The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-28
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The court adjourned at o'clock until 2 P. NJ.
The crossexamination of Mr.. Heinman was
mainly devoted to an attempt to show that the
enthusiasm of the crowd at the Haymarket had
| cooled down considerably before Fielden began
| his speech, and that many of those present had
| departed, partly owing to indications of storm,
before that time. The answers OF the witness
| practically sustained this theory.
The next witness placed upon the stand was
Louis Haas detective belonging to the Central
station detail. He was an eyewitness or the
scenes OF the riot and said that as the police
came up he heard some one in the crowd say,
Here comes the bloodhounds You DO your
duty, and we will do ours" His examination
elected nothing new. When cross-examined, the
witness said that the ''bloodhound sentence
was uttered as the police came up, and that
| scarceiv minute elapsed before Captain Ward
issued the order to disperse The sentence was
spoken loudly and distinctly enough to be
audible, he thought, to any one who had not
started to leave the place. He had repeated tho
bloodhound" sentence to some Of his brother
officers at the Central station, but not to Ser
geant Quinn. Apparently an opposite answer
as to. Quinn would have indicated, to Captain
Black. the attorney for the defense conducting
the cross examination, that Quinn would not
have recollected the sentence had not his
memory been freshened by the witness. An
effort to induce the witness to contradict his
testimony before the coroner'S jury was not
materially successful
When Percy English was called to the stand.
Spies leaned forward eagerly. and his counte-
nance bore a look of intense interest. Being one
of the oldest reporters on the city press, Mr..
English was known to Spies and Parsons as
stenographer who never neglected to take
verbatim whatever he wished to reproduce in
his paper. The witness testified that he was
present when the Haymarket meeting was called
to order by Spies. Not caring to be observed. he
took his short hand notes with short pencil in
book concealed in his coat. Owing to the diff
Guilty in turning his pages, the report was
broked in places, but the portion which he
had intact, he sad was verbatim. The sub
stance of the Speech as produced by Mr. English,
was the same as heretofore published and often
referred to in the progress of the trial; but the
reproduction of the exact language had pro-
found effect, and, as Spies heard his own denun-
Citations of capitalists, his face grew lvid and
damp with perspiration. The defense made
of every possible pretext to interrupt the witness
with objections of every sort which were gener
ally overruled. The witness also read his steno-
graphic notes of Parsons's speech, which came
next This was the 'star" speech in the pro-
gramme 1t was frequently appauded and re-
sponded to with explosive interjections and
blood curdling threats The speaker waxed
warm, and endeavored to impress his hearers
with the necessity of preparing to defend their
lives and interests at once. War had been de-
clared upon them referring to the Mccormick
troublea, and they must take up arms against
their oppressors.
When crossexamined the witness assented to
the interrogative statement OF Mr.. Foster that,
when persons in the crowd, referring to McCor-
mick and other capitalists shouted "hang him"
''hang him row." both Parsons and Spies said
that now was not the time, and counseled pres
ent moderation. Mr.. Fostera observed that the
paper containing the witnesses published report
contained only those utterauces which appeared
to be incendiary, and asked the witness if he was
instructed to suppress all the conciliatory Ian
guage used. The witness replied that such in
structions had not been given him.
The most interesting and. probably, the most
valuable testimony of the afternoon was that of
NJ NJ Thompson, an employe of the wholesale
store of Marshall Field g. Co. The witness, who
had been business to the West Side. was re-
turning toward the river, on Randolph street,
when the Haymarket meeting was assembling.
Stopping near the entrance to an alley, short
distances from the speakers wagon, he saw Spies
mount the wagon, inquire for Parsons. and de-
scend TO the ground Shortly after, Spies, ac-
companied by man who had been pointed out
to him as Schwab. passed by him into the alley.
Mr.. Grinnell-Did you hear any words spoken
by eithSskx5f the meng
The Witness-I heard the words ''pistos" and
police. Then one of the men asked the other
would lone be enoughF'
Mr.. Grinnell-What happened thenl
The Witness-The men came out of the alley
and went west on Randolph street / knew
there was to be speaking. and followed them to
learn whore the speaking would take place.
They went west to Halsted street, and I fol
lowed. Near Halsted they were joined by a third
Mr.. Grinnell (handing the witness a photo
graph of Schnaubelt)- this resemble the
man whom you saw join Spies and Schwabl"
The Witness-Yes, sir.
Mr.. Grinnell-What happened then?
The Witness-The men started towards the
Haymarket. went along. and once, when quite
close to them, / saw Spies hand the strange man
something, which he put in his right-hand coat
pocket. A moment later l passed by them and
heard Schwab say: Now if they come, give it
to / 0f I
Spies reply: II don't think we can, for they
won't give US chance tonight"
The witness then told how he accompanied
the men back to the Haymarket, where, by this
time quite crowd had assembled. Spies
mounted the speakers wagon and the witness
lost sight of the other two.
The cross-examination was long and tedious
Mr.. Foster was exasperating to the witness and
the witness was half-defant to the attorney
The court was frequently obliged to interfere
while the States attorney aroused the ire of
Captain Black by his efforts to protect the wit
ness against the effects of browbeating The
first conversation, the witness said, he heard be-
tween Spies and Schwab, when the words "pis-
tolls" and police were used, was explained from
the standpoint of the defense by the following
question by Mr.. Foster: ''Now, were not the
words you heard speakers and police? and did
not the subsequent query, will one be enoughP
refer to the speakers to address the meeting
which was the subject of the conversations"
The witness confident that he had not
mistaken the words and as he had only heard
those words, he had no means of knowing abso-
lutely to what they referred. The proceedings
closed here for the day
The testimony of Thompson was severe blow
to the defense 1t proves, as nearly as the un-
shaken testimony of one man can, that Spies,
Schwab and Schnaubelt had agreed before the
meeting was called to order, to throw dynamite
bomb among the police, should they attempt to
disperse the crowd. 1t places Spies in the posi-
ton of personally arming the bomb thrower, and
identified Schwab as his abettor. Though the
witness did not swear that the article he saw
Spies hand to Schnaubelt was bomb, the infer
ence to that effect was nowhere more
plainly marked than on the white face
of Spies. The almost frantic, but utter
lv futile efforts of the attorneys for the
defense to make the witness impeach himself,
showed how well they recognized the weight of
the evidence he furnished. At one stage in the