Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-13
CHICAGO.S Tragedy.

CHICAGO'S TRAGEDY.
archist Leaders - The Ceroner's Jury
Charges Them With Being the Cause OF
the Slaughter and They, With the Entire
Force of the "Arbeiter Zeitung" Held
without Bail.
CHICAGO, May eff any doubt had pre-
viously existed in the minds of any that
the leaders of the Anarchist party were
directly responsible for the "Orsini'
method which resulted in Tuesday nights
slaughter, that doubt was dispelled by
the evidence which for five solid hours
was on Wednesday presented to the cor
oner's jury. The inquest, which was
held upon the body of Officer Jno.
Deegan, was held in the Office of the city
clerk in the city building. The accused,
August Spies, Chris Spies, Sam Fielder
and Michael Schwab, were brought into
the jury room in single file, with four
stalwart officers on either side, and were
given seats on bench to the left of the
jury. August Spies, the arch-conspirator,
was perfectly self-posseSsed and smiled
sardonically almost throughout the pro-
ceedings. His younger brother looked
ill at ease, while Schwab, a typical Com.
munist in appearance, and Fielden, a
bloated, dirty-looking foreigner of the
the testimony, now smiling, again frown-
ing, and occasionally displaying indica-
lions of nervousness.
The evidence was first directed to prov
ing the incendiary character of the utter
ance at the meeting which preceded the
bomb-throwing, and to do this Officer
Louis Haas, Paul Hull and Edward w.
May, reporters, and Officer Timothy Nc
Keough were placed on the stand. A
hand-bill printed in English and
German, calling the meeting and urging
workingmen to rise to arms, was put in
evidence and read to the jury. The wit
nesses stated that Spies, Fielden and
Parsons (the latter not yet in custody,)
were the speakers of the night, and that
while the addresses of Spies and Fielder
were of an inflammatory character, they
we're more moderate than others they
had delivered on the lake front and else
where. The speech of Parsons was OF
the most violent type, directly calculated
to incitc the mob to riot, and winding up
with the words: s'To arms! to arms! to
arms! If you love your wives, if you love
your children, rise up against capital"
From this point the inquiry was direct
ed to the throwing of the bomb. Officer
Haas was within a few feet of the spot
where the explosive fell, and his evidence,
nesses, was to the effect that 1t came
from behind a pile of boxes upon the
sidewalk at the corner of the alley on
Desplaines street above Randolph.
Captain Ward, who with Captain Bon
field marched at the head of the police,
said in answer to one of the jurvmen that
he had never had instructions to request
the Anarchists to desist from infamma-
tory speeches although he understood
that such instructions had been given to
other officers at various times.
Now the inquiry was directed to the
character of the explosive, and in this
branch much startling and unexpected
testimony was introduced.
81 made a search of the Arbeiter Zietung
Office" Officer Martin Marks testified.
'On shelf in the recess of Mr.. Spies
private room / found a bundle marked
adams Express Company This bag
contained lot of sawdust, sand and
nitro-glycerne. 1t looked exactly the
same as what we found on Desplaines
street after the bomb exploded last night,
only it was not so hard.'
''It came whizzing through the air like
a fire-cracker or squib," said the witness,
'and thought it was one or the other,
but the moment it touched the ground,
there was terrific report, and through
the smoke I saw the officers mOwn down
like grass. The same moment firing COM
menced like the roaring of cannon. l
heard some of the shots come from be
hind the boxes from where the bomb was
THROWN
All the witnesses agreed that, judging
from the applause and the guying of the
speakers occasionally INDUCED in, no
more than five hundred of the gathering
were in sympathy with the Anarchist sem
timents enunciated.
The witness described the effect of the
explosion upon some rocks underneath
which it was placed. Fragments of the
powders were carried away immense
distances.
"Most of the stuff" concluded the Of
ficer, "is stored in the vault, and one of
our men, who is an expert, says there is
enough in it to blow up the building"
The jury were out half an hour before
agreeing upon verdict. The jury held
all of the prisoners to the grand jury
without bail, and also recommended that
Parsons be apprehended and held. The
verdict. when read in the city clerks Of
fee, was loudly applauded by the anxious
spectators. The prisoners were returned
to their cells in the basement.
sister of August Spies came to the
Central station to-day, and after consid-
cradle talking Lieutenant Ripley ELECTED
from her the confession that third
brother, who was i'll last nights ARRAY,
was lying dangerously i'll at his home. 1t
is thought that he will die.
Mrs. A. II. Parsons, the wife of the
fugitive Anarchist, was arrested this af-
ternoon, and was locked up. She was
present this morning when the officers
made raid on the Arbetter Zeitung build
ing, but the officers did not then wish to
arrest her. They had planned to shadow
her, hoping that she would make some
appointment with her husband, so the
latter could be captured.
s'In the Arbeiter Zeitung building the
detectives found this afternoon a regular
arsenal of weapons and explosives.
Searching a dark closet of the editorial
room was found two small cloth bags
containing mass of sawdust saturated
with dynamite. There must have been
five pounds of the explosive in the two
bags-enough to blow up the Board of
Trade building. Six red and two black
flags were captured. In Spies private
desk were found two great sticks of giant
powder, each six inches long and about
one and half inches square, with one
end bored for cap. Two large revolt
veEs were captured, and pair of knives
fashioned from three-cornered files, the
edges sharpened to the keenness of razor
and ground down to a stletto point.
In Executive Session.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-The Senate in
executive session yesterday recommitted
to the committee on public lands the