The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-09-10

For the third time in our history, the
country was horror stricken Friday by
the attempt of an assassin to murder
our president.
Friday afternoon President McKin-
ley was reviewing the people at the
Buffalo Exposition. in the Temple of
Music. About four o'clock a young
man of average size and build, ap-
preached the President in line, with
his right hand tied up in handker-
chief. The President and his Secre-
tary noticed the man and supposed his
hand was injured. They therefore
thought nothing strange when the man
reached out his left hand to grasp the
Presidents. But as the assassin gave
his left hand to the President, he fired
from small revolver in his right,
aiming at the Presidents heart.
He fired two shots in quick success
sion-one aimed too high, striking the
President in the center of his breast,
near the top, the other striking him in
10 the center of the abdomen, over the
stomach.
A colored man, who had just shaken
hands with the President, struck the
assassin fearful blow in the face,
telling him to the earth, and imme-
diately jumped upon him, two detec-
tives in citizens dress also seizing the
villain and dissrming him.
U. S. soldiers, who were near in
citizens dress, and the police, at once
hurried the assassin away to prison be-
for the crowd knew or realized what
had been done.
The President stepped back and
sat down upon lounge where
friends promptly came to him and un
buttoning his vest, found blood trick
ling down his shirt front. He wa;
taken at once to the emergency hos
pital, which was near, severa
eminent physicians were summoned
and an examination made to ascertain
the character of the wounds.
The first bullet had glanced upon th'
breast bone, and made only sligh
flesh wound.
The second bullet passed through th'
front and back walls of the stomach
but its further course could not be as
lcertained without unnecessary pail
If not injury to the President, and th
Isurgeons after closing up the wound
in the stomach, closed the incision the
had made in the abdomen, and remove,
the President in an automobile ambu
I lance to the home of AR. Milburn, tn
president of the exposition, where h
and Mrs. Mckinley were guests.
!, The wounds were found to be Of nc
a hopeless character, and the Pres
/ dent stood the operation upon him re
markably well.
Meantime, while the surgical e1
animation of the President was bein
g made and the assassin being take
3 to prison, the news flashed over tn
: grounds that the President had bee
killed, and the widest excitement pr
|. vailed. A surging, shouting mass
e people, called for the lynching of tt
u assassin, and his life would have bee
u stamped out by the maddened thron
|. but for the fact that he had been il
mediately hurried away from Il
,f grounds by the authorities.
70 Instantly the news flashed over Il
l. world that the President of the Unit
States had been assassinated, and Il
;. first dispatc hes gave the exact tin
p that he so that the shock came
B. its full force, and the whole nation W
Is overwhelmed with grief and hOrrC
10 Other dispatches followed wi
the news that the President was st
Jalive, and despair gave place to ho]