The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-07-22


CHICAaOs July 16s-After many weeks
delay the trial Of the anarchists Is 70 be-
GIN this mornings and the eight men Who
ere to answer Coz the Haymarkst massa-
ere Wiil take thsir seats in Judge GsEry's
court. They are composed and their
manner betEays no sense cf uneastness.
Apparently they are careaess as. to the
past and Indifferent e to the future.
Without the court room Is ccn9regated q
large crowd, down stairs Is smother
crowd, and ssin another snd stiIl larger In
'front.' Of tbs entrance 70 the criminal court
building. On the opening Of court at
10 O'Clock, the states attorney requested
an adjournment till IL O'Clock. which
was granted. The reason for adjouYn-
ment ts given In rumor that the state
met some trouble on account Of some Of
it, witnesses. The story IL that some Of
these denied this morning the truth Of
the disclosures relative to the existence
Of dynamits conspiracy. The states
attorneys office Is closed to all attempts
to get Information bearing on the truth
or fAlsity Of this report.
Grinnen lAteE said that his reason for
desiring delay was due 70 the circum-
stance that the Witnesses In q certain
branch Of the case had not appeared.
portere mostly, who ere to testify to the
early scenes az HaYmRrket, before the
riot was precipitated. Hugh's map OF
Haymarket4 showing the relative posi-
tons OF the police, crowd and speakers
q . final meeting May 4, was shown by
Nao was asked 20 explain this map to the
jury In detail.
Inspector Bcnfsld then took the stand.
He Wss In command Of the police on the
night Of Hay 9. There were present
Leints, Steele, B 1wler, Pensen, station,
Hubbard, Beard and Quinn with detach-
ments of men.
Why did you come to 60 ther. ? Grin
nell asks.
Sometime during the day my attention
was called to the circular that
We Object to questions, SAYS Captain
Black.
Well, we will put the circular in evil
dence. Grinnen says.
have one here, says the witness.
consulted with his honor, the mayor,
about the circular which called for the
meeting at the Haym0rket.
Well, you needn't say what that con-
ference Was, tell what you did on leaving
It was about 10 O'Clock tn men were
ordered out, there were about 160 Of them
In all. They marched up the street, in
tending to guard the thoroughfare.
What was the state Of the men as to
IObject, says Captain Black. Over
ruled.
What were the instructions? That no
man should ire unless he was ordered to
do 50 by his superior officer.
Well go on.
| tail the story OF the tragedy. Capt.
AL 81 80 Sv,S
| name OF the state. Fnlden, who had
been on the truck near the sidewalk
| speaking, got down and said; "We are
| peaceable." Bonfeld says the crowd
then parted in Q peculiar manner, and
| then there was Kissing noise, followed
| by the explosion Of the bomb. The
crowd fred st the police for fully min
ute, when the latter were ordered to re-
turn the FIRE. Sixty five officers were
wounded, all by bullets, seven of whom
are dead. Witness was cross-examined
closely by the defence, but did not vary
| In any Of his statements.
In the anarchists trial at the afternoon
session to-day several Of the wounded
policemen were present. Gollfried Wal
| Ter, Swiss cabinet maker, testified he
had been an anarchist. He presided at
their meeting held in cellar the night
/ sf er the riot at McCormick'e works.
He said during that meeting a
committee WAS appointed to watch
the movements in the city and report il
anything happened and If riots should
| occur we should storm the police sta
tons and cut the telegraph wires. Then
we should down everything that came
| against us. Then II one police station
was stormed they should do the same
with the officers, moving down all that
came. They were to begin with the one on
North avenue. The siest mode would
be to throw bomb in the station Moth
| ing was said in the meeting about where
the plan originated. It was decided to
call 9 meeting OF the workiugmen he
next evening.
Those present were not to participate
In the Haymarket meeting. Only q COM
mtttee was TO be there. II they should
report that something had happened,
then the others should come down upon
| the police, then the militia, and whatever
should come against them. Wit
ness said: We also thought
that the fire department should be dis
Gbled. Every group was to act inde-
pendently, according to the general plan.
II the strikers were1 attacked then we
should shoot the police. In case OF an
attempt to disperse q meeting we should
| simply strike them down however best
We could, with bo2-bs or what
| ever should be at our disposal
| The witness was at fps hall when the
| bomb was thrown. There was some
| commotion and the doors were closed
| When they opened he started home. he
| told number of acquaintances that q
| bomb had been thrown on the Haymar.
ket add that about 100 persons were
killed. Ingram, the attorney, said the
/ state intended to show that for months
the defendants had been preparing for .
| revolution about the first of May; thai
they had been arming themselves anC
their dupes. He said, '.the law OF the
state ia strong enough to hang every ons
| Of these men,"