The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-07-18
ANARCHISTS ON TRIAL.
DAY OF GREAT INTEREST IN CHI
eAGO YESTERDAY.
The state Compelled 20 Drop States
witness schrader Like Hot Coal
Exciting Scenes fn Court-What
One Of the Police OAicsrs Overheard

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CHfcAoo, July IA crowd bad gather
cd in front of the Criminal Coart long be-
fore Judge Gary made his appearance this
morning, while the Hobbies, stairway, and
FIRST and second floors were crowded.
Waller, who turned States evidence, is q
medium-sized man, with dark hair and
luxuriant but well-trimmed whistles. He
has . dropping nose and clear brown eyes.
His face was very pale, and bore an ex-
preston of shame and terror as he unfold
ed this sensational tale, revealing the Sc
drets of the Lehr and Weir Vsrien. When
court was opened to-day Waller was again
placed on the stand. Witness testified
that the bomb given him by Fischer
Thanksgiving Day last, with instructions
to use it on the police if they interfered
with the meeting to be held that evening
at the Market square, he kept in his house
for two weeks, and then exploded it in the
woods. Witness went to the Haymarket
meeting armed with a dynamite bomb.
At this point Waller identified photo
orarh of an Anarchist named Schnerbett.
Witness said that Schnerbett was at the
meeting.
odd Schnerbett say anything at the
meeting? ?" "He said We should tell the
Others what we had decided to do. He
said the thing should commence in other
places also"
"What do you mean by the thing ?"
ssThe revolution.
The witness was severely cross-exam-
ined, bat his testimony remained I'M
shaken. He said that no offers had been
made to him to induce him to testify.
On the redirect examination Waller was
asked: ssHave you been solicited by the
defense within the past ten days to go
back on your original statement and meet
them some place outside of the city or at
Lincoln Park and agree on another
story?" The defense excitedly objected,
and the objection was sustained.
Absorbing as had been the morning
( session, the afternoon far surpassed
Mt in interest The first move on the
BART of the State was the Introduction
of another inforrner. This was Bernhard
Schrader. who, the hight preceding the
bomb throwing, had been present at the
conspiracy meeting at which Waller, the
previous witness for the prosecution, had
presided The second informer, Schrader,
is carpenter, and has lived IN this coun-
tay five years. He was born in Russia.
Schrader says he reached the hall at 8
4 clock. The meeting was already IN order.
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srty present. 1t was agreed that if the
sssalce attacked any meetings, then the
Anarchists were to mutually assist each
other to destroy the officers. The men,
bers of the Northwest group should 60 to
the Wicker Park Station in case the police
should make an attack. If any member
hand anything with him, he should use it.
Nothing was said about bombs. The attor-
neys for the State look at each other ana
seem slightly annoyed. They say .sWas
anything said about dynamite?" A shake
of the head is the response, and the faces
of the prosecuting lawyers lengthen per-
ceptibiy. Another question is put: SIN
the meeting did you hear any reference to
the word sRuhe'? Again shake of the
head. The snhject is quickly changed.
Schrader tells of attending the Haymarket
meeting. He was in Randolph street
saloon when the bomb was thrown. He
left the speakers because drops of rain had
begun to fall. Witness then tells in detail
his connection with the Lehr and Weir
S'erein. They drille once a week with
<Springfeld rifles. He was No. 80. There
Z were four companies in the city. The total
number of members he did not know.
On cross examination witness testified;
s.Nobody asked me to take bomb to the
meeting. I knew that when the police
should come each one should help him
self. No, not with bombs, that know
of. No, / did not anticipate any trouble
at the Heymarket after left. When the
bomb was thrown l was quietly sitting in
saloon. The sign of the Greek letter was
the sienul for meeting for months pre-
yious 70 the Haymarket fight. It was not
agreed that there should be trouble that
night, only we knew that if the police
made an attack then there might be
trouble"
Again the prosecution took the witness
in hand Mr.. Ingham, holding long
manuscript up to view and cycling Sehra-
Z der in q sharp manner, asks abrup tly /:
ssDid you not make to Police Captain
Schenck written statement" ssWe OBJ
ject, shout every one of the lawyer for the
defense They are on their feet excitedly
appealing to the judge. A hot dis
cussien ensues. The defense strain every
nerve to prevent whisper even of what
! Schrader told the police reaching the ears
kof the jury. At length, apparently in des-
Iteration, the assistant to the States Attor-
NV blnrts out, eve wish to show that
NE and time again the witness has said
Vat he Re srd the word 'RLus' u OIL. @zs4
~ Judge Garry pounded his desk and the
words of the impetuous Ingham were lost
Then the fact came out, with no attempt
at conoealment, that the state had been
deceived, and possibly duped. The testi-
mony of Schrader is not what they expect
ed him to give. Captain Black and Mr..
Foster are in high glee. Mr.. Ingham, his
face red with anger, said: sit is evident
from the action of the witness and from
the action Of the counsel that Schrader is
their witness and not our witness" and
forthwith the estimable informer was
dropped like hot coal.
Police Captain Steele next took the
stand. He was in command OF company
of rs officers in the Haymarket. He gave
brief account OF the massacre. The pc
lice had their reyolvers in their pockets,
Il. and hands hV fhair