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  • Verdict of guilty and sentence of death against August Spies et al.

    Holograph verdict relating to 7 defendants in the Haymarket Anarchists Trial: August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Louis Lingg. Signed by 12 jurors: James ...

    Contributor: Cook County (Ill.). Criminal Court
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Report of Michael H. Marks Patrolman

    Holograph report on pre-printed form, signed by Marks. States he was on special duty at saloons at 58 Clybourn and at the corner of Archer Avenue and Dearborn Street, where anarchists congregate. ...

    Contributor: Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Inspector John Bonfield report to Frederick Ebersold, General Superintendent of Police

    Inspector John Bonfield's report to Superintendent Frederick Ebersold regarding the police's actions at the Haymarket meeting on May 4, 1886. Report signed by Bonfield. Includes accompanying reports from Captain William Ward, Lieutenant ...

    Contributor: Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Certificate of execution of Albert R. Parsons

    Manuscript document, signed by Cook County Sheriff Canute Matson, certifying the execution of Albert R. Parsons on November 11, 1887. Document is additionally signed by 13 witnesses to the execution.

    Contributor: Cook County (Ill.). Sheriff
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Captain Michael Schaack letter to J. H. Brayton

    Holograph letter, signed by Captain Michael Schaack, to J. H. Brayton written in ink on Chicago Police Department stationary. Letter serves as a cover sheet in the delivery of a bomb casing ...

    Contributor: Schaack, Michael J.
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Report of Michael H. Marks Patrolman

    Holograph report on pre-printed form, signed by Marks. States his work in the past 24 hours included arresting "Fred Heller who knows the whereabouts of Schnaubel[t]."

    Contributor: Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • August Spies letter to Cook County Sheriff Canute Matson

    Holograph letter, signed by Spies, from County Jail requests permission from Sheriff Matson for Spies' wife to visit him in jail. Spies states that his wife is ill and offers that she ...

    Contributor: Spies, August Vincent Theodore
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Report of M. B. Thorpe Patrolman

    Holograph report on pre-printed form, signed by Thorpe. States that he was on duty in preparation for "trouble expected at McCormicks Reaper Works by Striking Employes" [sic. employees]. Routine form was designed ...

    Contributor: Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Joseph Pulitzer telegram to Cook County Sheriff Canute Matson

    Manuscript message on telegraph form from the publisher of The World (New York) requests the sheriff to admit C. E. Russell, correspondent, to the jail and states that Henry Guy Carleton has ...

    Contributor: Pulitzer, Joseph
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Report of Horace M. Elliot Patrolman

    Holograph report on pre-printed form, signed by Elliot. States that he with Officer Crowe searched a house and "captured" many copies of the London and New York Freiheit [anarchist newspaper]. Routine form ...

    Contributor: Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Albert R. Parsons letter to publishers, Knights of Labor

    Holograph letter, signed by Parsons, to the Publishers of the Knights of Labor, the official newspaper of the Chicago chapter of the Knights of Labor. Letter was written while Parsons was imprisoned ...

    Contributor: Parsons, Albert Richard
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Albert R. Parsons letter to G. P. English

    Holograph letter, signed, from Albert Parsons to reporter, G. P. English asking English for a copy of the notes that he took of Parsons' speech at the Haymarket meeting on May 4, ...

    Contributor: Parsons, Albert Richard
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Nina Van Zandt Spies lettter to B. F. Underwood

    Holograph letter, signed by Nina van Zandt Spies, wife of Haymarket defendant August Spies, to Mr. B. F. Underwood, a supporter of amnesty for the Haymarket defendants. Letter explains that the group ...

    Contributor: Spies, Nina Stuart van Zandt
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Report of M. H. Marks Patrolman

    Holograph report on pre-printed form, signed by Marks. States he was "Looking for Fred Heller who knows the whereabouts of Schnaubelt the Socialist." Routine form was designed for reporting activities in the ...

    Contributor: Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • James K. Van Zandt letter to Cook County Sheriff Canute Matson

    Holograph letter, signed by Van Zandt, begs Sheriff Matson to permit Van Zandt's daughter, Nina Van Zandt Spies, to visit her husband, August Spies, in jail.

    Contributor: Van Zandt, James K.
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Chester S. Lord telegram to Cook County Sheriff Canute Matson

    Manuscript message on telegraph form from the managing editor of the Sun (New York) requests the sheriff to place Joseph Howard, Jr., on the list of favored correspondents because he will represent ...

    Contributor: Lord, Chester S.
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Report of James Morgan Patrolman

    Holograph report on pre-printed form, signed by Morgan. States that he was "Detailed in the Lumber district looking after strickers" [sic. strikers]. Routine form was designed for reporting activities in the past ...

    Contributor: Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Joseph Pulitzer telegram to Cook County Sheriff Canute Matson

    Manuscript message on telegraph form from the publisher of The World (New York) repeats earlier request to the sheriff to admit C. E. Russell, correspondent, to the jail to report on the ...

    Contributor: Pulitzer, Joseph
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Albert R. Parsons autobiography

    Holograph document in pencil with ink amendations, written by Parsons after he was sentenced to death for his role in the Haymarket Square Riot of 1886. The autobiography was intended for publication ...

    Contributor: Parsons, Albert Richard
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

  • Telegram to Albert Parsons from "Four Citizens"

    Manuscript message on telegram form: to Albert Parsons from "Four Citizens". Albert Parsons received, signed, and dated the reverse of the telegram on the same day that he was executed for murder.

    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Date: 1886

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