[Vynne, Harold Richard] [from old catalog] · Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman · leaf 203
the air like acomet and fell with an awful roar in the ranks ofthe police, exploding with deadly effect. Withoutwavering an instant, the surviving officers poureda volley of pistol shots into the mob. For severalminutes the battle raged. When it was over theground was littered with the dead and… … 199 peared as completely as if the earth had swallowedhim. Spies, Engel, Parson, Fielden, Fischer, Schwab,Lingg and Neebe were tried for conspiracy tomurder. The trial was the most sensational inChicagos history, and lasted thirty-six days.Neebe was sent to the penitentiary; all the otherswere…
