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
courtroom and from the building.] Seliger's testimony was unshaken
on cross-examination. Mrs. Bertha Seliger corroborated her husband's
testimony, testifying that at one time six or seven men were at work
making bombs, and that after the Haymarket Lingg tore up the floor of a
closet to secrete those he had on hand.
Lieutenant John D. Shea, Chief of the Detective force, testified to
having assisted in the raid on the _Arbeiter Zeitung_ office, May 5.
The galley of type from which the "Revenge" circular was printed,
copies of Herr Most's book, and other anarchistic literature, red flags
and banners with treasonable devices, and a quantity of dynamite were
found. The witness asked Spies if he wrote the "Revenge" circular, and
he refused to answer. When he arrested Fischer he asked him where he
was on the night of the Haymarket meeting. Fisher said in the _Arbeiter
Zeitung_ office with Schwab, and that Rau brought word that Spies was
at the Haymarket, that a big crowd was there, and they all went over.
He had a belt, a dagger, and a fulminating cap on him when arrested,
but he said he carried them for protection. I said: 'You didn't
need them in the office.' He said: 'I intended to go away, but was
arrested.' I also said: 'There has been found other weapons like this
sharpened dagger; how is it you come to carry this?' He said he put it
in his pocket for his own protection.
Detective William Jones testified that he had a locksmith open a closet
in Spies office, and in a desk were found two bars of dynamite, a long
fuse, a box of fulminating caps, some letters, and copies of both the
celebrated circulars. At Fischer's home he found a lot of cartridges
and a blouse of the Lehr und Wehr Verein. Officer Duffy found two
thousand copies of the circular calling upon the working men to arm,
and the manuscript of the "Revenge" circular in the _Arbeiter Zeitung_
office. Herr Most's book, "The Science of Revolutionary Warfare," found
in the _Arbeiter_ office, was offered in evidence; also the manual for
the manufacture of explosives and poisons.
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