1. Louis Lingg was a German-born American anarchist who was convicted as a member of the criminal conspiracy behind the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing.
20 Facts About Louis Lingg
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Louis Lingg was born on September 9,1864, in Mannheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden to Friedrich Lingg.
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Louis Lingg's father was injured in the lumber mill where he worked.
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Louis Lingg then took a job in Strasbourg, in Alsace, then moved on to Freiburg, Germany, where he joined the Working Men's Educational Society, a socialist organization.
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Louis Lingg then received a letter from his mother telling him that her new husband was willing to provide him with enough money to move to the United States.
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In July 1885, Louis Lingg arrived in New York City then departed for Chicago, Illinois, where he joined the International Carpenters and Joiners' Union.
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Louis Lingg arrived in Chicago seven months before the actions.
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On May 4,1886, Louis Lingg was not present at Haymarket Square for what would be known as the Haymarket Riot.
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Louis Lingg himself was discovered in his hiding place on May 14,1886, when he pulled a revolver and fought with two police officers before being arrested.
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Louis Lingg was placed on trial with seven anarchist associates, who were tried as a group.
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Gustave Lehman, a fellow anarchist carpenter, testified that Louis Lingg was a member of a militant "armed wing" of his carpenters union.
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Seliger, a revolutionary carpenter who subletted a room to Louis Lingg, provided the most damning testimony against him.
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Louis Lingg told the jury he rose early the morning of the bombing and asked Lingg to remove the bombs from the building.
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Louis Lingg persuaded Seliger that helping him assemble bombs would allow him to remove them that day.
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Louis Lingg allegedly told Seliger he was working too slowly, as they needed the bombs by the afternoon.
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Louis Lingg then returned to Neff's with Lingg after the bombing.
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Louis Lingg challenged the link of his bombs to the Haymarket bomb.
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Louis Lingg died by suicide on November 10,1887, the day before he was scheduled to hang.
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Louis Lingg used a blasting cap smuggled to him by a fellow prisoner.
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Louis Lingg was buried, in a plot marked since 1893 by the Haymarket Martyrs Monument, in the Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois.