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
"One bomb found in Lingg's room, which Schuettler said was loaded with
a funnel, I put in a box two feet square and buried in the ground three
feet deep at Lake View. Officers Stift, Rehm and Loewenstein were
there. We touched the bomb off. It blew the box to pieces, fragments
carried off the branches of trees, and the ground was torn up for a
great distance. This black dynamite, also found in Lingg's room, was
put in a beer keg. Part of this dynamite Lingg gave to Thielen, and
this is a fragment of a round bomb I experimented with. On top of this
bomb I had a round piece of iron thirty-four inches wide, some heavy
planks, a piece of steel forty-two inches wide and weighing 180 pounds;
then an iron boiler twenty-two inches wide and fourteen inches high;
then on top of that a stone weighing 132 pounds. The stone was burst to
pieces, nine holes were shot through the iron boiler, the steel cover
was cracked, and the planks were split into kindling wood. Portions of
the other bombs I cut off, and gave them to Profs. Haines and Paton."
There were bushels of bombs before the jury. Coils of fuse was
unwound. Dynamite in paper packages and in tin boxes was displayed.
The courtroom looked like the interior of an arsenal so far as the
tremendous character of the explosives were concerned. Pieces of metal,
gas-pipe, tin cans, and iron boxes rattled together. Capt. Schaack,
pointing to the bombs, said he got two from Hoffman, one from fireman
Miller, and one from Officer Loewenstein. He was not allowed to tell
how many bombs in all he received until the officers first told where
the bombs were found.
"Now about those conversations. Did Lingg say anything about the use of
those bombs?"
"He said he intended to use them against the Gatling-guns of the
militia; that a revolution was impending. I asked him about that
satchel he brought to Neff's place. He said he saw one there. Then I
asked him where he got the moulds to mould the round bombs. He said he
made them out of clay; that they could be used about two times, then
they were no good. He said he saw the 'Revenge' circular on the West
side."
"Who did he say was at his place May 4?"--"He said about six in all,
but he only knew the two Lehmans."
Capt. Schaack was asked by Mr. Ingham whether he experimented with fuse.
"I did. I also experimented with dynamite cartridges. I had one
inserted into a stone weighing perhaps thirty pounds. The explosion
broke this stone into atoms."
Cross-examined by Mr. Foster.--"What Lingg said to you, Captain, was
substantially this: That there was to be a conflict between the police
and the Gatling-guns on one side and the laboring men on the other, and
that he was making these bombs to use when that time came?"
"That's about it, only he said the time had actually come."
"Those experiments you made were made for your own satisfaction?"
"They were made to enable me to testify to the character of the stuff
that was found."
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