The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-22
TIE OONVICTEDANARCHISTS
The Friends Of the Condemned Will APP
peal tofhe Court of Last Resort.
The Police Authorities Have Not Completed
Their Work, and It Will Not Be Advisable
for Anarchists to Resort to Violence.

VINO - creoileu Win having oobalheo the cniel
evidence against the condemned Anarchists was
asked if the police were now through with their
labors. Through" said che officer, why they
have but barely commenced"
''You mean you have others who are indicted
on the same charged
'fYou must not ask too much tell you the
Anarchist business in Chicago has only COM
menced, and before it is through with we will
have them all in jan, hung or driven out Of the
city,
ibid you place any men under arrest yester
day7"
'sThat do not wish to tell
''The report is that you have secured warrants
for the arrest of large number Of persons"
Ifyou think a minute you can see how fool
ish the idea would be- We have no accommoda-
tons for any large number Of people, and it
would be needless expense to the State arresting
too many at orce. can get them all as l want
them. do not need to arrest them now"
They may try to leave the cityP
thine enough to arrest them when they do
can get them just the same
ssWill any of the women be arrestedp
"Why not the womenf Some are good sight
worse than the men. Do you think" continued
tho Captain, 'if / had told the newspapers what
was doing while the Anarchist trial was going
on, that the jpry would have brought in the
verdict of yesterdays No, sir; thousand times
no. The prisoners would have gone free. Ev-
cry reporter who came to me I told him moth
ing was working up the evidence little by
little, piece by piece, and putting it together
where it belonged That is where / got the evil
dence. If had told all knew as fast as got
points. the defense would have known what
evidence was to be brought against them, and
have beer prepared to meet it There was but
one man beside myself who knew any thing about
what was doing"
It Is claimed that the attorneys for the State
always relied on a verdict of guilty. They main
tanned that there was no doubt concerning the
result Had Schnaubelt been at the bar they
could have produced testimony corroborative of
Gilmer and Thompson, which was excluded
under the rules of evidence. They regret
that Balthasar Rau was not indicted for murder
with the condemned men. There was not sufi-
cient evidence concerning him before the
grand jury, however. The most important
point against him was developed during the
trial and by the witnesses for the defense, and
especially by Spies and Schwab. There is some
talk of getting Rau and Most indicted for the
capital crime by a future grand jury. Had
Schrader testified in accordance with his first
story to Captain Schaak, Neebe, 1t is claimed,
would have shared the same fate of his cocoon
spirators The Socialistic labor unions, how
ever, reasoned" with him, and thus saved Neebe
from the gallows The most active
worker for the defense was Captain Wal
ters or Walthers, whom Jannsen swore was
drilling the armed sections He, it is said,
procured tine pairs" of witnesses referred to by
Mr. Grinneil in his closing speech. 1t is said he
got Schroeder over. The troops of Anarchists
who testified for the defense, the police say, were
drilled by him. His knowledge OF English is
limited, or they might have told more consistent
stories. Black and Foster, it is declared would
have nothing to do with Walters They refused
to hold any intercourse with him. Belz, another
Socialistic leader; the Irish dynamiter Gleason,
and George Schiling were also active workers
for tho defense. 1t is said that Rau has fed the
city. He has not been seen in his accustomed
haunts for the last four days.
A detail OF ten policemen from Captain
Schaak's force spent the night at the Jail as
special guard for the Anarchist convicts. These
were relieved by another squad this morning.
TIE prisoners held an executive conference with
Captain Black. their chief counsel, this morning,
regarding the programme to be carried out to
test the verdict and prevent, If possible, the
Judgment being carried out.
Mark Crawford, of the Trades and Labor AS
senbly. being asked his opinion of the verdict
in the Anarchist case by a reporter said: 'The
verdict is all right. but 1t does not reach far
enough. The Whole crowd of law-breakers
should be hanged. and that includes Mayor Har
rison."
.Mr HarrisonYn
.sYes, he is primarily responsible for it all.
More than year ago labor committee waited
on Harrison and told him what going to
happen.
especially to warn him about the Anarchists"
att did-just for that and nothing else"
"Were you on that commtteef'
sI was.n
"And you anticipated this bomb throwingq'
''Certainly; we knew the bombs were being
made, and we knew the action of the Anarchists
would injure the labor cause. We asked Mr..
Harrison to stop the lake-front meetings, but he
would hardly listen to US. The Anarchists of
Chicago have done more harm to the labor move
ment than the capitalists have. They killed the
eight-hour movement as dead as door nail.
Why. the wholesale men and large merchants
were tumbling over each other in their haste to
fall into line until the bomb was thrown, and
then the work of years was neutralized and the
movement killed.
The Arbeiter Zeitung has plucked up courage
again, and this evening, in long editorial, re-
viles the ''capitalistic press" and speaks very
hopefully concerning the condemned Anarchists,
whose eases, 1t announces, will be taken to the
highest court in the land I'VE do not say too
much, says the Arbeiter "when we assert that
the jury yesterday. by their verdict, drove
thousands into our camp who had here
tofore been our opponents The ar
ticle continues: what is thought in outside
socialistc circles about the verdict is shown from
the following article, taken from the New York
Volks Zeitung. Here follows the Voks Zeitung's
editorial Here in Chicago one would only in
jure the accused by thinking too loud as the
reign of tyranny continues, but that is how they
think in New York, and these views will spread,
and not in a too distant future until the old
rotten and corrupt system which keeps the ma
jority Of men in need, misery and hunger, is
swept away"
States Attorney Grinnell having completed
bis arduous labors in connection with the An
nrchist trial, left for New England and the East
ern seacoast this afternoon. Immediately be-
fore leaving the city, Mr. Grinnell held private
conference in his Office in the Criminal Court
with Captain Schaak, Detective Bonfeld, and
his assistants, Mr. Walker and Mr.. Furthmau.
The principal question discussed was the atti-
4rlda of the State toward the remaining Anarah-