St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-27
Day by Day They Watch the Forging Of
the Links in the Chain of
Adverse Evidence.
Yesterdays Developments in the Trial of
Anarchists and Foes Of Order
at Chicago.
Much value Attached to the Evidence
Collected by the Pinkerton
Detectives.
Several Death-Dealing Missiles Taken
From the Bodies of Police
men, Exhibited.
The Anarchist Trial.

understood until more of it is put in. There
is more of it to come. Jansen is only one
OF the i've of Pinkerton's oldest officers who
were put to work early last winter to find
out how much the anarchist crowd actually
meant by their speeches and who, in the
prosecution OF their work. penetrated the
anarchist dens, took part in their most
secret conclaveS, listened to their instruc
lions to their dupes, and reported day by
DAY to Mr.. w. A. Pinkerton. their en-
ployer. Pinkerton had been employed by
party OF the largest property owners in
the city to make the investigation and fur
nlsh the information obtained as he got it.
His men were
NOT EMPLOYED TO ACCUSE OR CONVICT
anybody. They were instructed to report
facts simply as they found them, and their
testimony is therefore not open to the OBJ
lection which is usually urged with force
against detectives eyidence-that it is
procured to convict.
A. c. Jansen, the detective whose disclos-
ures occasioned a sensation yesterday, took
the stand this morning first, and the exami-
nation OF the witness was resumed by Mr..
roster, who asked concerning the witnesses
version Of the conversation which took place
between Spies and an aged gentleman on the
occasion Of the parade on Decoration day of
last year. Spies, looking at the militia, said
they would not amount to much IN the event
of d riot; that half a dozen dynamite bombs
would scatter the soldiers in all directions.
The witness said he did not know who this
man was. He reported daily to the agency
in writing, and these written records he OBJ
tanned rom the clerk at the agency. The
name of L. J. Gage is Endorsed on the re-
ports, but the witness does not know Mr..
Gage. Witness said that May 81, 1885,
Ei6i0eD made q SDeech. declaring that the
government could be
OVERTHROW BY FORCE ONLY,
aud on another occasion Fielden told witness
that force was to be used May of this year.
Aug. ~, Parsons, in speaking Of the street
car mems strike, said that if Inspector Bon-
field was shot, social revolution would be in
augurated. During the cross examination
Jansen said Parsons and Fielden were at the
first meeting of the armed section, and he
thought Engel also. William A Pinkerton
chief Of the national detective agency, testi-
ned that he had employed detective to ferret
out the secret doings Of the anarchists, but
this was ordered stricken out and MIR. Pinker-
ton left the stand. Mr.. Grinnell read the
following notice in the Alarm of Oct. II, 1885:
THE armed section Of the American group
meets every Monday night at No. 81 West
Lake street." ". P. Freeman, newspaper
reporter, said that at the meetings on the
lake front, April rs, Parsons spoke saying if
the workfngmen were driven to starvation
they would
UNFURL THE BANNER OF LIBERTY
and fraternity and sweep everything before
them. and pointed to the red flag as he spoke.
He urged his hearers to take up arms. Spies
spoke in German. Fielden said workingmen
could only enjoy the fruits of their labor by
force. The witness was at the Haymarket.
He saw Parsons on the wagon, who fire.
quently cried Ito arms in his speech. Fiel-
den discussed legislation and said it was use
less to attempt anything by legislation. Force
was the only recourse left. The wit
ness saw Parsons, Spies and Fielder on the
wagon and he also thought he saw Schwab.
When the police came. he heard the police
give the command TO the crowd to dispense
which was followed by the explosion and the
firing. The witness crouched behind the
wagon until the firing ceaseu. On the cross
examination witness did not hear the remark
attributed to FieldeE: 1--WE are peaceable.'
Freeman did not see Fielden have revolver.
Soon after Parsons quit speaking witness saw
him go north toward Zepfs hall.
JOSEPH GREUNHUT,
city tenement house inspector, was called,
and testified that he was present when Spies
told q reporter how the ranks of the po-
lice could be decimated by dynamite. Wit
ness was in the Arbeiter Zeitung office on the
afternoon of May 3. and saw Spies prepare
the 'revenge" circular. This witness trem-
bled violently during his examination. He
HAS UeSu EcCORuLZtu SOclalISD Auu Olu
not appear to be q witness in the case.
The examination oc Joseph Gruenhut was re-
sumed at the opening of the afternoon seS
sion, and the witness replying to a question
as to Spies authority in the issuance of no
toes calling mass meetings of socialists and
circulars advising armed resistance to the
police, etc., said that the editor of the Arbei-
ter Zeitung only acted upon the orders Of the
socialistic committee. He said further that
he had never known Spies to recommend the
use of dynamite and other means of resistance
except individually for personal protection
and safety, and not for the purpose of organ
lied resistance to the police. There was a
sert of painful interest in the testimony of
the next witness, DR.. F. FL. Newman, that
commanded the close attention of the aud
lence. The states attorney began by handing
the.witness an ordinary nut, about half an inch
square by quarter of an inch thick, and
asked if he had not extracted it from q
wound. The with ess replied he had taken it
from the body of q policeman in the county
hospital on the morning of MAY 5. The man
was one of those wounded at the Haymarket.
NUMBER OF BULLETS
and odd-shaped missiles of various sizes were
handed the witness in succession and he tes-
titled to having taken them, or having seen
them taken from the bodies OF other police
officers who were wounded at the same time.
Mr.. Foster cross-eXamining the witness
asked: did you mark these missiles so you
would recognize them again, doctor?' Eyes,
SIR, the witness replied, and was excused.
man, knew Spies, Parsons, Fielden, Neebe
and Schwab. The principal feature Of his
testimony was in reference to number of
conversations with Parsons Sin the latter
part of last year or the first of the pres
ent." said the witness, II had my last
conversation with Parsons. He gave me
paper containing diagram of a street inter-
section and said that some such plan would
illustrate the scene of the coming
stand for independence of the
socialists in Chicago" "Why, you're not
going to blow anybody up, are your l asked.
''You will see, he answered, land it will be
brought about sooner than you think for
Mr.. Dixon gave an interesting account of
several meetings of socialists which he had
attended. In one Of these Fielden, in a
speech, argued that laboring men were moth
ing more nor less than slaves of the capital
lists. Organized armed resistance was the
only remedy within the reach of laborng
men. Spies, in speech at the same time.
said there was no hope of amelioration of the
laboring mans condition through legislation.
Mr.. Spies considered the ballot as
"a SORT OF SKIN GAME ANYHOW
Another speaker gained the appreciation of
bis hearers by saying that laboring men pres
ent would do themselves no more than JUS
tice if they marched to Marshall Fields store
and took from it whatever they required.
One remark the witness remembered having
heard Fielder make in his speech was that
when the capitalists began to acknowledge
the injustice suffered by the laborlug class,
it would be too late for them to make
redress. Revolution would then have been
inaugurated. Paul G. Hull Daily News
reporter, testified that he was present at the
Haymarket ON the night of the riot. ae heard
the speeches of Spies and Parsons, and part
of Fielden's. While Fielden was speaking the
witness went to the Desplaines street police
station. A detail of officers was preparing to
start for the Haymarket. Witness went ahead
OF the police and took position on an iron
stairway, a few rods distant from where
Fielden was speaking He heard Capt. Ward
order the crowd to dispense, and an instant
later saw what appeared to be spark Of fire
rise from among the crowd describe an are
through the air in the line of his vision and
fall among the police. Instantly there was
LOUD EXPLOSION.
what was the effect of this eXplosion?"
slro a Mr. Grip tn lau TO