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child's play to find out the residences of the higher military
officers in all the greater cities of Germany, then, in
one night, send out our best men and have all those officers
murdered simultaneously. In four articles published
in the 'Arbeiterstimme,' of Zurich, he explained in
a truly classical manner how to conduct a modern street
battle, what to do to get the best of artillery and cavalry.
At meetings he urged the collection of funds to
buy arms for our people. As soon as war broke out with
France our comrades from Switzerland, according to
him, should break into Baden and Wuerttemberg, should
there tear up the tracks and confiscate the contents of the
postal and railroad treasuries. And this man, who urged
me to do all that, was, as I said, in the employ of the
Prussian police.
"Another police preacher and organizer of violent
plots was that well-known Friedeman who was driven
out of Berlin, and, at the gatherings of comrades in
Zurich, appealed to them, in prose and poetry, to commit
acts of violence. A certain Weiss, a journeyman tinsmith,
was arrested in the vicinity of Basel for having
put up posters in which the deeds of Kammerer and
Stellmacher were glorified. He, too, was in the employ
of the German police, as was afterward established during
the court proceedings.
"A certain Schmidt, who had to disappear from Dresden
on account of his crooked conduct, came to Zurich
and urged the establishment of a special fund for assassinations,
contributing twenty francs to start the fund.
Correspondence which he had carried on with Chief of
Police Weller, of Dresden, and which later fell into our
hands, proved that he was in the employ of the police,
whom he kept informed of his actions. And then the
unmasked secret police agent Ihring-Mahlow, here in