Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-10

the street cars there. Before he began 10
sneak he asked where Parsons was, anu "sAs
told that he was addressing meetihS az
the corner of Randolph and Halsted streets >
and he went there with Henry Spies anu
Scbnanbelt to find him. The witness saio
he then returned to the wagon WIN SctillHn S-i
belt. He did not see Schwab as ocnnan-
belt said he had gone to Deerlng 10 auursH'S
meeting there.
'Did you 90 into the alley with Schnan-
belt?"
mo, sir" ,,J
The witness stated that Schnanbelt could
not speak English and he could not nave
conversed with him in that language. opies
SAID he made
AN ORDINARY SPEECH
at the Haymarket. He said he told the
meeting that the masses were being de-
graded. He then saw Parsons and the
latter began his speech. He remembered
unimportant portions of Parsons speech
but could not remember what Fielden sald.
He said he remained on the wagon during
all the speaking. He saw the police on
Randolph street, and heard Captain Ward
give the order to disperse. He said he was
helped off the wagon by his brother Henry
and another man. When he had reached
the sidewalk he heard q detOnatiOn, ''apd
thought" said the witness, that the Po-
lice were firing cannon to triShten the
people" He said he went to Zepfs Hall
when tee firing began.
Did you light the bOmb?" the witness
was asked.
Spies smiled, showed his teeth, and re-
piled: 81 never did He said he did not
see Schnaubclt in the alley and denied Gil
mer's story. He said that the interview
which Mr.. Wilkinson, the reporter, had
with him, last January, was substantially
true. Spies said he had
HAD TWO DYNAMITE SHELLS
in his Office for three years. They were
given to him by man who sailed for New
Zealand. He told the reporter in January,
rs printed, that there were three thousand
armed Socialists in Chicago, and described
to him how the police and soldiers could
be fought. He had told the reporter, as
stated on the trial, that dynamite was a
child of the future" and would prove II
great leveler."
Spies then made what the prosecution
claim is
A FATAL ADMISSION
fully corroborating their claim that the
armed section had secret caucus, and had
prepared for IN attack on the police.
Spies said he wrote the word "Ruhe"
which appeared in the Ar6eitsr Zeitung on
May 4th He said the night before he re-
ceived the following letter:
"MR. EDITOR-PleaSc insert in tO-day's
letter-box the word RUhc, in prominent
letters"
He said he did not know that the word
had any import, but the next day Bal
thazcr Rau. said it was decided by the
armed section to have the word rs sign
of warning that they should keep their
powder dry for use against the police.
He told Rau that that was
foolish and asked Fischer to inform the
armed section that it was mistake. Spies
then described his arrest by the police. He
declared that the Superintendent OF the
police called him Dutch Dog, ," Hound"
and "Whclp" and made an attack on him.
Spies said he kept dynamite in his offices
to experiment with and carried revolver
thinking it waSa good thing to be armed. j"
He declared that on the night of the Hay
market riot, however, he had left his re
volvcr with EX-Alderman Stautfer. The
court then adjourned.