St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-25
THE SLEEPLESS EYE.
Another Sensation Sprung in the Course
of the Anarchist Trial at Chi
cago Yesterday.
A Pinkerton Detective Put on the Stand
Who Has Affiliated With the
Dynamiters
He Joined the Gang as a Matter of
Business and Got Nj any of
Their Secrets.
Spies, Parsons, EFT AL, Panic Stricken
At His knowledge and
Revelations.
The Anarchists, Trial.


burne and ex-Gov. Bross had seats with
Judge Gary at the anarchist trial this morn
ing. The usual crowd were present.
George B. Miller was the first witness. He
is lhember of the fire department., and says
he found the bombs which Seliger put under
the sidewalk when given him by Lingg. There
was also some fuse on the grounds. Two OF
the bombs were made out or gas pipe; they
were about eight inches long. The third bomb
was round, made out of lead, and had a bolt
running through it. The bombs and fuse
were found in front of the witness
house, No. SO Sigel street. On cross
examination the witness said the house
was about mile-and-a-half distant
from the Haymarket, and that from the APP
pearances OF the earth near by, the bombs
must have been abandoned by some one who
threw them down i'll q hurry. James u.
Miller, an attorney, knew Fieden. He saw
him on the lake front last fall and heard him
address crowd there. In the course Of his
speech Fielden said the workingmen were
JUSTIFIED in obtaining that which was theirs,
and which was withheld from them by the
rich. He said
EQUALITY OF POSSESSION
was what he wanted, and that to obtain this
the laborers were justified in using force.
There were two or three hundred persons in
the crowd. William Nj. Knox, reporter,
was the next witness. He saw Spies, Schwab
and Fielden on the night of May and inter-
evening in the presence, part OF the time, of
Detective Bonfield. Spies, after recounting
his personal history, asked the witness what
the coroner's jury had done. He was told
they held him without bail on the charge of
murder. Spies expressed surprise, saying
he did not know how they could do that. He
said he didn't want to go to the Haymarket.
He told it to Schwab, and that finally, when
he got there, he made quoting speech. He
said he did not know where the revenge"
circular was printed. AS soon as the eXplo-
sion took place he went to ZepfS hall and
there met Mrs. Parsons, who was waiting for
her husband. Spies said he was standing on
the wagon moment or two before the bomb
went off. Some one, he thought it was Mr..
Lichener, told him to get Off the wagon.
Spies also said that he had some bombs and
quantity of fuse in his Office, but he kept
them there simply to show them to reporters.
The witness Knox testified that Spies declared
in the interview that he had not intended TO
go to the Haymarket meeting and only did
SO as an after thought. Spies claimed
TO HAVE BEEN SURPRISED
when the bomb was thrown. John A. Schea-
beuner, assistant foreman of the Arbeter
Geitung Office, was at his post at o'clock on
the evening of May g. and saw some men set
up the revenge" circular. The witress
helped to make up the form. 1t was set up
on two different gallies-one in English, the
other in German. After locking the form
the witness went home. On the morning OF
May 5 the witness saw revolver and belt
belonging TO the Lehr und Weir Verein in
Fscher's drawer on the fourth floor. He told
Fisher to take them away. Fischer put the
belt around his waist, the revolver in his
pocket, and was going down stairs when {,
detective arrested him. Geo. Mum, type
setter, set up a portion of the revenge
circular in the Arbeiter office; about twelve
men in all worked on the circular.
Herman Pudewa, compositor, also worked on
the circulars and identified the manuscript
as the handwriting of Spies. This witness
explained that the circular was headed ITO
arms, workingmen, to arms, but that some
one in the office expressed the opinion that
single word should be substituted and
THE WORD ''REvENGE,'
which was standing on a galley already set
up, was substituted. Lawrence Hardy, news
paper reporter, described meeting held at
Zept's hall March u, when Fielden spoke and
advised those present to march up to the
block road and take possession of McCor-
mick's factory, which rightfully belonged to
the workipgmen. Those present were
mainly McCormcks strikers. Parsons ex-
pressed the same sentiment, while Spies spoke
in German. Mrs. Johanna Sullivan of No. 81
Sigel street, found two pieces of gas pipe
filled with dynamite near her house, which
she gave to Mr.. Miller, the first witness this
morning. w. c. Smith, newspaper reporter,
saw Llngg, Engel and Fischer at Grief's hall
on May l, 2, 3 and t. The witness was at the
hall all day Monday and the revenge
circular about o'clock that evening. The
circulars were brought by man on horse
back. The basement of Griefs saloon was
lighted, but when the witness attempted to
enter he was urged away. The court ad-
journed until o'clock.
Intense excitement was caused about
Judge Gary's court room this afternoon by
a report that the innermost councils of the
anarchists were to be revealed through
some mysterious agency. Just what the
methods that had been employed were was
not known, but 1t was rumOred that six of
PinkertOn's best men had been for months
in active communication with the leaders
of the anarchists as members of their order
The calling of a PinkertOn detective was
believed to be beginning of the revelation
to which the other startling evidence was
only a prelude. Brethless attention was
given as the witness commenced his testl-
mony.
a few moments had previously been con-
sumed in taking the evidence of r. S. Bar
mum, August Goerke and Richard Reichel.
The first proved that an advertisement in
PARSONS HANDWRITING
was published by al evening paper, May 4,
calling an ''impertant meeting" of the Amer
lean Group at 80 p. m The time set was
about three hours prior TO the throwing of
the bomb. Goerke and Reichel, both en-
ployes of the Arbeiter Zeitung, testified in
effect that Spies wrote the Revenge circu-
lar and caused it to be printed. This circular
was the call for the meeting in the Haymar-
l1et. a sensation was here created among
the anarchists by the appearance in the wit
ness box of Andrew c. Johnson, one of the
Pinkerton detectives. Spies regarded him
with an expression of surprise and alarm and
immediately began earnest con-
versation with his attorney. The witness
began his testimony by stating that he was
q member of the American branch of the
International Workingmen's union and be-
longed to the armed section of that force.
Continuing Detective Johnson said that he
had Joined this organization for the purpose
of finding out their objects and taking secret
notes of their proceedings. He attended all
their meetings from Feb. %, 1885, to JAN,
1856. He
TOOK REPORTS IN WRITING
of the meetings and turned them over to W {.
a. Pinkerton, superintendent OF the detective
agency. The witness stated he had since
learned that other Pinllerton men had been
detailed on the same service. His own at
tendance at the meetings of the armed Sec
ton was confined to two occasions. At a
meeting of the American GrayS, the date OF
which was given by the Witness Fischer,
one OF the defendants, introduced reSolu-
ton denouncing man named Wight
who, it was alleged, had escaped the punish
ment due some crime By means of his high
standing in society. Spies opposed the reso-
luton, saying: "WhaU is the use of passing
resolutions? Now is an opportunity for some
of our young men to go and shoot Wright"
AT another meeting, April l, Spies in a SINH
lar manner advised the shooting of the police
sergeant who had been tried upon a serious
charge, but acquitted on the testimony of
brother officers. AS a further sample of how
the leading anarchists were continuously
Selling upon every incident engaging public
attention, and urging subordinate members
to make it the occasion OF some startling act
Of violence, the witness stated that Fielden.
referring to the dedication of the new board
of II ade, said at one of the meetings: what
a splendid opportunity there would be for
some bold fellow next Tuesday evening to
make the capitalists tremble by blowing up
the building and all there is in it, Witness
laon