Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-22
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. A BOX FULL OF BOMBS Carried Through The Streets Of Chicago. LOGAN'S PLEA FOR PAYNE. Salisbury En Route To 0s-
 borne. THE TREATY WITH ENGLAND. Crowds At The National
 Saengerfest.
THE TREATY WITH ENGLAND.


Startling Testimony Concerning the Throwing of the Bomb at the Hay. market.
 CHICAGO, July 21.-The eight anarc .ts | moved silently into Judge Gary's cour; is morning. There was serious, thoughs.:ul 1 look in Spies face as he took his seat U 1on the opening of the court William Seliger was put on the witness stand. The court room was crowded and the testimony was listened to with the keenest interest. Seliger te s.i- fled that he lived on Sedgwick street and lad as boarder Louis Lingg, one of the def.n- I dants. On Monday night witness attended
 meeting of the carpenters union at Zeph's hall. At the meeting copies of the "Re- venge" circular were brought in and dis tributed by Ballatzar Rau. "Did you work at your trade Tuesday," "No." "What did
 you do that morning?" scI got up at 7:30
 o'clock. Lingg came. I had previously told
 him wanted those bombs removed from my
 dwelling. He told me to work diligently at
 them and that they would be taken away
 that day. I took some coffee, and after 8
 while worked at some bad shells, filling the
 holes." "Where was the first bomb you ever
 sawa" 'ln Lingg's room some time before
 that; perhaps two or three months before."
 Witness conversed with Lingg at the time
 and the latter told him he WAS
 going to make bombs also. He
 saw some dynamite in Lingg's room.
 Witness had talked with Lingg about dyna-
 mite and it's objects. Lingg had said dyna-
 mite was for the workingmen and they should
 learn to handle it. Bombs were going to be
 good fodder for the capitalists and for the
 police when they came to protect the capital
 ist. On May Lingg and witness left the latter's house about S:30 p. m. with box
 weighing about fifty pounds. The box con
 tained loaded bombs and was taken to 58 Clayborn avenue-the ''Shanty of the Com munists." At this place the box was opened and witness saw three or four persons take bombs, but could not tell their names The witness took two pipe-bombs. From the hall Lingg, Thieben, Lehman and witness went to the Larabee street police station. Lingg and the witness halted there while the others went ahead. It had been arranged that | disturbance should be made on the norGh side l that evening to prevent the police from in- l terfering on the west side. While Lingg and he were in front of the station Lingg said it would be beautiful thing if they | slipped to the corner and threw a bomb in to the station. Two men were sitting in | front of the station and Lingg said if any | more came out they could shoot them down. | They came back to north avenue. While 1 standing there 8 patrol wagon came along | and Lingg wanted to throw a bomb. | He said that was the best chance they wouz T have, but witness thought it was usele s. i ''Lingg," continued the witness, ''became l excited and said I should give him some fire | -a light. was smoking and I jumped into | &I,,f lo1 1oE@l r . lo1o purposely, pretending to be lighting my ci- | gar. Otherwise he would have thrown the l bomb. When the wagon passed gave him | the light. The wagon was manned as it | passed. Lingg wanted to wait till the wag ! on came back, but would not and we went | home." Lingg called witness attention to the word ''ruhe' in the Arbeiter Zeitung. | Witness did not know the meaning of the l word till Lingg then told him. Lingg went | on to say that everything was to go topsy l trrvy. The word ruhe was to I call a meeting of the l armed men and it was also signal of | trouble. After this never Lingg until | the next meeting. Witr ess heard there that | a bomb had fallen at the Haymarket wbich | had killed and wounded many. One Of 7 men said: "You are the cause of it." & ness and Lingg got home little after sa-f night. The next morning Lingg in conver- | sation with witness said he did not care about !
 
 some advantage from it. The witne 2 | testified that he first saw dynamite in his l house six weeks previous to May 4. Lingg | brought it there. Lingg had told him th sl he made eighty to one hundred bombs. S& had been 8 member and financial sec tary of the Northwest group, which was ! branch of the International Workingmen's | society. His last number in that society was | seventy two. Witness knew Engle, whom l he had heard speak in Neffs Hail. Engle | said everyone should make bombs for l themselves the pipes could be obtained ! easily. The counsel for the State produced | a pipe which witness proceeded to identify as l similar to those in question. The judge, | his opinion of the impropriety of bringing in l deadly weapons into court and Captain Bon ! field was commissioned to unload them. The | entire formidable array of bombs, coils ot | fuse, illuminating caps, etc, was then re- moved. Cross examined by MT. Foster | the witness said he arrested on May l and made statement to Captain Schaack | in regard to which he had testified to. He l had received $6. 50 from Captain Schaack to l help him support his family during his con- l fnement. He had some money and his | wife had earned some. He had not been l told to testify against these men nor been l promised immunity and did not know that 1 he would be cleared of the charge of mur | der. Re-examined witness said that when | he left home he had gone on Twenty-seeo street through fear of the Socialists. He saw when the case would be tried and came to Captain Schaaek voluntarily.
 Mrs Seliger wife of the witness, was e. amined and corroborated her husbands tes- timony in regard to the manufacture of bombs in her husbands house.