The unknown bomber's act resounded nationwide. Public opinion was instantly galvanized against the radical left, resulting in the first "Red Scare" in America. In a climate of political paranoia fueled by the popular press, the police arrested eight prominent Chicago anarchists and charged them with conspiracy to murder. The eight were tried before Judge Joseph E. Gary in the Circuit Court of Cook County. Although no evidence emerged to tie any of the men to the bombing, the jury returned a verdict of guilty after deliberating for less than three hours. The court sentenced Oscar Neebe to fifteen years in the penitentiary and the others to death by hanging.
From Wikipedia: August Spies was born in Germany in 1855 and emigrated to America in 1872 with his mother, Christine, and his five siblings, Henry, Kenny, Maggie, Willy, and Adolph. His father had died in 1871.
From Wikipedia: George Engel was born in Cassel, Germany in 1836 to a impoversished family with three other children. His father, Konrad, a mason and bricklayer, died when he was less than two years old. His mother dies when he was twelve leaving him an orphan. He lived for a short time with a foster family, but at the age of 14 was forced to look for work. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but was unable to afford the dues. He travelled to Frankfort and finally found work as a painter's apprentice. He travelled around Germany working, and in 1868 opened a business of his own. He married the same year, but found that the economic conditions in Germany made survival difficult, and so decided to follow his boyhood dream of emigrating to the United States. He left Germany in 1872 arriving first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 1873 where he worked in a sugar refinery. In 1874 he left Philadelphia and moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he later, in 1876, was to open his own toyshop.
From Wikipedia: Albert Parsons was born on June 20, 1848 in Montgomery, Alabama to Samuel Parsons (?-1853) of Maine. His mother was a Tompkins-Broadwell of New Jersey and she died in 1850. They moved to Montgomery, Alabama where Samuel started a shoe and leather factory and they had ten children. One step brother was [William Henry Parsons] {1826-1907}. Parsons called his brother a "general". William H. Parsons was the Colonel of the 12th Regiment, Texas Cavalry {Parson's Mounted Volunteers}.
From Wikipedia: Adolph Fischer emigrated to the United States in 1873 at the age of 15. He became an apprentice compositor in his brother, William's printing shop in Little Rock, Arkansas. Later, in 1879, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he joined the German Typographical Union and in 1881, married Johanna Pfauntz (they would have three children -- one daughter and two sons).
You are making things up. They were all legal immigrants to the U.S. All were charged and hanged with very little evidence to support the claim that they were the bombers. Your specious claim that they were "terrorists from Nothern Germany" is so easily debunked as to render your argument totally faulty.
Everything I have stated is factual.
They were all legal immigrants to the U.S.
Who claimed they weren't? That was my whole point.
All were charged and hanged with very little evidence to support the claim that they were the bombers.
So, it was all a big conspiracy and the government railroaded them as part of some big coverup - right? Are you a contributor to PrisonPlanet?
Your specious claim that they were "terrorists from Nothern Germany" is so easily debunked as to render your argument totally faulty.
They were from Northern Germany (except Parsons, of course), and they were terrorists. There's nothing to debunk, unless one is a conspriacy theorists who believes that the Pinkertons and not the terrorists were behind the bombing.
Get a grip, dude.
“William H. Parsons was the Colonel of the 12th Regiment, Texas Cavalry {Parson’s Mounted Volunteers}.”
My Great Grand uncle was a sargent in Co.F of Parson’s Mounted Volunteers.