Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1887 — LOUIS LINGG’S DEATH. [ARTICLE]

LOUIS LINGG’S DEATH.

Anarchist Linn Blows HU Hoad to Plea** With a Fulminating Cay. Louis Lingg, ‘the bomb mak * and condemned Anarchist, attempte .ticide in his cell in thq Chicago jail, Thursday, in a peculiarly horrifying manner. He pint a fulminating cap in his mouth and lit it with a candle which was burning in hie cell.

The explosion was the first warning the jail people had, the guard Beeing him with the candle in bis hand supposed that he was lighting a cigar. Immediately after the explosion Deputy O’Neil rushed into Lingg’s cell which was completely enveloped in arnoki . There he found the young anarchist lying on his back with great holes in his head from which the blood was rußhing in torrents. He was at once carried into the jail office and placed on a table. He was still breathing faintly, and .while Dr. Gray was examining his wounds,he coughed slightly, and the blood poured forth again from his terrible wounds and from his mouth and nose. At a later hour the physician made a further examination and found that the tissues of the throat, the neck and the front of toe jaw had been torn. away. He administered stimulants, but they failed to rouse the man. j_’ Lingg died ai 3 o’clock of his wounds. Tne scene in Lingg’s cell after the explcsion was ghastly. Teeth, bits of jaw bone, shreds of flesh and blood were scattered all over the narrow compartment. A little trial of blood marked the way over the stone flagging to the room where Lingg was carried. Within fifteen minutes alter the explosion, Fischer, Parsons and Engel were taken from their cells and searched in the jailer’s private office. All their clothing was taken from them and new suits, made bv the sheriff’s orders, were given then. All day Wednesday it was thought that Lingg acted differently from usual Tuesday night he gave out his “farewell address,” which was written for the Alarm, Parson’s old paper * In it he recited at length his old grievances. When the explosion occurred, all the anarchist prisoners were on their feet in an instant, and every one of them, looked stunned and frightened. Jailer Folz at once gave orders to have every one of the other cells searched, and Parson’s was the first one. A descent was made upon the cell. The deputies entered biß cell, took him by the wrists and shoulders and led him to Jailer Folios private office. There he was detained until his cell was thoroughly searched and nothing found. The ek-editor of the Alarm shivered with mingled excitement, fear and curiosity. Hie face was white and his eyes looked ready to start from their sockets. He was in hip shirt an<Ttrousers, and a wide felt hat shaded his face, He looked as if he would have given worlds to know what had happened, but no information was vouchsafed to him. How he secured the cap with which the deed was committed i® a mystery, as hie cell and clothing were Jjsgain thoroughly searched Wednesday, and, te all appearances, the guards that sit in front ol Mis cell have watched him every minute and vat, the ®hell. was so small as to have allowed the smuggling of it into the jail without trouble. Lmggba® always been regarded es the most desperate anarchist of the lot. It wa3 he who manufaetnred the bombs for the Havmarket riot# and in whose cell the bombs were found last Sunday. Jailer Folz made an examination of the cell. On the floor he found the shell of a fulminating cap. The sheriff said there bad undoubtedly been dynamite in it. The explosion was terrific. It 'startled the official, who though’ it was a bomb, the noise was so great. O’Neil, one of the two guards who remain on duty before Lingg’s cell throughout the day, declared that, Lingg was the'coolest man in Cook county jail. He was very pale, but his appetite was good and he slept well.