Spies v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. A collection of extracts from documentary evidence, found in the record in this cause, has been prepared as a preface to the opinion. These extracts are referred to in the opinion as being contained in a “statement” that precedes the opinion.
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Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. A collection of extracts from documentary evidence, found in the record in this cause, has been prepared as a preface to the opinion. These extracts are referred to in the opinion as being contained in a “statement” that precedes the opinion. That “statement,” or collection of extracts, and the'instructions referred to, and commented upon in the opinion, are as follows: Extracts from articles which appeared in the “Arbeiter Zeitung” under the following dates: February 23, 1885.—“The already…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The writ has been made a supersedeas.
Plaintiffs in error were tried in the summer of 1886 for the murder of Matthias J. Began, on May 4, 1886, in -the city of 'Chicago, Cook county, Illinois. On August 20, 1886, the jury returned a verdict finding the defendants August Spies, ¡Michael Schwab, Samuel Bielden, Albert E. Parsons, Adolph ¡Fischer, George Engel and Louis- Lingg guilty of murder, and fixing' death as the penalty. By the same verdict they also found Oscar W. ¡Neebe guilty of murder and fixed the penalty at imprisonment in the penitentiary for fifteen years.
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