I ‘‘then go to tiie penitentiary for life, and he'd
| rather go off by tiie wav of poison than the
route ordered by law.’’ He didn't think he
I had bad a fair trial. The old man said ho had
I only made three speeches, and what he scem
i cd to regret w>st was that he had not made
thirty or tiffee hundred speeches when lie
! found lie was to be hanged for speechmaking
This afternoon W. M. Salter, who lias been
I working in company with H. D. Loyd, to se
' cure the signatures of prominent citizens to
, the request for a commutation of sentence
against the anarchists, asked Spies to say
■ plainly what lie. knew about the bombs found
; in l.ingg's cell yesterday. Spie- wrote the
following, and to it are appended the signa
tures of Fielden and Schawb. Further be
low is a statement by Fischer.
