Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-13
The aEEoRMER SEPTEMBER 49, 1901
EMMA GOLDMAN ARRESTED
INsPIRER OF CRIME.

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| All knowledge of IA Plot TO XIII the
President or Approved OF 1t.
Emma Goldman, whose speeches are
alleged to have fired the brain of
Leon CZolQosz, the assassin of Presi-
dent Mckinley, was arrested 10 Chi.
cage about noon Tuesday ISIS Gold
mans manner WIS defiant as she was
| led into the office Of Chief of Police
IO'Neill, but she disclaimed all kno"l-
edge of Czolgosz and his crime,
admitting only that shn met him in
Chicago July II. "Do you know that
your WORDS are what Czolgosz claims
stirred him to shoot the President?'
she was asked. 81 DO not; | never
advocated violence. | scarcely knew
the man. | WIS leaving for Rochester,
by wa of Buffalo when C2olgosz had
Il few words with me- He said he had
heard me lecture in Cleveland last
May, and that he wanted to know me-
He said he knew | was in Chicago
and looked me up. | scarcely remem-
Der anything about him save that his
comple xion WIS light " Then, how
do you know that this man is the
one who tried to kill the President?"
WAS asked. oh with a shrug of
the shoulders 81 guessed that from
what the newspapers say. What
did you think when you heard that
an attempt to kill the President had
been made" the woman was asked.
With wave of her hands and another
shrug of the shoulders she answered |
dsdainfully: 81 thought, oh, the
fool. ~
The prisoners manner had been
growing more excited although she |
made an evident effort to control |
herself. In this she finally succeeded,
and launched into a discourse of the
teaching of anarchy. She declared
that anarchy old not teach men to do
the act which has made Czolgosz
despised and hated the world over.
I'VE work against the system, and
education is our watchward, said
she. 81 am an ansrchist-a student
of socialism. but nothing in
| ever said TO Leon Czologsz
Knowingly would have led him 10 do
the act which startled everybody
Friday"
Not even in your lectures' He
says your words set his brain on fire,
asked the interylewer Am | ac-
rountable because some crack. Drained
person put wrong construction on
my words: Leon Czolgosz, | am
planned the deed unaided
and entirely alone. There is TO !
anarchist ring which would help him.
| do not know surely, but think
C2olgosz was Que OF those down
troduep, who see all the misery which
the rich inhict on the poor; who .
think of it, who brood over it, and |
.nen, in despair. resolve to strike i.
great blow, rs they think, for the ,
good of their fellow men. But that y,
= not ansrchy Czolgosz the woman =,
the Game With the great =
st ease -''Czolgosz may have been +
Inspired by me, but if re was he !.
ook the wrong way of showing it. -
The police officials are not entirely :
atistiei with Miss Goldman's story.
When Capt Schuettler aud Detective
Hertz discovered her at ter home of
me Norris at BOB Sheffield avenue, she
'enied her identity. "Hello, Miss Z
Goldman" said the captain az he =
uttered the nsrlor Are YOU glad to u
ee me?" 'l'm net Miss Goldman; :,
m a Swedish woman and my name II
s Lena Larsen" answered the
'oman, endeayoring to initiate the q
,vedlsh dialect "All right; | speak q
swedish myself said the police d
flee as he poured ont few ques- a
ions in the Morse tuagLe Miss o.
GOLDMAN didn't answer, affecting to CT
Detective hertz. e.
leanwhile, had been Investigating ?
nd had discovered a PEN with the
anne, Emma Goldman. ~" engraved
hereon. what does this mean"
houted Capt Schuettler, holding
be tell.tale article before its owners y
yes. 1t means that the game is u
p she said. She tten admitted her ~
IDENTIFY fully and ACCOMPANIED the :"
olice to the office of Chief 0 NELL. ],
"ille peihS Atu " tho cai iinSe