Death
Engel was hanged with three others of the condemned on November 11, 1887. His last words were reportedly "Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life", screamed from the gallows in his native German.
Engel was buried, in a plot marked since 1893 by the Haymarket Martyrs Monument, in the Waldheim Cemetery (now Forest Home Cemetery) in Forest Park, Chicago.
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