“Did you talk with any one about this bomb-throwing?”—“Yes, with Albright.”
“Any one else?”—“No.”
“Yet you saw the bomb in the air and heard the explosion but you did not talk to any one about what you saw?“—“That’s it.”
M. T. Malkoff, the correspondent of a paper at Moscow, Russia, and formerly a writer on the Arbeiter Zeitung, testified that Parsons was in Zephf’s hall, talking to his wife, Mrs. Holmes and the witness, when the bomb exploded. State’s Attorney Grinnell elicits from the witness that he has been five years in this country, that he lived in New York and maintained himself by teaching the Russian Language. From New York, he went to Little Rock, then to St. Louis, and finally to Chicago, arriving here in 1884. “You came here with a letter of introduction to Spies?”—“No, sir. I obtained my position in the South through a letter of introduction from Spies.”
“How did you come to get that letter?”—“I and a man named Clossie translated a romance from the Russian and sold it to Spies.”
“That was a revolutionary novel?”—“It was not. It was a description——”
“Oh, I don’t want to go into that. You know Herr Most?”—“I have seen him, but I don’t know him.”
“You know Justus Schwab? You had letters sent to his address?”—“That may be.”
“You lived with Schwab in New York?“—“I did not.”
“You lived with Balthazar Rau here, though, on May 4?”—“I did.”