Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-06
A RUSSIAN REPORTER.
Parsons Declared in Zepf's Hall
When the Bomb Exploded.

Parsons Declared in Zepf's Hall
When the Bomb Exploded.
CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Despite the threat
ening weather, ladies were present In
Judge Gary's court this morning In undi-
minished numbers. NJ. T. Malkoff, Rus
sian, who lived at No. 26S w est Randolph
street, was called first. He is the cor.
respondent of paper at Moscow, Russia,
and it is said was imprisoned there on &C.
count of his connection with the Nihilistic
movement. Malkoff has worked as a re-
porter on the Daily News, and at one time
was connected with the ArbeiterZeItung.
He was at the Haymarket on the evening
of May 4, but only for few minutes. He
testified that he was at Zept's Hall when
the bomb exploded, and that he saw Par
sons there five minutes before the bomb
exploded, and Parsons, Mrs. Parsons and
Mrs. Holmes were there at the time the
bomb exploded.
THE WITNESS AN ANARCHIST.
On the cross examination it was shown
that the witness had letters addressed to
the care of Justus Schwab, in New York,
and that he was rOoming with Balthau-
ser Rau, an anarchist, at the time OF the
riot before that he lived with Schwab,
one of the defendants. When he left Rus
STA In 1882 his bedroom was searched by
the police. Since his stay here he had
contributed money to the Alarm. The
witness said he was not Nihilist or the
agent for any society in Russia. He was
working for the Moscow Gazette.
The prosecution here offered in evidence
letter written by the witness to Spies.
The letter is in substance an inquiry as to
whether or not Spies could use certain
articles written by MalkOff. 1t goes on to
say: ~ have just completed another arti-
Gle treating OF the secret revolutionary
societies of Russia. ! am proletarian
in the fullest sense of the word. Address
your letter to j. Fl. Schwab, so First
street, New York." The witness said he
did not use the term proletarian in the
sense in which Socialists always employ
the term, but he understood it TO mean
without any means of support.
SPIES BROTHER ON THE STAND.
The proceedings in the trial this after
noon were, in the main, featureless, par
ticularly in the earlier part. At last
Henry Spies, brother to Spies the accused,
took the stand. There was nothing sensa-
tiOnal in his testimony, except his state
ment under oath that the story he told
the officers who were sent to arrest him,
and told the States attorney afterward,
was fabrication from beginning to end,
Inc WlLne55 salu IN eHeCJ Jnat though he
was at the meeting from beginning to end,
and all of this time in sight of his brother.
he did not once see Schwab. This con.
tradicts the statement of Thompson, the
witness for the State, who said Spies and
Schwab. previous to the speaking, walk
ed together from the wagon to Union street
andback.
LEAVING THE WAGON.
The witness then related how he stood
beside the wagon during the speaking,
how when the bomb exploded he helped
his brother to alighU from the wagon, and
how he struck down a revolver aimed at
his brother, receiving the ball in his own
body. He became separated from his
brother and went home to have his wound
dressed. He declared that his brother re-
manned in the wagon during the entire
meeting, which contradicts Gilmer's testi-
mony.
Mrs. A. r. Parsons and Mrs. Mary
Holmes, formerly associate editors of the
anarchist paper Alarm, have recently
been making strenuous efforts to have
its publication resumed, but have failed.
Before the Haymarket riot the Alarm was
issued as sort of English edition of the
Arbeiter Zeitung, with A. r. Parsons as
editor, but its printing was let by con-
tract. Since the tragedy OF May 4 no
printing concern will publish the paper.
Mrs. Parsons said yesterday that the pub
LEGATION of the sheet would have to await
the release Of her husband, and II the
worst came other hands would take hold
OF it.