Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-09-14
PRESIDENT
/ M'KINLEY
I SHOT BY AN
| ANARCHIST
His Condition Now Easy and
Free From Pain
ASSAlLANT UNDER ARREST
His Name Is Leon Czolgosz and
His Home Cleveland
THE PISTOL WAS CONCEALED
WOuld.be Assassin Threw Hand.
kerchief Over Weapon
MAKES A FULL CONFESSION
Became An Anarchist Through
Emma Goldman's Teachings
WOuld.be Assassin Threw Hand.
kerchief Over Weapon
MAKES A FULL CONFESSION
Became An Anarchist Through
Emma Goldman's Teachings

Buffalo, Sept. president McKin
ley was shot and seriously wounded oy
a would-be assassin while holding a
reception in the. temple of music al
the Pan-American Exposition few
minutes after o'clock yesterday after
noon. One shot took effect In the
right breast, the other in the abdomen
The first is not of a serious nature
and the bullet has been extracted. The
latter pierced the abdominal wall and
has not been located.
The last bulletin of the Presidents
physician was to the effect that the
chief executive is free from pain and
resting well.
BLACKLIST Day In 5uffalo's History"
Not more than a brief twenty-four
hours ago the newspapers OF the city
blazoned forth in all the pomp of head
line type: THE proudest day in Buff
falo's history" This morning In sack.
cloth and ashes. in sombre type, sur.
rounded by grewsome borders of black,
the same newspapers are telling In
funeral tones to Mortified populace
the deplorable details of the BLACKLIST
day in the history of Buffalo
President Mckinley, the idol of the
American people, the nations chief ex-
exutive and the citys honored guest
lies PROSTATE. suffering the pangs in
fiicted by the bullets OF a cowardly as
sassin, while his life hangs in the bal
ance.
Out on Delaware avenue, at the
home of John G, Milburn, president of
the Pan-American exposition, with
fearful face and heart torn by conflict
ing hopes and fears, sits the faithful
wife, whose devotion is known to all
the nation.
1t was a few moments after p. m.
while President Mckinley was holding
public reception in the great Temple
of Music on the Pan-American grounds
that the cowardly attack was made,
with what success time alone can tell.
Standing in the midst of the crowds
numbering thousands surrounded by
every evidence of good will, pressed
by a motley throng of people, show
cred with expressions of love and 10y
atty, besieged by multitudes all eager
TO clasp his hand amid these sur
roundings and with ever recurring
plaGdits of an admiring army of sigu.-
seers ringing in his ears the blow of
the assassin fell and in an instant
pleasure gave way to pain, admiration
TO agony, folly turned to fury and pan
demonium followed.
Clear up till midnight last night a
surging. swaying, eager multitude
through the city's main thorough
fares. choking the streets in front of
the principal newspapers, scanning the
bulletins with anxious ewes ald groan-
Ing or cheering in turn eacd succeeding
announcement as the nature of the
message sank or buoyHd their hopes.
Down at police Headquarters, sur
rounded by sternfaced inquisitors of
the law. sat a medium-sized man, Of
commonplace appearance, with his
fixed gaze directed on the floor. who
pressed his lips firmly together and lis
tened with an air of assumed indiffer-
ence to the persistent stream of ques-
lions, arguments. objurga ions and adj
monitions by which his captors sought
TO induce or compel him to talk.
1t was just after the daily organ
recital in the splendid temple of music
that the dastardly attempt upon the
life of the President was made.
Planned With DaboIical Ingenuity.
Planned with all the diabolical in
genui Y and fnesse of which Anarchy
or NiLlism is capable, tie would-be
assassin carried out the ~or, without
a hitch, and should his das ems fail
and the President survive. only to
Divine Providence can be attributed
that beneficial result
The President. though we'll guarded
by United States special service de-
tectives, was fully exposed to such
an attack as occurred. lie stood at
the edge of the raised dais upon which
stands the great pipe organ at the
east side of the magnificent structure.
Throngs of people crowded n at the
various entrances, to gaze upon their
executive, perchance TO clasp his hand,
and then fight their way ont in tine
good-natured mob that every minw @
swelled and multiplied at The points
of ingrees and egTess to the building.
The President was in a cheerful moot
and was enjoying to the full the hear
ty evidences Of good will which every
where met his gaze Upon lis right
stood John G. Miburn. of buffalo, the
president Of the Pan-Amer can Expo