Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the ConspiratorsSchaack, Michael J.
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Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators
The Argument for the Defendants—“Newspaper Evidence”—Bringing
about the Social Revolution—Arson and Murder—The Right to
Property—Evolution or Revolution—Dynamite as an Argument—The
Arsenal at 107 Fifth Avenue—Was it all Braggadocio?—An Open
Conspiracy—Secrets that were not Secrets—The Case Against the
State’s Attorney—A Good Word for Lingg—More About “Ruhe”—The
“Alleged” Conspiracy—Ingham’s Answer—The _Freiheit_
Articles—Lord Coleridge on Anarchy—Did Fielden Shoot at
the Police?—The Bombs in the Seliger Family—Circumstantial
Evidence in Metal—Chemical Analysis of the Czar Bomb—The
Crane’s Alley Enigma, 535
CHAPTER XXX.
Foster and Black before the Jury—Making Anarchist History—The
Eight Leaders—A Skillful Defense—Alibis All Around—The
Whereabouts of the Conspirators—The “Peaceable Dispersion”—A
Miscarriage of Revolutionary War—Average Anarchist
Credibility—“A Man will Lie to Save his Life”—The Attack
on Seliger—The Candy-man and the Bomb-thrower—Conflicting
Testimony—A Philippic against Gilmer—The Liars of
History—The Search for a Witness—The Man with the Missing
Link—The Last Word for the Prisoners—Captain Black’s
Theory—High Explosives and Civilization—The West Lake Street
Meeting—Defensive Armament—Engel and his Beer—Hiding the
Bombs—The Right of Revolution—Bonfield and Harrison—The
Socialist of Judea, 545
CHAPTER XXXI.
Grinnell’s Closing Argument—One Step from Republicanism to
Anarchy—A Fair Trial—The Law in the Case—The Detective
Work—Gilmer and his Evidence—“We Knew all the Facts”—Treason
and Murder—Arming the Anarchists—The Toy Shop Purchases—The
Pinkerton Reports—“A Lot of Snakes”—The Meaning of the
Black Flag—Symbols of the Social Revolution—The _Daily
News_ Interviews—Spies the “Second Washington”—The
Rights of “Scabs”—The Chase Into the River—Inflaming
the Workingmen—The “Revenge” Lie—The Meeting at the
_Arbeiter-Zeitung_ Office—A Curious Fact about the Speakers
at the Haymarket—The Invitation to Spies—Balthasar Rau and
the Prisoners—Harrison at the Haymarket—The Significance of
Fielden’s Wound—Witnesses’ Inconsistencies—The Omnipresent
Parsons—The Meaning of the Manuscript Find—Standing between
the Living and the Dead, 560
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Instructions to the Jury—What Murder is—Free Speech and
its Abuse—The Theory of Conspiracy—Value of Circumstantial
Evidence—Meaning of a “Reasonable Doubt”—What a Jury May
Decide—Waiting for the Verdict—“Guilty of Murder”—The
Death Penalty Adjudged—Neebe’s Good Luck—Motion for a New
Trial—Affidavits about the Jury—The Motion Overruled, 578
CHAPTER XXXIII.
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