The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-08
THE AsAHcaIs7' TRIALS.
Both. Sides Afraid 10 Ask Witness Who
Threw The Bomb.

Both Sides Afraid TO Ask n Witness Who
Threw the Bomb.
CHICAGO, Aug. AT the Anarchist trial
| to-day, samuel Fieiden, one of the accused,
was subjected to asearching cross examine
ton. He testified that he was twenty-one
years old when he came to this country,
and that he became Socialist in 1874,
and an Anarchist at about the same time.
He said that he had about ten dollars
worth of stock in the Aldrn-an Anarchist
organ. He knew Detective Bonfeld, but
denied that he had told him that ne had
run through an alley at the time of the
bomb throwing.
The afternoon proceedings commenced
with the examination of Joseph Bach, a
| Socia' ist who was present at the meeting
held in the Arbeiter Zeitung Office just prior
to the Haymarket demonstration. The
| point of bis testimony was the corrobora-
ton of that of other witnesses to the effect
that Schwab accepted an invitation to speak
at a meeting of the employees of the Deer
ing Harvester Company, and was not at
the Haymarket He was present at the
Haymarket meeting and saw Henry Spies,
brother of the defendant, there. The re-
mainder of his testimony was repetition
of tina. of other witnesses of the riot who
have testified for the defense. On cross
examination witness was caught mapping
as to several minor details in his direct tes-
| timony and lost much of his self possession
| and apparent unconceru.
| The Court here announced that he had
| found an authority for his decision given
this morning excluding the testimony of
Mrs. Neebe, wife of the defendant.
| The defence next called Max Mitlacher
ete the stand. He said he attended the
Haymarket meeting with his brother H.
law, Bacn, who preceded the witness, whose
testimony be corroborated.
S. T. Ingham said some one handed him
a circular early on the evening of May 4,
from which he learned there was to be a
mass meeting on the Haymarket. He went
home to supper and arrived at tie Hay
market about the time Spies called the
meeting to order. He occupied position
close enough to lear what was said from
the speakers wagon. When Parsons had
| finished speaking, and it was understood
that the meeting was to adjourn to ZeIf's
! Hall, the witness went with others to that
place, and IN the saloon adjoining the hall
w-Parsons and Fischer. Finding there
was to be no speaking at the hall he re-
| turned to the Haymarket and heard the
latter part of Fielden's speech He saw
Fielden alight from the wagon and heard
| the bomb explode He believed Fielden
did not do any shooting, and, though he
| left the vicinity as rapidly as he could, he
noticed that the firing all seemed to come
from the police. The witness produced
| the circular which he swore was handed
| him on the street. If was of those from
which the words, ssWorkingmen arm your
selves and appear in force" had been
omitted. This is the only circular of that
kind that has been presented in evidence
! by the defense which has been preserved
since the Haymarket riot by b witness who
was present at the meeting. The State
| presented as evidence a lot of circulars
taken from the Arbeiter Zsitlusg office from
which the words mentioned mad not been
exchanged, and the defence presented a
number of revised ones, as one
| of them had been traced to the hands
of an eye witness Of the riot who had re-
| ceived it from distributor. The point
| was surprise to the State and every one
else, and was explained in the crosse xami-
nation conducted by Mr.. Inghom:
''How long have you known Mr.. Salo-
mon. attorney for the defence q
about half an hour"
| QalL al QOuI HOW Cdluo you CO M66l
him half an hour ago for the first time p
'I called at his Office an hour or SO ago
and was brought here by some one in the
| Office"
''Why did you wish to see Mr. Solomon? ;
"To show him this circular. / had read
| in the papers about the kind of circulars
presented in court and discovering that
mine, which still had in my pocket, was
unlike those presented by the State I
| thought I might give some testimony
which had not yet been drawn out in rela-
ton to the circulars which were distri-
buted,"
The witness contradicted himself on one
or two immaterial points relating to the
succession of speakers at the Haymarket,
etc., but in the main his story seemed to
be told simply and honestly.
The audience and even Mrs. Parsons
smiled when Mr. Zeisler asked the witness,
J. w. Gage, his opinion regarding the
reputation of Harry L. Gilmer for truth
and veracity. The witness said he knew
| Gilmer four years ago, and like the dozen
or SO other witnesses called to testify on
this point, gave no illustration or explana-
ton of how he came by his opinion. The
State ignored the testimony Of the ques-
ton or two as to the witness place OF re.
| sidence.
Capt. Black announced that the defence
desired to partly examine one more wit
mess when it would ask the Court to ad.
journ till Monday morning. Instantly
there was a futter of excitement among
the spectators who took this to mean that
another of the defendants was to be placed
upon the stand. The spectators were dis.
appointed, however, for the name called
was not Spies or Schwab, but John Burnet,
an ordinary looking young German, who
said he was a candy-maker. He was stand
ing thirty eight feet south Of the entrance
to Cranes alley ON the Haymarket when
the bomb exploded. The States attorneys
pricked up their ears at once.
'sDid you see the bomb thrown ?"
al did,