Timeline May 1, Industrial workers across the U. May 3, During a strike at McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago, demonstrators clash with police, and several of the strikers are wounded or killed. May 4, A bomb is detonated after police break up a meeting of labor activists near Haymarket Square in Chicago. One police officer is killed by the blast, and several men, both strikers and police officers, die or are wounded in the ensuing violence. July 16, The eight men go to trial.
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From somewhere in the crowd, a bomb was thrown in front of the columns of police. When the dust settled, seven police officers were dead and sixty were injured, many of them hit by wild shots from fellow policemen. A like number of civilians were killed and injured, although the number is uncertain because few would admit to being at the rally. The police rounded up suspicious foreign workers and anarchist leaders.
Seven men stood trial for murder. On June 21, they were joined by an eighth — Parsons himself. He had fled the city after the bombing, but turned himself in to be tried with his comrades. No one had been identified as the bomber, but the eight defendants were tried as accessories to murder based on their inflammatory speeches.
The judge, Joseph E. Gary, allowed men who had already decided on a guilty verdict to sit on the jury. The defense lawyer, William Perkins Black, provided alibis for all eight men.
The only two who were at the rally at the time of the bombing had been on stage, in full view of the crowd and police. The mayor, Carter Harrison, testified that the rally was peaceful and attended by women and children. The prosecuting attorney, Julius S. Grinnell declared, "Law is on trial.
Anarchy is on trial Gentlemen of the jury, convict these men, make examples of them, hang them and you save our institutions, our society. In the resulting riot, seven policemen and an unknown number of demonstrators lost their lives.
Police arrested hundreds of labor activists, and ultimately charged eight men. Seven were sentenced to death. Four of the men were later hanged in the alley behind what was then the Cook County Courthouse at 54 West Hubbard Street. The case is considered one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in American history. A handbill advertising the rally was in both English and German.
Anti-immigrant sentiment fueled the convictions.
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