Huntsville gazette., 1886-08-14
COUNTING THE COST.

What 1t Has Cost Cook County, Illinois,
Thus Far in Hard Cash on Account of the
Hurting of One Dynamite Bomb. Not to
Speak of Consequential Damages - The
Ordinary Business of the Courts at u
Standstill.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-"I suppose this
week win end the agony for the time be-
ing" remarked States Attorney Grinnell,
as he entered court this morning. This
at least is the present outlook. The evil
dence in defense of the Anarchists has
occupied precisely one week, or one-third
of the period which had previously been
claimed by their leading counsel. The
States evidence in rebuttal may extend
over to-day and Tuesday, and the adj
dresses to the jury will be under way by
Wednesday noon. .s..i....
According to the present programme
the State will open, the defense follows
with two speeches, the State with one,
the defense with still another, and Mr..
Grinnell will close this branch of the
case. The twelve addresses should be
concluded by Saturday noon at the lat
est. The judges charge may not occupy
more than one hour. Then the case
will go to the jury, and hence,
unless in the event of a dis
agreement, the prisoners will
know their fate ere another Sabbath's
sun has dawned. These arrangements,
of course, are open TO alteration, and 1t is
possible, but not probable, that the talk
ing may break into another week. The
Jury, however, are showing signs of IA
ti@ue, and it is the opinion of people who
have watched them closely that the
counsel on both sides will best consult
their own interests by making Their ad-
dresses moderately brief and particularly
TO the point.
Now that the trial is so near its end,
the total cost of the half hours out
break in Haymarket square is beginning
to be figured up. On Saturday next the
trial will have reached its forty-eghth
day, not countiA Sundays. The cX-
oenses of the prosecution have averaged
$3.50 per day. which will make a total for
lie eight weeks of $4,000 Between
he arrest of the prisoners and the open
NO of the trial nearly seven weeks
,lapscd, during which the expenses
# the State averaged. $4,000
,er week, or $2l 900 additional.
Then there has been an expenditure OF
It least S5, 900 on necessary incidentals.
rhe cost TO the county of the treatment,
# the injured policeman will reach Sl5,-
90, and will go up to S25,o00 if the ply.
icans and surgeons bills for extra
ervices are allowed. OF the 100000
described by the citizens for the relief
ot the wounded officers fully $4,000 has
iready been distributed to the families
If the deceased and those of the survi-
crs, or laid aside for their specific pur-
,O;e.
1t will thus be seen that the financial
esult of the solitary bomb thrown in
Iaymarket square, on lhe night OF May
/, not including the cost of maintaining
nd trying the twenty-siy men now under
Indictment for conspiracy, in connection
With that affair, the depression OF BUSH
ess, which was the natural outgrowth OF
he excited state of the city, or the cost
# subsequent proceedings, should the
defendants be convicted and the decision
ppeaed, reaches the enormous aggrc
ate Of S137, 900!
Meanwhile the regular business of the
riminal Court is at standStlll The
states attorney and his assistants can
lot be in half a dozen courts at the SAINT
ime. The Jail is crowded with Grim
aals awaiting trial, and the sheriff's bill
or board is mounting up into biz figures.
70 case of similar character or impor
ance. involving such an outlay, or ne
essitating such q cloaging of the wheels
If Justice, has ever before been tried III
his country. 1t is cause cclebrc which
will be prominent feature OF law reports
md legal works for a century to come.