Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-20

/ stopped by TWO men on the stairs, but was
permitted 10 go on after an explanation.
'Grief, are you an anarchistT abruptly
asked the States attorney.
mo, SIR" said the witness, smiling
shrewdly.
You're only Socialism,
yes" the answer was prompt.
THE CROsS-EXAMINATION.
The cross-eXamination OF the witness
was conducted by Capt. Black to show
| that from the nature Of the easements
construction very little secrecy could
have been bad for the meeting. Subse-
quent questions by the lawyers for the
state showed that Grief either dId not
know or would not tell whether guards
were posted by the "Upsilons" to insure
secrecy.
Othcer John Il. Doyle was called.
Doyle identified Fielden as the man VINO
said to the mob: ''Now's your time"
please point out Fielder to the Jury"
said the States attorney.
The witness feebly turned his chair
and raising bis left arm, his right hang
ing by his side, said: THAT is the man,
that man sitting there"
Oihcer Spierling testified TO having seen
Flelden fire pistol almost Simultaneous
~ with the explosion of the bomb.
THE ARREST OF SPIES.
The remainder Of the afternoon was oc-
cupied in an examination OF Detective
James Bonfield, who arrested Spies and
Schwab on the day following the massa-
ere. Numerous articles found in close
proximity to Spies editorial desk were
shown. Among them was piece Of fuse
hVe inches long, and fulminiting cap.
A huge revolver nearly foot long, and
beautifully plated, was also exhibited.
The particulars Of the arrest OF Spies
and the Arbeiter Zeitung cOmpositors,
and the result of the search Of the premi-
ses, were made the subject of apparently
| endless questioning by the defense, but
without any evident result except to pre-
vent the introduction of any more wit
nesses.
When the hour OF adjournment was
reached the jury looked completely tagged
out. The police and States attorney are
considerably disappointed at the turn
taken by the testimony of the anarchist
Scbrader, who was expected 10 corrobO-
rate what Gottfreid Waller swore to on
Friday and Saturday.
sCHRADER's SWORN STATEMENT.
Schrader made sworn statement
before the trial certifying to the truth of
story exactly similar with that told by
Waller, but on cross examination he con-
tradicted this. Capt. Shack said to a re-
porter that he was disappointed at the
outcome of Scbrader's examination, but
he said 1t would make but little difference
in the final result on account of the great
mass of corrobOrative evidence which the
State will make to follow Walters story.
1t is said no less than thirty members of
| the notorious Lehr Und Weir Verein will
be put on the stand during the trial, and
testify to the plans OF the prisoners on
the night OF May 4.
THE EEHR UND WEIR vEREIN.
The Lehr Und Wehr Verein, of which
witness Waller in the anarchist trial was
member, and whose plOttings against
| society he detailed to the Jury, was or
| gained in 1875, and on April Is of that
| year was incorporated under the laws OF
the State. The incorporators were about
thirty German and Bohemian Socialists,
whose object was to tram and
drill in military fashion, and
get ready for the great conflict
between capital and labor, which the agt-
tators of that class have for many years
| declared was to come. The society at
tracted but little public notice until the
| year 1879, when the LEGISLATURE passed
| law creating State militia, and forbid
| ding the formation of private military Or
CARNATIONS without license from the Gov
| ernOr. The law caused a great deal of
| discussion among lawyers, many of whom
believed it was in conflict with the United
States militia act
THE FIRST PARADE.
In December, 1879, Lehr Und Weir We
rein, then forty sIrOng, paraded in the
| streets of Chicago armed with rifles. Az
| their head rode Herman Presser a work
| lngman and Socialist. carrying his sabre
! Presser was arrested and was indicted
under the new law because his company
had refused to take out the required Ii
cense. His case was taken up and as a
test case he was tried in the
Criminal Court and fined $40. The
case was appealed to the Illinois Supreme
| Court and subsequently to the Supreme
Court OF tue United States. In both courts
the new law was sustained. The Lehr
| Und Weir Nerein never paraded in public
after that and it was lost sight of, but the
members never ceased to drill and own
military weapons. During six years they
have greatly increased in numbers, and
at the time OF the Haymarket riot there
were six groups in the city.
NOW 200 OR 800 STRONG.
at has been no secret tor years." said
a well known labor agitatOr this morning.
''that the Lehr Und Weir Verein were
training to fight the police. They have
drilled in their halls aud have steadily
increased in numbers until there are
probably 200 or 800 of them"
what class of people are thayw
"They are Socialists OF the ultra type.
Every Socialist who is in favor Of dyua-
mite Is among them. Most Of them have
served in the army in the old country and
hate government and law. The men who
first formed the society were not dyna-
miters, but they were men who believed
that the only way tor working people to
| secure their rights was to fight"