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THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. VOL. IV. NO. 18. CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, NOV. 1!>, 1887 $1.50 per Single Copy Terms. Ainu 5 cents. # Not THE TRAP many minutes from six o’clock under the SPRUNG. came pinioned white muslin. by a string of cabs, and proceeded by a ing could rorther from the truth. the crowd with their daylight, and a hustle different Fischer's countenance had opened fire upon from that of night a peculiar carriage containing the committee, the They were men who loved peace, whose revolvers. The crowd responded invaded the seclusion glisten, totally unlike the ashiness of hearse and moved freely Four of Chicago’s Anarchists Die on of the prison. The day of the hanging wagons speedily along. hearts were full of tenderness; to the fire. The police immediately Engel’s heavy features, and in some There was no excitement, and a few who loved the Gallows, had arrived. It was 15 minutes to 7 only were by those who well knew charged. Then began the work of car- when strange contrast with the dead lack of persons gathered. The corpses were them, trusted those who to for Engel awoke. Within the next color in the lineaments by came un- ing the injured, who were taken to ten his pinched of Par- taken to an undertaker's shop, where derstand the glory and power of their Street Where their minutes three doomed com- sons. The once Texan, Desplaines Statiou. The Renleace of Two Uniiiintili'it jaunty, vivacious they were dressed and afterwards taken lives. And the anarchy of which they wounds their to Im panions opened their eyes. They tumbl- came fast, a withered old were dressed prior to re- prlaormrot for l.iro-Oeo ( otnnill. Hu- ed man. to the homes oftheir relatives. spoke and taught, what was it! but an moval the tho out of their cots and hastily* dressed The moment his touched the scaf- to County Hispital. Os Irldo. feet The Faaeral attempt to answer the after the from themselves. No conversation took place fold Parsons seemed to have Crteae. question police, seven died their wounds, excitement which between completely resolution, what?" They believed while of the crowd one Ttic had prevailed the Anarchists and their guards. lost his identity and feel that his The precession of the Anarch- that at. tho meeting, . Bpies and Parsons to funeral there was that of wrong and hardship in was killed and some twenty in Chicago for many days was increased simply lmde them spirit was no longer a part of his body. ists began to move between I and S wounded, good-bye and in a few minutes the the exacting order which pointed to con- so far ns known. in a measure by the announcement that depu- He had wrought himself up to an ecstacy o’clock Sunday afternoon. I» was head flict, because believed that selfish- ties emerged from the ccllroom. They were of solemn ed Chief Marshal they The arrest of August Spies, Michael Governor Oglesby had decided to inter- self-glorification. by Hopp. with two aides ness would not and Samuel who shot The and a surrender peaceably Schwab, Fielden, was squat form of Engel alongside, band of musicians in the uniform of its motion to fere in the case of two of the seven An- with of the own righteousness, and in the knee at the riot. Oscar Neebe, stupid, wide-jawed face, made a German army. Immediately af- the whole of their of their archists—Bainucl Ficldcn and Michael hideous terwards came members of thought, phi- Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg and George contrast to Parsons’ assumption the defence losophy as the establish- Engel for in the gchwab. Their sentence of the halo of a headed Anarchists, was complicity murder of of death the martyr. Fischer was committee, by George A. Schill- ment of an order of the society that the A. head and shoulders than the other ing, who carried in his hands police followed immediately. Governor commuted to imprisonment for talier a floral should be symbolized in the words, R. Parsons for a time escaped arrest, but life because hod united with three, making his occasional looks of too tribute. “Order without force.’ Is it practical? The they Spies evident bravado more noticeable than Following abreast finally surrendered himself, “Ar- them marched, eight Iknow not. They thought it was. I beiter the organ of the in a plea for mercy. The Governors’ they might otherwise and nearly two hundred members of the Zcitung, Anarch- be, at a sorry know that itis not practical now, but I ist, was suppressed, and the Anarchist reasons for not interfering in the ense of disadvantage compared with the steady Aurora Turnverein, of which August know also as a and Christian haunts in Then coolness of The w« a member. Hie philosopher tne city were raided. Carsons, Lingg, Engel and Fischer were Bpies. latter’s exhibition Spies whole society that under the inspiration of love that followed endictment of the of was as many are the eight that were and hnd asked quiet, thorough nerve, far surpassed not out, members noi day will come when righteousness will for the murder of they guilty not as a wonder the demeanor of of his in sympathy with hun- Officer Matthias J, any Anarchy, four reign in the earth, and" when sin and Their trial on the indictment for executive clemency as guilty men, comrades. dred of the Vorwartx Turner Degan. Society eelffehness will end.” was the most important and prolonged hut hnd demanded freedom as innocent The four burly deputies, standing to came next, wearing red badges on the Capt. Black ended his address read- in Cook criminal the rear of the four left This branch of by County'B jurisprudence. men. In the ease of Spies, editor of the condemned men v breast. turners is ing a poem reciting the virtues of the All were found guilty, and all but began without delay to the ropes. more strongly tinctured with Socialism Neebe Anarchist ncwspa|rer at the time of the adjust deceased and lauding Anarchy. Capt. who received fifteen years’ imprisonment, Spies’ noose being the first one placed. than any in the city. One hundred of terrible Haymarket riot, the Governor Black was foUowed by Robert" Reitzel, were sentenced to death- The case was The knot was slipped down, the cord the Fortschritt branch came next, and of Detroit, who made fierce in did not feel justified in interfering. then a speech carried to the higher courts, until the close against his neck. Spies did not followed a hearse bearing the bodv German, condemning the of United States Court wSh show a tremor, but when the of August The of the hearse workingmen Supreme reach- same pro- Spies. top Chicago for having allowed five of their ed, but without avail. cess* was being carried out with Fischer was so covered with floral tributes that best men to be murdered, declaring that innumerable for and he turned and else could be Petitions against quietly whispered to the nothing seen. Inside was they died for justice, and denouncing a the exercise of executive were A. R. PARSONS. HArGED. baliff some the s richly covered casket, over the black clemency suggestion concerning society “based upon robbery and sus- sent to Governor Oglesby, and the peo- releived by others. Fischer was the first rope. broadcloth of which was thrown n sash tained murder." Ills remarks of by were ple of Chicago were wrought up to a one to emerge from Ills cell. Accom- J ust then Dr. Murphy, a young physi- red silk. Then another band wheeled welcomed with applause, tries of ‘‘bravo!’ It cian back of into Lake street high state of excitement. was feared panied by deputies lu* stepped over to standing Engel, whispered playing a dirge, fol- and fierce veils. that at would occur, and the iron a in as many hundred members of attempts rescue plain sink and took a good joke Engel’s ear. Incredible it lowed by the OTHER SPEECHES. made the Central Labor Union, extensive preparations were by wash. Bpies next performed this ablu- may seem, low-browed Anarchist which comprises T. J. Morgan, a local Socialist leader, police and military to preserve order. tions and seemed to enjoy them. Old laughed outright with the rope around some of the most extreme Socialists in of birth, then his con- the English expressed Sketches of the Anarchists. nut! Engel followed the young Anarchist his neck, and while another was being rity; next came a hearse in tempt for the law which hanged Anarch- and the last to wash was Parsons. fastened on Parsons by his side. which lay the coffin of Adolph Fischer. ist (a voice “throttle the law,”) and August Spies came to this country At The white It also was decorated with flowers, when of He was about 32 7.20, two waiters from Martell’s caps were deftly slipped sneered at the “spread-caglism of the 16 years age. restaurant brought to the prisoners their upon their heads and drawn quickly but not so profusely as that of Spies. American fourth of July, which obscured He learned the trade of saddlcmaker in breakfast. The edibles were carried in down to their necks, shutting off the Next came a hearse' containing the re- the minds of the Chicago, but gave up this occupation mains of people.” a large new clothes basket and the linen view of each as completely and with less Parsons. On the box by the The last speech was in German, by when he was 20 years of age.
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