Show I J i t GENERAL NEWS t The Bomb Thrower1 DafoBM CHICJICO August 9Tbe rumor that Spies would take the stand served f o attract the largest crowd that thus far has visited JudjieGarya court Out of doors the crowd was as large 03 in the court room TTojaca in twos and threes were there with escorts bat Ihofa was n6 loom for them and they were turned away All the windows in the coart room were hermeticallyvsealedtbo doors tightly closed and the atmosphere was ad torrid as tho neighborhood neighbor-hood ol a blast furnace The defendant Schwab was pat on the stand and said hewas at Hay marfcet in cOmpaby with Sch3ubelt early in the evening He denied hay connection with tho throwing of the bomb HU cross examination elicited very little Spies then took the stand He told abontils speech at AicCormirks and said it was l1ot8 commn place He went to the factorywhen the shooting began and heard that six people had been killed by the police This caused him Ip write the article in the Jrte > ler Zettunp next day under the captlori Blood Ho said he wrote the Revenge circular while laboring under this excitement He then described tho Haymarket meeting and said ho was on the Ti COD until tho police arrived Ho denied any connection with the throwing 6f the bomb He acknowledged acknowl-edged baring dynamite in his office to experiment with bat said tho bombs found there were given to him by a man who bad sailed for Kenr Zealand Spies then made what tho prosecution called fatal admission and fully corroborated cor-roborated their claim that the armed section had a secret caucus and bad prepared for the attack on tho ponce spies said he wrote the word Buhl1I which appeared in the Arbeiler Zctfang on May 4th He said tho night before he received the following letter Air lifttor Please insert in todays letterbox the word RubIn in prominent prom-inent letters Hosaitl ho did not know it had any import bat the next day Ballchazeir Eau said it jaI decided by the armed section to have the word as asign of warning that they should keep their PiJwdlr dry for use against the police Ho told Rail that was foolish and asked Fischer to inform the armed section that it was < i mistake Spies then described de-scribed his arrest by the police He declared that the superintendent of police called him a Dutch > log hound and whelp and made an attack on him Spies said ho kept dynamite in his office to experiment with and carried car-ried a revolver thinking it was a good thine to be armed He declared that on the night at the Haymarket however how-ever he had left his revolver with ex Alderman StauHer The court then adkumcd tobdnples will be cross examined this afternoon af-ternoon > |