The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-27
PLOTTING MORE THAN A YEAR,
evidence Found BY the Secret Ser.
vice Men.


Cleveland, Sept. 2.-Investigations
made today by Police Detective Smunk
reveal the startling possibility that a
plot TO assassinate President Mckinley
was lald year or more before he was
elected for his second term and that II
may have been laid in Orange township.
where the CzOlgOsz family lived. A re.
mlttance made to the assassin by his
brother, Waldeck Czolgosz, abOut a
month ago, led to the investigation
which may have an important bearing
on the case. From the first the Buffalo
police and the secret agents of the
federal government have been strong in
their belief that there was a plot. One
OF the strong elements in their belief has
been the fact that the handkerchief by
which the assassin concealed the hand in
which he held his weapon was a WOman's
handkerchief. What is more important
is that the handkerchief was bound
about the hand in way that be, it is
SAID, would not have been able to tie it
himself. The fact that CzOlgosz had
money impelled the detectives to try to
learn whence he got it. Today his
brother Waldeck confessed to having
sent it to Leon under the name of Frank
Snyder, at West Seneca, n. Y.
1t was learned that Leon and Waldeck
CzolgOFz have been readers Of socalistic
papers for several years.
John ID. Knox, an aged farmer who
lives in the vicinity of the former Czol-
gOsz farm, said today: The two bows.
the one who shot the president and
Naldeck, used to come to my house and
fO tn nh In,r
They brought their papers to me and
tried to get me to read them. Once
when they we're here during the last
presidential campaign they got to talk
ing about President Mckinley and one
OF them said: IF he is elected he will be
shot before he serves out his term and
went on: I'd serve John d. Rockefeller
in the same way if got chance They
talked violence all the time and | was
glad when they went out OF the neigh
bOrhOOd. Almost every night there was
a crowd from the city at their house.
They used to come out to the farm by
the electric road, so that we could not
see them as we could have had they
come by the road. The back of the
farm extends to the railroad and the
visitors used to go back and forth that
way instead OF by way of the road
Sometimes there would be quite crowd
of them"
Family Visited Him.
Buffalo, Sept, % Paul, Waldeck and
Victoria CzolgoeZ, father, brother and
sister OF Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of
President Mckinley, were granted an
interview with the prisoner in the Erie
county Jail today. Assistant District
Attorney Haller and Assistant Superin-
tendent OF Police Cusack were present,
under instructions from District At
torney Penny, throughout the interview
No other person will be allowed to see
the prisoner until the sentence of death
is imposed tomorrow. The interview
between the assassin, his father, brother
eand sister lasted 35 minutes, but no in
formation leading to the fmplieatieH OF
any one else in an af1arctis6 plot to kill
the president was given by the prisoner.
"We learned nothing that we did not
know before" said Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Haler at the conclusion
OF the interview. "He talked more than
he had at any previous time, but even
to his family he was not very com
municative"