Joseph Gary
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Joseph Easton Gary was an American lawyer and judge in the state of Illinois. He served over 40 years as a judge of the Superior Court of Cook County, including eight years as judge of the Illinois Ap
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August Spies
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August Vincent Theodore Spies was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor. One of the most prominent German-speaking anarchists in America during the decade of the 1880s,
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…was re-elected in 1881, 1887, 1893, 1900, and 1905. As a judge on this court, Gary presided over the Haymarket Riot case in 1886, sentencing anarchists August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Louis Lingg to death, and sentencing Oscar Neebe to 15 years. There…
Spies' appearance at the time of his conviction in 1886
Frontis illustration from Spies' autobiography, published by his wife.
Original reference photograph by Levin & Maul's Studio (1886-1887), c. 1886 (reissue by J. Maul, between 1887 and 1895).
The last photograph of August Spies at his prison cell in County Jail on May 3, 1887 (photographer: John Joergen Kanberg).