St. Paul daily globe., 1886-08-24
THE ANARCHISTS.

Was There Plot TO Rescue the
Prisonersl--The Patriotic Sons of
America.
CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-The police are very
positive that the anarchists had some deeply
laid scheme on hand with their outside
friends on the morning when the verdict
was returned by the jury, but just what it
was they are not able to determine.
81 Think said an officer who has been on
duty throughout the trial, ''that the arrange
merts, whatever they might have been, had
been concocted by the condemned men and
conveyed by their relatives to the anarchists
who were not in jail. You remember that
when they filed into the court room for the
last time Friday morning Parson took
RED SILK HANDKERCHIEF
which had been given him by Mrs. Parsons
the day previous, in his hand and waved
it at the crowd IN the street. He also had
white handkerchief that morning, and be-
lieve that if the verdict had been all right he
would have used it for signal. The red Sig
nal as sign for something, [ am sure, and
there would have been an outbreak if there
had been enough of his friends In the big
crowd
''That reminds me.'' suggested another Off
Ger, that Mrs. Parsons, for an hour before
the verdict was brought in. arose at least six
times from her seat and went to the window
Then gazing at the crowd, as If to size it up
she would return to her seat. l at once be-
came suspicious of her actions, and informed
her that she must not go to the window any
more. This worried her, but I carried my
point. The crowd had evidently not panned
out to suit her. If it had, I am honest in say
ing there would have been some sort Of
trouble.
A union meeting of all the Chicago
camps of the
PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA
was held after the jury returned the YER
dict in the anarchist case. Resolutions eX-
pressing the lessons taught the American
public by the trial were unanimously
adopted. The resolutions were preceded
by preamble, setting forth that the agita-
ton by alien sojourners under the names
of internationaliStS, socialists, nihilists and
anarchists, and the Haunting of the red
and the black flags, is treason and rebellion
against law; that these foreigners, in try
ing to make a weapon of the labOring peo-
pie, have done great injustice and injury to
the latter; and that most of the evil is due
to the lack OF discrimination in American
immigration and naturalization laws. The
resolutions are as follows:
Resolved, BY this union meeting of the Pa
triotic Order Sons of America that the ver-
diet ofihe jury in the anarchist cases meets
our hearty approval as native born citizens
our beloved country is held throughout the
world as nation OF law, liberty and order.
Resolved, That the police of Chicago, for
their patriotic defense OF liberty and law on
the Haymarket square, May 4, deserve and
receive our heartfelt congratulations.
Resolved. That we call upon congress to
limit foreign immigration, and make ten
years continuous residence and ability to
speak the English language necessary Qualifi-
cations for citizenship.
+ 10. coli I, off Of
station that Frank Zeman, who murdered,
his wife and then shot himself Saturday
afternoon, was
AN AVOWED ANARCHIST,
and that he spared no pains to declare his
opinion against the police and capitalists
1t is also alleged that because of these re-
marks Officers West and Donegan were
sent to gain what information they could
against the man Tor the purpose Of arrest
ing him. 1t is said the officers met Zeman
Friday afternoon and were asked by him
to take a glass of beer. The invitation. it
is said, was accepted; that the officers
drank the beer and shortly afterward were
taken deathly sick. The doctor who was
called pronounced the symptoms to be those
which appear when a person has been
poisoned When stomach pump was
used. it is said the contents of the stomach
SnoWeu tudG polSon ndu Deoii administered
and as both officers were in the same con-
dition it is thought Zeman dropped the
poison in the glasses while standing at the
bar. The officers are said to be all right
and do not attach any particular Importance
to the matter. The guard in the jail office
now numbers four and there are three dep
utieS constantly near the row where the
eight condemned anarchists are lodged.
The guard of police on the outside of the
building consists of tive officers
LONDON, Aug. 23.-At the usual weekly
meeting of the executive council of the
Socialist league to-day, the following reso-
luton was adopted:
That the council expresses its abhorreuce
OF the cowardly conduct Of the government
Of Illinois in passing q sentence for murder
against men who have proved their sympathy
with the suffering masses.