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
It is impossible to say how many of the Anarchists were killed or
wounded. As soon as they were in a condition to be moved, those in
the Desplaines Street Station were turned over to their relatives and
friends. The Anarchists have never attempted to give a correct list,
or even an approximate estimate, of the men wounded or killed on their
side. The number, however, was largely in excess of that on the side
of the police. After the moment’s bewilderment, the officers dashed
on the enemy and fired round after round. Being good marksmen, they
fired to kill, and many revolutionists must have gone home, either
assisted by comrades or unassisted, with wounds that resulted fatally
or maimed them for life. Some of those in the station had dangerous
wounds, and they were for the most part men who had become separated,
in the confusion, from their companions, or trampled upon so that they
could not get up and limp to a safe place. It is known that many secret
funerals were held from Anarchist localities in the dead hour of night.
For many months previous to the Haymarket explosion the Anarchists had
descanted loudly on the destructive potency of dynamite. One bomb, they
maintained, was equivalent to a regiment of militia. A little dynamite,
properly put up, could be carried in a vest pocket and used to destroy
a large body of police. They probably reasoned that if it was known
that many more of their number had fallen than on the side of the
police, it would not only tend to diminish the faith of their adherents
in the real virtues of dynamite, but would prove that the police were
more than able to cope with the Social Revolution, even though the
revolutionists depended on that powerful agency. The public is not,
therefore, likely ever to know how many of their number suffered.
CHAPTER X.
The Core of the Conspiracy—Search of the _Arbeiter-Zeitung_
Office—The Captured Manuscript—Jealousies in the Police
Department—The Case Threatened with Failure—Stupidity at the
Central Office—Fischer Brought In—Rotten Detective Work—The Arrest
of Spies—His Egregious Vanity—An Anarchist “Ladies’ Man”—Wine
Suppers with the Actresses—Nina Van Zandt’s Antecedents—Her
Romantic Connection with the Case—Fashionable Toilets—Did Spies
Really Love Her?—His Curious Conduct—The Proxy Marriage—The End
of the Romance—The Other Conspirators—Mrs. Parsons’ Origin—The
Bomb-Thrower in Custody—The Assassin Kicked Out of the Chief’s
Office—Schnaubelt and the Detectives—Suspicious Conduct at
Headquarters—Schnaubelt Ordered to Keep Away From the City Hall—An
Amazing Incident—A Friendly Tip to a Murderer—My Impressions of the
Schnaubelt Episode—Balthasar Rau and Mr. Furthmann—Phantom Shackles
in a Pullman—Experiments with Dynamite—An Explosive Dangerous to
Friend and Foe—Testing the Bombs—Fielden and the Chief.
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