, 1886-08-14
TALKING TO The JURY
Attorney Ingham Makes An
~ Eloquent Speech, f's 'a'
The Audierc CO Being Intensely
j Interested. Fl
Michael Davitt Arrives in
yrps4 Chicago. salops


CHICAGO, Aug. l3.-At the opening
of the afternoon session Assistant States
Attorney Inghsm stepped quickly into
the open space in front OF the jury and in
. clear, ringing voice. commenced his ad
dress in the following words: There are
verdicts Of 4 jury which make history.
Your verdict il this case will make history.
1t is of great importance that your yer
dict be right. We live in Chicago. the
metropolis Of the great Northwest, and the
very center OF The civilization Of the Wests
This u the 18th day Of August, 1885.
and in the latter half Of the nineteenth
century. and we are investigating an of
tense a. great as ever disgraced humanity.
Seven men were killed and sixty were
wounded. but this crime sinks into 10
significance beside the point Of the issue
which you are to pass on. Matthias j..
began on the 4th day Of May left the
Desplaine's street. station full of life and
hope and without malice toward any lv
ing creature. He never harmed . hair in
the head of one of these defendants. Be-
tween him and them there could not pos
sibly have been any i'll will. Now he lies
in his grave because he defended the law.
These defendants struck At the law. The
great question which you are to decide is
whether the law of this state is strong
enough to protect itself or whether it is
to be %tramplcd upon by these eight men,
but one of whom is a native of this SOIL"
Ingham defined the meaning of the
offense called conspiracy as given IN the
statutes OF this state. and said: WAS
the bomb throwing on the night of Nav
IA the result of conspiracy? If so, these
men are guilty and the law is strong
enough to prot ct itself"
From the opening Of Ingham's address
till his arrival at this point it did not ap.
pear that a single ear in the court room
had lost = word that had been uttered
From the Judge on the bench to the jury.
counsel. defendants and each individual
spectator. every attitude bctokened the
most intense attention; and when the
speaker began to u out the torrents of
denunciations upon the heads of the de-
PENDANTS and upon their doctrines. the
keenest interest was depicted on nearly
every c~ountenance. with the exception Of
Spi. 8. who rontimued to smile in~solently.
The defendants listened with solemn
c~0untenances.
Il know" said Ineham, that Johan
Most Of New York is the acknowledged
head Of anarchy iu this country. I know
that these defendants are his ardent fol
lower- They try to poss here AS social
lists. and Johan Most does in New York;
but know that at a congress OF socialists
in Europe not long ago Johan Most was
expelled. There we're only two votes cast
in his favor"
The speaker said that were the Euro
pean leaders of socialism to see these de-
PENDANTS and hear them call themselves
socialists, they would spit upon them,
Their doctrine Of anarchy could not be
made to thrive mon prosperous people
even the comfortably situated laborer
was 10 tn to listen to it The defendants
wanted power for ultimate plumber. Their
only way to get this was through magni-
flying the wrong suffered by the poor, ex-
cite them to the point Of madness. arm
them. and lead them against the law.
lneham called the attention ofthe inry to
the finding in the house of Engel Of an
appliances which Engel himself submitted
to an officer. was made for the purpose of
fusing metals in the manufacture OF
bombs This was before the arrival Of
Lineq in this country and the introduction
Of his bomb which only could be made
| without the aid of a blast furnace. The
advantages of LinRg's bomb were appar-
ent at once. and instead of the bombs de-
scribed in Most's book. one which was ex
ploded in haymarket was identical with
those found in Lingg's trunk. Lineg was
a disciple of Spies Spies had ontstripped
Most, whom Europe had spewed upon our
shore Lingg had MOI been in this country
nine months; bur instantly upon his ar
rival he began to prepare to blow into
smithereens Americans who had in fifty
years of economy and industry accumula
ted a competency which they were not
willing to part with on demand ufn'
The extreme Gaze with which every
word uttered BY Inghsm, was heard in all
parts of the court rom, gave him an adj
vantage over Walker and Zeisler. He
spoke With remarkable Aueney and often
with imprisoned eloquence that was ir-
resistible. Only once did he hesitate
more than a moment to examine some
authority. till court adjourned. "a
Capt. Black and, Mn. Parsons are
quoted az saying this morning. that they
were terribly afraid of the effects of Ing
hams address.