The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-09
THE ASSASSIN'S LIFE.
Sticky, Sensitive, Regarded [
"Strange" But Harmless.

Strange" But Harmless.
Cleveland, Ohio, Setember T.
Those who knew Czo1goscz during
his half dozen years or more resi-.
dence in the far southeast end of
this city, largely inhabited by peo-
pie of his nationality, cannot un-
derstand how he ever plucked mp
the necessary nerve to do his daring
deed.
The unhappy inmate Of a home
from which his mother had been
taken by death, he never got along
very well with his fathers second
wife and acted more or less the
stubborn hoy in his relations with
her. During this time his father
lived on a farm with his large fam
lily of seven boys and two girls.
Leon was not active in farm work,
seeming not to care for the drudg-
cry incident to the life.
Shortly after coming to this city,
fifteen years ago Icons father
started saloon, in the rear of
which was a small building used as
a rendezvous and meeting place for
a dozen OF fifteen men who called
themselves anarchists. Leon was
too young to be a member Of that
gang, bnt he was a great listener
to the harrangues that these men
indulged in, and they probably had
some effect on his youthful mind.
Leon worked in a rolling mill foI
several years, but the work was too
hard for him, he left to go on his
fathers farm. Lung trouble de-
veloped and this soon incapacitated
him from doing the severe work of
agricultural life, and he finally be-
came more or less Of an id1er; his
health never regaining robust con.
dition. His effeminacy was the
cause Of more or less comment
among his acquaintances, Leon
making his companions largely
among children with whom he
spent a greater part of his time
acting as they acted and being shy
at the approach of older persons.
His health was thought to be such
as to forbid his working hard, and
being of sensitive nature he could
not bear to be dependent upon the
efforts of the other members of his
family all of whom were hard
workers. Consequently he LETT
last definite inf ormation from him
was letter received from Yves:
Seneca, N. Y, written July 18th.
That letter was written to the Sec
rotary of a fraterna1 society in
Cleveland and was for the purpose
OF paying his monthly assessment.
It was signed Fred G. Neiman.
The idea of plot being Matched
in this city to kill the President
is not given serious thought by the
,olice nor by those who have known
Czolgoscz for the past ten years.
They regard his desperate deeds as
the result Of sudden inspiration
to do something to attract public
notice and perhaps having been in
rious times during his younger
years. Czolgoscz was looked upon
as being a harmless fellow by those
who know him best.
Among his own brothers and sis
tiers he was considerd strange" and
sister-in-law not long ago COM
mcnted upon his childish conduct.
He has brother, Jacob. who was
injured by an explosion at the San
dy Hook Navy Yard a couple of
years ago, and who has since been
retired on pension.
His recent letters to his family in
Dictated nothing unusual in his line
of thought.
THE ASSASSIN'S REVOLVER.
Buffalo, N. Y, September THE
revolver with which President Nc
Kinley was shot was turned over
to Superintendent Of Police Bull
today by Capt. Wiser, to whom it
had been handed by the soldier,
who recovered it.