Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-14
SCATHED
By Mr.. INGHAM, FOR THE PROSECUTION,
IN AN, ADDRESS.
He MsrcilsSsly Holds Them Up TO the Jury in Their
True COlOrs-NOt Socialists, But Enemies Of
Law and Order MurdsrerS and Cut
throat Followers Of Herr Most.

as usual, was crowded. aI lU:l0 ClOch
the jury came in. Juror Ludwig, who has
more correspondence than all the rest of
the body, got batch of perfumed notes.
Mr. Zeisler resumed his address and be-
gan by impeaching the testimony of the
witness Waller, which he said is untrust-
worthy, first, because it was paid for, and,
second, because the conduct of the alleged
conspiratOrs was not such as it would have
been had the word ''Ruhe' meant what
he said it did, or if the prisoners were
aware of its alleged significance. There
might have been a grain of truth, the
speaker said, in what Seliger and Waller
testified to, but most of their stories were
concOcted by them.
He continued: I'VE have now come to
the Haymarket meeting proper, which was
called by circular A witness for the
State. member of the firm which printed
the circulars, testified that after 1000 OF
them had been printed man came TO him,
took them away, and asked to have the
words, 'wOrkingmen, come armed, re-
moved from the form, and q detective tes-
titled that he found these circulars con-
tanning that line in the Office of the irJeitr
ZeitUng after May 4.
Mr.. Zeisler concluded by declaring that
the States attorney was blinded by malice
and was influenced by the police cOnspir-
acy to send the speakers clients to the gal
lows. He urged the jury not to be intlu-
enced by the attempts which would be
made to arouse their passions.
Judging from the crowd which sought
in vain to gain admission to the court
room this afternoon, Mr.. Ingham is one Of
the most popular among the counsel en-
gagged in the Anarchist trial for Mr.. ZciS-
Ter having finished when the court al
iOurned ut noon, it was understood that
the next speaker would be assistant State 5
Attorney Ingham Mr. Ingham, who has
the most graceful presence Of any of the
lawyers engaged on the case stepped
quickly into the open space in front OF the
Jury, and in u clear, ringing voice, com
mcndcd his, address in the following words:
MIR. INGHAM's ADDRESS.
There are ycrdicts ofjuries which make
history. Your verdict in this case will
make history 1t is OF great Importance
that your verdict he right. We live in
Chicago, the metropolis of the great north
west. and the very centre of the civlliza-
ton of the West This is the 18th day OF
August, l~S6, and in the latter half of the
nineteenth century, and We are invcSti-
eating an OitcnSe rs great rs ever dlS%raccd
humanity. Seven men were killed. Sin
ty were wounded. But this crime palcS
into inSigniiiCancc besides the point at
issue, which We are To pass upon. Matthias
J. Dcggn, on the 4th OF May, left the
DeSplainrS street station full Of life
and hope and without malice toward any
living creature. lie never harmed hair
in the head of any of these defendants. Be
tween him and them there could not pos
sibly have been any i'll will. Now he lies
in his grave because he defended the law.
These defendants struck ut the law. The
great question which you are to decide Is
whether the law OF this State is strong
enough to protect itself, or whether it Is to
he tramplcd upon by these eight men, but
one of whom is native of this
State Mr.. Ingham said that
the evidence in case should
not he illustrated by the symbol Oia chain.
When one link in chain was broken the
chain w.lS completely severed. Evidence
in ease could more properly he Ilkened to
a cable. one, two. three or more strands OF
which could bc broken and the cable still
perform its office The jury must not dis
card the whole cable Of evidence because
one or two or three strands prove to he
faulty. The case should not he decided
upon part but upon the whole OF the cri-
denCe presented.
Mr.. Ingham defined the meaning of
THE OFFENSE CALLED CONSPIRACY,
rs rivcn in the statutes of this State and
said: Was the bomb throwing on the
night of Nav 18th the result Ola conspiracy?
If so these men are guilty and the law Is
strong enough to protect itself.
From the opening of Mr.. ln%ham's adj
dress till his arrival ut this point it did
not appear that single ear in the court
room had lost a word that had been ut
tered. From the Judge ON the bench to
the Jury. counsel, defendants and each i'll
dividual spectator, every attitude 6ctoE-
ened the most earnest attention. When
the speaker began to pour 4 torrent OF de-
nunciationS upon the heads of the defend
,nts and upon their doctrine, the utmost
interest was depicted on nearly every coun-
tenancc. With the exception OfSpicS, who
continued to smile inSOlently, the defend
ants listened with solemn countenanccS:
II know" said Mr.. Ingham, that
.T,hann Most. of New York, is the aC
knowledged head of the Anarchists in this
countrv. | know that these defendants
arr his ardent followers. They try to pose
here rs Socialists, as Most does in New
York. but | know that in the Congress OF
Socialists not long ago Johann Most was
expelled. There were only two votes cast
in his favor.
Here Mr.. Ingham's emphaS is became
terrific when he continued:
Just
As THE TURKEY BUZZARD
snreads his vomit upon fair fields, SO Eu-
rope spread Most upon these shores; and
lust as the vOmit of the turkey buZzard
testers and corruptS whatever 1t touches,
80 Johann Most detilcs his associates
The speaker said that were the Euro
pean leaders of Socialists TO see these de
PENDANTS and hear them call themselves
Socialists they would spit upon them. He
then devoted some time to the reading OF
articles written by Spies and Parsons and
published in the 4rbeiLcr ZeitWng and Alarm
10 show that the writers far from being
disciples of Socialism were Anarchists of
the most virulent type. "YOu have heard
this called by Mr. Zeisler,' said the
sneaker. harmless braggadOcio. As to its
harmlessneSS. ask the orphaned sons Of
Matthias Degan.'
IIAIr Ingham devoted some time to show
inc that the public speeches of Spies, Par
sons aud Fielden and the editorials pub
lished in the 1rbdter ZeitHRg, and the
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