Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-08-23
The End of the Anarchists Trial.

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will hardly have furnished more i'm
| pressive scene than the court room dur
ing the reading of Judge Gary instruc-
tons to the jury Thursday afternoon.
That event had apparently been looked
forward TO as the most directly affect
ing final result, for the audience,
which crowded every inch of available
space, evinced a general eagerness of
interest which was lacking during the
giving of some of the most important
testimony. Even the ladies present
drank in every word of each long phrase
in the instructions as if to lose nothing
which might give clue as to what the
verdict would be. The strained atten-
ton of the defendants was painful to
witness, and the anxiety of Mrs. Par
sons was scarcely less apparent. The
jury seemed glad of the opportunity to
rest their tired bodies and stood erect
| throughout the hour consumed in the
reading of the instructions. Counsel
for both sides crowded as close to the
bench as possible and once or twice
Capt. Black or Mr.. Zeisler interrupted
the court TO suggest an Interpolation or
expunging of a word or phrase When
the jury retired the prisoners were
taken into one of the bailiff's rooms adj
joining the court room. Anew minutes
later Fischer emerged, accompanied by
a bailiff, and entered another room to
get drink of ice-water. He was
deadly pale. Though the Dailiffs took
pains to assure the ladies present that
it was extremely improbable that YER
diet would be returned before adjourn
ment of court, every one of them re-
manned till Judge Gary put on his hat
and was out of the building. During
the three hours of waiting for the ver-
dict the attorneys present were SUBJ
jected to repeated interviews, mostly by
ladies, as to the probability of q verdict
being returned which would fix the ex-
treme penalty. Mrs. Parsons, Mrs.
Neebe and Mrs. Schwab conversed to-
gether in low tones at the end of one
of the attorneys tables, and were now
and then frightened up by a cheerful
word from Mrs. Black, who is said to
have firm faith in their acquittal. The
most touching sight of all was the aged
mother of Spies. Her imperfec: knowl-
edge of the English language has made
it impossible for her TO follow the evil
dence closely, but her intense solicitude
for the comfort and safety of her favor
tie son, the enormity of whose offense
as maintained by the prosecution, she
has seemed little to understand, has
made her the most pathetic feature of
the jury frequent tears rolled down her
wrinkled cheeks, and when the court
adjourned, with her suspense still I'M
relieved, she moved slowly out on the
arm of her young daughter, seemingly
broken hearted Here comes the
jury, was the startled whisper which
went around fifteen minutes after that
body had retired, and it created mo-
mentary sensation for the jury had re-
turned, but it was only to receive some
additional instructions concerning the
crime of manslaughter, and the hopes
of the sensation seekers present speed
ily fell again. 1t was with extreme
disappointment that the larger part of
the audience received the announcement
that court had adjourned. They would
gladly have waited till midnight TO hear
the verdict, but Judge Gary was not so
minded and the crowd departed, many
of the ladies yowing they would be
back early IN the morning rain or shine.
At the close at night hundreds of per-
sons stood on the sidewalk in sight of
the light which streamed from the win
dows of the Criminal Court building.
Fifty policemen guarded every approach
to the building and their number was
constantly being augmented. The OK
element about the vicinity was very
great The city authorities took
every precaution to prevent anything in
the nature of disturbance The jury
men have been carried their suppers
from neighboring hotel and spent
the night in the building. Everything
possible was doneto add to their comfort
and the doors OF their room were heavily
guarded against intrusion from without
THE VERDICT.
1--WE, the jury, find the defendants,
] Arn11st Snies Michael Sch1van Sannal