"What was your state of mind?"--"I was very indignant. I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement." Spies is growing excited. Mr. Grinnell objects. The Court says his last answer is not proper and orders it stricken from the record. "On the evening of May 4 you attended the Haymarket meeting?"--"I did." "You were asked to speak there?"--"I was." "When did you learn there was to be a meeting?"--"About 8 o'clock that morning. I was advised there was to be a meeting and was asked to address it." "What time did you reach there?"--"About 8:20 o'clock." "Did you see the notice of that meeting in the _Arbeiter Zeitung_?"--"Yes; I put it in myself." "Did you see a circular that day, calling for a meeting at the Haymarket?"--"Yes. It was the circular containing the line: 'Working men, arm yourselves and appear in full force.' When I read that line I said: 'If this is the meeting I am to address I will not speak.' He asked why. I said on account of that line. He said the circulars had not been distributed, and I said: 'If the line is taken out I will go.' Fischer was sent for and he told the men to have that line taken out." "Who was this man that brought the circulars?"--"He was on the stand; Gruenberg is his name, I think." "Was there any torch on the wagon?"--"No; I think the sky was clear and that the lamp was burning near the corner of the alley." "Was that selection made by yourself, or upon consultation?"--"Well, I consulted with my brother Henry. He was with me all evening." "After you got them together, what did you do?"--"Some one suggested we had better move the wagon around on Randolph street, but I said that might impede the street cars. Then I asked where was Parsons. I was not on the committee of arrangements and had nothing to do with the meeting except to speak. One Schroder said Parsons was speaking then at the corner of Halsted and Randolph streets, and I went up to find him with my brother Henry and Schnaubelt." "Did you see Schwab?"--"No, I did not. Schnaubelt told me Schwab had gone to Deering's." "Did you go to Crane's alley with Schwab?"--"I could not very well do that, as I had not seen him that night." "Just answer the question," cried Mr. Ingham.--"Well, I did not go to the alley. I did not even know there was an alley there." The witness denies the conversation Mr. Thompson alleges he overheard Spies engage in with Schwab. He said Schnaubelt cannot speak any English--that he has only been about two years in the country. "Did Schwab say to you that evening: 'Now, if they come, we are prepared for them'?"--"No, sir; I did not see him that evening." "Did you talk with Schwab on the east side of Desplaines street, about twelve feet south of the alley that evening?"--"I did not. I was not anywhere near that alley with any man."