August Spies et al., plaintiffs in error, vs. the people of the state of Illinois, defendant in error : error to the Criminal Court of Cook County : indictment for murder / oral argument of W.P. Black, attorney for plaintiffs in error
At head of title: In the Supreme Court of Illinois, Northern Grand Division, March term, A.D. 1887
"Delivered before the Supreme Court in session at Ottawa, Ill., March 18, 1887, in closing the argument of the case. Reported by J.A. Sawyer, stenographer."