The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15
THE ANARCHISTS.
A New Trial Denied the Condemned
Anarchists.
Strange Scenes in the Court Room at Chi
eagO-The Condemned Men Make
Speeches DenOuncinE Their
Accusers.

Speeches DenOunclng Their
Accusers.
CHICAGO, Oct S.-Judge Gary refused
the application of the anarchists for new
trial yesterday morning. In delivering his
decision he reviewed at considerable length
the evidence brought out at the trial. and
said concerning the instructions to which
exception was taken by the defense: ION
the question of the instructions. whether
these defendants, or any Of them, did anti
cipate or expect the throwing Of the bomb
on the night of the 4th Of May, is not .
question which need to consider, because
the instructions did not 60 upon that ground.
The jury were not instructed to find them
guilty II they believed that they participated
in the throwing of the bomb. or had knowl-
edge that it was to be thrown. or any
thing of that sort. Tho conviction has not
gone upon the ground that they did have
any actual participation In the act which
caused the death of Degan, but upon the
ground under the Instructions, that they
had generally, by speech and print, advised
q large class TO commit murder, and had
left the occasion, time and place to the in
dividual will, within and caprice OF the in
dividuals SO advised, and that In cOnse-
Quence of that advice and In pursuance Of
1t, and influenced by it, somebody not
known did cause Degan's death. Now, un-
der these circumstances, in the inflamed
state of the public mind. at the time each of
these orators at the Haymarket was still
more inflaming the public mind when he al
vised the people to use force. and some
man, do not say identified or say uniden-
titled, some man in that crowd, when tho
police approached, with a bomb of Lingg's
manufacture kills began; all who have ad-
vised such action are guilty Of his murder.
If any thing can be proven by circumstaB-
tial evidence that is proved; that he threw
that bomb in consequence OF the
influence which these teachings, this
advice by speech, by printing over
course of two years; that the
man who threw that bomb had been edu-
Gated up to It by the teachings Of these
defendants. The case, as 1 said before, is
unprecedented. There is no example Of
any such crime having been committed;
there is no precedent of any case like this
having become the subject of judicial in
vestigatiOn; but the principle Of law is well
fixed"
The court then passed to the objections
urged against the form Of the sentence and
quoted from the one hundred and ninth
Illinois on the point and said there was
nothing In the circumstances any thing less
than murder. The instructions In regard to
manslaughter might have been refused.
There was no reason for them at all.
Passing to the alleged disqualification Of
In, TO
i'm the papers of the crime, and having
formed opinions thereon, he thought the
New York decisions settled the case, and
that IL verdicts were to be set aside for tho
reason urged, that it would be the
surest way to bring about anarchy.
for there would be no way in
which the Government could be main
tanned aud the law administered. lie con-
cluded by saying: Il think. upon the
whole that no case could be tried Of such
magnitude as this with less in the way OF
irregularity of proceeding in the trial than
was done i'm this case. The motion must
be Overruled."
The court then addressed the prisoners
as follows:
prisoners at the bar: For the first time
during this painful and prOtracted proceed
ing it Is my duty to speak to you and call
upon you individually and separately now
TO say whether you have any thing to say
why sentence should not be passed upon
you according to the verdict Of the jury. l
will first call upon Mr.. Neebe."
Captain Black-"Let Inc suggest to your
honor that am advised that the defendants
expect to speak in response to this sever
ally, at considerable length. Would it not
be better to adjourn until two O'clock?'
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SPIES ADDRESS.
When the court was opened i'm the after
noon the defendant, Spies, at once adj
dressed the court with manuscript in hand.
He said:
"YOur honor. in addressing this court l
speak rs the representative of one class adj
dressing the representative of another. 1
will begin with the words addressed 500
years ago on similar motion by the Ven
etian dOge who. addressing the court, said:
My defense is your accusation. The cause
Of my alleged crime is your history
Il have been indicted on q charge of
murder as an accomplice or accessory.
Upon this indictment / have been con.
victed. There was no evidence produced
by the State to show or even indicate that
had any knowledge of the man who threw
that bomb, or that myself had any thing to
do with it. Not the slightest evidence
was ever produced to show that / had
any thing to do with the throwing of the
missile unless you believe the testimony of
the accOmplices of the States attorney and
Bonfield, the testimony Of Thompson and
Gilmer. II there was no evidence to show
that was responsible for it, then my exc.
cutiOn on the verdict is nothing but willfui,
malicious and deliberate murder, as foul a
murder as may be found in the annals of
religious, political or any other sort OF per-
secutiOn. Judicial murders have in many
cases been committed where the representa-
tiyes of the State were acting in good faith,
believing their victims to DO guilty of the
charge they were accused OF. In this case
the representatives Of the State can not
shield themselves with similar excuses, for
they themselves have fabricated most of
the testimony which was used as a pre-
tense to convict us. l charge the States
attorney and BOnfield with conspiracy to
commit murder. will now state little
incident which may throw some light on
this. Upon the evening of the Haymarket
meeting about five O'Clock, met a young
man, Kieckner by name. My brother was
with NE at the time and never left Inc on
that evening until jumped from the
wag0.l few seconds before the explosion
occurred. He knew had not seen Schwa5
Oh that evening and he knew that no such
conversation ever took place between US as
that testified to by Thompson. He knew 1
never struck match aud ignited the fuse
in the bomb. He is not a socialist. Why
did we not bring him here and put him on
the stand you ask. Because the honorable
representatives OK GrinneIl and Bonfield
spirited him away. They knew his testi-
mony would prove tie perjury of Thomp-
son and Gimer.
II will refer to the testimony given by a
few Of our witnesses. The wage-wOrKers
began to say a few things very Obec,lOua-