The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-10

the scene by this time and an effort
was made to clear the building. The
crush was terrific. Spectators crowd.
ed down stairways from galleries, the
crowd on the floor surged forward to.
ward the rostrum, while despite the
strenuous efforts of the police and
guards, the throng without struggled
madly to obtain admission
The presidents assailant, in the
meantime, had been hustled to the
rear Of the building by exposition
guards, where he was held while the
building was cleared and later he was
turned over to Superintendent Burt
of the Buffalo police department, who
took the prisoner to No. Is police sta
ton and afterwards to police head
quarters. AS 500 as the crowd in
the Temple of Music had been dis
persed sufficiently, the president was
removed in an automobile ambulance
and taken to Exposition hospital,
where an examination was made.
The best medical skill was summon
ed and within a brief period several
of Buffalo's best known practitioners
were at the patients side.
The president retained full posses
sion of his faculties until placed on
an operating table and subjected to
a~nesthetics. Upon the first examina-
ton it was ascertained that one bull.
let had taken effect in the right
breast just below the nipple, causing
a comparatively harmless wound.
The other took effect in the abdomen,
about four inches below the left nip
pie, four inches left of naval and
about on a level with it.
Upon arrival at the Exposition hos
pital the second bullet was probed for.
Walls of the abdomen were opened
but the ball was not located. The in
cision was hastily closed and after a
hasty consultation it was decided to
remove the patient to the home of
President Milburn. This was done,
an automobile ambulance being used
for the purpose.
Arriving at the Milburn residence
all persons except medical attendants.
nurses and officials Immediately con-
cerned, were excluded and the task
of probing for the bullet which had
lodged in the abdomen was begun by
DR.. Roswell Parke.
When news Of the crime was tel
ephoned to the home Of President
Milburn, where Mrs. Mckinley was
resting, immediate steps were taken
to spare her the shock of a premature
statement before the true condition
Of the president could be ascertained.
Guards were stationed and no one
was permitted to approach the house.
When it was decided to remove the
president from the Exposition hos
pital to the Milburn mansion, Secre-
tary Cortelyou gave out an official
bulletin prepared by the physicians.
Secretary Cortelyou said that a tel
egraph Office would be established at
once in the Milburn residence and bull
letins giving the public the fullest
information possible would be issued
at short intervals.
At the Milburn house were Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson, President
Mi1h,rp Diroo+or ranoraI Dnotooo-
of Pan-American exposition, DR.. Rixey |
and Secretary Cortelyou.
kilograms poured in by hundreds
and Secretary Cortelyou was kept
busy replying to them. Two steno-
graphers with their typewriters We're
placed in the parlor which was ,.uica-I
" transformed into a bustling room.
While the wounded president was
being borne from the exposition to
the Milburn residence between rows
of o%nlookers with barred heads, a far
different spectacle was being witness
ed along the route of his ~assassinator.
borne from the scene of his crime to
ponce headquarters. Inc TRIP was
made so quickly that the prisoner was
landed within the portals Of the
police station and doors closed be-
fore anyone was aware of his pres
ence.
News of the attempted assassina-
ton having in the meanwhile been
spread broadcast by newspapers, like
wild fire it spread from mouth to
mout. Then bulletins began to ap
pear On boards along newspaper row
and when the announcement was
made that the prisoner had been
taken to police headquarters, only
two blocks distant, crowds surged
down, eager for a glimpse of the
prisoner. At police headquarters they
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