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
presided at meetings called by the class of people from whom
this combination was drawn, and that he called meetings of the
people who were engaged in the movement. There is evidence
that he marched in the Board of Trade procession, the object
of which was said to be the demolition of that building."
The Court proceeded to discuss all the evidence against Neebe, which
tended to show that he was associated with the rest of the defendants
in the encouragement of the movement which had for its object the
destruction of the government. The Court resumed:
"On the question of the instructions whether these defendants,
or any of them, did anticipate or expect the throwing of the
bomb on the night of the 4th of May, is not a question which
I need to consider, because the instructions did not go upon
that ground. The jury were not instructed to find them guilty
if they believed that they participated in the throwing of the
bomb, or encouraged or advised the throwing of that bomb, or
had knowledge that it was to be thrown, or anything of that
sort. The conviction has not gone upon the ground that they
did have any actual participation in the act which caused the
death of Deegan, but upon the ground, under the instructions,
that they had generally by speech and print advised a large
class to commit murder, and had left the occasion, time
and place to the individual will, whim and caprice of the
individuals so advised, and that in consequence of that
advice, and in pursuance of it, and influenced by it, somebody
not known did throw the bomb that caused Deegan's death.
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