REMEMBERING THE SEVEN CHICAGO POLICEMEN (END OF WATCH: MAY 4, 1886)

On this date, May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket, a bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd. Let us not forget the victims and the seven Policemen killed that day.

Portraits of the seven Chicago policemen killed in Haymarket Square, from Harper’s Weekly, May 15, 1886.

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Chicago policemen killed

·         1. Mathias J. Degan, 34^[45]

·         2. John J. Barrett, 34^[46]

·         3. George Miller, 28^[47]

·         4. Timothy Flavin, 27^[48]

·         5. Michael Sheehan, 29^[49]

·         6. Thomas Redden, 50^[50]

·         7. Nels Hansen, 50^[51]

·         8. Timothy Sullivan, 51^[52]

This 1886 engraving was the most widely reproduced image of the Haymarket Affair. It shows Methodist pastor Samuel Fielden speaking, the bomb exploding, and the riot beginning simultaneously; in reality, Fielden had finished speaking before the explosion.

Execution of defendants—Engel, Fischer, Parsons, and Spies

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4 HANGED FOR THE HAYMARKET AFFAIR (NOVEMBER 11, 1887)

http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2019/11/4-hanged-for-haymarket-affair-november.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

https://kennethackerman.com/mays-other-anniversary-the-haymarket-riot-chicago-1886/

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