The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-25
ASSASSIN'S FAMILY
FATHER, BROTHER AND SISTER OF
LEON CZOLGOSZ ARE IN
BUFFALO
OBJECT OF VISIT UNKNOWN
Buffalo District Attorney Says the
Relatives of the Prisoner
Were Not Sent for
by Him.

BUFFALO, Sept. 24-PauI Czolgosz.
! father; Waldeck Czolgosz, brother, and
Victoria CZolgosz, sister of the presi-
dents assassin, arrived here from Cleve-
land this afternoon. They game over
the Lake Shore railroad and in the
union station the father and sister be-
came separated from the brother. The
father and sister did not appear at Dis
tr1ct Attorney Penney's Office in the city
hall until shortly after 4:30 o'clock.
Supt. Bull and Assistant Superintendent
Cusack took charge of them and sent
them to police headquarters with De-
tecttves Solomon and Geary. AS they
were leaving the city 4-au they met Wal
deck Czolgosz and Inspector Martin. The
brother had gone to police headquarters
looking for his relatives and the inspec-
tor sent the three members of the Czol-
gosz family back to police headquarters.
The family was taken up stairs to the
quarters reserved for witnesses, and As
sistant Superintendent Cusack announced
that he would examine them this even
Ing. Jacob Mfntz, a private detective.
who accompanied them to Buffalo. did
not call upon the police or the district
attorney.
Mr. Penney said that he did not send
for the prisoners family, and that ne
knew of no reason why they should come
except to see the assassin
Supt. Bull said the same thing. and
stated that if they wanted to see Czol-
gosz, permission would probably be
granted them to see him in the jail be-
fore the sentence Of death is pro-
nounced.
The police officials discredit the story
that they came to Buffalo to make the
murderer reveal the plot to kill the
president, as they hold to the theory
that the prisoner did the deed without
the aid Of accomplices.
QUESTIONED CLOSELY,
The father, brother and sister of the
assassin were put through a rigid ex-
animation tonight by Assistant District
Attorney Frederick Haller in the pres
ence Of Assistant Superintendent Cusack
and Detectives Geary and Solomon, of
the police department
For an hour and a half they were un-
der a searching fire of questions which
resulted in the information that they
knew nothing about the dastardly plot;
that they came from Cleveland to vindi-
cate their own name, and. if possible. to
aid the authorities by securing from the
prisoner some statement as to his reasons
Tor the assassination. They will spend
tonight at police headquarters. not as
prisoners, but in hopes that the authorl-
ties Will permit them to see the prisoner
tomorrow
Paul Czolgosz, the father, is about six
ty years of age, and cannot speak Eng
lish His examination was conducted
through Sergeant Fredericks, a Polish Of
hcer. Waldeck Czolgosz, the brother. is
the oldest of Czolgosz's eleven children.
being thirty-four years of age The SIS
ter, Victoria, is not quite seventeen
years of age, and is the youngest of
Czolgosz's nine children by his first wife.
The two children by his present wife are
aged ten and thirteen years
LEON WoULDN T WORK.
Some years ago Paul Czolgosz owned a
farm in Warrensville, Ohio, a suburb of
cleveland. Three or four years ago the
father sold it to four of his sons. Leon.
Waldeck, Jacob and John. for 81 400. the
murderer having a $3.50 interest in the
farm. The sons ran the farm. but the
father says that Leon would do no work.
claiming all the time that he was I'LL.
Last July Leon left home, saying that
he was going West, and $50 was advanced
him upon his interest In the farm.
Shortly afterwards Wa1deck, the oldest
brother, received letter from him in
Fort Wayne, Ind. Nothing more was
heard from Leon until August, wnen he
wrote Waldeck, asking that SO be sent
him at West Seneca, this county, in the
name of Frank Snider The brother
sent 1t, and he now explains that he
thought that Snider was the name under
which his brother was working.
All three of the Czolgoszs state that
they heard nothing more from or about.
Leon until they read in the newspapers
of the shooting Of the president
Great sorrow was expressed by the