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Very significant issue on the Haymarket Riot...
Very significant issue on the Haymarket Riot...
Item # 707399
November 12, 1887
THE SAN DIEGO UNION, Nov. 12, 1887 A terrific issue as the front page has the prints of each of the four men who were executed for their involvement in the Haymarket Riot, an event which followed a labor demonstration the previous year. There is much on the web concerning it.
The top of the first column has heads: "JUSTICE" "Four Anarchists Hanged" "The Law Upheld" "The Doomed Murders' Last Hours" "A Contempt Of Death" "Final Words of the Bomb-Throwers" ""Scenes About the Scaffold" "Resume of the Fase from the Beginning" "Portraits of The Conspirators" and more.
There are prints of 8 conspirators on the front page them are the four who were hanged: Spies, Engel, Parson, and Fischer. Also prints of 3 whose sentence was death, but was commuted to life in prison: Fielden, Schwab, and Neebe. They would be pardoned after 6 year in prison.
The other print is of Louis Lingg, who was sentenced to be hanged but he committed suicide in his cell by using an explosive. Almost the entire front page is taken up with reports on the trial, the sentences, the details of the executions, etc. Some of the subheads include: "The Final Preparation" "Down of the Last Day" "The Last Moments" "Disposal Of The Bodies" "Four At Once Is Enough" "The Drop" Funeral Arrangements" "Laughed Outright With the Rope Around His Neck" "As The Grim Moment Approached" and much more.
Eight pages, an address label & news agent's stamp in the masthead, an older archival mend near the center causing no loss of readability, toning at the margins, good condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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