The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-07
SIX MEN ARRESTED
 BY CHICAGO POLICE

Chicago. Sept h.-Six men were placed under arrest in this city tonight on the charge of heinz implicated in the plot to assa ssinate President Mckinley. The men were all found in one house at the corner of St. Johns Place and Car The arrests were made on information of the police of Buffalo, who said that the men were members of a society to longed. and that they had knowledge of the plot. The police have not yet given out the names of the men taken into custod' but one of the men is known organization which bears the name of the Free Society He was formerly cdi- tor of a paper of anarchistic principles. which bore the name of The Firebrand: The information received by tho local police from Buffalo Is to the effect that the plot to kill the President was orig mated among the members of the Free Society and that the Buffalo prisoner was chosen by lot to commit the crime
 There were five men and three women in the place where the arrests were made. The men were congregated in a meeting hall on the second floor and Ap- peared to be discussing some serious matter. They were so completely sur prised by the invasion of the police that ance. Isekk is supposed by the police to have been the leader of the men assem- bled. but when he was questioned he re- fused to make any statement.
  rol wagon one of the prisoners cursed tho C""ers and declared that he was an anar> iist and was proud of 1t. The three women in the house. Isekk's wife subsequently, arrested. The building in which the raid was made Is two story and basement stone front structure in the factory district. On .ne first floor is situated 1sekk's printing office, in which cuts of leading anarchists were found. The windows were decorated and numerous publications denouncing the present form of government and the judges who had issued iniunctions against I the strikers " were , feuhd l,., employes of the paper. The arrests were made by Chief of Detectives Colleran. as sisted by three of his officers. Captain | Colleran eaid. after taking the men tC tion that he had arrested them upon ln- | formation from Buffalo, but what the nature of his information might be he | declined to say. He wou6 not admit that he had received any intSAation that the aSsailant of the President has made s confession duplicating in any way the | men arrested here.
 | au7te general impression outside oi the SNce of Captain Coldleran Is that there was no special reason for arrest | ing the men save for the general char acter of their teachings and writings. | Oscar Neebe, one of the anarchists con Nicted of complieity in the Haymarke riot. said tonight that there was no plo of the anarchists to murder Presiden Mckinley.
 l He declared that the assailant wal either a cRRnk or an insane man. | No geod could result from killing President Mckinley" Neebe declared ''because he is a good man and as fal as a man in his position can be. he Is fol | the masses of the people,
 Mrs Lucy Parsons, whose husband wa executed for the part In the Haymarke riot, said as did Neebe that there was n, l plot of the anarchists to harm the Pres dent. If there was, she had no knowl | edge concerning 1t.
 No man." she declared "who has tn, true principles of anarchy in his hear would attempt to injure President Me | Kinley. He Is a good President. wh' listens to the voice of the people ant tries to do his best for them'
 Mrs. Parsons expressed d strong hopt that the President would recover.