Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-09-08
EXAMINATION OF CZOLGoSZ
STILL INSISTS THAT HE WAS ALONE
IN CRIME.
illustrates to Police the Manner OF the
MISUNDERSTANDING for
COnfederafes.


| anarchist leaders, who shot President Nc
! Kiniey, insists that he alone is responsible
| for his crime. He says that he talked the
matter over in advance In a general way
| with his friends, but that he was not ad-
vised by them, and that there was no plot
or conspiracy to take the life Of the Pres
| ident in which any one else had q part.
He declined to furnish the names OF the
| men with whom he discussed the crime OF
Friday, but the police believe they will
yet learn them, and that when they do
they will have exposed the anarchistic plot
Of which they are confident the prisoner
was the final agent Of murder.
Czolgosz submitted to six hours OF ex-
animation and questioning at the hands OF
the police officials today, and was tired
out when they led him back to his cell ana
locked him up for the night The long e1-
animation Of the prisoner was Irultiess
save in so far as his own Individual rate
is concerned, for while he told notnlns
that would impiicate any one else In his
crime he went over the scene at the rem
p1e of Music when he shot the President
again and again, completing CONCESSION
as ample as the law ever exacted
illustrates Crime.
He even went to the extent OF illustrating
to the officers the manner in which ne snot
the President and told with manifest prloe
how he deceived the President and his pro-
tectors with the bandaged hand that held
the revolver.
When he was first brought before Super
intendent of Police Bull and District At
torney Penney he was not disposed to talk
very freely, and when a question was put
to him took ample time to weigh his an
swers deliberately. He mixed with his an
swers some of the philosophy of the des-
perate political sect to which he belongs.
and seemed to be posing. Later his tongue
loosened somewhat, and by the close OF the
a afternoon he talked freely. The ADMISSION
that he had discussed the crime in advance
with friends was finally drawn from him.
but there he stopped and could not De
moved. He was in the hands OF a group OF
shrewd examiners, and they set trap upon
trap to snare him, but the effort to preaK
him down failed. The police say that In the
end when he comes to a true appreciation
of his position he will break down and fully
confess In reviewing his confession he
made open avowal of his belief in anarchy.
and said that he had merely done his duty
as he saw it.
Looking for Confederates.
In addition to the examination to which
the prisoner was subjected, city and federal
detectives spent the day in securing the
city for some trace OF possible confederates.
They took up the trail Of the prisoner from
the day of his arrival and partially COM
pleted an outline Of his movements up to
the commission Of the crime.
They did not succeed in connecting him
with any Of the socialists who make their
home here and by nightfall had about
hat ho mas tn6
by any one here. They also showed an IN
clination to give up the belief that con-
federate preceded the prisoner in the re-
ception line leading up to the President,
but work along that line had not been aban-
doned. The general theory now held by the
detectives is that circle of Czolgosz's as
sociates plotted the murder of President
Mckinley and that he was picked by lot
or induced by persuasion to carry out the
conspiracy. They say that he lacks the
shrewdness to have planned and executed
the crime as he did.
The police said tonight that they had
made no other arrests and that they had
none in contemplation. 1t Is evident that
they have not made much progress toward
the establishment Of their theory with ma
terial evidence, and that their chief re-
lance at present Is on a confession from
the prisoner. Czolgosz's trail has been
taken up at Cleveland. and 1t is expected
that the inquiry there will let in some val
liable light as to his companions and posi-
BILE fellow conspirators.
Prisoner Kept Secluded.
The prisoner was kept secluded today.
and as result Of suggestion from Sec
rotary Of War Root, the police inquiry will
be made as secretly as possible. No one is
4, ,>~i-
Immediate custodians, and his confessions,
taken down in writing. will not be made
public for the present at least. The pris-
oner has not retained counsel, and when
the subject was mentioned to him today
he said he did not desire lawyer to de-
fend him. The police said that when he
got over the idea that he was great hero
among his fellow anarchists he would very
likely resort to the usual means to avoid
punishment for his crime, whatever time
shows it to be. No one who ever knew
him made application to see him today.
and no word came to him from his rela-
tives. He had a couple of dollars when ar
rested. and today asked that 1t be expended
in the purchase of new shirt. His re-
quest was granted. and he spent some time
In rearranging his dress. The police made
another search OF his room and effects, but
found nothing that would throw any light
on the crime.
Surprise to Those Who Knew Him.
A Cleveland, Ohio. dispatch says:
Perhaps to no one else is the would-be
assassin Of the President more a surprise
than those who know the reckless young
| man in Cleveland and vicinity. Leon Cool
gcsz, during his half dozen years or more
residence in the far southeast end of this
city. and largely inhabited by people of
his nationality, cannot understand how he
ever plucked up the necessary nerve to do
his daring deed.
The unharry inmate Of home from
which his mother had been taken by death,
he never got along very well with his
fathers second wife, and acted more or
less the stubborn boy in his relations with
her. During this time his father lived ON
farm with his large family of seven boys
and two girls. Leon was not active in
farm work, seeming not to care for the
drudgery incident to the life.
Shortly after coming to this city, fifteen
years ago, Icons father started q saloon,
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