Newspaper clipping about the execution of the Haymarket anarchists and autograph cards signed by them as remembrances, 1887 Nov. 11. Single, incomplete newspaper clipping pasted to heavy cardstock along with autograph cards signed by August Spies, Albert Parsons, George Engel and Adolph Fischer, the four Haymarket defendants who were executed on November 11, 1887.
1 item (1 p.); 8 1/4 x 10 in.
Gift of Frank A. Bauman in 1988. (CHS ICHi 31370)
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The deputies who were with the four during the half-hour before the processions was formed were greatly impressed with their courage and fortitude. About this time Parsons received a telegram from San Francisco, signed "Four Citizens." It ran as follows:
Brave Parsons. Your name will live long after people will ask, "Who was Oglesby?"
Parsons took a pencil from his pocket and indorsed it on the back, "A. R. Parsons, Nov. 11, 1887." and handed it to Bailiff Wilson B. Brainerd, saying: "I will make you a present of this as a relic."
[four signature cards, clockwise]
Anarchy is Libery!
Adolph Fischer,
Cook Co. Jail,
Nov 11th '87.
A. R. Parsons
Liberty or Death
Nov. 11 1887
A Spies
G. Engel