Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-09-07

corner OF the temple. There be was
searched. but nothing was found upon
him except letter relating TO lodgings.
They washed the blood from bis face
and asked him who be was and why be
bad tried to kill the President. He
made no answer at first, but finally gave
his name as Nieman. He is Of medium
height, smooth shaver, brown haired,
and was dressed 10 the ordinary clothes
Of mechanic. He offered no explans-
tioD for the deed. except that he was az
anarchist and had done bis dutp.
A detail of exposition guards and
company of soldiers were ssnt for and
a carriage was summoned. South OF the
temple space had been roped OF. The
crowd tore out the iron stanchio1s hold
ing the ropes and carried the ropes to
a flag pole standing nearby on the
Esplsnsde.
Lynch himl" cried hundred voices,
and q start was made for one OF the en-
frances of the temple.
Soldiers and police beat back the
crowd, the guards and people wrang-
ling, shouting, and fighting. 10 this
confusion CzoIgosz, still bleeding, with
clothes torn and scarcely able to walk,
was led out by Capt. Vsllsly, chief oi
the exposition detectives. Command
ant Robinson, aud q squad OF Secret
Service men. CZolgosz was thrown into
a carriage aud the detectives Jumped In
on him. Captain Vsllsly sprsng to the
drivers seat and lashed the horses into
a gallon. The crowd burst into roar
! of rage.
"Murdererln Assassin" Lynch,
hang himlp they yelled. Men sprang
at the horses and clutched at the whirl
ing wheels of the carriage. Czolgosz
huddled back in the corner, concealed
between two detectives.
The carrisge whirled across the Es-
planade, and was driven to police head
quarters.
Thousands left the exposition grounds
and, learning that the man had been
taken to police headquarters, followed
there, willing to do violent justice II the
President was dead.
While this crowd threatened the life
OF the would-be 10 urderer, every effort
was being made to offer scientific aid
| to the President and to bring to hin
the hest surgeons that could be secured
DR.. E. w. Lee, of st. Louis; DR.. Storer,
of Chicago, and DR.. Van Peyms, oil
Buff 10, were on the grounds and join
ed the hospital staff. DR.. Matthew ID
Mann. DR.. Herman Mynter, and Dr.
John ParmeDier were summoned by tel
ephone, and Dire. Harrington and
stockton were brought TO the ground;
10 swift automobiles.
The President was borne from the
Temple OF Music at Ala o'clock by Drs
Hall, Ellis, and Manu-, jr., who were 10
charge OF the ambulance. The crowd
fell back when it saw the figure OF the
President on the stretcher. There was
no need for the police to ask the crowd
to move back. Along the route of foun'
tains snd through The hall the crowd
itself cleared psth way, crying: keep
back; keep back; make way !"
Colonel Chaplin, of General Roe.
staff, With the mounted escort that had
accompanied President Mckinley 10 bis
outdoor appearances since bis arrival
|
and they went swiftly TO the hospital
The doctors we're at the Presidents
eide within thirty seconds after his ar.
rival, and the nurses bad made ready
for the task OF the surgeons.
Ia the room with the President were
Messrs. Milburn and Cortelyou. The
first news that came from the operating
room was that one bullet had been ex-
tracted, and that this wound was super.
fetal and by no means serious.
Then came the news OF the second
wound, and the information that the
bullet had not been found, and that the
doctors had decided to wait for O con-
sultation OF surgeons before begin ming
an operation. At 5:32 o'clock w. Y.
Cox, secretary OF the government
board Of Exposition managers, arrived
with DR.. Rixey, Mrs. Rxey, and Mrs.
Courtelyou.
They had come direct from the Mil
burn home, where Mrs. Mckinley was
sleeping, all unconscious of what bad
happened. Officers OF the army and
navy, including Captain Hobson aud
foreign diDlomates who were there for
Presidents day, crowded the corridors
OF the hospital.
At 6 o'clock Captain Vallsly brought
the news that be had delivered the
prisoner safe at police headquarters, 10
the custody Of the detectives who ar
rested him.
1t was announced at this time that
| the President was about to undergo
an operation to fed the second bullet.
Dr.. Mann performed the operation, az
sisted by Drs Psrmenter, Mynter and
Rixey.
The crowd waited for twenty min
utes, when the news was brought that
the President had undergone the opera.
ton that the bullet had not been found,
that the drainage tubes had been
inserted, the incision had been sewed
up and the surgeons we're hopeful OF
the outcome.
It was found that the second and
serious wound was bullet hole In the
abdomen about five inches below the
left nipple and an inch and s-half to the
left of the median line. The bulleI
which caused that wound penetrated
both the anterior and posterior walls of
the stomach, going through and COM
pletely perforating that organ. 1t was
found also that as consequences OF the
perforatioD, the stomach fluid had cir
cuIsted about the abdominal cavity.
Further examination disclosed that the
hole made by the entrance OF the bullel
was small aud clean cut, while that Cd
the other side OF the stomach was large
and ragged. A fye.inch incsion was
made and through that aperture the
physicians were enabled to turn the
organ ABOUT so as to suture the larger
bullet hole. After that had been sewed