Q: You heard the witnesses testifying on that subject? Q: Were you there at the time that there was any telephoning done with reference to the Deering meeting? Fielden?Ī: I arrived there, I think, about 10 minutes or perhaps a little less than that, before eight. Q: At what time did you arrive there, Mr. Q: How and when did you receive notice of the holding of that meeting?Ī: I had been with a load of stone to Wadheim cemetery that day and I had engaged to speak at 12th street, 268 that night, and intended going there until I got home and bought a Daily News and saw the announcement of a meeting of the American Group to be held at 107 Fifth Avenue that night, important business, I believe it said and I was the treasurer of that society or of that organization and had all the money that the organization was worth and and we should have had our semi-annula election the Sunday previous to the 4th of May, and I thought that possibly some money would be wanted as it was advertised as important business, so that I thought that I would go and not go to the meeting that I had engaged the Sunday night previous to go to that night, and that is what brought me there. Q: Do you remember a meeting held at the Arbeiter Zeitung office, or at the building, at least, 107 Fifth Avenue, on the evening of the 4th of May last? Q: Was that your home prior to your arrest? Q: What had been your business before the 4th of May, for a considerable time?Ī: I have worked in stone yards and driven stone teams most of the time since 1872, the year following the fire. I have been down South twice working on levees and railroads down there and I have worked-the first work I did in Illinois I worked on John Wentowrth's farm at Summit, 12 miles from Chicago, and worked around. Q: You have resided then, about seventeen years in Chicago?Ī: Well, most of the time. Q: At what age did you come to the United States?Ī: I came to the United States in the following July after I was of age, 21, 1868.Ī: I worked one day, I believe in Brooklyn, in a hat factory and from there I went to Providence and lived in North Providence and worked in Chapin & Town's woolen mill until the following March.Ī: Well, I came from there to Ohio, worked on a farm four months there and from there in August I came to Chicago in 1869. SAMUEL FIELDEN, one of the defendants, called on behalf of the defendants, was duly sworn and testified as follows:Ī: I was born in the town of Dolderdon, Lancashire, England.

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