The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-15
THE DAY FIXED.
The Anarchists to Be Hanged Friday,
December 3-Judge Gary's Last Words
to the Doomed Men-The Remarkable
Trial Brought to an Impressive and
fearful Close.


| Anarchists in response to inquiry from
Judge Gary as to what they had to say why
sentence should not be bassed upon them;
in accordance with the verdict of the jury,
came to an unhappy conclusion little be-
fore four O'Clock Saturday, when Albert r.
! Parsons spoke the last works of a six
] hour speech. In tones so low and sympa-
! thetlc that those not Immediately around
| the bench could with difficulty catch
| the import of his words Judge Gary
began his address to the prisoners. When
he came to the formal pronouncing of
the sentence Parsons, seemingly in spite of
| himself, fixed his eye upon his face Spies
listened to the words of doom with stead
| fast eye and defiant smile. Schwabs face
was grave and inscrutable. Neebe looked
excited. Fielden pulled at his long beard
/ Iingg and Fisher gave no outward sign of
emotion, and Engel's manner was as stolid
| as ever. Far more agitated than the pris-
oners was Judge Gary himself His voice
fell lower and lower AS he pronounced
the words changed by the neck" he paused,
! turned in his chair, and the concluding
words, until Dead" were barely audible.
| The full text of his address and the SEN
| tence of death is as follows:
-" ! am quite well aware that what you have
said, although addressed to me, has been said
! to the world; yet nothing has been said which
| weakens the force of the proof or the conclu.
| sions therefrom upon which the verdict is based.
| You are all men of intelligence, and know that
| II the verdict stands it must be executed The
reasons why it shall stand have already suffi-
| GENTLY stated in deciding the motion for a new
| trial.
II am sorry beyond any power of expression
| for your unhappy condition and for the terrible
| nrynn &c %Ia ~ Lar,a -
dress to you neither reproacheS nor exhortation.
What 1 shall say shall be said in the faint hope
that few words from place where the people
| OF the State of Illinois have delegated
| the authority to declare the penalty of
| violation of their laws, and spoken
upon an occasion so solemn and awful
as this, may come to the knowledge of
and be needed by the ignorant, deluded and
misguided men who have listened to your coun-
sels and followed your advice. I say in the
faint nope; for if men are persuaded that be-
| cause of business differences, whether about
| labor or any thing else, they may destroy prop
| erty and assault and beat other men, and kill
| the police if they, in the discharge of their
duty. interfere to preserve the peace, there is
! little ground to hope that they will listen to
any warning.
| lis not the least among the hardships of the
| peaceable, frugal and laboring poor, to endure
| the tyranny of mobs who, with lawless force,
| dictate to them, under penalty of peril to limb
| and life, where, when and upon what terms they
| may earn livelihood for themselves and their
| families. Any Government that is worthy of
| the name will strenuously endeavor to secure
to all within its jurisdiction freedom to follow
the lawful avocations and safety for their prop
| erty and their persons, while obeying the law,
and the law is common sense. 1t holds each
man responsible for the natural and probable
| consequences of his own acts. 1t holds that
whoever advises murder is himself guilty
| Of the murder that is committed
pursuant to his advice, and if men
band together for forcible resistance to
the execution of the law, and advise murder as
means of making such resistance effectual,
| whether such advice be to one man to murder
! another, or to a numerous class to murder men
| of another class, all who are so banded together
| are guilty of any murder that is committed in
| pursuance of such advice.
''The people of this country love their institu-
| tions, they love their homes they love their
| property. They will never consent that, by vio-
| lence and murder, those institutions shall be
| broken down, their homes despoiled and their
! property destroyed. And the people are strong
! enough to protect and sustain their institutions
! and to punish all offenders against their laws;
and those who threaten danger to civil society,"
if the law is enforced, are leading to destruc-
ton whoever may attempt to execute such
| threats.
'The existing order of society can be changed
| only by the will of the majority. Each man has
| the full right to entertain and advocate by
| speech and print such opinions as suits himself,
and the great body of the people will usually
care little what he says. But if he proposes
murder as means of enforcing he puts his
| own life at stake. And no clamor about
| free speech or the evils to be cured or the
| wrongs to be redressed will shield him
| from nf PiYna Tic
| erty is not license to destroy. The liberation
| that he enjoys he must extend to others, and
not arrogantly assume that the great majority
| are wrong and may rightfully be coerced by ter
ror or removed by dynamite.
' 1t only remains that for the crime you have
committed, and of which you have been con-
| victed after fair trial unexampled in the pa
| thence with which an outraged people have ex-
| tended to you every protection and privilege of
the law which you derided and defied, that the
sentence of that law be now given.
I'm form and detail that sentence will appear
| upon the records of the court. In substance
| and effect it is that the defendant Neebe be i'm
| prisoned in the State Penitentiary at Joliet at
hard labor for the term of fifteen years
"And that each of the other defendants, be-
tween the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon
| and two o'clock in the afternoon of the third
day of December next, in the manner provided
| by the statute OF this State, be hung by the
| neck until he IS dead. Remove the prisoners"
| Instantly upon the pronouncement of the
sentence all was confusion. Every eye was
turned upon the prisoners, who rose from
| Their seats as though from force of habit
| and without volition. The spectators rose
| also and the relatives of the condemned
men pressed forward. Mrs. Parsons rushed
| forward and threw her arms about her hus-
bands neck as he stood by his chair. She
hid her face in his neck and he bent his
| head until his face was concealed from
view in her arms. Husband and wife re-
| tanned their attitude for nearly minute
| Then she released him and turned away
her dark face hard and tense and her eyes
| dry. AS she turned away General Parsons
threw his arms about his brothers neck
and the two men hid their faces on each
| others shoulders.
| Poor Fielden! He was more to be pitied
than all the rest. To a man of his impulses
and loving disposition, the fact that his
wife was bearing him son, while he was
undergoing sentence Of death, must have
| been terrible ordeal
| Spies, with careless smile on his face,
| shook hands with his sister and his other
relatives and spoke few reassuring words
to their fearful expressions of sympathy
| AS ne turned 10 go Mrs. Parsons rushed up
| to him, threw her arms about his neck, and
| kissed him vehemently on the lips The
| other prisoners received the expressions of
| sympathy quietly and filed out of court
without betraying emotion of any kind,
Death of Ex-senator YuIee, of Florida.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11-Ex-Senator Yulee,
of Florida died in this city yesterday. He
was born in st. Thomas, West Indies, in
1911. He came to Florida in 1924, and rep
resented that territory in Congress for a
term. He was United States Senator from
Florida from 1915 to 1851 and from 1855 to
1860, retiring to join the Confederacy, in
which he became prominent. He has since
the war been interested in railroads and
agriculture.
Minister Cox Returns.
New YORK, Oct 11.-United States Min