The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-21

sumption at San Bernsrdino-story %
His Connection with the Chicago Aaar-
chists - Believed To Bs the Man Who
Threw the Bomb ON That Fatal Night In
May Ten Years Ago.
Chicago, Oct. 21.-Rudolph Schnau.
belt. the supposed bomb thrower OF the
Haymarket riot. is dead at last. 1t In
the third report Of his death. but this
time 1t is definite. His life came TO an
end Monday in San Bernardino. Cal.
consumption being the cause. In 1881
he was reported dead In Erie. Pa, and
only eighteen months ago report
came that he was fatally shot In Hon
duras
Schnaubelt was one of the first men
arrested with Lingg. Spies ana
Schwab. May 5, 1856. after the great
riot. For ten hours the police kept him
In the sweat box, but his nerves stood
the test and they let him go. He took
immediate advantage of this, for he
disappeared as completely as IL he had
dropped into the lake. In ten hours
more the police wanted him badly. but
could not trace him. He was report
ed in Central America and all over the
world. but was never captured.
Believed To he . Bomb Thrower.
There has never been any doubt In
police circles that 1t was Schnaubelt
who threw the bomb. All the evidence
pointed to him as the chief tool or the
leading conspirators. and II never has
been controverted or strongly denied.
| The testimony on the trial. summed up,
went to show that Lingg made the
| bomb, that Spies lighted the fuse with
| a match while standing In the alley
opening on the Haymarket square, anu
| that Schnaubelt threw the bomb into
| the ranks of the police.
| Schnaubelt was arrested at 22A
/ Washington street, where he was EN-
| ployed as a machinist by Fred p. Ros'
back. At the police station he admit
ted he was at the scene OF the rio'
and was standing on the wagon from
| which Spies, Fielden and other an
| archists made infammatory speeches
He said he was on the wagon unit
half a minute before the bomb ex
ploded, and that, when the explosion
took place, he was about fifty feet iron
the wagon.
| schnaubeit at the Meeting.
During the trial of Spies. Lingg, Par
sons and the other conspiratora Gott
fried Waller testified that he "a
chairman of the secret meeting
armed anarchists at Griefs hall tn
night Of May ]. when tne plar OF ss'
ton was agreed upon for the following
night. and that Schnaubelt was at tina
meeting.
M. NJ. Thompson. a clerk in Marshal
Field & Co.'S store, testified that tn
night of the riot he was standing nea
the mouth Of the alley opening int
Haymarket square, where the wago
from which the speeches were mad
was located He said he saw Spie
hand Schnaubelt something In the allie
and heard him say:
Now, when they come let them hav
it,!
A few moments later the explosio
: came. Harry l.. Gilmore, painte
, picked Schnaubelt's photograph out
, a large number and swore IL was tn
! | picture of the man whom he saw hu
the bomb.
Identified with Fruitviiie Anarchists.
: AS events point. Schnaubelt ur
: doubtedly fled to California. Two
his brothers lived there. also his moth
er. At this time an anarchist colon
was started at Fruitvale, suburb
San Francisco. Schnaubelt becan
! identified with 1t, and was known
one of the most enthusiastic member
aYt3 travelled all over the state. ant
papers, left for in the San Francise
| Honduras he became America
row, was shot and severely wca
and was thrown into jail. AFTER som
time In the hospitals he was released
He was nursed back to partial healtf
hut his exposures began to tell on hin
Then consumption set In, and he wen
to Arizona. Later he went back
San Bernardino. The end came MOI
day. His body Is held there pendin
the arrival Of his brother from tn
. anarchist colony at Fruitvale.