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
“I saw Louis Lingg have twenty-two pieces like these in his room. They
were not all finished. I saw them when they were being cast. They
were in halves and placed in Louis Lingg’s trunk. If that trouble
had not occurred at McCormick’s factory that Monday, they would not
have been finished yet, but after that trouble with the officers he
completed them. That is, he loaded them with dynamite, ready to be
used. I never knew of any one or heard of anybody who could make
these bombs except Lingg. I had two of these gas-pipe bombs, loaded
with dynamite. I got them from Lingg, and I threw them away as soon
as I got them. There were only a few left of these long ones. There
were seventeen pieces loaded at Seliger’s house. Bonfield had better
look out for himself, as these bombs are for the most part made for
him, and he will get one yet. He was shooting the people during the
West Side car strike and at McCormick’s. I promised to give you the
round bombs that I had, but, as I said, I threw them away and out of
danger. I will tell you, before all these men, that these two iron
shells now lying before me at this table I got from Lingg at his
house, No. 442 Sedgwick Street, on May 4, 1886. He gave them to me,
and I took them along home. They were loaded, and there was a fuse
in each of them. This was Tuesday night, May 4, 8 o’clock. The very
same night he also gave me those two cigar-boxes here now before me,
filled with dynamite. He wanted me to take them and throw them in the
alley. He said they were empty, but I saw that they were filled. They
were too heavy to be empty. I took them home myself, together with my
boy. We buried them under our house. The last time I saw any bombs
was at Florus’ place, where a search was made by the police. I would
have given up those bombs to you to-night if you had not found them.
In these boxes is finished dynamite ready to be used. I know Seliger
had charge of selling arms. We paid $7.00 for a revolver and $10.00
for a gun. I saw Lingg and Seliger at Seliger’s house, Tuesday, May
4, at about 8 P.M., and 9:30 P.M. I saw them together at Larrabee
Street. There were twenty-two lead bombs that I saw in Lingg’s room.
They were made on a Sunday afternoon. Lingg, Seliger and myself made
them. They had been cast about two weeks before Tuesday, May 4. I saw
in a satchel in Lingg’s room about fifteen pieces of these long iron
shells, on Tuesday, May 4. There were also some round lead bombs, and
they were all loaded. The time I was in Lingg’s room, May 4, I saw
one man take along with him, when he left, three round lead bombs
loaded with dynamite, and Lingg gave those bombs to the man himself.
I know the man, and I, John Thielen, will get them from that man and
give them to you this evening. After what happened at the Haymarket
on that Tuesday evening, May 4, you could not hear of any one having
bombs in their possession. I should judge that two men more received
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