The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-07-29
A DIAB0LICAL PLOT.
Details of the Anarchist Scheme
of Bloodshed and Ruin.
Several OF the Followers OF the Red Flag
Turn Informers-Thelr Startling Re-
oital-strong Evidence Against
Spies, FieIden and Lingg.
LNAncn1srlc NrcKs " pANarn.

several witnesses were examined Satur
day, Witness Waller told the story o
the preparation of the accused for tn
riot. He had attended their meetings, an'
detailed what they had said and done il
advance OF the outbreak. No offer had beer
made to him to testify in this case. All thu
conspirators had been told by the police tina
they should tell the truth, as that would
do them more good than il they did not
Witness had been solicited by some of thu
conspirators to go back ON tho story hi
had told the police, and a proposition hnC
been made by some of them that all shoulC
meet and agree upon what they should tel
on the witness stand.
Bernard Schrade told of the Anarchists
drilling, of the passwords and signs used
to get them together, and of the distribu
ton of bombs but his testimony was moi
given so openly or with the freedom and
accuracy of detail shown by Waller. II
was evident that under some pressure
Schrade had weakened. Judge Gary
would not allow the prosecution 10 ask the
witness what he had told the detectives.
1t was intimated by the counsel for the
State that Schrade had been manipulated
by the defense.
Lieutenant Steele gave an honest and
manly account of the moving Of the police
on the meeting and the massacre that fol-
lowed-as promptly denying that he saw
the bomb thrown as asserting what he saw
and heard. Lieutenant Quinn's testimony
went much further than Lieutenant
Steele's in that he stated that no snw
Fielder, or the speaker, shoot at the police,
and that the self-same Individual was the
one who said "Here como the blood
hounds-you do your duty and I'll do
mine and I'VE are peaceablc,p
CHICAGO, July 20.-Nine police officers
and three private citizens gave evidence
yesterday on behalf of the prosecution in
the trial of the Anarchists. Two important
points were made: First, that Fielden fired
on the police with a revolver about the
time the bomb was thrown; second, that
Spies as early as February, 1885, had been
working as an organizer for armed revolu.
ton which was TO begin with tho seizure Of
Chicago about May l. 1856. when an at
tempt TO enforce the Eight Hour law would
leave thousands Of working-mcn idle and
ready to join in scheme promis--
plumber Spies attempted to get the
officers of the Knights of labor AS
sembly of Grand Rapids to join the scheme,
and the president of that assembly, Luther
V. Moulton, was the most important wit
ness on the stand Yesterday. The evil
dence that Fielden fired on the police was
abundant and conclusive, and seemed
sufficient in itself to put n halter around
the neck of that Individual Detective
Bonfeld testified TO arresting Spies
anu bcnWaD, ana salu tnat IN an interview
with Spies, after his arrest on the Hay
market tragedy, he (Spies) stated that he
approved OF the method used to extermin-
ate the police, but thought it premature
that the time had not arrived to start the
revolution. The witness exhibited mum
Der Of dynamite cartridges, fuses, re
volyers, dirk made from file and other
things which he found secreted in the Of
flee of the Ar6cifeT ZeiilJig. Spies paper,
and the organ of the Anarchists.
CHICAGO, July 2l.-In yesterdays pro
ceedings in the trial OF the Anarchists the
evidence rendered by the prosecution was
the most important but at the same time
the least sensational yet offered. This, at
least is the opinion Of States Attorney
Grinnell The prosecution occupied most
OF the forenoon session in proving that
the riot at the Mccormick works
May was instigated by few Anarchists
led by Spies; that Spies, after melting that
riot. wrote and circulated inflammatory
and lying accounts of the outbreak, with
intent TO incite the workng-men the city
to further riot; that it was in defiance ofthe
active opposition of the leaders of the
strikers that Spies and his gang captured
the meeting which Immediately preceded
the Mccormick riot, and melted that meet
ing to attack the non-union working mem
and, generally, that that riot was directly
the work of the Anarchists in the carrying
out OF their plot to sack and plumber the
witness Moulton the previous day.
The testimony presented in the after
noon clearly proved that Spies was the
writer OF the mysterious 'Ruhen notice in
the Arodfer Zdtnng, that being the signal
for the opening Of the revolution by the
armed forces of the Anarchists; that
Spies and Schwab were directly re.
sponsible for the incendiary screeds
In the Arbeiter-Zeitung; that Spies was the
author of the Revenge" circular; that
Spies. Neebe and Schwab, directly, and
the other prisoners indirectly, were re-
sponsible for the circulation of muir
derous Anarchis,ic literature, such
as Herr Most's Science of Reyolu-
tionary Warfare and that, altogether,
the Haymarket riot, the Mccormick
riot, the throwing Of the bomb the publ
cation OF the alarm and Arbeitc- Zeitung
the issuance of incendiary circulars and
procamatlons, and the manufacture, stor-
age, and distributions of explosives were
oil an integral part Of n general and pre-
meditated plot for the murder or over
throw OF the police force and all iaw-abid-
ing citizens and the seizure Of the city by
the Anarchists.
CHICAGO, July 22.-Only two witnesses
were examined in the Anarchist trial yes
terday-William Selger and his wife
S ss IG lives IN small house on the rear
1t was in this house the bombs
wore manufactured The afternoon of
May !, the date of the explosion,
some forty or fifty bombs were made at
Seliger's. The prisoner Lingg who lodged
at Seliger's, seems to have been the chief
worker, five or six others, of whom Seliger
was one, acting as his assailants. Iingg
bad previously practiced making
bombs and casting bomb shells. For
tubular bombs he used sections of metal
pipe of an inch to ono and half inches
in diameter; for spherical bombs he cast
lp0uaU shells pun-ghana1 maid malt
ing the lead in ladle on the kitchen stove.
Small iron bolts and nuts were imbedded
in the dynamite, and each shell sealed
with Eliminating cap and fuse attach
ment. II was unquestionably ono of these
bombs that was thrown in the Haymar-
ket
The forty or fifty bombs made that after
noon were packed in trunk and carried
to No. 81 Clybourn avenue about O'Clock
by Lingg and Seliger Here they wero
distributed, tho box being left in
rear room where each Anarchist could
go IN and help himself Several
conspiratofs equipped themselves with
bombs, all OF them being at the
ssms time armed with reviewers and the
deadly three-sided file-dirks Lingg and
Seliger armed themselves like the rest.
The two proceeded to Larrabee street
police station. They consulted on
whether they should Immediately throw
bombs at that station or attack Web
ster avenue station first Lingg was
eager to begin, Seliger was cowardly |
and held Lingg back Lingg had been de- |
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