The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-16
THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.
The Jury Filled at Last-AttOrney GrinnelI's
Story Of the Plot Of the COnspiratOrs.


CHICAGO. July Is The jury to try the eight
Anarchists charged with the Haymarket massa-
ere was finally impaneled to day. The twelfth
man. H. l. Sanford was accepted by the de
Tense before the noon adjournment and when
the court resumed at o'clock this afternoon
States Attorney Grinnell announced that, so
far as the State was concerned, the
jury might be sworn, and this was
done. The court announced to the audience
that there must be absolutely no appreciation or
disapprobation of anything that might be said or
done during the trial Anyone breaking this
rule would be severely punished The States
attorney had large drawing of the scene of the
Haymarket riot in the courtroom. and had it
placed on large easel in front of the jury. He
then delivered his address to the jury, in which
he said he would be able to prove to the complete
satisfaction OF the jury that Lngg made the
bomb which was thrown in Haymarket square
on the 4th of May.
The States attorney was given the most pro-
found attention by the court. audience apd jury.
He said: THE leaders in any great cause are
either heroes or towards The testimony in this
case will show that Spies, Parsons, Sehwab and
Neebe are tho biggest towards have ever seen
in my life. Last January Spies said that
they were going to precipitate the matter
about the LIST of May, and he told reporter
how they could clean out the police He said
they would have meeting near the intersection
of two streets; that they would be provided with
bombs; that when the police came the bomb
throwers would be stationed on different side
streets, and Spies then exhibited an empty
bomb, almost an exact counterpart of the bomb
that fell in the Haymarkes The evidence will
develop strange state of facts in re-
gard to the completely of others
IN hrnn nd CO
many men that distrusted my own Judgment
in the matter of its prosecution While / be-
lieved that at last thirty men, and perhaps
more, should have been indicted for muder, yet
the developments before the grand jury were
such that the facts could not be all known then.
1t was necessary to pick out the leaders
only. On the evening OF May 3 Spies wrote
his own account of the Mccormick riot
We have his manuscript. In that ne says that
one bomb might have prevented the failure or
the demonstration. On that afternoon there
appeared at the top of the editorial column in
the Arbeiter Zeitung the Greek letter upsllon,
and the words Come Monday night When the
conspirators saw that secret letter they
were to go to the place of meeting
| am informed that Balthasar Rau
wrote that signal Rau is a confidential
friend OF Spies. working In his Office. Armed
men of the Anarchist group went to Greifs
Hall, at 81 West Lake street. on Monday night,
and met in the basement to the number of thirty
or more. Fischer, Lingg and Engle were there.
Schnaubet was there. He is not here. He ran
away. The plan of warfare was there devel-
on the end Of the row. His hairs are turning
gray, and he has lived many years in America.
1t was the most fearfuIy declared plan that
over heard in my life. 1t meant absolute de-
structon to the town. Ene.e said, when you
see printed in the Arbeiter Zeitung under the
letter-oox the word ''Ruhe, that night prepare
for war kuhe means rest. peace The manu-
script OF that is III our posse sson, and is
in the handwriting of August Spies.
That word on Tuesday, May 4, appeared
in the Arbeter Zeitung in large type. Enge
said to Fisher at the meeting, Is not that the
order OF the northwest groupn Fisher answered
Yes Fisher carried that word to the Arbeter
Ieitung Office, whore he was foreman. Lingc
said he would make the bombs. We have traced
to him at least twenty Of these Internal
gines, OF which passed from his hands
TO the man who threw it at Haymarket square.
will prove to you that Lingg made the bomb
that killed the officers On Tuesday the
spirators went to Linggs house, where he had
already sixteen half bombs and eight whole ones.
but he wanted mora, and they were
to be filed with dynamite that Tues
day afternoon. Then these people were
informed where they could obtain them the
very spot OF holding the meeting. not 10 the
open square, but IN the narrow part OF Des-
PLANES street, where the alleys are. On Mon
day night men with bombs were to distribute
themselves in different parts of the city.
and throw bombs st every patrol-wagon
going toward the Haymarket Fires were to be
started in all parts of the city. When Spies
opened meeting at the Haymarket he said,
We will not obstruct travel on Randolph street,
but will go up here on Desplaines.' So ne got
just where he said, last January, he would get"
The meeting was described briefly, the ar
rival of the police and tragedy. Mr.. Grinnell
approved fully of Inspector Bonfeld's action in
breaking up the meeting Had the police not
acted that night, they would have been
peled to act on the following night, with
probably more fatal results. The meeting was
called for $780, and the police did not come till
1920. The conspirators in other parts of the
city did not receive the signal at the expected
time, and that part of the plot fell through. In
concluding, Mr.. Grinnell said:
Il will attempt to show you who threw the
bomb and not single consp;ritor will DO placed
upon the stand whom we will not corroborare
by other witnesses"
When the States attorney closed, the attorneys
for defense said they would make no statement
for their side until the evidence was in. To-
morrow the examination of witnesses will begin
Another sTotal Wreck in tho Black Family
Washington Letter.
Pension Commissioner Black is a mighty
thrifty man in these days of reform" He
takes care of "his people" even though he may
have Chartered about ''nepoiisIn" under Repub-
lican rule. he put his mother in law, firs A.
S Griggs, in the Patent Office She is never at