Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-28

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| would have indicated to Capt. Black, the
attorney for the defense conducting the
cross-examination. that Quinn would not
have recollected the sentence bad not his
memory been fresbened by the witness
An effort to induce the witness to contra
dict his evidence before the coroner was
not materially Successful.
When Perez English was called TO the
stand Spies leaned forward eagerly and his
countenance bore look of intense interest
Being one of the Oldest reporters on the
city papers Mr. English was known to
Spies and Parsons Us a 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 call
ed to order by Spies Not car
shorthand notes with short pencil in a
difficulty IN turning his pages the report
was broken in places, tut the portion
which he had intact he said was verbatim
The substance Of the speech as produced
| oy Mr. English was the same as heretofore
published and often referred to in the pro
gress of the trial. but the reproduction of
the exact language had profound effect,
and as he heard his own denunciations of
capitalists. coupled with the dark and san
culinary threats accompanying them, Spies
face grew ivid ard damp with perspira-
ton
The defense made use of every possible
pretext to Interrupt the witness with OBJ
jectiOns Of every sort, which were gener-
ally overrlled. The witness also mead his
stenographic notes of Parsons speech of
the same date, which came next in
order This was the ''staf speech
in the prosqem 1t was frequently ap
plaudea and responded to with explosive
inter ieotions and blood-curdlipg threats.
| The speaker waxed warm and endeav-
ored 10 impress his hearers with the neces
sity oi preparing to defend .:teir lives and
! interests at once. War had been declared
upon them {referring TO the Mccormick
| trouble} ard they must takeur arms against
their Oppressors.
Cross-examined witness sasserted to tlT
interrogative statement of 7Rr Foster thai
vixen persons in the crowd referring ic
! Mccormick and other capitalists, shouted
chang him, hang him now, both Parsons
and Spies said that now was not the TIME
and couslseled present moderation Mr.
Foster observed that the paper containing
the witress published report contsinec
.only those utterances which appeared to bt
incendicy and asked witaess if he was in
.structed to suppress all the concihatGry
I Language used.
The witness replied thaa such instruction.
had not been given him
The Tnost interesting aand probably thu
most valuable testimony of the afternoon
was tbst of NJ NJ Thompson an employ,
I in Tie wholesale store OF Marshall, Field Il
/ Co. the witness who had been Ga bust
ness to the West side was returning TOWARD
| the river on Randolph street when the Hay
market meeting was assembling Stopping
near the entrance TO an alley short dis
lance from the speakers wagon he saw
| Spies mount the wagos, inquire for Par
! SONS and descend to the ground Shortly
after Spies, accompanied by man whC
had been pointed out to him AS Schwab
passed by him into the alley.
Witness-I heard the words pistols anC
police Then one of the men asked tn,
other would one be enough.
Mr. Grinnell-what happened them
WHness-The men came out or the sfie.y
and went west on Randolph street
knew there was to be speaking and follow
would take place They went west TO Hal
stead street and / followed Near Hal
stead they were joined by third man
whom had not seer before.
NJ misunderstanding the witness a
photograph of Schnauble) Docs that re
semble the man You saw join Spies and
join Spies and Schwab?
Witness-Yes, sir
Er;v hat hanpapaI
Witness-The three men then starred to-
ward the Haymarket | went along. and
once when quite close to them saw Spies
hand the stranger something which he put
in his. Eight hand coat pocket. A moment
later | passed by them and heard Schwab
say: Now if they come, give ii to them "
reply: II don't think we can, for they
won't give lis chance tonight.
The witness then told that he accOmpa-
uied the men back to the Haymarket, where
ky this time quite crowd had assembled
Spies mounted the speakers stand and the
witness lost sight of the other two.
The cross examination was long and tedi-
GUS MT Foster was eaasperating to the
witness and the witness was half defiant 10
the attorney The court was frequently
obliged to Interfere, while the states attor-
ney aroused the ire of Capt Black by his
efforts to protect the witnes against the ef
forts at browbeating.
The first conversation the witness had
heard between Spies and St.lwab when the
words pistols aad police we've used, was ex-
planned from the standpoint of the defense
by the following question by Mr.. Foster:
Now. were net the words You heard
pistols and .''poisce,' and did not the
subsequent query. will one he enoughl"
refer TO speakers to address the meeting
which was the subject of the convention?
The witness was confident that he had
not mistaken the words and said he only
heard those words; he had no means Of
knowing absolutely to what they referred
The proceedings closed here foY the day.
The testimony Of Thompson was sc
we're blow to the defense II proves as
nearly as the mistaken testimony of one |
man can that Spies. Schwab and Schnaufel !
had agreed before the meeting was called /
70 order to throw dynamite bomb among E.
the police should they attempt to disperse
he crowd. Ii places Spies in the position /
IF personally aiming the bomb thrown and /
Identified Schwab Is his abe'tor Though
he witness did not swear that the article be
aw Spies hand To Schwab was a bomb, The
inference TO that effect was nowhere more
,iaihly marked than on the white face OF
pies. The almost frantic. but utterly
utile efforts Of the attorneys for the de
ence 10 make the witness inpeach himself
howed how well they recognized the
weight Of the evidence be furnished
At one Stagein the cross-examination the
Titness said that such and such were his
pinions Mr. Foster reiterated Il don't
fanf your opinions they are not worth
raw : and when the state : attorney r.
lons;rated at such harsh treatment Of the
-iiness, Nr- Foster rejoinei loudly and !
have the same opinion Of his testimony
Altogether the testimony Of Thompson has
pparenlly done as much for the prosecution
that Of snv other witness vet examined