The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-15
STILL TALKING TO THE JURY
Mr. Ingham Closes His Address, and Mr..
Foster Speaks for the Defense.
Che Latter Is Very Severe in Ills Denuncia-
tions Of the Professional Detectives, Who
Are Never, lie Says To BE Believed.


opening he addressed himself particularly to the
great haste and energy shown by Lingg and En-
gel on May 4, and It's significance with the pro-
nunciamentos of Spies. leading up to the Hay
market massacre. He dwelt with great force
upon the fact that the bomb which killed the
police was unquestionably the handiwork of
Lineg
Mr.. Ingliam's address was considered the
strongest plea yet made for the conviction of the
prisoners. His oratory was not only powerful.
but his analysis of the evidence was considered
very convincing. He concluded his speech about
o'clock, when Mr. Foster began for the defense.
The speaker said the fact that all the defend
ants were foreigners except Parsons should
make no difference with the jury. He then de-
scribed the defendants as martyrs. surrounded
by their weeping families, against whom the en-
tire legal and detective forces of the city were
arrayed. r
Resuming his address, when the court rAas
sembled at o'clock, Mr. Foster devoted consd
cradle time to further discussion of the power
prejudice wields in the decisions OF mankind. He
said he was confident that did the jury consult
the evidence presented in this case only, and d.
vest their decision wholly Of the effect of previ
ously acquired opinions and prejudices the de-
PENDANTS were safe; otherwise. they were not
safe. Mr. Foster said he felt sure that the
judges charge TO the jury would not recognize
the question of whether or not the defendants
had conspred to overthrow the government and
bring about revolution unless be found that such
conspiracy was directly connected with the muir
ders committed on the Haymarket A verdict
rendered upon any other basis would not be
worth the paper required to write it upon
The speaker was not here TO discuss
Socialism and Anarchy. He wished to
say at once and for ali that he was opposed
to Socialism, Communism and Anarchy;
but believing, as he did, that these doctrines
were wrong, he did not see that his faith in his
case should BIB lessened thereby. He would ad-
init that theldefendants were. in his opinion al
together wrong in preaching anarchy as they
had done. bult that did affect the The one
question to be considered was, did the defendants
commit mufner, or could they be proven to have
conspired To commit murder After referring
10 other legd points involved in the case, Mr.. Fos
ter made an Earnest plea for the defendant ingg
devotng himself principally to the circumstances
of Lngg's arrest He maintained that Linggs
resistance OF an officer was the only charge unon
which he coaId be placed under arrest. With
that object Id view, officers in plain clothes were
sent 20 arrest him. Was it strange that Lingg
resisted2 He was set upon in his own home by
strange men, who bore no evidence that they
that he resisted.
Mr.. Foster next criticised the States attorney
for having made a Job lot" of the defendants
and for attempting to convict them "by whole
SAFE This was the reason why nearly every
public utterance or published article of Spies
and Parsons which had aviolent tinge had been
dragged into court as evidence. But it did not
affect the as defined in the in
ants had committed or had conspired to COM
init murder The speaker then illustrated his
idea of the culpability of defendant who had
only written and preached about anarchy by
surprising that he had taught his child to swear
In infancy ana allowed him to have evil asso.
ciates throughout his youth until when arrived
at manhood and he was fully educated in crime
he committed murder. He, the father, would be
morally guilty. but not legally So Soon after
the arrest of the defendants, the speaker had
read communication in Chicago paper
in which the writer stated that any
attorney who would undertake to defend
the prisoners indicted for participating in the
Haymarket outrage should be hanged to a lamp
post Supposing after the trial began three
four persons acted upon this advice. and hanged
one or all of the counsel for the defense to
lamp post, would the writer of the communica-
tion and the publisher of it be guilty of the
oense, as set forth in the theory of the State in
ehis case. or the mon who conspired and person
ally committed the acts? When he had made
several similar illustrations he declared that
ooly conspirators who were positively connected
according to. law.
IA great paper in Chicago" said Mr. Foster.
''in article relating to the labor troubles then
current, proposed that those troubles be settled
with the aid of Gatllng guns and brave men be.
hind them. Why, if the Alarm or the Arbetier
Zeitung had published such sentences as this the
State would never tire of ringing the changes
upon them. But the great papers of Chicago
are protected; only the Alarm aud the Arbetier
Zeitung are culpable when such statements are
made In their columns. / am not here TO de-
fend the Alarm and Arbeiter Zsitung, but to
protest that these defendants not on trial for
Socialism nor Anarchy. but for murder s2
Mr. Foster ridiculed the parade the State had
made of revolver and file sharpened into a
dagger which had been found in possession ot
Fischer s'Why," he said, II willing to
wager much the value of a good five cent
cigar that the States attorney, when he goes
upon the street OF adark night, carries re-
volver with which to protect himself against
possible attack"
Mr. Grinnell-You would lose your Ave cents
Mr. Foster-I don't believe it: must have
you sworn first. Continuing, Mr.. Foster said
shat many people preferred a knife to a revolver.
considering it a. better weapon in case of O sud
len attack, when the conflict would always be
close quarters Probably this was the idea Of
Fischer when he had the point of his knife
sharpened. But it was the testimony of Mr.
Walker in his address, and that only which was
not under oath, which filled the grooves in the
file with Prussic acid Mr. Walker took this filt
ana moSCS D0Ok-MoSL seemed to- De on trial
herein his hand and explained TO the jury how
edeadly drug placed in the grooves of Fischer's
ale had converted it into poisonous weapon.
AT this point Mr.. Foster placed in most ri
diculons light what he called the paradng BY
the State of tin cans discovered under sidewalks
two months after the Haymarket riot Many of
his expreeNons were witty to remarkable de
gree, and. with the pantomimic gestures of the
speaker. convulsed the audience at times, while
even the judge and the States attorneys coul1
not repress their smiles entirely.
Before Mr. Foster became serious again. he
said that the theory OF the prosecution If the jury
would pardon him for mentioning it, was like
she flowers that bloom in the spring it had
Dothing to do with the case Mr. Foster de
1lared that the speeches at the Haymarket were
not of q character liable to incite such an act as
the throwing of bomb A reporter who had