THE RISE AND FALL
OF
Anarchy in America.
FROM ITS INCIPIENT STAGE TO THE
FIRST BOMB THROWN IN CHICAGO.
A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
CULMINATING IN THE
Haymarket Massacre,
MAY 4th, 1886.
A MINUTE ACCOUNT OF THE APPREHENSION, TRIAL, CON-
VICTION AND EXECUTION OF THE LEADING
CONSPIRATORS.
BY
GEO. N. McLEAN
"ORDER IS HEAVEN'S FIRST LAW."
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.
SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY.
R.G. Badoux & Co.
CHICAGO & PHILADELPHIA.
1888.
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"Order is Heaven's First Law" - Liberty Enlightening the World_The Red Flag_The Price of Liberty - Our National Institutions - When Judgment and Justice is Abroad in the Land the People will Learn Righteousness.....9
Their Nationality - First Agitation - Leader of Anarchy - Revenge Circular - The Haymarket Meeting - The Lehr und Wehr Verein - The Massacre - Dispersing the Mob...................................................12
Bravery of the Police -'The Occupation of the Conspirators - The Trial - Securing a Jury - Bombs in Court - Evidence of Detective Johnson - Parsons Swears He "Won't Eat Snowballs Next Winter " - Drilling Anarchists - Pinkerton Detectives - Cross-Examination - Bombs and Dynamite - Parsons' View of the Board of Trade - Guns, Dynamite and Prussic Acid Advocated by Spies - Prosecution Rests Its Case...................................20
Chapter IV.
THE DEFENSE.
Under a Cloud - A Struggle For Life - Contesting Every Point by Shrewd Counsel - Braving it Out - Throttling the Law - Fielden on the Stand -
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Laughable Testimony by Henry Schultz, Who Said He was a tourist - Schwab's Evidence - Spies Testifies - Postal Card From Herr Most - Close of the Defense........................................................................64
CHAPTER V.
ARGUMENTS FOR THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE.
Opening Speech by Frank Walker -;``We Stand in the Temple of Justice"-; Zeisler for the Defense, Ingham for the Prosecution æ Messrs. Foster and Black for the Defense -; Julius S. Grinnell Makes Closing Speech for the State.........................................................................100
CHAPTER VI.
INSTRUCTIONS OF THE COURT.
The Verdict -; Blanched Faces -; The Court to the Jury -; Biography, Age and Residence of the Jurors........................................................................119
CHAPTER VII.
THE CONSPIRACY AND MASSACRE.
Names and Number of Killed and Wounded æ Unearthing the Plot -; Officers at Work -; Crowned With Success æ Report of Grand Jury -; The Number of Widows and Orphans Resulting From One Explosion..........................................119
CHAPTER VIII.
COST OF TRIAL.
Extracts from Zeitung æ Motion for New Trial -; Motion Overruled.....................................................................139
CHAPTER IX.
SPIES ADDRESSES THE COURT.
Three Days' Speeches by the Doomed Men -; Their Reason Why the Law Should Not be Executed...................................................................150
CHAPTER X.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTER.
Arbeiter Zeitung - Mrs. Parsons - Her Arrest in Ohio - Her Arrest in Chicago -
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Herr Most Endorsing the Bomb æ Throwing æ The Panic He Could Create in a Big City in Thirty Minutes With 3,ooo Bombs in the Hands of 500 Revolutionists................................................................181
CHAPTER XI.
SUPERSEDEAS GRANTED.
United States Supreme Court Sustain Original Verdict -; Parsons' Letter to Governor Oglesby -; Lingg Defiant -; Refusing to Sign a Petition for Executive Clemency -; Their Impertinent Letters to the Governor......................................................................184
CHAPTER XII.
FIELDEN PENITENT.
His Letter to the Governor -; Spies' Last Letter to His Excellency æ Willing to Die for His Comrades......................................................................219
CHAPTER XIII.
LINGG SUICIDES.
Dr. Bolton With the Prisoners -; They Decline Spiritual Comfort -; The Last Night of the Doomed Men -; Parsons Sings in His Cell -; Telegrams for Parsons-;His Last Letter...................................................................223
CHAPTER XIV.
DESCRIPTION OF THE EXECUTION.
Threatening Letters -; Pitying Justice -; Outraged Law Vindicated -; Mercy to the Guilty is Cruelty to the Innocent -; The Unchanged, Everlasting Will to Give Each Man His Right -; Abuse of Free Speech -; "The Mills of God Grind Slow, But Exceedingly Fine" -; Captain Black at the Anarchists' Funeral.......................................................................231
CHAPTER XV.
A DESCRIPTION OF HERR MOST'S SANCTUM
A Den Where Anarchy Was Begotten æ The Anarchist Chief's Museum of Weapons and Infernal Machines æ Easy Lessons in the Art of Assassination.................................................................240
CHAPTER XVI.
BIOGRAPHY OF HERR MOST.
His Past Career and Early Training-;His Imprisonment in the Bastile and Red
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Tower for Preaching His Gospel of Blood -; Extracts From His Inflammatory Utterances -; "Whet Your Daggers" æ "Let Every Prince Find a Brutus by His Throne."......................................................................246
CHAPTER XVII.
BIOGRAPHY OF SPIES,
And the Other Seven Condemned Men -; Their Birthplace, Education, and Private Life -; Parsons' Letter to the Daily News, After the Explosion, While a Fugitive From Justice..................................................................251
CHAPTER XVIII.
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF JOHN BONFIELD,
Inspector and Secretary of Police Department -; Biographies of Sheriff Matson, Judge Gary, Judge Grinnell -; Tribute to Captain Schaack.......................................................................259
CHAPTER XIX
EULOGY TO THE POLICE.
Boldly They Fought and Well -; Contrast Between Capital and Labor -; The Anarchists' Fatal Delusion -; The United States National Anthem........................................................................264
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