The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-09-26
Indignant Citizens of the West Side
Hang Dummy Labeled CzoIgocz
to a Telegraph Wire.
GREAT CROWD APPLAUDS THE ACT.
Nearly a Thousand People Gather to Wit
ness the Ceremony of Stringing
Up the Assassin.

Stirred by the mighty speeches de-
1ivercd at the Memorial Exercises
Thursday afternoon crowd of nearly
a thousand indignant Kenosha resi-
dents hanged C4o1gosz, the assassin
of President Mckinley, in ef6gy at the
corner of West Main and Pearl streets
shortly after six O'Clock last evening
and the body is still strung up to the
wire to remind the passer-by that one
part of the city at least has shown
hatred to the assassin of law and order.
The hanging was very orderly af-
fair and had been carefully planned.
The dummy had been made during the
afternoon and was completely dressed
with good suit of clothes. The face
looked like the face of a man and on
huge placard attached to the hanging
body were the words "Czo1gosz, the
Assassin. On the reverse side of the
card were the words ''Thus Let All
Traitors Die'. AS the people were
hurrying home from the meeting the
crowd began to gather at the corner
and the police officers, vino could not
have been aware of the plan of the
West side people, took no steps to
restrain them. When the crowd had
reached about a thousand people the
men rushed from one of the buildings
with the dummy and the rope was
thrown over the telegraph wire. While
the crowd cheered and hooted the
dummy was pulled to the top of the
ys4-o nj fol
time the crowd remained and hurled
stones at the BODY hanging to the wire.
After hanging all day long to the
telegraph wire, the effigy was burned
with fire Friday night and all that
now remains of the dummy is small
portion of the charred head which still
hangs to the wire.
The burning of the efdgy was pub
lie function. Early in the evening
the arrangements for the burning were
made and the people in all parts of the
city were notified. The police had
stated that they would not Interfere
with the burning of the efigy and for
this reason the boys formed their
plans we'll. Just before the eight
o'clock train passed Kenosha Emil
Zeck, one of the sailors of the United
States navy, who was at the battle of
Manila, came out with a long handled
torch, with which he set the flames
that finally consumed the effigy of the
anarchist. When the flames were
started a mighty cheer arose from the
great crowd Of men and boys who had
gathered to witness the disposal of the
anarchist. The people seemed to take
great pleasure in the ceremony and as
the different pieces of the body burned
off and fell from the wire they were
gathered mp and carried about the
blazing enigy, while gang Of boys
with tin horns and drums kept up
never ending fnsilade of noise.
When the dummy was all but con-
sumed it fell to the ground and there
was a general rush for it. People tore
the burning mass to pieces and carried
away small pieces of the clothing as
souvenirs of the time when the West
side showed the city how anarchists
should be dealt with.
The burning Of the efigy created
quite a little excitement and several
hours after the fall of the body the
crowd still fingered around shouting
and hooting.