Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-08-14
THE
The Other Side of the Anarchists
Case.
Testimony to Prove that the Police Did
All the Observation-Disclosures .Alibis
for Schwan and RECONSIDERATION
on tho stand.
TRYING TO SAVE THEIR yrcKs.

TRYING TO SAVE THEIR NEcEs.
CHICAGO. Aug. 4-The proceedings in
the Anarchists trial yesterday began with
the testimony Of Dr. James I. Taylor, sew
entv-Six wears Of age, and rather deaf, He
had been at the Haymarket meeting from
twenty minutes before the speaking com,
menced until after the bomb was exploded.
He contradicted the States witness, Gil
mer as 70 the point from which
the bomb was thrown, and cor
roborated the testimony Of Simonson,
He swore that the the pistol-irlug
had commenced simultaneously with the
report Of the bomb explosion, from the
police officers and not from the crowd, He
swore that he did not see one shot
| fired bv the members of the retreat
Ing crowd.
l. NJ. Moses. Of No. sol Randolph street
was nut on the stand TO testify as to the
| general reputation of Harry Gilmer for
trutl and yeracity, He testified that it
was very bad, that he would not believe
him under oath; aud he gave the names Of
several others who had, he said, like views.
One Of these, Austin Mitchell, was
called but upon being asked if he knew the
yp"'"t,u . T,,b nmd ~Hrsc7tv bn an
49, ''., NV " ia was sycrsed and
,tT1-'n pr,, ,nab, ,Ia s+onl Sbo NJ
III NJ V,.as sav nm bo would No.
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~, 40 ali rs,aWt ,strnnel tUiI MS
StSry Of the riot, but the only new thing in
it was that Fielien had said or shouted
stand immediately after the cXplo-
sion. Joseph Kutscher, who was shot
twice during the riot and was under
arrest for "A short time. Swore that tine
bomb was thrown about twenty-five
feet south Of where he stood, and that he
stood about five feet south of the alley.
John O BriXev and John Gar
rick swore they would not believe Gilmer
under oath. An Aljcrar-Z atug compost
tor named Urban, a member Of the Central
Labor Union, testified that in y
to a request of some delegates from the
Lumher-SAoyerS' Union tie Central La
bor Union had requested Spies to
speak at the Mccormick meeting Monday.
The witness swore he saw revolvers in
the hauls Of the police As they came up to
disrer,et the meeting. William Gleason. an
lrishmau and , labor agitator, swure the
shooting wasall done by the police, Gleason
was an Irish Fenian and chief of a revolu-
ouary society in NeWcastle.op-Tyne, |
IllLlulll. ne HtklbN At'lEfl uuNl0k d'l-
yocatel the discharge Of Capt
Boufeld because of his action in the street.
car drivers strike. Two Germans, named
William Sahi ami Eberhard H~irsemougel,
testified through the Interpreter Jou'ern-
ing the scenes at the Haymarket, their
evidence going to substantiate, to some
extent the theory Of the defense that the
police were the agglcssorS.
CHICAGO. Aug. In the trial Of the
t,r,,..4. ,-.r.pl.. t,rtr.t LrTt,t,r,, "a
CaIpuuter who is about the same height
ind Nuiid a, Spies, sWore that he was at
III. mouth of the alley with a friend named
Albright during the latter part of the
speeches and until the explosion, and that
about tine moment the police Wero coming
up be- u Albright went into the alley,
struck matches and lii their pipes. This
testimony Is considered very important
10y The defense, their contention being that
Gilmer mistoOk the witness for Spies and
afterwards concluded that Spies was light
Ing a bomb, when it was really krumm
lighting his pipe. krumm was posi-
tive that Spies did not come into
the alley. The witness was greatly
confused in cro,s-examination. He swore
that there were no boxes on the side
walk and that the bomb tell twenty feet
south of the alley, both of which state
ments were undoubtedly Wrong. William
tAlFl l-Hl lbllOl dltIl NlI'IlIl ; tN lliIli'i,
and also swore he heard a shot before the
lomb exploded and that it came from the
direction of The police.
Fred Groh, the secretary Of the Carmen. |
tiers Union. and August krause, chairman
Of the meeting of the union at which En-.
gel spoke. were caIlei to prove tnat Engel
did not recommend his hearers to save no
money to buv reyoIyers, nor did he SAY
that n revolver at three or four dollars
was rood enough TO shoot police with This
wa, in contradiction of officer Wiorta's
testimony,
The defense also tried to get in some tes-
timony showing that Bailiff Kelly of the
DesulaiueS street notice station had
warned a friend arainst baing nt tho
meeting, The Inference being that the at
tock wa, nr4nnjii1teI Nv tho noIica ,e-
gorjless Of what tno 5sneatorg migbt
Sav. Int this was rulol out An attn,nnt
WIS also male to shoTv HAT SaIiga, Ike
inform@r had statrI tbat hi. cnH5fas.inn
~ a~tartoJ From, In, ~ u. tb - 9Ji;2"' ,nIa,
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