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
"And it was on account of those speeches you severed your connection
with the Anarchists?"--"Yes."
"Whom did you see on the speaker's wagon at the Haymarket?"--"I saw the
speakers, Spies, Schwab and Fielden, and Rudolph Schnaubelt, whom I had
formerly known from my connection with the Internationalists."
"You say Schnaubelt was on the wagon. How long after the cloud came up
and the crowd thinned out did you see him?"--"I cannot say."
"Well, how long before the police came did you miss Schnaubelt?"--"I
cannot say; perhaps ten minutes."
"You say Mr. Neebe was a member of the Internationalist organization.
Now, you didn't have any passwords, did you? It wasn't an organization
where you drilled, was it?"--"It was an avowed Socialistic order."
Another sensational witness was Harry L. Gilmer, a workman, who
testified that he saw Spies and Rudolph Schnaubelt standing inside
the mouth of the alley at the Haymarket; that Spies lit a match for
Schnaubelt, who in turn lit the fuse of the bomb and threw it among
the police. An effort was made to shake the testimony of this witness,
which was not successful, and witnesses were then brought forward to
impeach his veracity, but the state produced many prominent men who
knew him, and who stated that they would believe him under oath.
Captain Frank Schaack, in charge of the East Chicago avenue police
station, who unearthed the Anarchists' conspiracy after the Haymarket,
was called to the stand on Thursday, July 29. Lingg's trunk was placed
before him. He was asked:
"Do you know any of the defendants in this case?"
"I have seen Spies, Schwab and Parsons, and Engel and Lingg were
arrested and confined in my station."
"When did you first converse with Lingg about this case?"
"About 3 o'clock on the afternoon of May 14. First I asked him his
name. He told me. I asked him if he was at the meeting at 54 Lake
street on Tuesday night. He said: 'Yes.' Then he said he made dynamite.
I asked him what for. He said: 'To use then.' He looked excited. I
asked why he disliked the police. He said he had a reason; the police
clubbed the men at McCormick's. He said he was down on the police
because they took the part of the capitalists. I said: 'Why don't you
use guns instead of dynamite?' He said guns wouldn't do; that the
militia would outnumber the Socialists. I asked him how he learned to
make dynamite. He said out of books, and that he made bombs out of
gas-pipe and out of lead and metal mixed. He said he got the lead on
the streets and the gas-pipe along the river or anywhere he could."
"What other conversation did you have?"
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