Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — THE REDS RESPITED. [ARTICLE]

THE REDS RESPITED.

—A— The Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court Orders a Supersedeas. The Executions Cannot Take Place Before March—How the Anarchists Received the News. (Bloomington (HI.) special.] Chief Justice Scott, of the Supremo Court, granted a supersedeas in the anarchists’ case on Thursday. He reachedhis room in th 9 court house from his residence between 8 and 9 o’clock. An hour later he sent for Captain Black, Mr. Solomon, and Mr. Swett and announced to them his decision. He then wrote out the following order and appended it to the huge records: After inspecting the foregoing transcript of the record, the undersigned, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State, is of the opinion that there is reasonable ground for granting the writ of error applied for in thecause. It is therefore ordered that a writ of error be granti d in this cause, and it is further ordered that the writ of error herein ordered tobe issued be a supersedeas as to each and every one of the plaintiff sin error, viz.: August fp.es, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert It. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engol, Louis Lingg and Oscar W. Neebe, and shall have the effect as provided in section J, division 15, criminal code, Revised Statutes 1874, page 414, to stay the execution of the judgment pronounced by the Criminal Court of Cook County against each of aforesaid plaintiffs in error until the further order of the Supreme Court in this cause. It is further ordered that tho Clerk of the Supreme Court in the Northern Division, upon the filing of this transcript of the record in his office, shall immediately issue the writ of error as a supersedeas as herein ordered, in accordance with tho provision of the section of the statute above cited. Done at Bloomington this 2>tli day of November, A. D. 1816. John M. Scott, Chief Justice of the Supremo Court. [Ottawa (Ill.) dispatch. ] The writ of supersedeas which was issued was in form as follows: I do hereby certify that a writ of error has issued from this court for the reversal of a judgment obtained by the people of the State of Illinois against Aug-ust Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Louis Lingg, and ( g ar W. Neebe, in the Criminal Court of Cook County, at the October term thereof, A. D. li-B.i, in a certain action of indictment for murder, which writ of error is made a supersedeas and is to operate as a suspension of the execution of the judgment therein, and as such is to be obeyed by all concerned. Given under my hand and the seal of the Supreme Court at Ottawa this 26th day of November, A. D. 1886. A. H. Taylor, Clerk of the Supreme Court. [Chicago special.] The convicted anarchists will not be hanged on the 3d proximo. Judge Scott, of the Supreme bench, has granted a writ of supersedeas,which operates as a stay of execution pending the healing of the appeal by tbe full bench. This hearing will take place at the spring term of tho court, to be held at Ottawa, and the final decision will hardly be rendered before April or May. The granting of the supersedeas was almost a foregone conclusion. It is in conformity with the almost invariable practice of the Supreme Judges in capital cases, when u delay of execution is necessary to allow the court time for hearing an appeal.

How the Condemned Men Received the News. [From tho Chicago Tribune.] The anarchists were all pleased with the news,and if they eventually escape all punisl ment it is safe to say they won’t again play with edged tools. Whe-n seen by a reporter Parsons was seated in his cell. He had his feet against the grated door and his chair tilted back at an angle of forty-five degrees. Asked what he thought of the granting of the supersedeas, he said it struck him very favorably, and he was glad to hear it. He didn't know to what extent the influences brought to bear in the trial before Judge Gary would affect the decision of Supreme Court Justices on a motion for a supersedeas, but he was pleased to see that they had cut no figure. He thought the decision of Judge Scott in granting the writ was in itself an evidence that the conviction of himself and the others was a violation of the law. “If you get out of this scrape do you think you will talk and write in the future as you did in the past?” he was asked. “I can’t say whether I would write the same things and preach the same doctrines. For my part, I am willing to say the rascalities, outra es, and robberies to which the working classes have been subjected sometimes get the better of a man who feels for them, and leads him to say things he wouldn’t say when in his calmer moments. It’s a good deal like politics, where the leader of one party abuses the leader of the other, but after the campaign is over everything settles down to quiet again.” Fischer was not much surprised to hear the news, as he thought all along that the writ would bo granted. •He believed, however, that if Judge Scott was of similar material to Judge Gary there would have been no hope at all. Fielden was not disappointed over the news, as it was just about what he expected. He was uncertain what business he would engage in if he Anally got clear of his present troubles, and was unable (o say what influences might be brought to bear upon him to change the opinions he had so freely uttered in the past. Schwab couldn’t say he was much surprised at the news, for his attorneys had assured him that everything was favorable to the granting of the writ. He thought similar disturbances to those of last May would occur again, but intimated that he wouldn’t be mixed up in them. “We Germans,” he said, “are more radical and outspoken in our views than Americans, because we have seen the same state of affairs produce the same results in the old country, and, in raising our voices against the further oppression of the working people, only tried to avert the disasters that have overtaken them elsewhere.” Spies was expecting the supersedeas, but would not have been surprised had it been refused, after what he had seen at the trial. He said he was not ashamed of anything he had written in the past, although admitting he might have said some unreasonable things. Concluding, he said; “My course in the past may not have been wise, but I never willingly harmed anybody in my life. If the verdict is sustained, henceforth any man can be arrested and dragged to prison, tried, convicted, and punished for any unlawful act committed by persons known or unknown.” Neebe believed all the time that the supersedeas would be granted, and never felt alarmed over its being r»#^ped.