Show TEE DEFENSE > Straggling Hard tQ Clear tlie Anarchists KOBE TBODBLE IN BKEFAS Come Aabore With the Bod lei To Appeaio the Hungarians llace bmll Other News I torn 1 Tbe Anarchltta Trial Cnrcino August0 In tho Anarchists Anarch-ists trial today the defenses introduced a witness t J show that Fisher and two of defendants were not present the Haymarket when the bomb Was thrown In the afternoon Johan Gruenberg teaified that m the presence of Fischer and Scwib at the Arbeiter Zeituni office he was directed by Spies to take back to the printers the circular oallinp the Haymarket meeting and have others printed omitting the words Workingmen arm yourselves and come in force Witness said none of the first circulars had been distributed by order of the defendant Edward H Castle and H S Bowo testified they knew the reputation of Harvey Gilmore for truth and veracity to be bad A cross examination of avery a-very ort duration bv the State developed devel-oped the fact that neither these witnesses wit-nesses have had intimate acquaintance with Uilmore Martin Fechen swore thai he was with Neebe in the saloon on the evening of May 3d and that the latter distributed distri-buted none of the Haymarkst circulars Mrs Lizzie Holmes late assistant editor and a contributor to the Alarm testified that she was with Mrs Parsons at the Haymarket meeting until the close of Parsons speech when she and Mrs Parsons went to the saloon near Zephis Hall Shortly afterwards Parsons Par-sons and Fisher came in Witness swore they did not go out until after the bomb exploded In the course of cross examination Mrs Holmes said her maiden name was Swank and that the articles in Alarm signed L M 81 were written by her Did you write an article headed It I is coming asked Ingham exhibiting a number of copies of the Alarm containing con-taining the article referred to OIl did replied the witness after examining ex-amining the paper critically Did you mean what you wrote 1 meant it as much ai any prophet means what he says Do you claim to possess tbe power of prophesy T Witness replied that he could sometimes some-times foretell events under certain circumstances cir-cumstances but was plainly somewhat embarrassed by the question She became I be-came somewhat confused when the question as to the locations occupied by I herself Mrs Parsons Mr Parsons and I Fisher and contradicted herself as to I minor details Samuel Feilden defendant was then I called to the stand He ctrrobated the testimony of the other witness for the defense as to the meeting held at I the Arbeiler Ztitunq office early In the evening of May 4th From there lie I accompanied Parsons to Haymarket arriving at the conclusion of Spies speech Parsons then spoke and witness being introduced bv Spies spoke about twenty minutes Ho repeated the substance sub-stance of his speech winch was about the same as reported by the papers Arriving at Chat portion of his speech when he was reported to have advised that the law be ° throttled be said he used the term in a figurative sense meaning that the law wnichxlid not protect people should be abolished Witness spoke fluently in a slinhtly tremulous tone of voice and related the subsequent events about as follows As I was concluding my remarks I noticed the police coming towards me When they were quite close Captain ward said in an angry an-gry tone of voice I command you in the name of the State of Illinois to disperse I then stepped down from the wagon and Said to the Captain in a conciliatory tone of voice Why Captain this is a peaceable meeting He made an angry retort I startedfor the sidewalk As I walked along I I saw a flash over my shoulder and heard the explosion of a bomb Then I heard the police flouring shots into the crowd and then revolvers re-volvers and many groans of agony About this time I felt a sharp pain in my knee but rdid not know I was shot until 1 reached Des Plaines Street and mounted a Vanburen Street car I boarded the car going towards Fifth Avenue intending to visit the Arbdler Zeilunrj office and see if any of the others oth-ers had arrived and learn whether they had been wounded There was no light in the building so I got my wound dres ed and went home The remainder of Fleldena testimony tes-timony related to such stereotyped items of defense as the police did all the firing or there waS no intention inten-tion to use dynamite or any kind of force at Haymarket the armed section I sec-tion of the association had no arms etc throughout which witnesses I answers were similar 10 those of his fellow fel-low witnesses Deform brought into i considerable prominence theact that Fielfletf was on induifrfons and prosperous pros-perous working map who never owned I a revolver in Ms life and did not use one I one at Haymarket His direct examination exam-ination will be continued tomorrow morning |