Chapter I.
INTRODUCTION.
| | “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 | Chapter II.
ANARCHISTS.
| | Their Nationality—First Agitation—Leader of Anarchy—Revenge Circular—The Haymarket Meeting—The Lehr und Wehr Verein—The Massacre—Dispersing the Mob | 12 | Chapter III.
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY.
| Bravery of the Police—The Occupation of the Conspirators—The Trial—Securing a Jury—Bombs in Court—Evidence of Detective Johnson—Parsons Swears He “WontWon’t Eat Snow-BallsSnowballs 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—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—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—Unearthing the Plot—Officers at Work—Crowned With Success—Report of Grand Jury—The Number of Widows and Orphans Resulting From One Explosion | 119 | Chapter VIII.
COST OF TRIAL. | | Extracts from Zeitung—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—Herr Most Endorsing the Bomb-Throwing—The Panic He Could Create in a Big City in Thirty Minutes With 3,000 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—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—The Anarchist Chief’s Museum of Weapons and Infernal Machines—Easy Lessons in the Art of Assassination | 240 |
Chapter XVI.
BIOGRAPHY OF HERR MOST. | His Past Career and Early Training—His Imprisonment in the BastileBastille and Red Tower for Preaching His Gospel of Blood—Extracts From His Inflammatory Utterances—“Whet Your Daggers”—“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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