Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-08
THE NATION.
The Doom of the Anarch-
lists Sealed.
UNCLE SAM AND THE INDIANS.
Crooked Ohio Prison Officials.
California's Reputation
! Widening.

At CHtCAG0, OctODer f--'uoso oe"iJ' in wv
Criminal Court this morning, overruled tn,
motion ior new trial in the cases of thu
eight anarchists charged with the Haymar
,ket massacre, and confirmed the verdict o.
the jury that Spies, Parsons, Fielding
schwab, Engel, Fischer and Lynggi should
he hung, and that Neebe should suffer i'm.
prisonment for fourteen years in the peni
tsntiary.
This afternoon when Judge Geary asked
the prisoners whether they had anything to
(ffer why sentence should not be passed
1pon them. Spies stepped forward and be-
IN reading prepared speech. While 1t Is
4pt known with any degree of certainty it
u stated that December Sd will be the date
lhmed for the execution.
Nudge Geary in delivering his decision
Qis afternoon. reviewed at considerable
length all of the evidence brought out at
tie trial and said the case is unprecedented.
Ing ever before been committed. Spies
commenced by saying: Your Honor-In
addressing this court, Ispeak as represenr
tsye 9f one class to
addressed five hundred years ago on simi-
lar motion by the Venetian, Doge, who
addressing the court, said: my defence Is
your accusation. the cause Of my alleged
crime Is your history. Ihave been indicted
on
A CHARGE OF MURDER,
Asan accomplice or accessory. Upon this
indictment l have been convicted. There
was no evidence produced by the State to
show or even indicate that had any knowl-
edge of the man who threw the bomb, or
that | myself had anything to do with it.
Not the slightest evidence was ever pro-
duced to show that l had anything to do
with the throwing of the missile, unless you
believe the testimony of accompltces of The
States Att rney and Bontield, and tha testi-
m0ny of Thompson and Gilmer. II there
wastno evidence to show that was respon-
sible for it, then any execution OF the ver-
dictis nothing but wilful malicious and
deliberate murder-as foul murder as
maybe found in the annals of religious,
political or any other sort OF persecution" 3"
Spies then reviewed the evidence presented
Attorney aud Bonfeld with conspiracy to
commit murder. Spies devoted some time
to the discussion of Socialism. and said,
You want to
STAMP OUT CONSPIRACY;
You resemble child that is looking for his
picture behind a mirror. What you see
is nothing but creations of your own bad
consciences. II you want to stamp out con-
spiracies and agitators yon must stamp out
every factory lord who has made his wealth
upon the unpaid labor of his employees
and the landlords who have made their
money from the ground-down laborers and
farmers II you think that you can crush
out ideas which are gaining ground every
day by sending us to the gallows; that you
can suppress truth-for that Is all we have
been preachiDg-you will fail"
Then fourishing his arms wildly Spies
fairly shrieked:
81 SHALL DIE PROUDLY,
Defantly, for the cause of justice. There
is Socrates, there is Galileo, there Is Cor
dano. there Is Bruno, there is Christ Wry,
the number cannot be estimated of those
who have trodien in these paths, apd we
are ready to follow them"
Adolph Fisher came next and commenced: /:
Your honor, you ask me to say why SEN
tence Of death should not be passed upon
me. Iprotest against my being sentenced
to death because / have committed no
crime. l was tried in the jury room for
murder and I was convicted for anarchy.
donv qeny that l was one OF the parties
who summoned this meeting in Haymarket;
but l kuOw no more about the
THROWING OF THE BOMB
Than Ginnell does perhaps. do not deny
that got up circular and put In a line
calling On working men TO come armed.
had my reasons. l am not convicted be-
cause am q murderer; am convicted be-
cause am an Anarchist. have never been
a mu .darer, but know a certain man who
is on the way to become murderer, and
that is the States's Attorney Grinnell."
Louis Lingg, the bomb maker. expressed
a wish I'd have his say in German. An in
IeTpIoNeI WIS pidCeQ Ut Ills SERVICE. lu
chested tones Llngg exclaimed: "Court of
Justice! With the same contempt with
which have been permitted to live upon
this American soil am now permitted to
speak. Il do speak 1t Is because indigni-
ties have been heaped upon me in this
Court" ,Lingg declared 1t had not been
proven that any bombs made by him had
been taken to Haymarket.
HE ACCUSED THE POLICE
OF stealing his books and clothing in the
Station and then perjuring themselves
asdlnss shouted ID tngg Was has connived ss with
miserable people to get evidence to kill
me-"
while the Interpreter translated each SEN
words by violent Ilow upon little table
in front of him. At last, turning f1ercely to
the States attorney, Lingg roared "You
smile because y9u y think ,1,;,, l Will never use
lows, with the same contempt for death that
have for your lives.
Michael schwab took the floor. He disa-
vowed all knowledge of the man who threw
the bomb, and protested he intended to do
no violence at Haymarket. Oscar Neebe,
the next speaker, had no sooner taken the
floor than he
BURST INTO VIOLENT ABUSE,
Calling States Attorney Grinnell cur his
assistants, Messrs. Walker & Furthemann,
scoundrels; saying there was only
one gentleman In the crowd and that was
Insham. The police were assailed in peculiar
phraseology and, in short. Neebe's speech
, was trade of abuse, villifying the police
and authorities, abandoning himself to.
wild appeal to The Judge to hang him with
the others. He cried: 7'It would be more
honorable to be strangled by the neck, than
to die by inches. My wife and children
will then be at ease some time; but they can
never get over 1t If their husband is sent to
Joliet Hang me your honor with my COM
rades."
Captain Black here asked the Court to ad-
journ, as the time for doing SO had arrived.
and Engle and some of the others desired to
speak. The Court adjourned till 10 A. M. to-
morrow.