Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-17
The Anarchists Counsel Made a Des.
perate Effcrtto Save Their Clients
from the GaIIows.
Foster Says Some Things In Couri
Which Cause Dead Silence 70
Reign The Plot Thickens.
A vigorous Arrangement of tho Preseon
tion, and Their Means OF Obtaining
Conviction
LAST wREk or rnn rRIAL

this morning In great.heat with scarcely
breath OF fresh air IN the courtroom
Every Inch OF space within the four walls
was occupied by spectators
Mr.. Foster resumed his speech this
morning by declaring that he was not
there to defend anarchy When he ex.
| pressed thatsentiment Saturday ho eN
pressed the sentiment OK his associates
A verdict ought not TO oe based upon the
statements Of any counsel. This asser-
ton was made with apparently the view
OF uudoing the effect OF the statements
made by Mr., Solomon In his opening
speech as to Spies and his utterances.
Mr. Foster quoted the old adaae.
Barking dogs never bte.n Spies never
concealed his sentiments, they were
made public time and time again through
the press The man was laxative, that
could not be disputed. There must DO
something in the construction OF the
mans brain which made him give utter
ance to his wild talk. The man loved
notoriety, that was all.
Foster continued TO argue that the ties.
tlmoDy given on behalf OF the state To
snow That Spleswas concerned personally
In the conspiracy on the night d the hay
market attack was improbable, and claimed
NlNN ~ AiNNl Aibu bNnlhlNNiN tHnMtl lNHL the
other defendants were near the wagon
when the bomb was thrown up.
The court adjourned at II p. M, before
Foster had concluded his epoech.
Il Foster addressed himself first In the
afternoon TO the evidence bearing upon
the character OF the hay-tnarket meeting,
~ TO whether II was moderate and peace
able, or Inclined to be riotous. Evidence
most worthy Of belief showed that the
meeting was more quiet and orderly than
those OF similar character which had
been held for some time past, for the
past 1--WE or six years II this
meeting was TO provide the long
sought opportunity OF the conspirators TO
, collide with the police and bring about
social revolution, as the prosecution lndi.
Gated, why were not the conspirators not
on the ground when II vas struck WHY
had the majority OF the crowd dispersed?
Why were Parsons and Fischer In Zeprs
ball drlnbing quiet glass Of beerf Why
was Schwab al another meetlnR and
Engle and Neebe with their famlllesY
! One Of the best points made BY Foster
was the following language The prose
cution put great significance in the pub.
LEGATION by the Arbeiter Zeitung OF the
word "rupe" which they say means crest
peace" Now, when the police arrived
on the hay-market Capt. Ward saidi |
command you In the name of the state OF
Illinois TO dispense peaceably. To this
Fieldin, who was speaking, answered
Z naturally enough, "Why, captain, this
is peaceable meeting. We are peace
able"
Now, why should the state see any
thing SO significant In this remark. The
evidence shows the meeting was peaceable
and say here, II was never intended TO
be otherwise II at that moment some
one on his own responsibility threw a
bomb among the police, and that fact
were now known and the word "rupe,u
and F1elden's remark 1--WE are peaceabler
would then have been natural and In.
significant, bearing the meaning on the
face OF the words Instead Of being, as the
state insists, symbols Of
RIOT AND BLooDsnRD
Mr., Foster, after enlsrgiDg on this
feature OF the case and declaring that the
evidence fell far short of proving that the
hay-market meeting had and connection
with conspiracy 10 attack the police,
devoted considerable time to the consid-
GRAFTON of the testimony of John Bernett,
as opposed 10 that Of Harry l.. Gilmer
Bernet, Mr. Foster showed, had been IN.
terpiewed by the state. He had been
shown a picture Of Rudolph Schnanbelt
and upon honestly declaring that
he could not recognize II as
that Of the bomb-thrower he was allowed
to go. lie could not serve the state. AZ
a witness called by the defense Bernett
swore that the bomb was thrown from
point far enough from that fixed by the
prosecution to overthrow It's theory
based upon Gilmer's testimony that Spies
4 N,.a - 10 = a Al.
bomb was thrown by Schnaubelt from
north Of Cranes alley. Who was 10 be
believed, Bernett who had been over the
ground since the night Of the riot and
taken careful measurements and whose
character had not suffered from the ia.
yestlgatlOns Of Capt Shook and hls de-
tectyes, or Gilmer, who swore so glibly,
who had been impeached by dozen Wit
: ncsses and who was Grand Army man,
but whether he had fought under the
stars aud stripes or under the stars and
bars nobody knewI Why hadn't Gilmer
been sent before the grand juIyf Why
was he placed on the stand when the
trial WAS 10 progress2 Because there
was q missing link, 30 Harry l.. GilmerI
took tho stand aud said, rather than have
the play stopped, he would
FURNISH THE MISSING LINZ.
MI. roster reviewed the teetlwonJ pi
Gllmer exhauetlvelyj denounced him as a
stupeDdous, colossal, monumental liar,
and, turning toward the defendants. said
impressiYelyi "If the testimony q Harry
Gilmer Is true, August Spies and Adolph
Fischer must die"
! Assuming = coiloquial and highly anus
} ing conversational attitude, Mr. Foster
Illustrated the scenes 10 court when Gil
mer wac cross-examined. He was ut the
hAy-market; on, yes, certainly. He saw
the bomb thrown; certainly, BY all
meaus. Did he see the man
who threw the bombf o.,
yes Would he rees gnl1e HIN
from this picture OF Schnaubeltf or,