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“...head was shot clean from his shoulders.
This gave t)he capitalists a chance to get in the militia, and
six strikers were killed by the boys in blue, and many others
wounded. It was at this time that the Anarchist, Alexander
Berkman, went into the office of H. C. Frick, the steel mag-
nate, with the design of performing an autopsy upon that gen-
tleman first and letting him die afterwards. The autopsy did
not turn out quite successful, however. Outside of a scare and
a penknife scratch on the abdomen, Frick succeeded in post-
poning the autopsy to a time when it could be performed with-
out any inconvenience to himself. Berkman, however, got
twenty-two years in state prison, fourteen of which he served.
A private in the militia, whose name was Yates, thought
that Berkman was right, and he gave vent to his thoughts and
feelings. As a punishment for being so indiscreet he was
hung up for several hours by the thumbs.
In 1893 the Socialist Labor Party made substantial gains
at the polls, and...”
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