Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-09-07

taken up, and the whole crowd, as II
ignited by the single match thus APP
piled, re-echoed the cry: Lynch him.
Hang him." Closer the crowd surged
forward. Denser the throng became as
new arrivals swelled each moment the
swaying multitude. The situation was
becoming critical. when suddenly the
big doors were flung open and squad
of reserves advanced with solid front,
drove the crowd back from the curb,
then across the street and gradually
succeeded in dispensing them from
about the entrance to the station.
BY this time there were probably
$4,000 people assembled in the vicinity
of Pearl, Seneca and Erie streets and
the Terrace. The crowd was so great
that il became necessary to rope of
the entire street in front of police
headquarters, and at a late hour last
night the police were still patrolling
in the streets in the neighborhood In
squads of three or four.
Prisoner Told Many Stories.
Inside the station house were assem-
bled District Attorney Penney, Super
intendent of Police Bull. Captain Rea-
gan, OF the First precinct, and other
officers. The prisoner at first proved
quite communicative. so much so in
fact that little dependence could be
placed on what he said. He first
gave his name as Fred Neiman, said
his home was in Detroit, and that he
had been in Buffalo about a week. He
said he had been boarding at a place
in Broadway. Later this place was To-
GATED as John Nowaks saloon,
Raines law hotel, 1913 Broadway. Here
the prisoner occupied room s. Nowak,
the proprietor, said he knew very lit
tie about his guest. He came there. he
declared, last Saturday, saying he had
come to see the Pan-American, and
that his home was in Toledo. He had
been alone at all times about Nowak's
place, and had had no visitors. In
his room was found a small travelling
bag of cheap make. 1t contained an
empty cartridge box and few clothes.
With these facts in hand, the police
went at the prisoner with renewed
vigor in the effort to obtain either a
full confession or a straight account
of his identity and movements prior
to his arrival in Buffalo. He at first
admitted that he was an Anarchist in
sympathy at least, but denied strenu-
ously that the attempt on the life of
the President was the result OF pre-
concerted plot of any Anarchist so
ciety At times he was defiant and
again indifferent. But at no time did
he betray the remotest sign of re-
morse. He declared the deed was not
premeditated, but in the same breath
refused to say why he perpetrated 1t.
When charged by District Attorney
Penney with being the instrument Of
an organized band of conspirators, he
protested vehemently that he never
even thought of perpetrating the crime
until yesterday morning. After long
and persistent questioning, it was an
nounced at the police headquarters
that the prisoner had made a partial
confession, which he had signed.
Finally Makes Confession.
AS near as can be learned, the facts
contained in the confession are as fol-
lows:
The mans name is Leon Czolgozz.
He is of Polish-German extraction. His
home is in Cleveland, where he has
seven brothers and sisters. He is an
avowed Anarchist and an ardent disci-
pie of Emma Goldman, whose teach
ings, he alleges, are responsible for to-
days attack on the President. He
denies steadfastly that he is the in
strument of any body of Anarchists
or the tool of any coterie of plotters.
He declares he did not even have a
confederate. His only reason for the
deed, he declares. is that he believed
the present form of government in the
United States was unjust, and he con-
cluded that the most effective way TO
remedy it was to kill the President.
These conclusions, he declared, he
reached through the teachings Of EN-
ma Golman.