The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-12
czol6oSz's CONFESSION

third degree. Czolgosz has been given
the third degree. He has confessed.
The Buffalo police say he has. They
claim, and the claim may be made good.
that Czolgosz belonged to a murderous
band of conspirators and that his at
tempt upon the life OF the president was
the result Of a plot in which many b1-s
side himself had a part. Why the rpaM
who displayed the desperate nerve he
did should weaken at last is best knoMn
to Czolgosz and the police who htYe1
him in charge. The man claims to hxtSs
thrown a bundle Of discriminating doc6Ss
ments into Buffalo sewer. and M,
those papers the entire detective fo4Ee
Of the city Is searching. 1t Is to a1e
in order that all the desperate wretcdeS
engaged in the plot may be arrested
and made to suffer the extreme penalSy
of the law, II that penalty be nothing
more than short term in prison. pun
ishment that is inadequate to the Of
fence. Emma Goldman. Abraham Isaak.
the editor Of an anarchist paper pub
lished at Chicago. his wife and daugh-
ter. are under arrest. believed to be the
chief conspirators. Emma Goldman Is
said to be the brains of the little group
which has been very active Of late. 1t is
sassination which Czolgosz attempted to
put into execution.
1t is thought, however, by those hav-
ing the best information, that EnIico
Malatesta, an Italian anarchist, is the
man most to be dreaded by rulers. NAL
atesta organized the Paterson group of
anarchists. Bresci. who killed King
Humbert, was a disciple of Malatesta,
who accompanied the assassin to Europe
when he left this country for the avowed
purpose Of taking the kings life. Mala
tesla returned to America, lived for
time in New York and Chicago. went 10
South America, from there to London,
and is believed to have returned to the
United States. 1t is thought the murder
Gus attack upon the president was direct-
ed by his cunning mind. He is the most
desperate anarchist in the world today.
European detectives say that his pres
ence anywhere is always followed by
an attempt to kill the head Of the nation.
Men and women do his bidding. Francis
H. Nichols, writing of this desperate
He can not correctly be called either
an agitator or prophet, because he
never appeals publicly for his cause.
Silent, cold and plotting, he is rather
the living, working genius OF anarchy
itself. With these men whose lives are
devoted to the destruction of all author-
ity, Malatesta's word is law. When he
advises or suggests any ambitious men,
Der of an anarchist group for some act
of assassination, the man selected feels
honored at the choice, and becomes the
object of his companions envy. For
him to weaken or show the slightest
degree Of hesitation would make him a
coward to his own conscience and bring
upon himself the death by secret assas-
sination by which anarchists punish
traitors.
Malatesta was the head and moving
spirit Of all the conspiracies which have
recently startled the world by the awful
| success which attended their execution.
Personally he is quiet and reserved to
| the point of taciturnity. In manner he
| is mild and gentle; his conversation in
any of the several languages of which
! he is master is that of an accomplished
| man of the world. He is described AS
having a very pleasant smile, but seldom
laughs.
| Should the plot to kill the president
ever be successfully unraveled it will be
found that Malatesta did the planning
and that Emma Goldman, Abraham
Isaak, Marie Isaak and Leon Czolgos.
We're but instruments in his hands. He
teaches that an ideal existence, espe
cially for a working man, can be founi
only in land where there are no ruler:
and no laws to be obeyed. He find:
credulous fools who are willing to do hi!
bidding.