The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America: From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in Chicago — John Shaqi
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
Bernhard Schrader, a native of Prussia, five years in this country, a
carpenter by trade, testified that he was a member of the Lehr und Wehr
Verein; was at the meeting at Greif's hall the night of May 3, and he
corroborated Waller's testimony throughout. Besides those mentioned by
Waller, Schrader named Hadermann, Thiel and Danafeldt, as attendants at
the meeting. He saw Balthazar Rau distributing the "Revenge" circulars
at a meeting of the Carpenter's Union on Desplaines street. Witness
was present also at the Sunday meeting on Emma street. It was here
agreed to cripple the fire department, in case they were called out, by
cutting their hose. Witness went to the meeting at 54 West Lake street
in response to the signal "Y" in the _Arbeiter Zeitung_. He was at the
Haymarket, but did not know who threw the bomb. The Northwest group of
the Lehr und Wehr were armed with Springfield rifles. Witness' number
in the organization was 3,312.
Lieutenant Edward Steele testified that when the police entered the
Haymarket somebody cried out: "Here come the bloodhounds. You do your
duty, and we'll do ours."
Lieutenant Michael Quinn testified that he heard this exclamation and
that the man who made it was Fielden, just as he ceased speaking on the
wagon. About the instant the bomb exploded, Fielden exclaimed: "We are
peaceable!"
Lieutenant Stanton testified that the bomb exploded four seconds after
his company of eighteen men entered the Haymarket. Every member of his
company except two were wounded, and two--Degan and Redden--killed.
The witness was wounded in eleven places. Officers Krueger and Wessler
testified to having seen Fielden shoot at the police with a revolver.
Gustave Lehman, one of the conspirators, gave a detailed account of
various meetings; the afternoon of May 4 he was at Lingg's house
where men with cloths over their faces were making dynamite bombs;
Huebner was cutting fuse; Lingg gave witness a small hand-satchel with
two bombs, fuse, caps, and a can of dynamite; at 3 o'clock in the
morning, after the Haymarket explosion, he got out of bed and carried
this material back to Ogden's grove and hid it, where it was found by
Officer Hoffman; money to buy dynamite was raised at a dance of the
Carpenters' Union, at Florus' Hall, 71 West Lake street. Lingg took
this money and bought dynamite; Lingg taught them how to make bombs.
M. H. Williamson and Clarence P. Dresser, reporters, had heard Fielden,
Parsons and Spies counsel violence; the latter at the _Arbeiter
Zeitung_ office had advised that the new Board of Trade be blown up
on the night of its opening. George Munn and Herman Pudewa, printers,
worked on the "Revenge" circular in the _Arbeiter Zeitung_ office;
Richard Reichel, office-boy, got the "copy" for it from Spies.
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