Care of J. H. Schwab, 50 First Street, New York. Written on the 22d of October, 1883.
William A. Patterson, a printer, attended the meeting at No. 107 Fifth Avenue, on the evening of May 4, in response to an advertisement in the Daily News, and said it was for the purpose of organizing the working women of Chicago. While there, a telephone message came for a speaker at Deering, and a clerk in the office answered it. That was a little after eight o’clock. They wanted a German speaker, and Schwab’s name was mentioned. After that, witness said, he did not see Schwab. There was also a call for speakers at the Haymarket. Those present at the Fifth Avenue meeting were Parsons, Fielden, Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Holmes, Schwab, Waldo, Brown, Snyder and some others.
Henry Lindemeyer, a mason, testified through an interpreter. He occasionally did calcimining, and, while working at that in the Arbeiter-Zeitung, had occasion to place some things on a shelf in the closet off the editorial room. He missed a brush, and looked for it on a shelf in that closet. He found some papers, which he took down, but he did not find his brush. “I found,” said he, “no bundle, no large package, no dynamite on the shelf. Saw no indication of greasiness there.”
On cross-examination he testified:
“I have known Spies for seven or eight years. I am on the bond of his brother, who is charged with conspiracy growing out of the Haymarket trouble. I have known Schwab three or four years. Saw him at public meetings, at Turner Hall and other halls. I saw Spies nearly every day. He lives in my neighborhood since quite a time. I have been a subscriber to the Arbeiter-Zeitung since it is in existence. The closet was in the southeast part of the room, about four or five feet square, and about eleven or twelve feet high, as high as the room. There was only one shelf in the closet. There was a wash-stand in there, under which I kept some things. I had calcimined that room a few weeks before. On the 2d of May I calcimined the upper floor. On the 5th of May I calcimined the library. I left my things in the closet from the 2d to the forenoon of the 5th of May. When the police came I took them to some other place. The things I left in that closet were my working-clothes and my tools. My hat and my vest I had on the upper part of the shelf, and the rest on the floor. When I examined the shelf, I found nothing but a small package of papers, covering as much space as the size of an open paper, occupying about one-quarter of the shelf. I didn’t feel on the bottom of the shelf to see if there was any grease on it. There was no grease on there; else I wouldn’t have put my clothes there. The shelf was about six feet from the ground.”
Edward Lehnert, testifying through an interpreter, said:
“I know Schnaubelt, and saw him at the Haymarket that night about ten o’clock. I was standing on the west side of Desplaines Street, about thirty paces from Randolph, about twenty paces south of the wagon. I saw Schnaubelt about the time when it grew dark and cloudy. I had a conversation with him at that time, at the place where I stood. The speaking was still going on. It was before the bomb exploded. August Krueger was present. I mean Rudolph Schnaubelt, this man (indicating photograph of Schnaubelt).”
“What was the conversation?”
The State objected.