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32pp. Bound in original printed paper over boards [library gum label on blank portion of title page; front pastedown with library plate and withdrawal stamp. Inner margin of first leaf with some soil, but not affecting any text. Text clean. Good+. The author wrote as "Leon" Lewis. On the night of May 4, 1886, 800-1000 people attended a public meeting in Chicago's Hay Market Square in support of the eight-hour workday. Several clashes with the police had previously occurred; the meeting was called to protest alleged police brutality. At the meeting someone threw a bomb; it exploded, wounded many, and killed several policemen. Alden, Nee, and Schwaab were found guilty of the murder, primarily because they had a history of uttering and printing "seditious" material advising the killing of policemen and Pinkerton men. Lewis expressed outrage at "this fiendish CONTRIVED MURDER!" He denounces "the reigning religious Mummery and Superstition, judicial Prostitution and Depravity, and political Jobbery and Expediency." Examining the status of the jurors in detail, he concludes, "The Jury was Illegal." Moreover, the Police were the Hay Market aggressors and "are solely and entirely responsible." He exposes perjury, judicial misconduct, and unconstitutional searches and seizures. In 1893, after years of public outcry, Governor Altgeld pardoned the defendants: he declared the trial a sham, the jurors obviously biased in favor of conviction, and that the State had never demonstrated who threw the bomb or, indeed, whether the defendants had any connection with the bomber. Seller Inventory # 40113
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