Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-22

the notice in the papers that the
armed we're to hold a meeting ON
the West Side. He showed me a copy of
! the Arneiter Heitung aud pointed to the
I word "Ruhe," which he said meant that
there was to be a meeting, and that
! eAerythIng was to be turned upside down,
THE SIGNAL.
The word 'ERuAe" was the signal for
| all Of the armed men to assemble on
the West Side. The word was selected to
tive the men notice that there was TO
| be trouble. Lingg and | went
| go Net's Hall, where a number OF
! others were. Herman said To
Lingg in very angry voice: "iou are
| the cause of it all.' Then some one told
| of the Haymarket affair, and said that the
bomb had killed great many. Lingg
said nothing. On their way home LIngg
said that even now he was scolded and
! Jibed at for the work he had done, and that
! his brothers In the cause did not appre-
ciate him. We hid our bombs under the
sidewalk. 1t was about midnight when
we reached home"
| IMPLEMENTS IDENTIFIED.
| The witness identified number of i'm
! plements used by them in the manufac-
ture OF their bombs and described how
| dynamite and other stuff was broughtInto
| the house. The witness knew Engel, and
group. He had often heard Engel make
speeches, saying that every workingman
| should make bombs.
MIR. lngham here held up piece Of gas
| pipe and asked: SIS this the way bomb
| looks when it is ready TO 60 0fY'
LOADED AND IN COURT.
The court asked: ais that lOadedY
Yes, your HonOr.'
This is no place for It," said Judge
! Gary.
Tue spectators We're evidently very ner-
! Vous at the production of implements OF
! Socallstic warfare, and the women pre-
sent looked very much alarmed. The
| prosecution assured the court that they
were not dangerous, and Inspector Bon
| field offered to take them in the next room
and take off the caps, but the court said
| the next room was no place for such work
and the bombs were taken to the lake
! trontforEOperation. The witness resumed
his story.
PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS.
! During the car drivers strike last year,
delegates from the different groups used
! TO meet every week at the ArDeiter Zei-
tung office. Neebe, Schwab and Lingg
were members of the groups. The North
! Side group had rifles and drilled with them.
| The witness identified copy of Herr
Mosfs book. The defense moved to have
the testimony all stricken out
on the ground OF irrelevancy. This
was overruled and the cross eX-
animation was begun. The witness
said he had been made no promises by
the States attorney or officers, who sim
ply told him that be had better tell the
trnth. He did not know that his testi-
! m0ny or statements would prevent his
| being tried for murder. The cr1ss-eXamI-
nation was severe and searching, but the
witness testimony remained unshaken,
ana at O'Clock recess was taken.
INTENSE INTEREST.
Not dull moment elapsed during the
afternoon. The jury, lawyers, Judge and
| spectators were kept GXedly, without the
| slightest relaxation, at the same high
! tension to which they were raised when
the days exciting developments began in
the early morning hours, Each juror and
all the defendants were provided with
| broad palm leaf fans, but despite the heat
| OF the room the cooling articles We're
given scarcely a thought, while the own
ers, with beads OF perspiration on their
faces, listened with strained attention.
w hen Mr.. Foster had resumed the cross
examination or Seliger after the recess,
the conduct of Lingg was study as it
| gradually became evident that the main
part of the infOrmer's disclosures was
over and that the lawyers for the defense
were inaugurating a vigorous series Of
attacks to break the force OF the mans
evidence.
DOING LITTLE sKETCHTNG.
Lingg slowly recovered part OF his COM
| posure. His ewes were furtively raised
from the floor. Then the just visible down
on his upper lip was softly etrOked as the
lawyers began to entangle the witness re-
garding minor features OF the testimony.
! Finally Lingg rested one heel on the lower
round Of his chair, and drew the other
foot UP in such a manner as TO form a
| support for large pad OF
paper, upon which he proceeded to draw
I carlcatures OF the informer. He was i'll
at ease, however, and pursued the occu-
| patton ftfully. Apparently in spite of
himself, his attention went to the witness,
and it was necessary 10 resort TO other
| expedients than the drawing board TO
succeed in his effort to maintain an atti-
tude of Indifference.
A TICKLER,
One question pleased Lingg immensely,
and the lawyer repeated IL in different
form whenever the spirits Of the youngest
! of the defendants seemed particularly low.
"You are sure" Mr.. Foster would ask,
that Lingg is the man who said bombs
would be the best Of fodder for capi-
talsts and poiiceW
I n
! from the infOrmer, and Lingg invariably
chuckled with most intense delight.
4 determined attempt was made by the
defense TO show that the bombs manu-
featured on the afternoon OF the day on
which the massacre occurred had no nee
essary connection with the riot in the
Haymarket. was it agreed between
YOU and the men who had bombs that
night at Claibourn avenue" asked Mr..
Foster, "that any one Of you were to go
to the HaVmarket meetingW
"NO, but"
THOROUGHLY TERRORIZED.
"Stop right there" Numbered the attOr-
ney for the anarchists 10 the trembling
figure in the witness chair. mo. Well,
YES or no: DO you know Of the manu-
iacture Of bombs by any person TO be used
against the police on the night of May 4Y'
"Yes-nO-l cannot say"
The witness was in u state OF abject
terror. "Then IL was not agreed by you
and the men who made those bombs that
any of YOU were going 10 the Haymarketp
sTbere was plenty said about going"
"But no particular person said he was
going"
| "NO.n
Being cross examined, Seliger said that
when arrested he was not placed in
noisome cell away from the light and air.
He still occupies an exactly similar cell