The evening times., 1900-10-03
PRESIDENT UNDER GUARD
Reported PIGt TO Assassinate Mr..
Mckinley Exeites Canton.
Warning From Chicago That Three
Italians Were En- Route From
That City With the Intention OF
killing the Nations Executive.
Watching for Alleged Anarchists.

CANTON, Ohio. Oct 3.-The reported
plot TO assassinate President Mckinley
has caused intense excitement here. The
discovery of the alleged plot has resulted
in the most extraordinary precautions be-
ing taken to guard the President
All night and through the early hours
of this morning messages have been COM
ing here by telephone and telegraph, ask
ing if it was true that President McKin-
ley had been assassinated-
The enquiries came from Republican
politicians and persons of prominence in
ali sections of the country. They declared
that the report had been received in their
various localities that the President had
been murdered. All were informed that
the story was untrue.
Mayor Robinson, ex-oficio chief Of po-
lice, today issued the following:
ITO all Policemen-Keep q close watch
on all strangers who are seen IN the city
Be particular TO watch for TWO Italians,
who will probably be accompanied By an
old man, who dresses like and passes for
an old soldier.
'Tf these three, or either of them. are
found, arrest them on sight and hold them
on q charge OF suspicion. Watch all in
coming and outgoing trains
Extra policemen have been detailed to
carry out Mayor Robinson's order Men
in plain clothes are at the railroad sta
ton. and all trains entering the city ere
cIosels watched. Strangers of suspicious
appearance are shadowed and their busl-
ness in town ascertained.
A guard Of special men has been placed
around the Presidents home. and the
roads about the city are being carefully
patrolIed The road near the President S
home is now patrolled with the great
est care.
It is said that the plan to be pursued
by the asssssins was TO watch the roads
leading out of the city on which ehe
President is accustomed to take lonely
drives. and to kill him when opportu-
nifty offered.
George S Foster. the Secret Service
man, who always accompanies the Presi-
dent, is taking all the precautions nee
essary. II was he who received the
first word of the plot from the Secret
Service branch in Chicago. A second
Secret Service agent has arrived from
Washington, and Is working with Agent
Foster.
Mayor Robinson said today that the pre-
cautions he had taken were az the instance
of Mr. Foster. who is attached TO the Nc
kiniey household
The word concerning the assassination
plot first came TO the Secret Service De
partment at Chicago he said AN anony-
nous letter was received by the authorities
there stating that the three men for whose
apprehension we were on the lookout would
leave Chicago last night and were expected
TO arrive in Canton during today. Thus
far they have not come. but we are keeping
close watch
The men who are said to be implicated
in the plot are described as an old man il
the disguise of a soldier, and two Italians
It is intimated in Secret Service circles
that these men are agents of the Italian
Anarchists whose plottings resulted in the
killing of King Humbert and who threat
ened to remove most of the crowned
heads of the earth.
It IS supposed that the ''old soldier is
a foreigner, though, it is said, he dis
gui5ed himself as an American veteran,
When the aews of the discovery of the
plot reached Canton Private Secretary
Cortelyou took precautions to keep ali
knowledge of the supposed plot from the
President but induced Mr.. Mckinley to
believe that he did not want to take his
regular drive. 1t was feared that the pro-
jected attempt on his life would be made
at some lonely spot on country road.
President Mckinley stayed indoors, re-
tired at his usual hour. slept soundly in
perfect security. and today arose in COM
plete ignorance that his guard had been
heavily increased and that all the energies
of the Secret Service Bureau, the local po-
lice, and the police of the big cities had
been enlisted to protect him from supposed
Anarchists.
Government detectives in Chicago have
been working for many days on the theory
that the plot elimination of the general
Anarchist conspiracy against crowned rul-
ers and presidents, was being brought to a
head in Chicago. They were unable to To-
cate or describe the suspects until yester-
day aIld then telegraph wires were kept
busy preparing for the supposed emergency.
Secretary Cortelyou declined to make
any statement concerning the alleged
plot.
The Secret Service men say they are
| convinced that the supposed plot against
the President is a part OF an Anarchist
conspiracy of which Bresci's crime was
the most startling and successful recent
example When King Hurbert was
slain it was asserted that the Anarchists
threatened to kill not only the crowned
rulers of Europe, but also to assassi-