The Washington times., 1901-09-08
NO VISITORS TO CZOLGOSZ.
The Anarchist TO Be Practically
in Solitary Confinement.
Physicians to Test His Sanity Today
Police Succeed in Learning His
StOry-Thc Prisoner Filled with
Excessive Vanity Over His Decd.

Excessive vanity Over His Decd.
BUFFALO. Stpt. AT the request of
Secretary Root both the district attor-
ney and the chief of police have adopted
a policy of excluding from the public, ds
far as possible, Information concerning
the miserable creature down in the dun
gecn of police headquarters, who is the
cause Of all this great affection.
His one overmastering trait is vanity
He is lust the kind of conceitcd VerInin
the Anarchist master spirits use as
tools for their senseless crimes. Like all
of them. he Is shivering coward at
heart. When the deed that his crazy
egotism had rerved him UP to do was
committed, and for the moment his own
miserable life seemed in danger, he was
ghostly white with terror and trembling
continually. He was hardly well within
the prison walls and there sale from mob
violence before his conceit began to bring
back his nerve.
He was quite himself, although rather
badly battered from the hands of these
who first fell on him. When he went to
bed, the two policemen who watched over
him all night, to see that he made no at
tempt to kill himself, report that he slept
fairly well until daylight this morning.
The new day brought to him the convic-
ton that he was one of the great ones of
the earth. He had endless satisfaction in
the thought that all the world was talking
of him. He walked with a firm step and
seemed calm and composed.
CzolgosZ is a Pole of the whey-faced
rather wall-eyed type, with narrow
forehead and thick hair light brown in
color and wavy. He is small in person
and slight. The only bodily traces he
bore OF yesterdays rough handling wee
cut and swollen lip. and scratched nose,
where Fosters heavy fist fell upon him.
After being Photographed for the rogues'
gallery Czolgosz was taken TO the chief
Of polices private room. where he was
again closely questioned Mr. Buchanan.
the director-in-chief of the exposition; Of
ficer Foster. the chief of police and Dis
trict Attorney Penney were there.
Walter Nowack, q Pole who lives in
Cleveland. came to headquarters while
this examination was in progress. He
felt sure that he knew the assassin as
soon as he read about him. He was
ushered into the chiefs private office and
there he and Czolgosz at once recognized
each other. Czolgosz reached out his
hand, but Nowack declined to take it.
Nowack accused the assassin of being the
agent of other persons This Czolgosz al
ways has denied, and to Nowack he de-
MED it again.
After coming from the room Nowack.
who is frank, intelligent fellow, freely
told the newspaper correspondents who
were waiting in the outer office all he
knew about the man.
81 first met him in Cleveland" said he
His father and seven brothers live there.
He and / belonged to the same society.
1t was purely a social organization at
first. but it soon developed into a rank
radical anarchistic affair. Czolgosz and
all his family were of this kind, and Czol-
gosz in particular, although he said very
little.
There We're twenty-five of them in all
and they met around in each others
houses and talked anarchy. 1 left the
concern on account of its extreme views
and they We're angry at me because
would not print their incendiary TRADE
in the Polish newspaper with which l
was connected. / am sure that Czoigosz
had associates in his crime. He does not
know how to have planned and executed
II all himself
Nowack gave the police the names of
other members of the Anarchist society
TO which Czolgosz belonged in Cleveland
District Attorney Penney said after tie
examination of the assassin, that not one
word OF what had taken place would be
made public nor would the full signed
confession of the prisoner be given out
Then the district attorney repeated the
request of Secretary Root tat the af-
fair be treated in as conservative a man
ner as possible and that the ASSASSIN be
yaI hafn ~,
In the attitude of the heroic martyr that |
he was evidently trying to assume.
The prisoner will not be arraigned until |
there is more definite knowledge as to
the probable outcome of the Presidents /
injuries and that. probably. will not be |
for several days In the meantime, he /
will be kept down in the basement cell 1
Of police headquarters. He will be care
fully guarded to prevent his attempting 1
TO do himself an injury and nobody save |
officials will be permitted to see him.
While the full text of Czolgosz's signed |
confession will not, for a time at least, |
be given out. its substance is known.
Czolgosz says that HIS parents came |
from Russian Poland and that he was |
born in Detroit twenty-six years ago. |
He received some education in the com |
mon schools of that city. but left school |
and went to work when boy as black |
smiths apprentice. Later he went to Cleve- |
land. where he worked for a while, and |
then went to Chicago.
While in Chicago ne became interested |
In the Socialist movement. When he went |
back to Cleveland his interest in the |
increased. He read all the So |
cialist literature that he could lay his |
hands on and finally began to take part
in socialistic matters. In time he became |
well known in Chicago, Cleveland. and |
Detroit, not only as a Socialist, but as |
an Anarchist of the most bitter type
After returning to Cleveland from Chi |
cago, he went to work in the wire mills |
in Newburg, a suburb of Cleveland lie |
was working there up to the time he
started for Buffalo eight days ago. About |
two weeks ago. Czolgosz attended a meet |
ing of Anarchists in Cleveland, at which |
a lecture was given by Emma Goldman. !
The determination of rulArs was her |
theme. few days afterward he read |
in a Chicago paper that President McKin- |
ley was to visit the Pan-American Expo |
sition, and to remain in Buffalo for sev-
eral days
The lecture of Emma Goldman and the
projected visit of the Presiden! to Buff |
falo were linked in his every thought |
Eight days ago he packed a small tele-
scope valise with few Of his belongings
and took an early train for Buffalo. At
that time there was no well-formed pur-
pose in his mind. Upon arriving in Buff
falo. he went at once to John Nowaks'
hotel on Broadway.
On Wednesday morning. the day of the
Presidents arrival. Czolgosz had his mind |
made up. His mission to Buffalo WIS
clear to him then. He determined to