The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-09-12
ONE INSTANT OF SILENCE
Then the bastard Who Shot Is in the
Hands of RetributiOn,


Hands of RetributiOn,
There was an instant of almost COM
pIete silence. The president STOOD
stock still. q look Of hesitancy, almost
of bewilderment, on his face. Then
he retreated a step, while pallor be-
gan to steal over his features. The
multitude, only partly aware that
something serious had happened,
paused in surprise, while necl1s were
craned and all eyes turned as one to
the rostrum where a great tragedy was
being enacted. Then came a commo-
ton. With the leap of a tiger three
men threw themselves forward, as
with one impulse, and sprang toward
the WOuld-be assassin. Two Of them
were United States secret service men
who were on the lookout and whose
duty it was to guard against just such
a calamity as had here befallen the
president and the nation.
The third was a bystander, a negro,
who had only an instant previously
grasped in his dusky palm the hand
of the president. AS one man the trio
hurled themselves upon the presidents
assai1ant. In a twinkling he was
borne to the ground, his weapon was
wrested from his grasp and strong
arms. pinioned him down. Then the
multitude which thronged the edi6ce
began to come to a realizing sense of
the awfulness of the scene of which
they had been unwilling witnesses. A
murmur arose, spread and sWelled to
q hum of confusion, then grew to a
babel of sounds, and later to pande
mOnium of noises.
The crowds that a moment before
had stood mute and mOtionless now,
with a single impulse, surged forward
toward the stage of the hOrrid drama,
while a hOarse cry we1led up from
thousand throats and a thousand men
charged forward to lay hands upon
the perpetrator of the dastardly crime.
For moment the confusion was ter
rible. The crowd surged forward re-
gardles of consequences. Men shout
ed and fought, women screamed and
children cried Some of those nearest
the doors fed from the edifice in fear
OF a stampede, while hundreds Of 9th
ers from the outside struggled blindly
forward in the effort to penetrate the
crowded building and solve the mys-
terry of excitement and panic which
every moment grew and swelled with
in the cOngested interior Of the edi-
flee.
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY KEEPS COOL
Declares He Is Not Badly Hurt. and Dep
recates Alarm.
After the first shock of the assas-
SINS shot the president retreated a
step, then, as the detectives leaped
upon his asSailant, he turned, walked
steadily to a chair and seated himself,
at the same time removing his hat and
bowling his head in his hands. In an
instant Secretary Cortelyou and Presi-
dent Iilburn were at his side. His
waistcoat was hurriedly opened, the
president meanwhile admOnishing
those about him to remain calm, and
telling them not to be alarmed.
"But you are wounded" cried his
secretary. LET me examine"
"No, l think not" answered the
president, 81 am not badly hurt, l as
sure you"
Nevertheless, his outer garments
were hastily loosened, and when
trickling stream Of crimson was seem
LO WIuu way uONh AIO bACGNoI1
spreading its tell-tale stain over the
white surface of the linen, their worst
fears were confirmed.
A force Of exposition guards was on
the scene by this time, and an effort
was made to clear the building, for by
this time the crush was terrific. Spec
tators crowded down the stairways
from the galleries, the crowd on the
floor surged forward toward the ros-
trum. while, despite the strenuous eff
forts Of police and guards, the throng
without struggled madly to obtain ad-
mission. The presidents assailant, in
the meantime, had been hustled to che
rear of the building by exposition
guards where he was held while the
building was cleared, and later he was
turned over to superintendent Bull, OF
the Buffalo police department, who
took the prisoner to No. 13 police sta
ton, and afterward to police head
quarters After a long search by every
available detective both in local cir
cles and at other points, the police
learned that his name is Leon Czcl-
gosz; that he was born at Detroit and
came here from Cleveland.