The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-08-14
DRAGGING ALONG.
The Trial Of the Chicago An
archists Still in Progress.
The Prosecution Concludes Its Efforts to
Prove the Accused Guilty of Conspiracy
and Murder -The STORIES of Wit
nesses for the Defense.
EVIDENCE FOR THE STATE.

articles from the Arbeiter- Zeitung, and ex-
hibited the red and black flags of the An
archists; and there rested. The ATTORNEYS
for the defense offered motion to have
Neebe discharged; which motion was over
ruled. Mr.. Solomon then made the
opening address for the defense There
were two leading points in his argument:
]. There can not be accessories without a
principal The State must prove that
somebody was a principal in committing
murder before it can convict others as ac-
cessories 2. The defendants did not throw
the bomb; therefore they are not guilty.
1t is estimated that the trials of the Anar.
chlst conspirators for connection with the
Haymarket murders will cost Cook Coun-
ty and Chicago about 100000.
EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENSE.
CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-In the Anarchist trial
Mayor Harrison was the first witness for
the defense yesterday. He told how he had
attended the Haymarket meeting on the
night Of May 4,and listened to the speeches
of the Anarchists. His object was to see
for himself whether or not there were any
indications of violence, intending to
order the meeting dispersed at the first
wild outbreak. He had come to the con.
clusion that the meeting was harmless
uhull uHu WouO uOul6 lOdNluR luSpeCUOT
Bonfield in charge of the police at the Des-
PLANES street station, having first ordered
all the reserves at the other stations to be
sent to their regular duties. Under cross
examination he told how. about noon on
the day of May 4, he received an account
of a rumor that the freighthouses of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
were to be burned on that evening at the
close of the Haymarket meeting. This
rumor had caused him to attend the demon
stration at the Haymarket, but nothing
occurred during his stay there to warrant
his taking action to break up the meeting
b. Simonson was the second witness for
the defense. He is travelling salesman for
Rothschild IL Brothers, clothiers, and a
native of Chicago. He had been at the
Haymarket meeting, and had gone from
during the early stages of the gathering,
and had held a conversation with In.
spector Bonfeld, Captain Ward and Mayor
Harrison. Bonfield, he said, had told him
that if women and children were not in
the crowd he would take the police down
and clean them out; that il he could get
three thousand of them together away from
the women he would make short work Of
them. He had been present on the Hay
market when the bomb was thrown 1t had
not come from the alley, blu from point
on the sidewalk twenty feet south Of the
alley; it had fallen among the police; fir
ing had commenced Immediately after, not
from the crowd, but from the police. lie
was most positive on the latter point, and
hung to it tenaciously under the hottest
cross-examination of which Attorney Ing
ham is capable
Ludwig Zeller swore that Spies had at
tended the meeting held near McCormick's
on the Sd of May and made speech there
at the urgent request of delegation from
the Lumber Showers union, which at that
time had its head quarters at No. 81 West
Lake street.
Carl Richter, a journeyman harness
then called. He had occupied a position
near the mouth of the alley, from which
it has been stated the bomb was thrown
on the night Of the Haymarket meeting,
and, in effect, contradicted the States wit
ness, Gilmer as to Spies or Schwab enter
ing the alley as testified to. He also swore
that the firing of pistols came from the
police and not from the crowd. so far as
he was able to see from the point he occu
pied
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-The proceedings in
the Anarchists trial yesterday began with
the testimony of DR.. James d. Taylor sew
enty-si years of age, and rather deaf. He
had been at the Haymarket meeting from
twenty minutes before the speaking COM
menced until after the bomb was exploded.
He contradicted the States witness, Gil
the bomb was thrown, and cor
roborated the testimony of Simonson.
He swore that the instrument of
death had been hurled from the sidewalk
at a point more than twenty feet from the
mouth of the alley, to the south of it, 1t
had sailed through the air in a northwest
direction and .alighted between the
first and second columns. of police,
near the middle of the street, few feet
south of Cranes alley. The pistol-fnng
had commenced simultaneously with the
report of the bomb explosion, from the
police officers and not from the crowd. He
swore that he did not see one shot
fired by the members of the retreat
ing crowd. He was severely cross-exam
ined by Attorney Ingham, but stuck to his
story with great persistence. He believed
use of the oath in courts of justice, al
though, in his mind, it did not add any
thing to the obligations of an honest man
to tell the truth.
L. M. Moses, of No. 3Ol Randolph street
was put on the stand to testify as to the
general reputation of Harry Gilmer fol
truth and veracity. He testified that il
was very bad; that he would not believe
him under oath; and he gave the names Of
several others who had he said, like views
One of these. Austin Mitchell. wa
called, but upon being asked if he knew thu
reputation of Gilmer among his neigh
bors for truth and veracity he an
swered mo" He was excused, ant
Mrs. D. P. Lee took the stand. She hat
heard l.. NJ Moses say that he would no
believe Gilmer under oath, also Mrs. Moses
story of the riot, but the only new thing il
it was that Fielden had said or shouted
Stand" Immediately after the explo
sion. Joseph Kutscher, who was sho
twice during the riot and was unde
arrest for short time, swore that tn
bomb was thrown about twenty-fiv
feet south of where he stood, and that h.
stood about five feet south of the alley
Frank Raab, another Socialist, who cam
to this city only two and half years ago
and who had learned his Socialism il
Cleveland, swore that Yhe police did all tn
shooting John o. Brixey and John Gal
rick swore they would not believe CLINE
under oath: An Arbeiter Zeitung compost
tor named Urban, a member of the Contra
Labor Union, testified that in respons
to a request of some delegates from tn
Lumber-Shovers' Union the Central Lit
Dor Union had requested Spies t
speak at the Mccormick meeting Monday
The witness swore he saw revolvers i
the hands of the police as they came up +
disperse the meeting William Gleason, a
Irishman and labor agitator, swore tn
shooting was all done by the police Gleaso
was an Irish Fenian and chief of a revolt
tionary society in Newcastle-on-Tyn,
England. He acknowledged having az
vocated the discharge of Car
Bonfield because of his action in the stree
car drivers strike. Two Germans, name
William Sahl and Eberhard Hirsemenge
testified through the interpreter concern
ing the scenes at the Haymarket the
evidence going to substantiate, to som
extent the theory of the defense that tn
police were the aggressors.
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