“And you saw him just as he closed his speech?”—“I did. He got down out of the wagon and was standing close to me.”
“Where did he go after the bomb exploded?”—“The Lord only knows what became of him. The demoralization was so great that I don’t know. I think he was one of the first men to go down after the shell exploded.”
“Well, how long did you remain there?”—“I was the last man to go up the alley. There was a great crowd ahead of me.”
“Were the bullets thick?”—“Well, I should say they were.”
“Yet you didn’t run?”—“Well, I am an old man, and I don’t care much.”
“What did you do next, after leaving the alley?”—“I went farther down in the alley. I was the last man to go down the alley. There was a projection in the alley and I took refuge behind that.”
“You were young enough then to want to live?”—“It wasn’t that; I heard the police shooting. They were going back toward the Haymarket. I could tell that by the report of the shooting. Then I ran out on Desplaines street and dodged about till I got home.”
“Where did you dodge?”—“A good many places. The police were shooting all over. They were all excited. I saw them shooting as far up as Madison street. One policeman on Madison street I saw point his revolver at a crowd of people on the street and say: ‘D— you! you’ve got to die any way.’ Then he fired his revolver at them.”
“You say you saw the bomb when it was about five feet in the air?”—“Yes.”
“Did yonyou see the fuse?”—“Yes.”