Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-09-11
Emma Goldman the Firebrand Charged
with Conspiracy to Murder
the President.
Has an Interview with Chicago Police
, In Which She Denies Completely
In Act. Z. Il 81
Captain Colleran, Chief of Detectives
In Chicago, Swears to the Charge
Against Her.

the high pi~,stess of anarchy, whose
speeches turned to fire the brain of
Leon Czolgosz, the would-be assassin
of the president, was arrested here
shortly before noon.
Her manner was defiant as she was
led into the Office of the chief of DO
lice, but she disclaimed all knowledge
OF Czolgosz and his crime, save that
she admitted having met him here
July IL.
"Do you know that your words are
what Czolgosz claims stirred him to
shoot the PRESIDENT" she was asked.
Il do not; l never advocated vio-
lence. I scarcely knew the man. I
was leaving for Rochester, via Buffalo,
when Czolgosz had a few words with
me. He said he had heard me lecture
at some memorial hall in Cleveland
last May and that he wanted to know
me. He said he knew l was in Chi
cago and looked me up. l scarcely re-
member anything about him, save that
his complexion was light"
"Then how do you know that this
man is the one who tried to kill the
president?"
''Oh," with shrug of the shoulders.
Il guessed that from what the news
papers say"
What did you think when you
heard that an attempt to kill the presi-
dent had been nader" the woman was
asked. With wave of her hand and
another shrug of the shoulders she an
swered disdainfully:
81 thought: , Oh! the fool."
A Discourse on Anarchy.
The prisoners manner thus far had
been growing more and more excited,
although she made an evident effort
to control herself. In this she finally
succeeded and launched into dis
course of the teachings of anarchy.
She declared that anarchy did not
teach men to do the act which has
made Czolgosz despised and hated the
world over. ''We work against the
word" she said.
"It was early last July when 1 came
to Chicago to visit the Isaaks family"
she continued, in answer to interroga-
tions concerning her movements re-
Gently. "On the night of July IL Mr..
Isaaks was out of the house. The bell
rang and I went to the door. The
man who / learn through the newspa-
pers was Czolgosz stood there, He
said he wanted to see me- I was
about to catch the Nickle Plate train
as 1 and Mr.. Isaaks' daughter were
about to 90 to Rochester. He went
to the Rock Island depot with us, but
I was so busy taking leave Of my
friends that scarcely noticed him. It
was not a time when one would want
to make new friends. At the depot l
had the few words with him of which
I have told. That was all there ever
was between US.
81 am an anarchist-a student of
sociology, but nothing I ever said to
Leon Czolgosz knowingly would have
led him to do the act which startled
everybody Friday"
"Not even in your lectures?" put
in a reporter. HE says your words
set his brain on fire."
Did the Deed Unaided.
"Am accountable because some
cracked Drained person put wrong
construction on my words? Leon
Czolgosz, am convinced, planned the
deed unaided and entirely alone.
There are no anarchist ring which
would help him. There may. be an
archists who would murder, but there
are also men in every walk of life who
sometimes feel the impulse to kill. /
do not know surely, butfI think Czol-
gosz was one of those downtrodden
men who see all the misery which the
rich infict upon the poor, who think
Of it, who brood over it and then, In
despair, resolve to strike a great blow,
as they think, for the good of their
fellow men. But that Is not anarchy.
Czolgosz," (the Russian woman pro-
nounced the name with the greatest
easel ttCzolgosz may have been in
spired by me, but il he was he took
the wrong way of showing it, d.
The police are not entirely satisfied
with Miss Goldman's story. When
Captain Schuettler and Detective
Hertz discovered her at the home Of
one Norris at .303 Sheffield avenue she
denied her identity. & N Z 7 \ &..s
When the, interviews were over Cap
tain Luke Colleran, chief of detectives,
served q warrant on Miss Goldman,
charging her with conspiracy to muir
der the president. The warrant was
sworn TO BY Captain Golleran. 4
HEARD PLANS DISCUSSED. u.
Chicago Man Tells OF an Occurrences
s5s sof July 12 or Is,
Chicago Sept. Charles McATur-
ray, EN- ployed by d wholesale house In