The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America: From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in ChicagoMcLean, George N.
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The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America: From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in Chicago
McLean, George N.
Anarchists -- United States; Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886
who has constituted herself the heroine of Anarchistic notoriety by
developing a tender passion for the notorious Spies, is a young lady of
eighteen years of age, with a fine form and a fair share of personal
attractions; neither a pronounced blonde, nor yet a brunette, but
seemingly occupying the middle ground, between. Niña is the daughter
of the superintendent of the great Kirk soap factory of Chicago, and
the heiress apparent to quite a fortune. She is of a dashing romantic
disposition; fond of flowers, birds and dogs. She fell a victim to
the ardent glances of the humorous editor as the sequence of having
made his acquaintance while inserting an advertisement in the _Zeitung_
to recover her lost pug, to whom she was much attached. Through the
efforts of Spies she recovered her pet canine, and while performing
the duty of expressing her gratitude to the editor she was smitten,
and yielded passively to her fate. She became so infatuated in her
attachment and attentions to Spies that in February, 1887, a marriage
license was procured for the purpose of becoming his wife in the jail,
but the sheriff forbade the ceremony as illegal and unprecedented.
It was then determined that the ceremony should take place by proxy.
Spies' brother became the proxy, and the ceremony took place before
Justice Englehardt in the town of Jefferson. Justice Englehardt made
returns of the marriage to the county clerk, who refused to recognize
the return, pronouncing the ceremony illegal. This wife, in name only,
was placed on exhibition in wax in one of the dime museums, when the
cheeky manager was served with an injunction; but this young would-be
wife compromised the matter, it is thought, on condition that part of
the emoluments went into a fund for the benefit of her condemned lord.
MRS. OSCAR NEEBE
died quite suddenly in March, 1887. Neebe, under guard of Jailor Folz,
visited the bedside of his dying wife and by official clemency remained
some time with his children, and everything was done for the condemned
men that could be done in the name of humanity under the circumstances.
CHAPTER XI.
SUPERSEDEAS GRANTED. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION
SUSTAINING THE ORIGINAL VERDICT. PARSONS' LETTER TO GOVERNOR
OGLESBY. LINGG DEFIANT. THEY REFUSE TO SIGN A PETITION ASKING
FOR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY. THEIR IMPERTINENT LETTERS TO GOVERNOR
OGLESBY.
THE SUPERSEDEAS GRANTED.
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