The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-08-21
EVIDENCE ALL IN.
The Taking Of Testimony in the
Anarchists Trial Concluded.
stories OF the Principal Defendants
what the Defense Claims to Have
Proven-Arguments of tho
Lawyers.
THE ANARCHISTS,

'no eeNerai ueIenuantS, resumed his test
mony in the Anarchists, trial Saturda
morning. Witness said he never told ID,
tective James Bonfield that he escape
from the Haymarket meeting throug
Crane Bros.,' alley. On cross-examinatio
Fielden said he became a member of tn
international Working-me Associa
tlon in 1884. Soon afterwards h
Joined the American group of Anarcf
ists' In answer to question a
to how long he had been of the belief tina
the condition of things must be overthrow
ne had ever been of that belief. He ba,
always believed that it would have to b,
oVerthrown one way oranother.
After being locked up for tbre,
months witness could not be expected, h,
said, to remember if he used the lanplIag,
attributed to him. Other extracts fron
the reported speech Of the witness at tb,
haymarket meeting were read, and he adj
mltted using such language substantially
lie thought he used the expression, refer
ring to the law: keep your eve upon it
throttle it; kill it, or it will xiii YOU" Tn
explanation of his use of these words wit
ness said he meant it in q general wnv
!ust as Republican orator would say
we will kill the Democratic party"
flelden IN conclusion swore that he did
not Know of the presence of a dynamite
bomD or any thing of tho kind at the
cured. -o'oh W.
AT the conc usion Of the days session a
witness named John Bennett swore that he
saw the man who threw tho bomb; that
SAID man was standing on the west side of
fDesplaines street, about thirty-eight feet
from the alley, and that the bomb was
thrown in a northerlv direction. Itdid
not come from behind the boxes on
the sidewalk. Witness could not
recollect as to whether he had
not said on the 18th of Nav, in
ne presence of the States Attorney, that
the bomb was thrown from behind the
noxes. witness watched the bomb from
the Time 1t left the hand of the thrower nm :.
til 1t exploded. He knew at the time if
was thrown that it was bomb
CHICAGO, Aug 10.-Three the Anarchist
prisoners, ,Schwab, Spies and Parsons.
were placed on the witness-stand yester-
Jay Schwab was examined by Mr.. Foster
as TO his whereabouts the night of the Hay-
market slaughter, and denied in whole and
IN detail the statements concerning him
sworn s, TO by the witnesses Thompson and
Gllmer, and corroborated the story of his
travels to Deering and his speech making
there as told by the various witnesses ok,
amlned in his behalf. He refused to saw
whether or not he was an Anarchist.
spies was the next witness He gave an
account Of the Mccormick meeting and
ms ms part therein. The person who Called
lor the raid on the Mccormick hands
stood over q hundred feet from him
and spoke in tongue he did not
ed" when he saw the police FIR fir.
ing on the women and children. Some.
body told him two people were killed and
about twenty wounded. He at once came
home and wrote the Revenge circular,
heading 1T "Workmen, To Arms" He
s read IN the live O'clock paper that five or
changed the two in the s"V Circular ap
to six" He detailed his experience
at the Haymarket meeting and denied in
full the stories of Witnesses THOMPSON
ana Gilmer as to his (Spies) having
lighted the bomb. He had had four
o bombs nat at tn, the Ar0eiterzeitung office;
left two. He didn't know either 'lr
OF the men. In talking with the re-
porter, Wilkinson, he had explained street
warfare with dynamite to the reporter
using Market square and the tunnel in his
Illustrations The word "Ruhe' was in.
serted with a batch of general an
nouncements on the request of somebody
unknown. Balthasar Rau told him about
three O'Clock, May a. that if the word
'Ruhe" was in that afternoons issue of
the paper it was signal for the armed
section to be ready to defend the people
M nm case the police preclpitated a riot"
Inc dynamite in his drawer he had bought
Tor experiments, and he also kept it
TO supply the reporters with sensations
when they called on him. He knew moth
ing of the big parcel of dynamite found in
the office. Ho ''always carried a reyolv-
err" but happened not to have one with
him the night Of the riot. On cross-exam- |
nation witness laid that he had other OBJ |
Jects than that . curiosity in his expert
ments with the dynamite, but did not |
state what they were. Spies acknowledged |
!; mat nat ne wrote the Revenge" circular to
the. cross-examination came when
lngham handed Spies letter and
asked him if be had replied to it. The let
ter was from Herr Most to Dear Spiesn
ana related to the proposed shipment of
twenty to twenty-five pounds Of ''medi-
cine (dynamite) to the scene of the labor
Spies admitted having received the letter
piled to it.
Parsons next testified, and said that
after his remarks at the Haymarket meet
ing he went to Zepf's Hail. and was at the
latter place when the bomb exploded At
inc request of counsel he gave in substance
spoke for long time, and his gesticula-
lion, and elocution were calcu.
lated to give the impression that
ne was really addressing an audience. He
told his audience, in the course of his re-
marks, that the Chicago Times had adyo-
Gated throwing hand-grenades at striking
'eamen, mat the Tribune advocated Civ
ing strychinia for tramps, and that Tom
Scott advocated using rifles upon the rail
'oad strikers. He urged them to defend
themselves by the use of arms and
dynamite. He said that he advocated
he use of dynamite by working-men as a
License against those unlawfully attack
ng mem. when he usei the words, ITO
Arms he meant that working-men sbould
provide themselves with arms with which ,
% defend themselves against force, if
necessary.
In cross-examination he practically adj {
nitted advocating dynamite-he advo- ;
ated any thing necessary to success"
5oth he and Spies declared themselves An i
lrchists without hesitation or equivoca- |
ion.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE defense called to
he witness stand yesterday H. L. Gilmer,
te was asked if he had not, in an inter
Jew with w. A. Graham, a reporter. on q
day. said that the man who threw the
'omb lit it himself. Witness replied in the t
egative. Graham was then called. ana 7
aid that Gilmer did tell him in the ,
Interview referred to, that the bomb !;
vas lighted by tie person throwing /,
B; that that person had his hack |.
urned towards him (Gilmer), but he
hought he would know him if he saw him
gain. The defense then rested its case d
nd evidence in rebuttal was taken. This T
onsisted mainly in the testimony of wit I
essess who knew Gilmer. Ex-United r
tates District Attorney Richard s. Tut Z
Ill, of this city. was among those tastifv