August Spies
August Vincent Theodore Spies was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor. One of the most prominent German-speaking anarchists in America during the decade of the 1880s, Spies was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder following a bomb attack on police in an event remembered as the Haymarket affair. Spies was one of four who were executed in the aftermath of this event.
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1855
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