custody, subjecting her to what she called the " third degree ". [ 64 ] She explained their distrust of him, and it was clear she had not had any significant contact with Czolgosz. No evidence was found linking Goldman to the attack, and she was eventually released after two weeks of detention. Before McKinley died, Goldman offered to provide nursing care, referring to him as "merely a human being". [ 65 ] Czolgosz, despite considerable evidence of mental illness, was convicted of murder and executed. [ 66 ] Throughout her detention and after her release, Goldman steadfastly refused to condemn Czolgosz's actions, standing virtually alone in doing so. Friends and supporters—including Berkman—urged her to quit his cause. But Goldman defended Czolgosz as a "supersensitive being" [ 67 ] and chastised other anarchists for abandoning him. [ 67 ] She was vilified in the press as the "high priestess of anarchy", [ 68 ] while many newspapers declared the anarchist movement responsible for the murder. [ 69 ] In the wake of these events, socialism gained support over anarchism among U.S. radicals. McKinley's successor, Theodore Roosevelt , declared his intent to crack down "not only against anarchists, but against all active and passive sympathizers with anarchists". [ 70 ] Mother Earth and Berkman's release Mug shot taken in 1901 when Goldman was implicated in the assassination of President McKinley. After Czolgosz's execution, Goldman withdrew from the world. Scorned by her fellow anarchists, vilified by the press, and separated from her