Chapter XXXVI

The Last Hours of the Doomed Men—Planning a Rescue—The
Feeling in Chicago—Police Precautions—Looking for a
Leak—Vitriol for a Detective—Guarding the Jail—The Dread
of Dynamite—How the Anarchists Passed their Last Night—The
Final Partings—Parsons Sings “Annie Laurie”—Putting up the
Gallows—Scenes Outside the Prison—A Cordon of Officers—Mrs.
Parsons Makes a Scene—The Death Warrants—Courage of the
Condemned—Shackled and Shrouded for the Grave—The March to
the Scaffold—Under the Dangling Ropes—The Last Words—“Hoch
die Anarchie!”—“My Silence will be More Terrible than
Speech”—“Let the Voice of the People be Heard”—The Chute
to Death—Preparations for the Funeral—Scenes at the Homes
of the Dead Anarchists—The Passage to Waldheim—Howell
Trogden Carries the American Flag—Captain Black’s Eulogy—The
Burial—Speeches by Grottkau and Currlin—Was Engel
Sincere?—His Advice to his Daughter—A Curious Episode—Adolph
Fischer and his Death-watch, 639

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Anarchy Now—The Fund for the Condemned Men’s Families—$10,000
Subscribed—The Disposition of the Money—The Festival
of Sorrow—Parsons’ Posthumous Letter—The Haymarket
Monument—Present Strength of the Discontented—7,300
Revolutionists in Chicago—A Nucleus of Desperate Men—The
New Organization—Building Societies and Sunday-schools—What
the Children are Taught—Education and Blasphemy—The
Secret Propaganda—Bodendick and his Adventures—“The
Rebel Vagabond”—The Plot to Murder Grinnell, Gary and
Bonfield—Arrest of the Conspirators Hronek, Capek, Sevic and
Chleboun—Chleboun’s Story—Hronek Sent to the Penitentiary, 657

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

The Movement in Europe—Present Plans of the Reds—Stringent
Measures Adopted by Various European Governments—Bebel and
Liebknecht—A London Celebration—Whitechapel Outcasts—“Blood,
Blood, Blood!”—Verestchagin’s Views—The Bulwarks of
Society—The Condition of Anarchy in New York, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other American Cities—A
New Era of Revolutionary Activity—A Fight to the Death—Are we
Prepared? 682

APPENDICES, 691

ANARCHY AND ANARCHISTS.