(HAYMARKET RIOT) August Spies Auto Biography; His Speech in

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(HAYMARKET RIOT.) August Spies' Auto-Biography; His Speech in Court, and General Notes. 2 frontispiece portraits. 8vo, original wraps, moderate wear and soiling; toning, short tears on last two leaves. Chicago: Niña Van Zandt [1887]

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Spies was an anarchist newspaper editor in Chicago, and had spoken at the Haymarket Square rally. Though no evidence linked him to the pipe bomb which killed a police officer that evening, he was arrested for murder along with seven others. Niña Van Zandt, who published this pamphlet and wrote an introduction, met and married Spies during his prison term.