Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-09-13
EMMA GOLDMAN ARRESTED
THE TEACHER OF ANARCHY.
Arrested In ChicaRO-Tried tn Eludc
Observation-Disclosures Any knOwl-
edge of CxOls Osz and His Crime
Questioned by Police-Called
Would he Assassin u Fool.

Chicago. Sept l2.-Emma Goldman, the
high priestess of anarchy, whose speeches
it was claimed turned to fire the brain OF
Leon Czolgosz, the would be assassin OF the
president, is under arrest here.
Her manner WAS defiant as she was taken
to the office of the chief OF police, but she
disclaimcd any knowledge OF Czoigosz and
his crime, Sd We that she admitted having
met him here July II.
do you know that you or your words
are what Czog!osz claims stirred him to
shoot the PRESIDENT" she was asked.
Il do not; never advocated violence.
scarcely knew the man. WAS leaving for
Rochester via Buffalo when Czolgosz had
few words with me. He said he had heard
me lecture at some memorial hall in Cleve-
land last May, and that ne wanted 10 know
me. He said he knew | was in Chicago
anything about him, save that his complex
ion was light"
''Then how do you know that this man
is the one who tried to kill the president! ?"
''Oh," she replied, with shrug OF the
shoulders, 81 guessed that from what the
newspapers said"
wv hat did you think when you heard
that an attempt to kill the president had
been NADER" the woman WAS asked.
With a wave of her hands and another
shrug of the shoulders, she replied, dis
dainfully:
II thought, oh, the fool !"
The prisoners manner thus far had been
growing more and more excited, although
she made an evident effort to control her
self. In this she finally succeeded and
launched into a discourse on the teachings
OF anarchy. She declared that anarchy did
not teach men to do the act which had
made Czolgosz despised and hated the
world over.
I'VE work against the system, and edu-
cation is our watchword,' said. 1T was
early last July when | came to Chicago
to visit the Isaaks family" she continued,
in answer to interrogations concerning her
whereabouts recently.
son the night of July IL Mr. Isaaks was
out of the house. The bell rang and l
went to the door. The man who, | learn
through the newspapers was Czolgosz,
stood there. He said he wanted to see
me. l was about to catch the Nickel
Plate train, as ! and Mr. Isaaks' daugh-
ter were about to 60 to Rochester. He
went to the Rock Island depot with us,
but l was SO busy taking leave of my
friends that l scarcely noticed him. 1t
he, IN
make new friends. At the depot l had
the few words with him of which l have
told. That was all there ever was be-
tween us.
II am an anarchists student of sociol-
ogy-but nothing in anything l ever said
to Leon Czolgosz knowingly could have
led him to do the act which startled every
body Friday"
Not even in your lectures!" she was
asked. HE says your words set his brain
on fire.
Am accountable because some crack
Drained person puts wrong construction
ON my words? Leon Czolgosz, am con-
WINGED, planned the deed unaided and en-
tirely alone There is no anarchist ring
which would help him. There may be
anarchists who murder, but there are also
men in every walk of life who sometimes
feel the impulse to kill. l DOM tnow
surely, but | think Czolgosz was one of
those downtrodden men who see all the
misery which the rich inhct upon the
poor, who think Of it, who brood over it,
and then in despair resolve to strike a
great blow, as they think, for the good of
their felowmen. But that is not anarchy.
'Czolgosz"-the Russian woman pro-
nounced the word with the greatest ease
"Czolgosz may have been inspired by me,
but if he was he took the wrong way of
showing it."
The police are not entirely satisfied with
Miss Goldman's story. When Captain
Schuettler and Detective Hertz discovered
her at the home Of one Norris at 1903 Shelf.
field avenue, she denied her identity.
Hello, Miss Goldman said the cap
tain, as he entered the parlor "Are you
glad to see me!"
I'm not Miss Goldman; I'm Swedish
woman and my name is Lena Larson -
answered the anarchist, endeavoring To
initiate a Swedish dialect.
"All right; l speak Swedish myself"
said the police officer, as he poured out a
few questions in the Swedish tongue. Miss
Goldman did not reply, affecting to mis-
understand.
Detective Hertz meanwhile had discov-
cred penholder with the name Emma
Goldman engraved on it. "What does
this meant asked Captain Schuettler,
holding the inscribed penholder