“Did you see Mr. Spies hand your brother-in-law a package that night in the alley at Crane Bros.’, and did you say anything like this: ‘If that won’t be enough, shall we get another one?’”—“No, sir.”
“Did you see Mr. Spies at all that night?”—“No, sir.”
“When did you see him at all for the last time that day?”—“In the afternoon. I did not see him again until the next morning.”
Schwab said he had been a member of the Internationalist society since its organization. On the night of May 4 he went to the Haymarket on foot and walked through the Washington street tunnel. Balthazar Rau accompanied him as far west as Desplaines street.
“Are you an Anarchist?” asked Mr. Grinnell.—“It depends on what you mean. There are several definitions of that.”
Michael Schwab.
“Answer my question. Are you an Anarchist?”—“I can’t answer that.”