO testify to what they did not see what
they did not hear, what they wero not in
formed OF, and what they wero not in a position
70 know anything definitely about. We have
not SEQ esssrsa 81 yitne@sNssn Il @ t Eqe tRettestaa
who were assembled in front of the speak
tive must inevitably result in failure.
Indeed. under any strict rules OF evil
mitted. But apparently both the court and the
counsel for the prosecution are disposed to allow
the widest latitude to the defense for the rea-
son that it is clearly much for the interest OF
the people as for that OF the prisoners that the
whole truth shall be brought out during the ex-
animation OF witnesses. But for the purpose of
guilt innocence of the accused, all this testi.
mTeny AZ e e. This t;s % s 1. t "| s SSrd "a rs WORTH
mitted by the prosecution has not been broken
at single point.
But the most ridiculous proposition tho de-
Tense has been laboring to establish is that the
at fhn Haxyr IL raf
that the anarchists were a peaceable lot of
lamb-like innocents, and that the gathering
where the bomb was thrown was a perfectly
legitimate and lawful assembly Of highly
respectable gentlemen that met together for the
most peaceful purpose imaginable. While
their orators were occupied In calm and tenn
perate discussion of some public questions
counseling their hearers to abstain from ali
manifestations OF violence, to respect and
quiet, orderly, and well-behaved citizens, a
squad OF policemen appeared and commenced
shooting them down right and left. Being un-
armed, the peaceable gentlemen composing
the assembly did not return the fusiilade, but
hastened TO get out OF the range of the guns of
their wicked assailants as fast as they could.
shooting at them and, not content with killing
and wounding many of them, turned their
deadly weapons against each other. and to
make tho work of death in their own ranks
more complete, threw q dynamite bomb into
their midst. In this way the Internal police
men managed to kill seven or eight of their own
PgmbfE IaAa "a kefs That they either
killed or wounded. Briefly stated, the defense
judged by the trend OF the so-calIed testimony
thus far adduced seems to be about this: The
defendants did not advise, encourage, aid abet
or perpetrate the Haymarket butchery: 1, Be-
cause that monstrous crime was advised, en-
couraged, aided, abetted, and perpetrated by
the police. 2. 2.Because the defendants exerted
all their strength and influence TO prevent the
police from committing 1t. g. Because the de-
PENDANTS were somewhere else when the police
perpetrated that awful crime. These are the
fhro afoH
defense appear to be struggling to establish
Carter II. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, was the
first witness placed upon the stand by the de-
Tense. The purpose was to show that after list
ening to speeches at tho Haymarket meeting
he told Inspector Bonfield that there was moth.
ing in the affair to justify interference by the
police.
DIR, james d. Taylor, an aged physician and
an avowed socialist testified that he was on the
edge OF the sidewalk at the Haymarket meet
ing before the speaking commenced, and re-
mained there until bullets began to fY He
saw the bomb thrown, but did not see a MEM
Der Of the retreating crowd fire a shot, the po-
lice alone emptying their revolvers.
Barton Simonson, travelling salesman was OK.
amined at length. The main point of his evidence
was that concerning the point from which the
bomb was thrown and its direction. The prin-
eipRL YttylRRSesI f9oIdA cuS- ndouru On Vhe fIy.
way in westerly direction. Simonson
stoutly maintained that 1t was thrown from the
sidewalk, twenty feet south Of the south line Of
the alleyway, and proceeded In northwesteriy
direction. There were two other witnesses
btmOnBOn.
answers as TO the direction Of the bomb were too
pat to bo convincing, and In the minor details
they differed materially from the chief witness
for the defense. Their sympathies with the
prisoners were scarcely concealed. One OF them,
Secretary OF the notorious Central Labor
Union told tho improbable story that the light
ed fuse preceded the bomb in its course through
the air. and he swore that 1t was thrown from
behind wagon, which appears as far as the
evidence has gone, to be almost impossible.
witness named August Krumm, who in size
rpQ mi
was put on the stand to testify that mt about the
time when Gilmer says he saw the editor Of the
went into the alleyway with n companion and
ignited match with which both lit thoir to-
bacco pipes. Krumm's alleged companion ON
that oocasion, William Albrecht, was put on tho
stand TO corroborate this story. The weainess
Of this line of defense Is apparent It is tacit
admission that Gilmer had some ground for his
statement, and that he was honestly mistaken
mistaking tobacco-pipe to be bomb. But
Gilmer swore that he saw the fuse "sizzle" after
ignition, and that the person who he says waa
Schnaubelt advanced with the substance to
which the fuse was attached and threw it into
the midst OF the police. Neither Krumms nor
Albrecht's evidence can be made to correspond
In any way with this portion OF Gilmers story.
Besides. thore ia no resemblance between Al
brecht and Schnaubelt The witnesses contra
dicted eaeh other In minor details, and Krumm
broke down completely under the States At
torney's cross-examinatlon, Like most of
the socialistic and semi-socialistic wit
nesses, he attempted to prove too much. He
bWuIo bhhb NO saw oplohg rloAuons anu EhTtOnb
on the wagon while he was standing vita his
back to the north wall Of Cranes alley, four or
hve feet from tho corner. AZ the wall inter-
vencd, and as the witness face was turned from
the speakers, IL was impossible that he could
see them In that position. Krumm fell into the
mistake OF some who testified previously
as to the point where the bomb ex-
ploded. He said Il exploded at least
twenty feet south Of the south line OF tho
alleyway, whereas, as proved by overwhelming
testimony, IL exploded directly opposite the
aIleyway. Tho witness gave a rambling and
unsatisfactory account Of the circumstances
which led TO his being at tho Haymarket meet
ing and before no left the stand the States At
torney wrung from him the confession that no
had spent a week in the bridewell last sum-
mer. Krumm's confederate, Albrecht told q
more consistent story but he too broke down.
The eagerness OF tbs German socialist wit
nesses to swear that the bomb was thrown from
a point south OF the alleyway suggested coach
ing by the anarchist sympathizers, and led to
numerous blunders as to details. One witness
swore he saw no boxes on the Sidewalk near
where he said he stood, though II no spoke the
truth he must have been pushed against them.
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