The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-09-11
DENIED HER IDENTITY
AND DESCRIBED JoURNEYIxGs.

The police are not entirely satisfied with
Miss Goldman's story. When Captain
Schuettler and Detective Hertz discovered
her at the home OF one Norris. at No. 303
Sheffield avenue, she denied her identity.
Hello. Miss Goldman" said the Cap
tain, "as he entered the parlor. "Are you
glad to see me?'
I'm not Miss Goldman: I'm a Swedish
woman and my name is Lena Larson" !"
answered the anarchist. endeavoring to
initiate a Swedish dialect.
"An right: speak Swedish. myself"
said the police officer. as he poured out a
few questions in the Morse tongue. Miss
Goldman did not answer him. affecting to
misunderstood. Detective Hertz, mean
while. had discovered penholderi. with
the name emma Goldman engraved on
1t. -
what does this Inean?" asked Captain
schuettler, holding the inscribed penholder.
"It means that the game is up." she said.
She then admitted her identity fully and ac-
companied the officers. The woman was
, hurried to the police chiefs office. Her
appearance tailed exactly with the de-
scription sent out by the Associated Press
yesterday.
During the talk which followed, Miss
Goldman detailed as best she could recol-
lect her movements since last July. She
went from Chicago to Buffalo. accompanied
by Miss Isaaks, the daughter of the al
legged anarchist editor under arrest here.
In Buffalo they stopped two days and
then proceeded to Rochester. where they
stopped at the home of Miss Goldman's
sister. Mrs. H. Hochstein, of 2l3 Joseph
street. Here they visited little more than
five weeks. The only incident of It was a
short visit to Niagara Falls and another to
New York on business. In the latter city
Miss Goldman entered temporarily into the
employ Of a firm the name of which she
would not divulge. Business for them car.
r1ed her to Pittsburg She was in Cincin-
natl Labor Day and that night left for St.
Louis
I saw the police there Sunday all right"
the prisoner said, with a sarcastic little
laugh. but they didn't see me. I heard
Of the arrest Of Mr.. 1saaks and his family
and other anarchists in Chicago. and de-
termined to come here and see II 1 could
not help them. Mr.. Isaaks has not been in
the country long. and was afraid he would
not know what to do when in legal difficult
ties
What have you done to help him?" Cap
tain Schuettler asked.
WELL" she answered SLOWLY. ~I nav.
been looking for men to go on their bonds.
providing the courts would allow us IN
furnish them"
SHE EXPLAINS. HER
MEETING WITH CzOLGOsz.
1T was early last July when came TO
Cnicaso to visit the Isaaks family" she
continued. IN answer to interrogatione con-
cernns her whereabouts recently. "On the
night Of July u Mr.. Isaaks was out Of the
house. The bell rang and I went to the
door. The man who. I learn through the
newspapers, was Czo1gosz, stood there. He
said he wanted to see me. was about In
catch the Nickel Plate train, as and Mr..
Isaakss daughter were about to 20 to
Rochester. He went to the Rock Island
depot with us. but / was SO busy taking
leave Of my friends that scarcely noticed
him. It was not a time when one would
want TO make new friends. At the depot
had the few words with him of which T
have told. That was all there ever was
between u.s.
Il am an anarchists student Of SOCIOLOGY.
but nothing in anything ever said to Leon
Czolsosz knowingly could have led him to
do the act which startled everybody FRI
day"
Not even in your lectures?. che was
asked. He says your words set his brain
on hre."
Am accountable because some crack
Drained person puts wrong construction
on my words? Leon Czolgosz. am con-
WINGED. planned the deed unaided and en-
tirely alone. There is no anarchist ring
which yonld help him. There may be an
archists Who would murder, but there are
also men in every walk of life who .ome-,
times feel the Impulse to kill do not Know
surely. but think Czolgosx was one of
those do~ntrodden men who see all the
misery which this rich infiict on the poor.
who think Of It, who brood over It. and then.
In despair. resolve to strike great blow.
as they think. for the good Of their fellow
men But that - not anarchy.
eCsolgosx"-ths Russian woman pro-
nounced the name with the xssatsst ease