St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-03
THE ANARCH1sTs' TRIAL.
Points Advanced by the Lawyers
for the Defense-.The Days Ties.
timOny.

Points Advanced by the Lawyers
for the Defense-.The Days Tes-
timony.
Special 10 the Globe.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-The first witnesses
for the defense in the anarchists trial were
examined to-day. Carter III. Harrison
headed the list His testimony somewhat
indefinitely establishes the theory that the
police were taken to the Haymarket con-
trary to the wishes of the mayor, and with
out sufficient cause. He had attended the
Haymarket meeting and remained there
until Parsons was about through with his
speech, when he went to the police station
and told Inspector Bontield that there was
nothing in the affair to justify interference.
Then he went home. Immediately Bon
field marched the force under his command
to the scene of the meeting. The defense
will argue from this that the riot was
brought about through the
UNWARRANTABLE INTERFERENCE OF THE
POLICE.
1t is not thought, however, that the circum-
stances will have much influence with the
decision of the jury. The second point the
defense undertook to establish to-day was
that the shooting which Immediately fol-
lowed the explosion Of the bomb was exc
cuted by the police and not by the crowd
which the officers were trying to dispense.
The third point is that Spies did not force
himself upon the meeting held near Nc
Cormick's on the I'd day of May, but that
he was urgently invited by a delegation from
the Lumber Showers union, through the
Central Labor union, to go out and address
that meeting. Of the three, the second has
,of FOL nd mn fI1rth or n
more competent testimony is produced on
that point it will probably be considered as
not sustained.
THE TESTIMONY. 9>~''
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Mayor Harrison was
the first witness called by the defense in
the anarchist trial to-day. He said he was
present at the Newmarket meeting for
a while. but saw nothing that called for his
interference. When he went away he gave
Inspector Bontield discretionary power to
act as he saw fit. This was in consequence
of report that after the meeting an at
tempt would be made to burn the MilWau-
kee & st. Paul depot. The second wit
ness, Martin SimOnson, didn't hear any
thing that frightened him until the bomb
exploded. Then he ran. After the eXplO-
sion he said the police fired first. In the
afternoon the defense began the in
PRODUCTION of a long line of wit
nesseS to corroborate the new theory
of the defense in regard to the
throwing of the bomb. TWAS sought to be
shown that the deadly missile came not
from near the speakers wagon into the
ranks of the police but arose, perhaps.
thirty feet south of the wagon and was
hurled through the air in nOrthweSterly
direction, and therefore in manner to-
ward the speakers wagon. Another novel
feature was the offering of evidence to
prove that Spies went not unlimited to
THE MEETING ON THE BLACK ROAD,
out of which grew the riot at McCormck's,
and which was made the occasion for the
Haymarket gathering. Spies, the defense
claimed by their witnesses, went there ON
the invitation of the delegate of the Lum-
Der Showers union to the Central Labor
ganization is part. A carpenter named
Friedrich Liebel another spectator of
the Haymarket meeting, was the last wit
ness of the day. He testified that he arrived
there about o'clock. He stood near the
lamp-post in the alley on the east side of
Randolph street. The evidence given by
Liebel was substantially the same as what
had been sworn to by Ferguson, Zeller and
Richter. previous witnesses. Many queS-
tions were put to Liebel and to all the
other witnesses who testified during the
afternoon, that they had stood near the
mouth of the alley, as to whether Spies or
Schwab were seen by them to enter there.
The witnesses for the defense, one and all,
were positive. so far as they knew, that
neither of the two defendants were near
the alley that night. The inference evil
IDENTIFY intended by the defense was that the
previous testimony for the state that Spies
and Schwab handed the fatal bomb to a
companion in the alley was untrue. This
point was dwelt on at such great length
with the last witness that there remained
no time for cross examination for the state,
and he will be placed again upon the stand
tho first thing Tomorrow