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
"Lingg said he made those bombs and meant to use them. Then Mrs.
Seliger accused him of making bombs a few weeks after he came to her
house. I knew then that he had made a good many. John Thielen was
arrested at the same time, and from him we got two bombs. I said to
Lingg: 'This man says you gave him the bombs. What have you to say?'
He looked at Thielen and shook his head, and Thielen said: 'Oh, it's
no use, everything is known; you might just as well talk.' But Lingg
refused to say anything."
"Anything else?"
"Well, this trunk here was brought to my office. Under the lining
I found a lot of dynamite and some fuse and asked him if that was
the kind of dynamite he used. He said it was; that he got it at a
store on Lake street. There were three kinds of dynamite. He said he
experimented once with a long bomb; that he put it in a tree, touched
it off, and that it riddled the tree to atoms. I asked him if he knew
Spies. He said 'Yes, for some time;' that he was often at the _Arbeiter
Zeitung_ office. I asked him how long he had been a Socialist. He said
he'd been a Socialist as long as he could think."
"Did you have any conversation with Engel?"
"Yes, on the 18th, in the evening, I asked him where he was May 3. He
said he worked for a man named Koch. I asked him if he made a speech
at the meeting at 54 Lake street. He said no, but that he was at the
meeting. The second time I talked with him his wife came. She brought
him a bunch of flowers. He got excited, and cried: 'What good are those
flowers to me? Here I am locked up in a dark cell.' Then his wife
said: 'Papa, see what trouble you've got yourself into; why haven't
you stopped this nonsense?' He said: 'Mamma, I can't. I am cursed with
eloquence. What is in a man must come out. Louise Michel suffered for
the cause. She is a woman; why should I not suffer? I am a man, and I
will stand it like a man.'"
"How many bombs in all did you find?"--Objected to.
"Tell the jury what experiments you made with those bombs."
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