St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-07
THE DYNAMITE FIENDS
Pen Pictures of the Quartet of Friends
Whose Utterances Caused the
Anarchist Outrage.
The Careers Of Spies, Sohwab, Parsons
and Fielden, Who Have Been
Indicted for @furder.
Another Walkout of Sw1tchmen Ties
UP the Freight Business Of
Several Roads.
combination of Capitalist Metal
Workers Against their Employees
--Other News.
The Dynamite Demons.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, May 6.-The anarchists Spies,
Fielden, and Schwab, who have been held
to the grand jury for murder. were loaded
into patrol wagon about ten o'clock this
morning and taken to the armory with a
strong guard Of police. They were taken
upstairs where they were photographed
and were then loaded into the wagon again
and taken to the central station. August
Spies was born in Hesse, Germany, in 1850,
and came out when % years of age, start
ing Socialist paper six years later. He
IS the editor and presumptive proprietor of
the Arbeiter-Zeitung, or labor journal. as
the anarchist handbili is misnamed The
discovery of dynamite in the office ap-
peared to surprise Spies, who denied any
knowledge of it. and pretended to think
that the police put it there themselves. He
also deprecated, while in his cell, charged
with murder, the throwing of the bomb, as
''ill-timed and outrageous" The speech
which he had delivered
JUST BEFORE THE FIENDIsH ACT
he declared to have been the most temper
ate he made. When Spies first came to
this city in 1877 or '7S. he obtained en-
ployment with II. Sanders. an umbrella
maker, at S3 per week. Mr.. Sanders says
lie worked faithfully at the trade; was in
his employ five years, and was finally paid
Sl5 per week. By this time Spies became
dissatisfied and determined to start out for
himself. AS he was smart and energetic
he managed to get control of the paper,
with which his name has since
been connected. His former employer
says that, although the man while
with him was faithful and competent, he
had mania for notoriety. and always
wanted to have his name mentioned in con-
nectiOn with any matter of neighborhOod
interest. The field the anarchist has been
cultlyatng has evidently produced more of
the notoriety harvest than he dreamed of
when sowing the seed. Sam Fielden. the
English member Of the trio is three years
older than Spies. He was
BORN IN LANCASHIRE
and is mill hand by occupation when he
consents to work with his hands. He
claims to have preached Mrthodism and to
have been converted to materialism and So
cialism five years since. His connection
with every organization to which he has
belonged has been prominent" one, to
credit him. Another of the anarchists I'M
der arrest is Michael SchWab is German
bookbinder. who came to Chicago
and got a job in the
Arbeiter Zeitung Office. He held the posi-
ton of telegraph translator, and in addi-
ton wrote an occasional editorial on some
minor subject. A. r. Parsons, the uncap-
tured American riot meter, is the son of
the famous Confederate general, w. Fl.
Parsons. He is well known in Pittsburg
and Houston. In the former city he is
quoted as saying last January, when asked
by reporter if it was true that quantity
of bombs had been discovered in the office
of the Alarm in Chicago:
':Certainlyit is time. We do not pretend
to make a secret OF the manufacture of these
bombs to be employed by anarchists every
where, upon emergency. I have two fiue
specimens with me in the inside pocket of
my coat These bombs are largely manufac-
tured right here in Pittsburg and nearly
every Sunday when the weather permits
platoons of the local anarchists go out into
the surrounding country and practice the
throwing of these bombs.''