The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-11
Emma Goldman Is Arrested on
Charge of Conspiring to Kill
President Mckinley.
Anarchist Leader Denies That the
Murder Is the Outcome of An
Anarchist Plot.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1O.-Emrla Goldman,
the anarchist Queen,' under whose rec
banner Leon Czolgosz claims he stands,
whose words he claims fired his heart
and his brain to attempt the assassina-
tion of the president was arrested here
shortly before noon today.
She disclaimed all but the slightest
acquaintance with the presidents as
Saiiant; she denied absolutely that she,
or any anarchist she knew, was in1pli-
Gated in any plot to kill the president
She said she believed Czolgosz acted
entirely on his own responsibility, and
that he never claimed to have been in
spired by her, as he is quoted as affirm
ing.
The president, she averred with a yawn,
was an Insignificant being to her A
mere human atom whose life or death
were matter of supreme Indifference to
her. or to any anarchist. CZolgosz's act
was foolish, she declared. 1t probably
had it's inspiration in the misery which
the Pole had seen about him. Violence,
she said, was not tenet in Tie faith
of the anarchist, and she had not ad-
Vocated it in Cleveland, where Czolgosz
had said he heard her, nor elsewhere
Miss Goldman arrived here Sunday
morning from st. Louis. Her immunity
from arrest while in the Missouri metrop-
oils and up to today in Chicago afforded
~ her much amusement. She told in sem
tences punctuated with laughter, of her
capture today. o.
MISS GOLDMAN BREAKS DOWN,
In her conversation with reporters-and
she talked with them at length twice dur.
ing the day-the excitement she was
aaboring under was suppressed, and only
once did she break down completely.
That was when Capt Schuettler led her
from the Office of Chief of Police O'Neill
to the cab which was waiting to convey
her to the woman's annex at the Har-
Tlson street police station. For a mo-
ment she became a woman, pure anu
simple, and cried. In a moment, how
ever, this exhibition of distress was over
and when she put her foot off the step,
to mount into the carriage she was again
Emma Goldman, the high priestess of
anarchy, as she has been styled by her
followers.
She said her purpose in coming hero
had been to assist the anarchists who
were arrested here several days ago. She
had intended to give herself up to the
police but delayed it for one reason and
another until the police she had derideo
SO much had taken the matter into their
own hands. She was held on a warrant
sworn out by Capt. Colleran, charging
her with conspiracy to murder the presi-
dent. AS her co-conspirators We're named
the anarchists already in Jail here.
She will be taken before magistrate
tomorrow. 1t Is expected that the city
will ask for a continuance of the case
pending advices from Buffalo.
WILL FIGHT EXTRADITION.
81 shall insist upon an immediate hear
ing, she said in speaking of the proba-
blllty OF a postponement being asked for
by the city prosecutor. They want me
to go to New York without requisition
papers, but 1 will not go; know the
legal ropes and I'll make them fight
every step, and I'm not afraid to go at
that
. Her manner was defiant as she was
first led into the office of the chief OF
police, but she disclaimed all knowledge
OF Czolgosz and his crime, save that she
admitted having met him here July u.
Do you know that your words are
what Czolgosz claims stirred him to
Shoot the preSident?' she was asked
Il do not; I never advocated violence
1 scarcely knew the man. I was leaving
for Rochester via Buffalo when CzolgosA
had a few words with me- He said he
had heard me lecture at some memorial
nall in Cleveland last May and that he
wanted to know me. He said he knew
was in Chicago and looked me up
scarcely remember anything about him.
save that his complexion was light
Then how do you know that this man
is the one who tried to kill the pres
ident?"
GDh,' with shrug of the shoulders,
guessed that from what the news
papers say
CzOLGOSZ A FOOL
what did you think when you heard.
that attempt to kill the president hao
been made?'' the woman was asked
With a wave of her hand and another
shrug of the shoulders she answered dis-
dainfully:
"I thought, OH the fool!'
The prisoners manner thus far had
been growing more and more excited,
although she made an evident effort to
control herself. In this she finally sue
ceeded and launched into a discourse of
the teachings of anarchy. She declared
that anarchy did not teach men to do
the act which had made Czolgosz des-
pised and hated the world over. I'VE
work against the system, and education
is our watchword," she said
1T was early last July when / came to
Chicago to visit the Isaaks family" she
continued in answer to interrogations
concerning her movements recently. 'On
the night of July r. Mr.. Isaaks was out
of the house. The bell rang and | went
to the door. The man, who | learn
through the newspapers, was Czolgosz
stood there. He said he wanted to see
me. 1 was about to catch the Nickel
Plate train, as l and Mr. Isaaks'
daughter were about to go to Rochester
He went to the Rock Island depot. where
he met us, but I was so busy taking
leave of my friends that L scarcely
noticed him. 1t was not a time when
one would want to make new friends AT
the depot 1 had the few words with him
OF which L have told. That was all
there ever was between us.
NOT HER FAULT.
1 am an anarchists student of soci-
ology, but nothing I ever said to Leon
Czolgosz knowingly, would have led MIN
to do the act which startled everybody
Friday
Not even in your lectures?' put in a
reporter. He says your words set his
brain on fire.
Am I accountable because some
crack-brained person put wrong con-
struction on my words. Leon CzoIgosz,
am convinced, planned the deed unaid-
ed and entirely alone. There is no an
archist ring which would help him.
There may be anarchists who would
murder, but there are also men in every
walk of life who sometimes feel the Inn