The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-08-12
WEAK EVIDENCE.
Expected Startling Developments
Draws Large Crowd.
Socialists Swearing Their Hardest
for the Defense.
The Defense Nearing the End With
Their Testimony.
Travelling In the Same Rut in Which
They Started Out.
Socialists, Trial.

CHICAGO, Aug 4.-The usual crowd was
In the criminal court room this morning
when the trial of the eight anarchists was
resumed.
Conrad Mosssr declared hat he went to
ZsDh's hail, the socialists headquarters,
and then to Hay market just before the po-
lice arrived. He testified that he saw
both Spies and Fielden on a wagon when
the police arrived.
August krum, woodworker, testified
that he attended aaymarket with friend
named Albright, and went to the alley
TO light their pipes owing to the fact that
the wind was blowing on the street. Krum
has red hair. and face and head which
resembles Spies. This testimony the de-
fense expect will Offset GIlmer's evidence
They will contend that Gllmer took him
for SpIee, and that instead of lighting a
bomb he was engaged in lighting nothing
more harmful than a pipe of tobacco.
On cross examination witness was sub
| jected to very severe Questioning by the
states attorney and not only seriously
contrAdicted his own narrative but that
When asked to point out spies, whom he
Ic1aimed 70 hare heard speak, witness
| pointed out Fielding.
Robert Ledinger said he stood at the
entrance to the alley two hours, arm in
arm with his friend Carl Richter. He
testified that after the bomb exploded the
police appeared TO be doing all the shoot
ing. BE saw no one else fire.
WE. Albright, who was expected to
corrOborate the story related by Krum,
testified that he went into the alley three
or four PAGES. The witness declared
that he heard one shot fred before the
bomb exploded. That came from the
| direction Of the police. The witness
said no one else was In the alley except
Krum and himself; The bomb was
! not thrown from the alley. Before
being subjected to cross examination the
tcourt adjourned.
/ CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Despite the threat
ening weather ladies were present il
Judge GarJy's court this morning in un-
diminished number to listen to the evil
denee in the anarchists trial.
/ n. T. Matkof, q Russian, was called
first. He Is correspondent of s paper al
i Moscow, Russia, and worked as reporter
ON the Daily News. At one time he was
connected with the Arbeiter Zeitung. He
was at Hsymarket on the evening of May
4th, but only for few minutes. He tes-
titled that he was at Zeph's hall when the
bomb exploded, and says that Parsons was
there five minutes before the bomb ex-
ploded. He SAID that Parsons and Mrs
Parsons were there at the time the bomb
exploded.
On Cross examination it was shown
that witness was an anarchist at the time Of
| the riot and before that lived with SchWab
one OF the defendants. SaAce his stay
here he had contributed money to the
/ Alarm.
x The prosecution here offered in evidence
. letter written by witness to Spies. The
letter in substance is an inquiry as &C
/ whether or not Spies could use certain ar
ticles written by Malkof? It goes on tC
say: 81 have Just completed an article
Treating on the secret revolutionary socie.
tles OF Russia. / am proIetarian in the
fullest sense of the word. ADDRESS your
letter to j. Fl. Schwab. Fifty-first street.
| New York" Witness said he did not use
the term proletarian in the sense which So
cialists always imply the term. bus he un-
/ derstood it to mean man without any
means Of support.
W. a. Patterson, a socialist aud member
/ of the International WoIkingmen's organ
1 i1ation, testified that he was at the Ar
better Zeitung Office Msy 4th, about or
8 O'Clock. Schwab, Parsons, Flelden and
| others were there. Ron came in and said
speakers were wanted at Haylnalket. Pat
terson said the message came from Deer
| ing and asked to have a speakeBseDt there
that night. 1t was arranged then to have
| SchWab attend that meeting.
This was offered to verify the testimony
| given yesterday that ScWsb addressed the
| gathering there on the night of the Hey
market massacre.
Johu Holloway, an Englishmsn, said
he was close to the wagon during all the
speaking and denied that Fielden made
| use OF the expression Ghere comes the
bloodhounds," referring TO the police.
| He said he could not he mistaken When
| asked to point out Spies, Parsons and
Fielden, he pointed out Schwab, Fielden
and Parsons IN their order.
Henry Ludmeyer testified that he had
| occasion to search the Office of the Ar
better where the deadly explosives were
found by the police and declared that he
saw none there on that day. This was Of
fered to convey the view that the police
took the explosives there for the purpose
of convictiDg Spies and SchWab. On
cross examination 1t was shown that Wit
ness had long been intimate with Spies
and was on bond for Spies brother.
The court then adjourned to 2 p. N.
In the anarchists trial the two wit
nesses examined this afternoon, whose
testimony has the most bearing on the
defendant, and William Snyders. The
latter said he was IS years old and a
socialist.
Where have you been for the past two
months or so? asked Capt. Black.
In the county jail.
Under indictment for conspiracy in
connection with the Hsymarket riot?
Yes, sir.
witness then related how he acted at
. meeting held at the Arbelter ZsitunR
Office early on the evening OF May 4. The
meeting, he said, Was for the purpose OF
aiding Mrs. Parsons movement TO as
sist sewing girls.
The defence desired to show by the
testimony that the meeting at the Ar
i H. -
| the subsequent events at the Aaymarket.
" illness then testified that he went to
HakmArket meeting, and got into the
/ wagon occupied by the speakers. He
was there when the police came and the
bomb exploded.
The only important points in his testi-
mony were his statements that Spies did
not leave the speakers stand during the
evening, and that Fielden did not fire at
the police.
In croas-exAmination Of witness Mr..
GEinneu asked IL the American group,
Of which he testified he was member,
ever met for the purpose Of going
through military eyolutiOns and learning
the use Of ATmB.
met several times fog the purpose Of
drilling, 50 as to be able to present .
good appearance when going to pic
mics. The group had no arms In its pos
session, however, and had never met for
the purpose Of learning their use. Be-
fore leaving the court room witness
shook hands warmly with each Of the
DESCENDANTS. His demeanor and Ian
guAge throughout indicated that he be-
neVed himself to be . martyr to most
righteous Cause.
Henry Spies, you may take the stand,
said Capt. Black TO Henry Spies, .
brother TO Spies the accused, and the an
nouncement that he was TO take the
stand caused quite 6ufter in the court
room. There was nothing sensational in
| the testimony, however, except his state
menk, made under oath. that the story
he told the officers who we're sent to ar
rest him. and told the states attorney
efterWerd, was . fabrication from be-
ginning 20 end.
Questioned by Capt. Black, witness
said he attended the Haymaxket meeting
with his brother August. Witness said
be was &C the meeting from beginning 20
end and al Of this tfme tn sight Of his
brofheE. He did NOT once see Schwab.
This co1tzadicted the statement OF