The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-13

witness named John Bernett swore that be
saw the man who threw the bomb; that
said man was standing on the west side of
Desplaines street, about thirty eight feet
from the alley. and that the bomb was
thrown in a northeriv direction. 1t did
not come from behind the boxes on
the sidewalk. Witness could not
recollect as to whether he had
not said on the 7th of May, in
the presence of the States Attorney, that
the bomb was thrown from behind the
boxes. Witness watched the bomb from
the time it left the hand of the thrower I'M
til 1t exploded. He knew at the time it
was thrown that it was bomb.
CHICAGO, Aug. TO- -Tfree Of the Anarchist
prisoners Schwab, Spies and Parsons.
were placed on the witness-stand yester-
day. Schwab was examined by Mr.. Foster
as to his whereabo ITS the night of the Hay
market slaughter, and denied in whole and
IN detail the statements concerning him
sworn to by the witnesses Thompson and
Gllmer: and corroborated the story of his
travels to Daering and his speech-making
there as told by the various witnesses ex-
aInined In his behalf. He refused to say
whether or not he was an Anarchist.
sSpies was the next witness. He gave an
account of the Mccormick meeting and
his part therein The person who called
stood over hundred feet from him
and spoke in a tongue he did not
then understand. His blood boil
ed y when he saw the police fir
ing on the women and children. Some
body told him two people were killed and
about twenty wounded. He at once came
home and wrote the Revenge circular,
heading it "Workmen, To Arms - He
read in the five O'Clock paper that five or
six were killed, and then he
changed the ''two'' in the circular
TO six" He detailed his experiences
-at the Haymarket meeting and denied in
full the stories of Witnesses Thompson
lighted the bomb He had had four
bombs at the Arbeiter-Zeitung office;
one man left two and another man
left two. 8 He didn't know either
OF the men. In talking with the re-
porter Wilkinson he had explained street
warfare with dynamite to the reporter,
using Market square and the tunnel in his
illustrations. The word "Ruhe'' was in
serted with az batch of general an
nouncements on the request Of somebody
unknown. Balthasar Rau told him about
three O'Clock, May 4, that if the word
''Ruhe'' was in that afternoons issue of
the paper it wa signal for the armed
section to be ready to defend the people
I'm case the police preclpitated a riot"
The dynamite in his draw or he had bought
for experiments, and he also kept it
to supply the reporters with sensations
ing of the big parcel of dynamite found in
the office. He ALWAYS carried a revolv-.
er," but happened not to have one with
him the night of the riot. On cross-exam-
ination witness said that he had other OBJ
jects than that of curiosity in his expert
ments with the dynamite, but did not
state what they we're. Spies acknowledged
that he wrote the Revenge" circular to
induce the people to arm themselves and
resist the. police. The climax in
the cross-examination came when
Ingham handed Spies a letter and
asked him if he had replied to it. The let
ter was from Herr Most to Dear Spies''
and related to the proposed shipment of
twenty to twenty-five pounds of ''medi-
cine" (dynamite) to the scene of the labor
troubles then going on in Hooking valley,
Spies admitted having received the letter
but could not remember that he had re.
piled to it.
Parsons next testified, and said that
after his remarks at the Haymarket meet
ing he went to Zepf's Hall, and was at tho
latter place when the bomb exploded At
the request of counsel he gave in substance
his speech made at the Haymarket. He
spoke for long time, and his gesticula-
ton and elocution were calcu,
lated to give the impression that
he was really addressing an audience. He
told his audience, in the course of his re-
marks, that the Chicago Times had adyo-
Gated throwing hand grenades at striking
seamen, that the Tribune advocated Civ
ing trychinia for tramps and that Tom
Scott advocated using rifles upon the rail
road strikers. He urged them to defend
themselves by the use of arms and
dynamite. He said that he advocated
the use of dynamite by working-men as a
defense against those unlawfully attack
ing them. When he used the words, ITO
Arms, he meant that working-men should
provide themselves with arms with which
necessary.
In cross-examination he practically adj
mi5ted advocating dynamite advo-
Gated any thing necessary to success"
Both he and Spies declared themselves An
archists without hesitation or equivoca-
tiOn.