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There can be no doubt that bullets flew thickly that night, but the question of whether anyone in the anarchist crowd joined in the gunplay was one of the keys to the whole case. Dozens of police officers testified that they were shot at by members of the mob. Some police officers claimed that the crowd shot first and some even claimed to have seen Samuel Fielden, one of the defendants, crouch down behind the speakers’ wagon and fire off a few shots himself. Police recovered a pistol from the area with several spent rounds. Nearly unanimously, defense witnesses claimed that no one but the police fired shots that night.
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Messer-Kruse, T. (2011). The Elements of a Riot. In: The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339293_6
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