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As hundreds of suspects, coconspirators, and material witnesses were being dragged into police cells and a very busy grand jury churned out scores of indictments, two obscure lawyers took charge of the anarchists’ defense. Like most of their clients, Moses Salomon and Sigmund Zeisler were both recent immigrants to America. As partners they had handled most of the legal business arising out of the anarchist movement for several years and advertised their services in the anarchist newspapers. Neither had earned much of a reputation or had much experience. Samuel McConnell, a leading Chicago lawyer, later noted that, “one of them had just been admitted to the bar. Neither had ever tried a criminal case before and neither had a decided personality.”1
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Dave Roediger and Franklin Rosemont’s Haymarket Scrapbook (1986).
James Green repeated this idea in Death in the Haymarket (2006).
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Messer-Kruse, T. (2011). Preparing for Trial. In: The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339293_3
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