Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-07-01
ANARCHISTS PARDONED.
Fielden, Neebe and Sohwab Set at
Liberty by Gov. Altgeld.
Tho Governor Issues Long Statement In
Which He Severely Criticises Judge
Gary and Inspector rBonficld-Heis
of the Opinion the Men Were
Sufficiently Punished.

SBRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 27.-Anarch-
lists Fielden, Neebe and Schwab were
pardoned by Gov. Altgeld yesterday.
Banker r. S. Dreyer, who has been in
terested in their case from the start,
came down from Chicago in the morn
ing and after securing n pardon for
each of them, from the hands of Gov.
Altgeld, left for Joliet at noon. 1t Is
supposed Mr.. Dreyer's influence was
decisive. 1t was not even known that
the case was being considered by the
governor and his action created great
surprise.
Gov. Altgeld's statement accompany
ing the pardon of the imprisoned an
archists contains 1900 words.
The governor reviews the history OF
the Haymarket meeting of May 4, 1885,
in detail, and says the basis of the ap-
peal for pardon was the pc tition signed
by several thousand merchants, bank
ers judges, lawyers and other promi-
nent citizens of Chicago, which, as
suming the prisoners to be guilty,
stated the belief that the prisoners
have been punished enough, but num-
ber of them who have examined the
case more carefully base their appeal
on entirely different grounds and as
sert:
First-That the jury which tried the
case was a packed jury, selected to con-
vict.
Second-That according to the law
as laid down by the supreme court,
both prior to and again since the trial
of the case, the jurors, according to
hat nt nntnt t,atn a M
jurors and the trial was, therefore, not
legal trial.
Third-That the defendants were not
proven to be guilty of the crime
charged in the indictment.
Eourth-That as to the defendant,
Neebe, the states attorney had de-
clared at the close of the evidence that
there was no case against him and yet
he has been kept in prison all these
years.
Fifth-That the trial judge was
either so prejudiced against the de-
PENDANTS or else so determined to win
the applause of certain class in the
community, that he could not and did
not grant a fair trial.
The governors statement sustains
the five specified points in the appeal
referred to, and says that the facts
tend to show that the bomb was thrown
as an act of personal revenge and thai
the prosecution never discovered whc
threw it.
Speaking of Judge Gary he says: "I'
is further charged with much bitter
ness by those who speak for the pris
oners, that the record of the case show:
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malicious ferocity and forced eight mel
TO be tried together; that in cross-ex
amining the states witnesses he con
fined counsel for the defense to th
specific points touched on by the stat
while in the .cross-examination of th
defendants witnesses he permitted tn
states attorneys to go into all manne
of subjects entirely foreign to the mat
ters on which the witnesses We're ex
amined in chief; also that every rulin;
throughout the long trial on any con
tested point was in favor of the state
and, further, that page after page o
the record contains insinuating re
marks of the Judge made in the hearing
of the jury and with the evident inten
of bringing the jury to his way Q
thinking.
THAT these speeches, coming fror
the court, were more damaging tina
any speeches from the states attorne
could possibly have been; that tn
states attorney often took his cue fror
the judges remarks; that the Judge
magazine article recently published
although written nearly six years afte
the trial, is yet full of venom; tina
pretending to simply review the cas'
he had to drag into his article lette
written by an excited woman to new
paper after the trial was over, an
which, therefore, had nothing wha
eyer to do with the case and was pr
into the article simply to create pre-
udice against the woman.
II am convinced that it is my duty
act in this case fer the reasons alread
given, and therefore grant an absolut
pardon to Samuel Fielden, Oscar Neet
and Michael Schwab, this Goth day {
June, 1898"
CHICAGO, June 27.-The anarchis
arrived in this city at 7:S0 last evening
Quite crowd gathered at the static
to witness the arrival. The three me
and Mr.. Dreyer left the train and wei
quietly to their homes.
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A Buffalo Bank Forced to Cldse.