“Did you at any time that night get down from the wagon and go into an alley and light a bomb in the hands of Rudolph Schnaubelt?”—“I never did.”
“Did you see Schnaubelt in the alley that night while Fischer was there?”—“I did not.”
“You remember the witness Gilmer?”—“Yes.”
“Is his story true?”—“Not a word of it.”
“You remember Wilkinson, the reporter for the Daily News?”—“Yes. I had a conversation with him in January.”
“Well, go on and tell us about it.”—“He was introduced to me by Joe Gruenhut. He said he wanted to get some data wherewith to prepare an article on Anarchism, Socialism and dynamite, and all that. I happened to have four shells in my office. I had them for about three years. A man on his way to New Zealand gave me two bombs; another man some time after called at my office with two bombs, and wanted to know if their construction was proper. That’s how I came to possess them. He wanted one to show to Mr. Stone. I let him take it. We went to dinner at a restaurentrestaurant, and we conversed about society, its present state, and the trouble that was likely to ensue. We spoke about street warfare, as all this was contained in the papers every day. There was constant talk that so many wild-eyed Socialists were arriving every day, and I told him it was an open secret that there were 3,000 armed Socialists in Chicago, and we spoke about revolutions, and I said that in past ages gun-powder had come to the assistance of the down-trodden masses, and that dynamite was a child of the same parent, and was a great leveler.”
“Do you remember the toothpick illustration?”—“Yes. I remember that, and also re-call speaking of the Washington street tunnel, saying how easy comparatively few men could hold that tunnel against a body of soldiers, but nothing was said about Chicago, nor was any time fixed for the revolution.”
“You wrote the word ‘Ruhe’ for insertion in the Arbeiter Zeitung May 4?”—“I did.”
“How did you come to do that?”—“The night before at 11 o’clock I received a letter as follows: Mr. Editor: Please insert in to-day’s letter-box the word ‘Ruhe’ in prominent letters.”