Mr. Ingham cross-examined the witness. Spies said he came to this country when seventeen years old, and that he has lived in Chicago some thirteen years. The _Arbeiter Zeitung_ was controlled by what Spies termed an "autonomous editorial arrangement;" that is, the powers of the several editors were co-ordinate, but the general policy of the paper was under the supervision of the board of trustees. "Did you ever receive any money for the _Alarm_?"--"Yes." "Did you ever pay out any money for the _Alarm_?"--"Yes." "Did you ever write any articles for the _Alarm_?"--"I may have." "How many bombs did you have in the _Arbeiter Zeitung_ office?"--"Four, I think. Two I got from a man named Schwab. I forget now. He was a shoemaker. He went to New Zealand." "How did this man come to give you those bombs?"--"He came to me and asked me if my name was Spies. I said yes. Then he asked me if I had seen any of the bombs they were making. I said no. Then he left them with me." "Who did he mean by 'they'?"--"I don't know." "Didn't he say who they were?"--"No." "And you never saw him before or since?"--"No, sir." "And when did you get these czar bombs?"--"I never got them. That is an invention of that reporter. A man came there while I was at dinner and left them there. He left the bombs with the bookkeeper. I never saw him before or after." Mr. Ingham introduced a letter and a postal card found in Spies' desk, the reading of which, as translated by Mr. Gauss, created a great sensation. Spies acknowledged the writing as addressed to him by Johann Most, the noted Anarchist: