The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-13
SPECIMEN TESTIMONY.

SPECIMEN TESTIMONY,
sAowlug the General Character o. the Eva-
denee Depended Upon to Break Down
the Case Msde by the State in the Chi
eago Anarchist Trial-A Very Lame Ef
fort.
CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-Despite the threat
ening weather the ladies were present IL
Judge Garey's court this morning in un-
diminished numbers. M. T. Milkoff, g.
Russian, living at No. 265 West Randolph,
street, was called first. He is a CORE
spondent Of a paper at Moscow, Russia,
and, 1t Is said, was imprisoned there ON
account of his connection with Nihil-
istic movements. Milkof has.
worked as reporter on the
Daily Ne,cs, and at one time was con-
necteA with the Arbeiter Zeitung. He
was at the Hay market on the evening OF
Nay 4, but only few minutes. He tes-
titled that he was at Zepf's hall when the
bomb exploded, and says he saw Parsons.
there five minutes before the bomb ex.
ploded, and said he saw Parsons, Mrs..
Parsons and Mrs. Holmes there at the
time the bomb exploded.
W. A. Patterson, Socialist and men,
Der of the International Workingmen's.
organization, testified that he was at the
Arbeiter Zeitung Office May 4, about or
8 p. m. Schwao, Parsons, Fielder and
others were there. Rau came in and said
speakers were wanted at the Haymarket.
John Holloway, an Englishman. said
he was close to the wagon during all the,
speaking and denied that Fielcen made
use Of the expression: "Here come the
blood-hounds," referring to the police,
and said he could not have been mis-
taken. When asked to point out Spies,.
Parsons and Fielden, he pointed ous
Schwab, Fielder and Parsons, in their
order, and having done this on the cross
examination, was excused,
Henry Lindemeyer, q kalsominer,-
testified that he had occasion to search,
the closet in the Arbeiter- Zeitung Office,
where the deadly explosives were found
by the police on May 4, and declared that
he saw none there on that day. This:
was offered to convey the view that tho
police took the explosives there for the
purpose of convicting Spies and Schwab.
On the cross-examinatiOn it was shown
the witness had long been an intimate
friend of Spies. and was on the bond Of
Spies brother. The court then adj
jOurned to 2 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The two witnesses examined this aft
ernoon, whose testimony has the most
bearing OH the case, were Henry Spies,
brother of the defendant of that name,
and William Snyder. The latter said
that he was twenty-five years old, and q
Socialist.
"where have you been for the past two,
months or SOP" asked Captain Black.
Gin the county jail"
"Under Indictment for conspiracy in,
with the Haymarket riot?"
"Yes, SIR"
Witness then related how he acted as
chairman at meeting held at the office
of the Arbeiter Zeitung early i'm the even--
ing of May 4. The meeting, he said,.
was for the purpose of aiding Mrs. Par
sons movement to assist the sewing
girls.
Witness then testified that he went to,
the Haymarket meeting and got into the
wagon occupied by the speakers. He
was there when the police came up and
the bomb exploded. The only important
points in his testimony were his state
ments that Spies did not leave the speak
er's wagon during the meeting, and that
Fielder did not fire at the police.
"Uenry Spies, you may take the stand, :"
said Captain Black.
Henry Spies is a brother to Spies. the
accused, and the announcement that he
was to take the stand caused quite fiut-
ter in the courtroom. There was nOth--
ing sensational i'm his testimony. how
ever, except his statement made under
oath that the story he told the officers
who were sent to arrest him, and told
the States attorney 'afterward, was a.
from beginning TO end.
Questioned by Captain Black. the wit
ness said he attended the Haymarket-
meeting with his brother August; that
August and himself, finding that Parsons
had not arrived, went as far as Union:
street in search of him; that they re-
turned shortly to the speakers wagon,
and Spies opened the meeting.
"Did you see Schwab at the meeting?''-
Witness answered in effect that though,
he was at the meeting from beginning to-
end, and all this time in sight OF his.
brother, he did not once see Schwab.
The witness then related now he stood
beside the wagon during the speaking;
how, when the bomb exploded, he helped
his brother alight from the wagon, and
how he struck down q revolver aimed at
his brother, receiving the ball In his own
body. He became separated from his
brother and went home TO have his wound
dressed.
'Did your brother say any thing when
the bomb exploded?"
eyes, sir; he said he thought it was q
Calling gun"
"Did Spies leave the wagon at any time
during the meeting and go toward the al
ley?"
"NO: he remained in the wagon"
"Did you not tell the police who went.
to arrest You and found you sick in bed
from the effects of your wound, and tell
me later on that you we're not at the Hay
market meeting at all, but were in sa-
loon near Zepf's Hall, and was coming to-
the door when shot?"
eyes; that is what said"
"Well, did you lie then or now?"
81 lied then; now am under oath and
tell the truth"
August Kruger, who said he was or
derly sergeant and corresponding secre-
tsry for the Lehr and Wehr Verein, was
also discovered to have lied in his first.
to the officers. His testi-
mony was not valuable.
John F. Waldo, u confessed Anarchist
testified that the police fired two or three
shots before the bomb exploded, and the
court adjourned.