The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-27

policy of q number of police officials
TO STIR ND sentiment and feeling
by largely exaggersting the number
and activity of the Anarchists. lie
SAYS. referring TO one OF the officers.
captain by the name of Setback. after we
got the Anarchist societies broken MP.
Setback wanted TO send out men TO again
organize the new societies right away.
You see what this would do. He wanted
10 keep the thing boiling. keeping himself
prominent before the public. Well. sat
on that. i did not believe In such
work, and. of course. Setback did not like
it. After 1 heard ali that began TO think
there was. perhaps. not so much to all this
Anarchist business as they claimed. and
believe was right. Setback thinks be
knew all about those Anarchists. Why,
knew more at that time than he knows to-
day about them. | was following closely.
AS soon as Setback began to get some no.
torIety. however. he was spoiled"
From this It appears. says the Governor.
that most OF the so-called conspiracies
were really mere creations of police officers
who endeavOred TO have them organized
with the hope OF gaining glory and reward
by subsequently discovering them.
In conclusion, the Governor refers to the
conduct of presiding Judge Gary. during
the trial. He SAYS:
II is further charged with much bitterness by
ord OF the case shows that the judge
conducted the trial with malicious fer0city
and forced eight men TO be tried together;
that in cross-examining the States witnesses be
confined counsel for the defense to the specific
points touched on by the state, while in the
cross-examination of the defendants witnesses
he permitted the States attorneys to 20 into all
manner of subjects entirely foreign To the mat
tiers which the witnesses examined
in chief also, that every ruling through
out the long trial. on any contested point,
was in favor OF the state, and. further,
that page after page OF the record contains
insinuatng remarks OF the judge made in the
hearing OF the jury and with the evident in
tent of bringing the jury TO his way of
thinking; that these speeches coming from
the court were much more damaging
than any speeches from the States attorney
could possibly have been; that the States attor-
ner often took his cue from the Judges re-
marks; that the judges magazine article.
recently published, although written nearly
six years after, Is yet full OF venom: that
pretending TO simply review the case,
an excited woman To n newspaper after the trial
was over, and which, therefore, had nothing
into the article simply TO create
prejudice against the woman, as well
as against the dead and living: and that. not
content with this. he in the same article. makes
an insinuating attack on one OF the lawyers for
the defense. not for anything done at
the trial .,, but because more more, than
of the defendants had been hung. he ventured to
express few kind. IL erroneous, sentiments over
believ ed 10 be innocent. 1t Is urged that such
ferocity or subserviency Is without a parallel in
all history; that even Jeffrles in England con
tented himself with hanging his victims and did
not stoop to berate them after they were dead.
These charges are of q personal char.
acter. and while they seem to be sustained
by the record of the trial and the papers
before me. and to show that the trial was
not fair l will not discuss this feature OF
the case any further. because il is not
necessary. | am convinced that it is my
duty to act in tins case to grant an abso.
lutte pardon to Samuel Fielden, Oscar
Neebe and Michael Schwab. this Goth day
of Lime 16l3