Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — THE REDS RESPITED. [ARTICLE]

THE REDS RESPITED.

The Chief Justice of the HHnols Supreme Court Orders a Supersedeas. q - The Execution b Cannot Take Plaoe Before March —How the Anarchists Beceived the News. ißlooniington (Ill.) special.] Chief Justice bedtt, of tho Supreme granted a sup rsedoas in the anarchists' case on Thursday. ■He reached h's loom in th? court house from bis residence between 8 an I 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: ’Alter iiibp -cting the foregoing transcript, of tin- record, rhe undersii ned. one <>t tho Justices <>t rhe Supr 'ine Court of tho State, is of the opinion that there is reasonable ground for gr i:t ng tun writ of error 'applied tor. in the fans-, It is th< romro ord area t Hmt a writ of < rror to grunt <1 in this cause, and it is further < rd red that th i writ of error herein ordered to i.e issued be a supersedans us to each and every one of the pla iriffs in error, viz. : August •' P oq Michael beh'wal', bam»ell-'ieldeu, Albert K. I’aismiH, Ad.dph I'ischer, Gi.orge Engel, 1 ouis Lingg and Os-ar W. N’eebe, uaid sfaull have the effect its jirovided in secton 1, division 15, criminal code, Revised Stiv.utes Itfll, page .14, to stay the execution of the judgment pronouiiced by the Criminal Court of Cook County against each of aforesaid plaintiffs in error until the further order of the Supremo Court in this cause. It is further ordere d that the 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 ss a supersedeas us herein ordered, in accordance with the provision of the se tion of the statute above cited. Done at Bloomington this 2 >th day of November, A. D. 18-fi. John M. Scott, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. [Ottawa (III.) dispatch. | The writ of supersedeas which was issued was in form as follows: I do hereby certify that n writ of error has issued Irani this coin t f.,r ti.e re versa! oi A judg--ment obtained by ti e people of tho State of Illinois against August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fieldon, Albert It. Parsons, Adolph l iseber George Engel, Louis Lingg, and < g ar W. Neebe, in the Criminal Court of Cook County, at the Octo er t-nn thereof, A. D. IsSj, in a certain action of indictment for murder, which wr.t of error in mocks u 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. Giwu under my hand and the seal of the Supreme Court dt Ottawa this 26th day of November, A. D. 1836. ■ A. H. TaXLOB, Clerk of tho Supreme Court. [Chicago special.) The convicted ana chists 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 hearing of the appeal by tie full bench. This hearing will take place at the spring term of the 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 a delay of execution is necessary to allow the court time for hearing an appeal. How the Condemned Men Received the News. [From the Chicago Tribune.] The anarchists were all pleased with the news,and if they eventually escape all punis! ment it is safe to say they won’t again play with edged tools. When 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 stiuck 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 lad 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 u 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 -rntm 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"tho 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 be 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 finally «got clear of his present trouble--, ind was unable to say what influences might be brought to bear upon him to change the opinions he had so freely uttered'in the past. vj ” 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 rnismg our voices against thq further oppression of the working people, only tried to avert the disasters that have overtaken them elsewhere.”- , z 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 be had written in the past, although admitting he might have said some unreasonable things. Concluding, he said: “My course in the part 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, convicted, and punished for any unlawful act committed by persons known or unknown.” Noebe believed all the time that the bu* persedeas would be granted, and never felt alarmed over its being refused. ■" .-VTeat-tifUl for'ii is better than a beautiful facet a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form : it gives a higher pleasure than statueS and pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. You can gain knowledge by reading, but you must separate the wheat from the chaff by thinking. The man who “could not catch his breath for a moment” had probably been eating onions, i However little we have to do, let us de that little welL