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
Lieutenant Bowler testified to seeing men in the crowd fire upon the
police with revolvers; officers S. C. Bohner and E. J. Hawley saw
Fielden fire. In the line of proving up the conspiracy to incite
the working men to violence, it was shown by the evidence of James
L. Frazer, E. T. Baker, A. S. Leckie, Frank Haraster, Sergeant John
Enright and officer L. H. McShane, that Spies and Fielden incited the
mob to attack McCormick's Reaper Works and the non-union employes on
May 3. Detective Reuben Slayton testified to having arrested Fischer
at the _Arbeiter Zeitung_ office. He had a loaded revolver hid under
his coat; a file-grooved dagger and a fulminating cap, used to explode
dynamite bombs. Theodore Fricke, former business manager of the
_Arbeiter_, identified the copy of the "Revenge" circular as being
in Spies' handwriting. Lieutenant William Ward testified to having
commanded the Haymarket meeting to disperse in the name of the people
of Illinois, and that Fielden cried, "We are peaceable," laying a
slight emphasis on the last word.
William Seliger, of 442 Sedgwick street, testified that Louis Lingg
boarded with him, and that himself, Lingg, Huebner, Manzenberg and
Hewmann worked at making dynamite bombs of a spherical shape. He
attended the various meetings. He identified the calls for the armed
sections to meet in the _Arbeiter Zeitung_. Balthazar Rau brought the
"Revenge" circular to Zephf's hall. Lingg worked at first on "gas-pipe"
bombs; they made forty or fifty bombs the Tuesday before the riot.
Lingg said they were to be used that evening; he and Lingg carried a
small trunk full of the bombs to Neff's hall, 58 Clybourne avenue,
that evening, where they were divided up among the anarchists; besides
the Northwest group the Sachsen Bund met at Neff's hall; witness,
Lingg, Thieben and Gustave Lehmen and two others from the Lehr and
Wehr Verein, left Neff's hall for the Larrabee street police station;
Lingg said a disturbance must be made on the North side to prevent the
police from going to the West side; Lingg wanted to throw a bomb into
the station; the police were outside, and they could not get near;
the patrol-wagon came along completely manned, and Lingg wanted to
throw a bomb under the wagon; he asked witness for fire from his cigar;
witness went into a hallway and lit a match, and before he returned the
wagon had passed: they returned to Neff's hall where he heard a bomb
had fallen on the West side, and killed a great many; Hewmann blamed
Lingg and said in an angry voice, "You are the cause of it all;" they
then went and hid their bombs under sidewalks and in various places,
and went home; Lingg first brought dynamite to the house about six
weeks before May 1, in a long wooden box; he made a wooden spoon to
handle it with in filling the bombs; witness belonged to the Northwest
group, and his number was 72, Engel was also a member. [The bombs were
here produced and Judge Gary ordered them removed immediately from the
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