Iron County register., 1886-08-05
POINTED TEST. .MONY.
Making Things Loo & Blue for the
Anarcr lists.
De'ec'i'es an" ne csrters Have Their In
"Hss-Sohe H0t Strikes-The Man
VINO ihr ew the Bomb and the
Men Who Coached Him.

CHICAc %, July 27.-At the Anarchists
trial thi 5 morning, Whiting Allen, a news
paper reporter, testified that he was at
the daymarket meeting. Parsons in his
speech said: "What good are these
Strikes going to do? What are you going
to gain by them? Do you think you are
going to gain your point? No, you will
have to go back to work for less than
you formerly received" When he men,
toned the name of Jay Gould
some one cried out: "Hang him."
"Throw him in the lake!'' Parsons said:
"No, no; that won't do. If Jay Gould
were put out of the way to-day, another
Jay Gould, or one hundred Jay Goulds,
would rise up. 1t is not the man, but
the system, that ought to be destroyed" !"
The witness said the crowd seemed en-
tirely in sympathy with Parsons and ap-
plauded him frequently.
Mr.. Allen was at Zef's Hall when the
explosion occurred. At the Haymarket
he saw Spies, Parsons, Fielden and, he
thought, Schwab, but was not certain of
the latter.
Detective Cosgrove was one of the off,
GERS detailed to attend the Haymarket
meeting. He testified particularly re-
garding the speech made by Parsons.
The crowd present he estimated at two
thousand, and it was very unruly and ex-
cited. Parsons, near the close of his
speech, frequently cried, ''To arms, :"
which served to greatly increase the ex-
citement. The witness kept going from
the wagon to the police station to report
the exact condition of affairs, and when he
went to the station the last time to report
the character of Parsons incendiary
utterances the police were mastering
down Desplaines street. The witness
went ahead and remained behind q tele-
graph pole when the firing commenced.
His recital of the order to disperse, the
explosion of the bomb and the firing into
the police ranks did not vary from the
former narratives. He was addressed by
an officer standing near him, who stated
he was wounded, and in helping him
away from the scene they came across
the dead body of Officer Degan.
Detective McKeogh was present at the
Haymarket and gave q similar version of
the speeches and firing.
E. E. Owen, reporter, saw Parsons
at the corner of Randolph and Halstead
streets shortly before the Haymarket
meeting began. He asked Parsons where
the meeting was to be held. Parsons
replied that he did not know. sWhy,"
remarked the witness, you are going to
speak, aren't you?'' NO." replied Par.
sons, 81 am going to the South Side."
Saying this Parsons started Tor street
car, but drew back, and Slappiag the
witness familiarly on the back, remarked |:
care you armed? Have you any dyna-
| mite about you2" Parsons then moved
away. His wife accompanied him. AL
most at the same time he saw Mayor
Harrison, and Schwab, who was running
across the street, almost ran into Harri-
son. He did not see Schwab again that
night. He heard Spies, Parsons and
Ficlden speak, and his recital of their
utteranccs varied very slightly from
the former accounts. The witness
saw the approach Of the police,
| and running ahead of them mounted an
iron stairway at the corner of Randolph
and Desplaines streets. He heard the
warning of the police to disperse very in
distinctly, and Immediately aftcrward a
fiendish cry from the wagon followed by
the explosion of the bomb. The witness
first fire. The witness testified that he
saw shots from the east side of the street
and up to that time the police had not
fred
H. +. Heineman, a German reporter,
was present at the Haylnarket at hall
past seven. He saw Parsons and Schwab
in the vicinity, the former at the corner
of Randolph and Halstead streets. He
also saw Balthauser Rene an hour later.
He saw the bomb rise from the alley, and
also saw shots fired at the police from
the north side.
Spies, in his speech, began by declar-
ing that the meeting was to be a peace
al, hut n
of the Mccormick riot with which he in
tended TO infame the crowd.
"Were you formerly member of the
'International?' ~ the States ATTORNEY
asked.
Eyes, SIR" replied the witness.
"When did you cease to be member"
"TWo years ago"
(Which of the defendants belonged to
:he society while you were a member?"
"The only one l know positively was
Eeebe. He belonged to the same group
as myself.'
"Dld you meet others of the defendants
at that time?'
"Fes: SPIES and Schwab. and I think
Parsons"
"That was when Herr Most was here
and made some speeches?"
eyes"
"And it was on account OF those
speeches that you severed your connec-
lion with the Internatonalists?"
eyes, sir.''
"Who did you see on the wagon on the
night of the Haymarket meeting?"
81 saw Spies, Schwab, Fielden and Ru-
dolph Sehnarebet. The latter knew as
a member of the Internationalists."
The court adjourned at one O'Clock un-
til = p. m.
A.
stand was Louis Haas, detective be-
longing to the Central station detail. He
was an eyewitness to the scene of the
riot, and said as the police came up he
heard some one in the crowd say: "Here
come the blood-hounds.' "You do
your duty and we will do ours" His
examination elected nothing new.
Cross-eXamined, the witness said that
the s'blood- hound" sentence was uttered
as the police came up, and that scarcely
minute elapsed before Captain Ward is
sued the order to disperse. The sentence
was spoken loudly and distinctly enough
to be audible, he thought, to any one
who had not started to leave the place.
He had repeated the "blood-hound" SEN
rence to some of his brother officers at
the Central station, but not Sergeant
Quinn.
Apparently an opposite answer as to
Quinn would have indicated to Captain
Black, the attorney for the defense, con-
Quoting the cross examination, that
Quinn would not have recollected the
sentence had not his memory been
fresllened by the witness. An effort to
induce the witness to contradict his testi-
mony before the coroner's jury was not
materially successful.
When Percy English was called to the
e. .rI 81 n
his countenance bore look of Intense
interest Being one of the oldest report