The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-12

purpose. Arrived at the Miiburn residence
all persons outside the medical attend
ants, nurses and the officials Immediately
concerned. were excluded and the task OF
probing for the bullet which had lodged
in the abdomen was begun by DR.. Ros-
well Parke. When the news Of the crime
was telephoned to the home Of President
Milburn where Mrs. Mckinley was rest
ing. immediate steps were taken to spare
her the shock of a premature statement
before the true condition Of the president
could be ascertained. Guards were sta
toned and no one was permitted to APP
proach the house.
When II was decided to remove the
president from the exposition hospital to
the Mlburn residence. the news was
broken to Mrs Mckinley as gently as
might be by the members of the Milburn
family. She bore the shock remarkably
well and displayed the utmost forttude.
While the wounded president was being
borne from the exposition to the Milburn
residence between rows Of onlookers with
barred heads. far different spectacle was
being witnessed along the route of his as
sailant's journey from the scene OF his
crime to police headquarters. The trip
Was Safely Landed
within the portals of the police station
and the doors closed before anyone was
aware of his presence.
Then bulletins began to appear on the
boards along Newspaper Row, and when
the announcement was ade that the
prisoner had been taken to police head
quarters, only two blocks distant from
the newspaper section, the crowds surgeI
down toward the terrace. eager for
glimpse of the prisoner. In a. few min
utes the crowd had grown from tens TO
hundreds and thousands until the street
was completely blocked with mass OF
humanity. 1t was at this juncture that
some one raised the cry of Lynch him."
Like flash the cry was taken up, and
the whole crowd, as IL ignited by the
single match thus applied. 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 We're flung
open and a squad of reserves advanced
with solid front. drove back from the
curb. then across the street and gradual
ly succeeded in dispensing them from
about the entrance to the station. Inside
the station house we're District Attorney
Penny, Superintendent of Police Bull,
Capt. Reagan OF the First precinct and
other officials. The prisoner first gave
his name as Fred Nieman. said his home
was In Detroit, and that he had been in
Buffalo about a week
Prisoner Confesscs.
He at first admitted that he was an
anarchist In sympthy at least, but de-
MED strenuously that the attempt on the
life of the president was result of
preconcerted plot on the part Of any an
archist society. At times he was defiant
and again Indifferent. But at no time
did he betray the remotest sign of re-
morse. After long and persistent ques-
tioning 1t was announced at police head
quarters that the prisoner had made
partial confession which he had signed.
As near as can be learned the facts
contained in the confession are as fol-
lows:
The mans name is Leon Czolgosz. He
is an avowed anarchist and an ardent dis
ciple of Emma Goldman. whose teach
ings, he alleges, are responsible for the
attack on the president. He denies stead
lastly that he Is the instrument of any
body of anarchists or the tool Of any
coterie Of plotters. He declares he did
not have a confederate. His only reason
for the deed, he declares, is that he be-
lieved the present form Of government in
the United States was unjust. and he
concluded the most effective way to rem
edy 1t was to kill the president.