The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-27
GUILTY.
So Say the Jury In the Anarchists
Trial
Spies, Schwab, Fielden, Parsons, Fischer
EnSel and LinEg Sentenced to Hang
Nee5e Gets Fifteen Years
Scenes In Court.

Ensel and LinSG Sentenced to Hang
Neess Gets Fifteen Years
Scenes In Court.
CHICAGO, Aug. Colt was known late
last night that verdict in the anarchist
cases had been reached and the brief time
in Wick the jury were out led to the con-
, claslon that 1t was not favorable
to the defendants. At ten O'Clock last
evening their labOrs had been completed.
At $3.50 in the afternoon they had retired.
! and thus within seven hours they had vir-
tually concluded that the evidence was
sufficient 10 convict all but one Of
the men of murder in the first degree.
the penalty for which. according to the
laws Of Illinois. is death.
As earlv as six O'Clock swarm of PEG.
pie lbegan gathering about Judge Gary's
court room. Only the janitors had arisen
and they were sleepily sweeping up the
rooms and corridors OF the massive build
ing in which few hours later. seven of
the greatest criminals ever brought before
bar of justice, were to hear their doom.
Within the court room the judges
and attorneys were In secret consulta.
ton and u was decided not to
admit more than one hundred persons in
addition to the privileged characters. Sew.
eral relatives of the accused who sought
their former seats were directed to places
behind the line of police. Mrs. Parsons
was given seat In the rear of the room be-
tween two police officers
When the jury entered at $50 o'clock,
escorted by dozen bailifis, the judge had
not yet arrived.
At Gas he reaclsed the court room. BY
this time the court room Was
fairly crowded. The court enjoined
absolute silence when the jury had taken
seats In the box. Then the foreman handed
In the following verdict:
I'VE, the jury. find the defendants, Aug
ust Spies. Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden,
A. X Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George
Engel and Louis Lingg guilty Of murder
and conspiracy as charged in the indict-
ment, and fix the penalty at death. We
also find Oscar Neebe guilty of murder
in the manner charged in the indictment
and sentence him to fifteen years in the
penitentiary."
At the request of Captain Black, Of the
counsel for the defense, the jury was pOlled
judge then thanked the jury for their pa.
thence and discharged them. Captain Black
said he desired TO move for new trial. On
request of States Attorney Grinnell, the
motion was continued to the September
term.
When the verdict was pronounced, few
cries were heard from the rear Of the
court room. Somebody said Mrs Parsons
had tainted. Strong men wiped their eyes
| when the limp body of the unconscious
woman was carried into an adjoining room.
Lingg seemed unprepared for the verdict
lie changed color. Tears streamed out from
his eyes ami he seemed completely broken
down. Parsons, Fielden and the Spies
brothers bore up bravely under the fearful
burden of the verdict.
The motion for a new trial, IL is expect
ed, will be heard early next month. Ii
Overruled, Judge Gary will pronounce SEN
tence and fix the date for the carrying out
Of the death penalty. The case will then
go to the Supreme Court for review. 1t
is the generally expressed view of lawyers
that the Supreme Court will not interfere
IL Judge Gary refuses new trial, rs the
court, it is contended. ruled with great lib
crafty toward the defendants counsel, and
read to the jury nearly every instruction
asked for OH behalf Of the defendants.
As the condemned men were being led
back TO the Jail through the elevated IRON
passage way FieIden required support;
Lingg and Engel walked firmly and showed
little emotion; Spies and Fischer looked
pale but retained their strength. and
Schw ab tottered behind Parsons. but it was
on Neebe that the blow fell heaviest. He
had been confident of acQuittal. While
seated in the bailifr's office last night he
was asked by BaiIff Scltlen: "What will
you take right now as Il compromise SEN
tence?' "NOt one hour" stoutly declared
he. As he entered the Jail on the march
from the court he looked like corpse,
his haggard cOuntenance speaking unutter-
able woe.
The court room was quickly emp:ied,
the crowds pouring out to join the cheering
thrOngs i'm the street.
HISTORY OF THE TRIAL.
The trial of the eight anarchists who were
to-day convicted and with one exception
sentenced to be hanged, has been in pro-
gress fifty-six days. of which about three
weeks was occupied in the empaEeling of q
jury. The evidence was closed on the
fifty-secOnd day after tire case mad been
called. The defendants were alleged to
have been the piOtterS Of and active par.
Elephants in the Haymarket riots at Chicago
OF May 4, the throwing of bomb at which
resulted in the killing of seven police Off
GERS and the manning of q number
OF others. They were all charged with
murder. Although it was not alleged that
all were guilty of the act of throwing the
fatal bomb. they were al believed to be
equally guilty on the ground of having
conspircd with each other to do the act
which resulted in the slaughter Of the
police officers. The Judge held the law
was that If tie defendants were parties TO
an anarchist conspiracy, they were all
alike guilty Of murder, although the date
of the conspiracy might not be fixed. The
particular crime OF which, the defendants
have been found guilty was the murder Of
Officer NJ. j. Degan; and the theory Of the
prosecution was that at meeting
held at Grci's Hall on May 8, as well as
1T other times the defendants participated
in determination that in the event of .
collision between the police and the strikers
certain organizations should meet at certain
places; that committees should be appointed
to attend tine places where attacks bv the
police might be expected and report attacks
r. the armed sections; that such attacks
might be resisted and police stations and
and other public works DESTROYED, and that
the act causing the death Of began, namely
the throwing Of the bomb was the result in
which all Of defendants alike participated
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