Chapter I: Introduction

"Order is Heaven's First Law"--Liberty Enlightening the
World--The Red Flag--The Price of Liberty--Our National
Institutions--When Judgment and Justice is Abroad in the Land
the People will Learn Righteousness 9

CHAPTER II.

ANARCHISTS.

Their Nationality--First Agitation--Leader of Anarchy--Revenge
Circular--The Haymarket Meeting--The Lehr und Wehr Verein--The
Massacre--Dispersing the Mob 12

CHAPTER III.

THE GREAT CONSPIRACY.

Bravery of the Police--The Occupation of the Conspirators--The
Trial--Securing a Jury--Bombs in Court--Evidence
of Detective Johnson--Parsons Swears He "Won't Eat
Snowballs Next Winter"--Drilling Anarchists--Pinkerton
Detectives--Cross-Examination--Bombs and Dynamite--Parsons'
View of the Board of Trade--Guns, Dynamite and Prussic Acid
Advocated by Spies--Prosecution Rests Its Case 20

CHAPTER IV.

THE DEFENSE.

Under a Cloud--A Struggle For Life--Contesting Every Point by
Shrewd Counsel--Braving it Out--Throttling the Law--Fielden on
the Stand--Laughable Testimony by Henry Schultz, Who Said He
was a Tourist--Schwab's Evidence--Spies Testifies--Postal Card
From Herr Most--Close of the Defense 64

CHAPTER V.

ARGUMENTS FOR THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE.

Opening Speech by Frank Walker--"We Stand in the Temple
of Justice"--Zeisler for the Defense, Ingham for the
Prosecution--Messrs. Foster and Black for the Defense--Julius
S. Grinnell Makes Closing Speech for the State 100

CHAPTER VI.

INSTRUCTIONS OF THE COURT.

The Verdict--Blanched Faces--The Court to the Jury--Biography,
Age and Residence of the Jurors 119

CHAPTER VII.

THE CONSPIRACY AND MASSACRE.

Names and Number of Killed and Wounded--Unearthing the
Plot--Officers at Work--Crowned With Success--Report of Grand
Jury--The Number of Widows and Orphans Resulting From One
Explosion 119

CHAPTER VIII.

COST OF TRIAL.

Extracts from _Zeitung_--Motion for New Trial--Motion
Overruled 139

CHAPTER IX.

SPIES ADDRESSES THE COURT.

Three Days' Speeches by the Doomed Men--Their Reason Why the
Law Should Not be Executed 150

CHAPTER X.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTER.

_Arbeiter Zeitung_--Mrs. Parsons--Her Arrest in Ohio--Her
Arrest in Chicago--Herr Most Endorsing the Bomb-Throwing--The
Panic He Could Create in a Big City in Thirty Minutes With
3,000 Bombs in the Hands of 500 Revolutionists 181

CHAPTER XI.

SUPERSEDEAS GRANTED.

United States Supreme Court Sustain Original Verdict--Parsons'
Letter to Governor Oglesby--Lingg Defiant--Refusing to Sign a
Petition for Executive Clemency--Their Impertinent Letters to
the Governor 184

CHAPTER XII.

FIELDEN PENITENT.

His Letter to the Governor--Spies' Last Letter to His
Excellency--Willing to Die for His Comrades 219

CHAPTER XIII.

LINGG SUICIDES.

Dr. Bolton With the Prisoners--They Decline Spiritual
Comfort--The Last Night of the Doomed Men--Parsons Sings in
His Cell--Telegrams for Parsons--His Last Letter 223

CHAPTER XIV.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EXECUTION.

Threatening Letters--Pitying Justice--Outraged Law
Vindicated--Mercy to the Guilty is Cruelty to the
Innocent--The Unchanged, Everlasting Will to Give Each Man His
Right--Abuse of Free Speech--"The Mills of God Grind Slow, But
Exceedingly Fine"--Captain Black at the Anarchists' Funeral 231

CHAPTER XV.

A DESCRIPTION OF HERR MOST'S SANCTUM.

A Den Where Anarchy Was Begotten--The Anarchist Chief's Museum
of Weapons and Infernal Machines--Easy Lessons in the Art of
Assassination 240

CHAPTER XVI.

BIOGRAPHY OF HERR MOST.

His Past Career and Early Training--His Imprisonment in
the Bastille and Red Tower for Preaching His Gospel of
Blood--Extracts From His Inflammatory Utterances--"Whet Your
Daggers"--"Let Every Prince Find a Brutus by His Throne." 246

CHAPTER XVII.

BIOGRAPHY OF SPIES.

And the Other Seven Condemned Men--Their Birthplace,
Education, and Private Life--Parsons' Letter to the _Daily
News_, After the Explosion, While a Fugitive From Justice 251

CHAPTER XVIII.

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF JOHN BONFIELD.

Inspector and Secretary of Police Department--Biographies of
Sheriff Matson, Judge Gary, Judge Grinnell--Tribute to Captain
Schaack 259

CHAPTER XIX.

EULOGY TO THE POLICE.

Boldly They Fought and Well--Contrast Between Capital and
Labor--The Anarchists' Fatal Delusion--The United States
National Anthem 264