[Illustration: LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD.] THE RISE AND FALL OF Anarchy in America. FROM ITS INCIPIENT STAGE TO THE FIRST BOMB THROWN IN CHICAGO. A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT CONSPIRACY CULMINATING IN THE Haymarket Massacre, MAY 4th, 1886. A MINUTE ACCOUNT OF THE APPREHENSION, TRIAL, CONVICTION AND EXECUTION OF THE LEADING CONSPIRATORS. BY GEO. N. McLEAN. "ORDER IS HEAVEN'S FIRST LAW." PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY. R. G. BADOUX & CO. CHICAGO & PHILADELPHIA 1888. Copyrighted, 1888. R. G. BADOUX & CO. (_All rights reserved._) [Illustration: CONTENTS] CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. "Order is Heaven's First Law"--Liberty Enlightening the World--The Red Flag--The Price of Liberty--Our National Institutions--When Judgment and Justice is Abroad in the Land the People will Learn Righteousness 9 CHAPTER II. ANARCHISTS. Their Nationality--First Agitation--Leader of Anarchy--Revenge Circular--The Haymarket Meeting--The Lehr und Wehr Verein--The Massacre--Dispersing the Mob 12 CHAPTER III. THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. Bravery of the Police--The Occupation of the Conspirators--The Trial--Securing a Jury--Bombs in Court--Evidence of Detective Johnson--Parsons Swears He "Won't Eat Snowballs Next Winter"--Drilling Anarchists--Pinkerton Detectives--Cross-Examination--Bombs and Dynamite--Parsons' View of the Board of Trade--Guns, Dynamite and Prussic Acid Advocated by Spies--Prosecution Rests Its Case 20 CHAPTER IV. THE DEFENSE. Under a Cloud--A Struggle For Life--Contesting Every Point by Shrewd Counsel--Braving it Out--Throttling the Law--Fielden on the Stand--Laughable Testimony by Henry Schultz, Who Said He was a Tourist--Schwab's Evidence--Spies Testifies--Postal Card From Herr Most--Close of the Defense 64 CHAPTER V. ARGUMENTS FOR THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE. Opening Speech by Frank Walker--"We Stand in the Temple of Justice"--Zeisler for the Defense, Ingham for the Prosecution--Messrs. Foster and Black for the Defense--Julius S. Grinnell Makes Closing Speech for the State 100 CHAPTER VI. INSTRUCTIONS OF THE COURT. The Verdict--Blanched Faces--The Court to the Jury--Biography, Age and Residence of the Jurors 119 CHAPTER VII. THE CONSPIRACY AND MASSACRE. Names and Number of Killed and Wounded--Unearthing the Plot--Officers at Work--Crowned With Success--Report of Grand Jury--The Number of Widows and Orphans Resulting From One Explosion 119 CHAPTER VIII. COST OF TRIAL. Extracts from _Zeitung_--Motion for New Trial--Motion Overruled 139 CHAPTER IX.