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
The jury then filed out, and scarcely had they left the room when a
shrill voice was heard, and Mrs. Schwab fell heavily to the floor. She
was taken out into the fresh air by policemen, and soon revived. Mrs.
Spies followed up this scene by going into hysterics, and also had
to be assisted from the room. The other women kept their nerves, and
after the first shock maintained composure. In the meantime the crowd
had closed in on the prisoners, and were examining them from head to
foot. The bailiffs, however, promptly put a stop to this, and led the
condemned men away to their cells.
THE JURORS.
The twelve good men and true, who sat in judgment for so many long and
weary days, are all Americans by birth. Frank S. Osborne, foreman of
the jury, is a widower of thirty-nine, and the father of three sons. He
is head salesman of the carpet department of Marshall Field's retail
store, and came here from Columbus, Ohio. He is an Episcopalian.
Major James H. Cole, of Lawndale, the first juror accepted by both
sides, was born at Utica, N. Y., forty-three years ago, and served
throughout the Rebellion in the Forty-first Ohio Infantry. He came
to Chicago from Chattanooga, Tennessee, six years ago, and though a
bookkeeper by profession, is at present out of employment.
J. H. Brayton, principal of Webster School, lives at Engelwood with his
family, although a native of Lyons, N. Y. He had arranged a hunting and
fishing excursion for the summer, which was ruined.
A. H. Reed is of the firm of Reed & Sons, of Reed's Temple of Music,
136 State street. He was born in Boston forty-nine years ago, but has
been in the music business here for twenty-three years, living with
his wife at 3242 Groveland Park. Mr. Reed is a Freethinker, but not an
Atheist.
[Illustration: THE JURY.]
Andrew Hamilton, dealer in hardware, has lived in Chicago twenty years
of the forty-one he has been on earth, and now lives with his wife at
1521 Forty-first street.
C. B. Todd, forty-seven years old, was born in Elmira, N. Y., lived in
Minnesota for sixteen years after the war, but is now a salesman in the
Putnam Clothing House. He served in the Sixth New York Heavy Artillery.
Mr. Todd lives at 1013 West Polk street.
H. T. Sanford is but twenty-four years old, and is a son of the late
Lawyer Sanford, compiler of the Superior Court reports of New York.
For fifteen months past he has been voucher clerk for the Chicago &
Northwestern, but before coming to Chicago he was a petroleum broker at
New York. He and his wife live at Oak Park.
S. C. Randall, the youngest man on the jury, was born in Erie county,
Pennsylvania, in 1864, and in the three years he has been in Chicago he
has been a hotel waiter, a milk peddler, and is now a salesman for J.
C. Vaughan & Co., seedsmen, 45 La Salle street.
Theodore Denker, shipping clerk for H. H. King Co., is twenty-seven
years old, and lives at Woodlawn Park. He has lived in Chicago
twenty-five years, and is not married.
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