Altgeld, John Peter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...moved to Chicago, where he wrote Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims (1884), arguing that American judicial methods were weighted...pardoned three anarchists imprisoned as parties to the Haymarket riot of 1886. During the Pullman strike of 1894, when President...