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Lewis, Leon. The Facts Concerning the Eight Condemned Leaders . Greenport, NY: Leon Lewis, 1887. [format: book], [genre: narrative; proceedings]. Permission: Public domain
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Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Preliminary Remarks.
The Facts Concerning the Eight Condemned Leaders.
1. — They are Innocent.
2. — They were Entitled to an Impartial Jury.
3. — The Jury was Illegal.
4. — Such Jurors have been again and again declared by the Supreme Court of Illinois to be Incompetent.
5. — They were Illegally Convicted.
6. — The third Juror was infamously corrupt, tainted, incompetent and illegal.
7. — The eleventh Juror was as tainted as the third.
8. — The Jury was summoned illegally.
9. — The Meeting at the Haymarket was a strictly legal Meeting.
10. — The Killing of Degan not Murder.
11. — The Police as the Aggressors in the Haymarket Tragedy, are solely and entirely responsible for it.
12. — The Accused are the Victims of a hellish Conspiracy.
13. — The Accused had nothing whatever to do with the Throwing of the Haymarket Bomb.
14. — The Accused have never been guilty of Violence nor counselled it.
15. — The Accused are the Prophets and Apostles of a great and glorious Change.
16. — The utter Falsity and Illegality of Judge Gary's Rulings.
17. — Judge Gary's Substitution of Fiction for Fact.
18. — Gilmer's Perjury.
19. — Thompson's Perjury.
20. — The deep and suspicions Darkness in which the whole Affair is still enveloped.
21. — Grinnell's False Pretences.
22. — Capt. Schaack's Confessed Infamy.
23. — The Violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
24. — The whole Prosecution is an Imposture, Fraud, and Pretense.
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Notes.
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