Source: To-day, November 1887 Transcribed: Sally Ryan for marxists.org, 2000
At the moment of writing, seven men are lying in Cook County Gaol, Chicago, sentenced to death upon no evidence whatever. Unless before November 11th a writ of error is obtained from the Supreme Court of the United States, or unless General Oglesby, Governor of the State of Illinois, exercises the prerogative of mercy that lies in his hands, Parsons, Fielden, Spies, Schwab, Fischer, Engel, Lingg, will be executed on that day for a crime of which all evidence shows they are innocent.
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