Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-30
ausntly. He had been a socialist as long

quently. He had been Socialist as long
as he could think.
At the opening of the afternoon session
Captain Setback explained upon request
of Mr.. Ingham the nature of his expert
ments with the fuse found among the ef-
fects of Lingg.
az also experimental with dynamite car
tridges," said witness. II had one IN
serted into a stone weighing perhaps 81
pounds. The explosion broke this stone
into atoms"
Cross-examined by Mr. Foster-"What
Lingg said to you, Captain, was substan-
tally this: That there was to be a con-
flict between the police and the gatling
guns on one side and the labOring men on
the other and that he was making bombs to
use when that time came.
That's about it. He said the time had
actually come" replied the witness.
Those experiments you made were for
your own satisfactiOn?"
''They were made TO enable me to testify
to the character of the stuff found"
"As a matter of fact, " asked Foster,
"yOu woke up Lingg in his cell after mid
night TO ask him, didn't your"
E'Well, l don't remember. If / did, |
did, and suppose if did had right to
do it."
''Do you know of two detectives at your
station who went to Linggs cell, late ut
night, and exhibited a rope, saying they
were to hang him?"
II do not, +" replied the witness, land |
do not believe anything of the kind was
done"
Captain Setback said that pieces of the
bomb that theR had cut up were given to
Detective Whalen, who gave them TO Pro-
fesSOr Lyma for examination.
f. F. Gass was next called and asked to
read his translation of portions of q sheet
entitled The anarchist, Volume l., No. l.
The paper was published at the Arbeiter
Zeitung office, and in a notice requested
that subscriptions be sent TO C.. Engel.
The first translation read was that OF
the announcement of the publishers.
In this it was stated that the object
of the paper was to promote the Anarchi-
cal doctrine. Other articles, all written
in highly heroic vein, lamented the OPP
preston of capital and advocated revOlu-
tionary principles. The prosecution then
caused number of articles to lie read from
the Harm and other SOcialiStic organs.
These all preached revolution in circulars
of startling language. One article signed
Dynamite" had sort of grim humOr
about it that tickled the prisoners and made
Mrs. Parsons laugh until the tears ran down
her checks The tenor of the article was
about as follows: dynamite is the stuff
and don't you forget it. Enough of it to
fill your vest pocket has power to
do more for the wage slaves
of this country than a buShel basket full
of ballots. Fill piece OF gas pipe with
some of this good stuff, plug up the ends,
insert fuse and cap, touch it off, and in
troduce it among lot Of rich lOatcrs and
there will be cheerful scattering OF the
capital that will he felt for some time.
This is the stuff to use on floating pOpu-
latiOn which earns its bread by the sweat
of other mems browS." Another article
gave instructions how to handle dynamite
for revolutionary purposes.
An article published in the alarm, pur-
porting to be from the pen of an army Off
Ger and originally contributed to the San
fFNClSCO ITU", N'lS lV'lu' IL SINN
a technical description of a system of street
deienSes which the writer thought would
prove much more effective than those Or
dinarily made use OF, The article speaks
Sneeringly Of the militia and,reterred to
an army officer, who, after Spendinga life
time in researches for the benefit of his
profession, had blown his brains out be-
cause he could discover no means of OPP
posing or counteracting the effect of ten
pounds OF dynamite.
DIR, Lee, of the County Hospital, testi-
fled regarding the character of the wounds
sustained by officers killed and disabled,
and the prosecution resumed its reading
of articles from socialistic organs. When
the reading was finished the court ad-
iOurned.