Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-09-14
:, va, within two feet Of the presi-

he was within two feet OF the preh-
dent.
President Mckinley smiled, bowed
and extended his hand in that spirit
of genialty the American people SO
well know, when suddenly. the sharp |
crack of a revolver rang out loud ana
clear above the hum OF voices, inc
shufiling of myriad feet and vibrating
waves of applause that ever and anon
swept here and there over the assem-
blage.
When the multitude which thronged
tbe edifice began to come to reailz-
ing sense of the awfulness OF me
scene of which they had been unwlii-
ing witnesses a murmur arose, spreao
and swelled to hum of confusion,
then preFy to a babel of sounds and
later TO pandemonium of nolses'
A force cf exposition guards were on
the scene and an effort was made TO
clear the building.
The president was at once taken 70
the emergency hospital, where Dull
left which had lodged against the
breast bone was removed. Later the
president was reported as resting
easily.
Al six o'clock DIR. Roswell Parke,
the we'll known surgeon, arrived at
the hospital and after putting the
president under an anaesthetlc Degan
nrobino for the ball in the abdomen
DR.. Harrington, the police surgeon
,+ f.45 n. m. announced for Drs'
parlie. Parmenter and Mynter, VINO
: nerformed the operation, that the
first ball struck the sternum ana
: Glanced off, causing a slight hesr
i wound. The second bullet perforated
I both walls of the stomach and ha'
S not yet been found. The bullet prop
ably is in the stomach. The wound
are not necessarily fatal,
When it was decided to remove tn
president from the exposition hos
ni+al TO the Milburn residence Tn
new was broken to Mrs. Mckinney a
gently as might be. She bore the shoe
remarkably well and displayed tn
utmost fortitude.
While the wounded president wa
being borne from the exposition I
tbo NIilbura residence between rows
onlookers with barred heads a far dl
ferent spectacle was being witnesse
along the route Of his assailant
Journey from the scene of his crime
noljce headquarters. The trip WI
made so quickly that the prison.
WAS landed within the wide porta
of the police station and the 900
closed before any one was aware OF h
presence.
A big crowd soon gathered outsi
and cries of Lynch HIM" "Hal
bim!" were uttered, but the poll
managed to disperse them.
The Culprit Confesses'
Buffalo. n. Y, Sept. Leon Cz
! gosz, the accused and self-contess
assassin, has signed contessi
covering six pages of foolscap a
which states that he is an anarch
and that he became an enthusias
member of that body through
influence of Emma Goldman, wh'
writings he had read and whose
lures he had listened to. He den
having any confederate and says
decided on the act three days
and bought the revolver with VIII
the act was committed in Bui1'
He has seven brothers and sisters
ana INC Cleveland. He is now detained
dlle police headquarters pending the
oil suit of the presidents injuries
.ohS What Mrs. Parsons Says
ZAP Chicago, Sept. Mrs. Lucy !
! " sons, whose husband was executed
.,,,, his part in the Haymarket riot So
Et s"i that no man who has the true p
.',, .'u ciple of anarchy in his heart We
was attempt to injure President Mchil
:. and that he was a good preslI
~ and tried to do his best for the
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