CHAPTER VIII.
Cost of anarchist trial. Extracts from zeitung. Motion for new trial. Motion overruled.
COST OF THE ANARCHIST TRIALS.
It is estimated that the trials of the Anarchist conspirators for connection with the Haymarket massacre has cost Cook county and Chicago about $100,000. A calculation made by county officials at the close of the murder trial in August, placed the average cost since the night of the bomb-throwing at $24,800 per month. Another estimate itemizes the daily expenses as follows:
| State’s Attorney’s office, stenographers, messengers, telegrams, interpreters, extra legal help (Mr. Ingham) | $200 |
| Sheriff’s office, bailiff’s, jury fees, hotel bills for jury, etc. | 150 |
| Court Costs, Judge’s salary, miscellaneous items | 100 |
| Detectives, policemen, witness fees | 150 |
| Criminal Court Clerk’s office and other expenses | 100 |
This makes a total of $700 a day, or $70,000 for the 100 days which the trial covered. The trials of the twenty-six persons indicted for conspiracy in connection with the murders bring the total cost up to $100,000.
In an interview Chief of Police Ebersold praised the brave and steady action of the police at the Haymarket, but for quick and active fighting gave the palm to the six officers who held a mob of two or three thousand men at bay at the McCormick works the day before the Haymarket affair. A mob tried to hang Officer Casey to a lamp post, and he fought hand to hand against great odds until rescued. Vaclav Dejnek, Frank Broda and a young man named Hess were indicted for this affair, and Dejnek was sentenced to serve one year in state’s prison.