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Illinois vs. August Spies et al. trial transcript no. 1
Introduction of evidence, 1886 July 26.

Volume K, 154-158, 5 p.

Introduction into evidence of articles printed in the Alarm newspaper. Includes a court discussion regarding the propriety of introducing this evidence.

People's Exhibits 18 (vol.K 155), 19 (vol.K 156), 20 (vol.K 156), 21 (vol.K 156), 22 (vol.K 156), 23 (vol.K 156), 24 (vol.K 157), 25 (vol.K 157), 26 (vol.K 157), 27 (vol.K 157), 28 (vol.K 158), 29 (vol.K 158), 30 (vol.K 158) and 31 (vol.K 158) introduced into evidence.


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Mr. Grinnell: We propose to read the extracts from the Alarm. I understand the Alarm has been offered in evidence, and admitted in evidence. Mr. Fricke has identified it, and Mr. Burgess identified it, and the editorship has been proven.

Mr. Black: It has not been admitted.

The Court: It has not been offered in evidence, but there has been evidence that Parsons was the editor of it. The composition work was done by the Arbeiter Zeitung, and the


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printing by Burgess upon the order of the Arbeiter Zeitung.

Mr. Black: That is in--I want the record to be preserved so when the paper is offered, the objection can be made. The objection I make is that it has not yet been introduced, because when it is offered I desire that the objection be interposed and preserved in the record.

Counsel for the State introduced article headed "Tramps" dated October 4th, 1884, from the Alarm. Same marked People's Ex.18, contained in Vol. of Exhibits here to annexed.

Mr. Foster: We object to the introduction of this article in addition to our other objections for incompetency and immateriality, and that it is a communication signed, as appears upon its face to be a communication by Lucy E. Parsons.

Mr. Ingham: They show upon their face they are communications. Some are editorials, others extracts from other papers, but they are all in the same line. We desire to show that the whole paper is devoted to that subject and nothing else.

The Court: Whether a publisher of a paper is copying a thing as a matter of news, or whether he is adopting it as advice to the public, is a thing for the jury to determine.

Mr. Foster: From the paper?

The Court: From all the circumstances, not from the face of the paper necessarily alone, but from the whole case.


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Defendant's counsel then and there excepted to the ruling of the court.

The article headed "Tramps" was here read in evidence in the words and figures following, to wit:

(Here insert.) (See Ante, 126)

Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People read in evidence article headed "Workingmen of America", Volume 1, No. 1 of the Alarm, dated Chicago, October 4th, 1884, in the words and figures following, to wit:

Objected to; overruled and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Ex.19 contained in Volume of Exhibits here to attached.

Counsel for People next read in evidence article from "Alarm" of Oct. 11th, 1884, headed "Take Care". Same marked People's Ex. 20 in Volume of Exhibits hereto annexed.

Mr. Furthman, counsel for the people, read in evidence article headed "The Anarchists", in No.3 Volume 1 of the Alarm, dated October 18th, 1884, in the words and figures following, to wit:

Objected to; overruled and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Ex.21 contained in Volume of Exhibits hereto attached.

Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People read in evidence articles headed "The Socialist" and " "Arming", Volume 1, No.4 of the Alarm, dated October 25th, 1884.

Objected to; overruled and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Exhibits 22 and 23 contained in Vol. of exhibits hereto annexed.


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Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People, read in evidence article headed "Useless Classes" in the Alarm dated November 1st, 1884:

Objected to; overruled and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Ex. 24, contained in Vol. of Exhibits here to annexed.

Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People, read in evidence editorial, from the Alarm, under date of November 1st, 1884, beginning as follows: "The socialists are accused of advocating----

Objected to; overruled; and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Ex. 25 contained in Vol. of Exhibits here to annexed.

Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People, read in evidence article headed "Anarchism", dated November 1st, 1884, from the Alarm.

Objected to; overruled, and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Ex. 26 contained in Vol. of Exhibits here to annexed.

Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People read in evidence article headed "Butchers of Men", in No. 7, Volume 1, of the Alarm, dated November 15th, 1884, in the words and figures following, to wit:

Objected to; overruled; and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Ex. 27 and contained in Vol. of exhibits here to annexed.


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Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People, read in evidence article headed "This paper", in Volume 1, No. 8 of the Alarm, dated November 22nd, 1884.

Objected to; overruled and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Exhibit 28 contained in Volume of Exhibits here to annexed.

Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People, read in evidence article headed "The Black Flag", in Volume 1, No. 9 of the "Alarm, dated November 29th, 1884, in the words and figures following, to wit:

Objected to; overruled and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Exhibit 29, contained in Volume of exhibits here to annexed.

Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People, introduced and read in evidence article headed "The Property Power" from the Alarm, dated November 29th, 1884, in the words and figures following, to wit:

Objected to; overruled, and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Exhibit 30, contained in volume of exhibits here to annexed.

Mr. Furthman, counsel for the People read in evidence article headed "Dynamite" from the Alarm of December 6th, 1884, in the words and figures following, to wit:

Objected to; overruled and exception.

(Here insert.) Same marked People's Ex. 31, contained in Volume of Exhibits here to annexed.

Court adjourned to 10 o'clock A.M. July 27, 1886.


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