The Washington times., 1901-09-11
EHMA GOLDMAN'S DENIAL.
Arrested in Chicago, She Says She
Did Not Know CzolgOsz.

| Met Him Once Only and Would Not
Recognize Him Again Her Lee
| ture, She Says. Contained Nothing
| NiOIent-COntempt for the Poice.
| CHICAGO. Sept. 10-Emma Goldman is
| in the hands of the Chicago police. The
| woman whose teachings fired CZolgosz to
| attack President Mckinley. and who may
have even closer relation with the Buff
| falo crime. was taken into custody at
| 1908 Sheffield Avenue this morning by
Captain Schuettler of the Sheffield Avenue
| police station, the officer who first won
| fame in the detection of the Haymarket
anarchists.
A charge of conspiracy to murder Presi-
dent Mckinley was at once lodged against
her. Application for bail will be denied
by the police. She is now at the Har-
rison Street police station annex. This
afternoon the police also arrested Charles
G. Morris, at whose fiat Miss Goldman
had been sheltered.
The police are now seeking the two half
brothers and sister of Morris. who also
dwelt in the Sheffield Avenue fiat. They
charge that all are anarchists. and that
| they knew the indentity of the woman
| who they were Sheltering. Miss Goldman
sent the following telegram shortly after
| her arrest:
III. Holstein, 213 Joseph Avenue,
Rochester n Y. Arrested. Do not
worry. Will be out soon Comfort
mother. L.
Miss Goldman told Chief O'Neill that she
was having a little fun at the expense
of the police department" She had in
tended today to give herself up to the
police.
IF these officers had come twenty min
utes later | would not have been there,
she said Il would have been on my way
to deliver myself to the police
An emphatic denial was given to the
suggestion that the assassin was spurred
to his deed by her utterances.
Il don't believe it," she cried earnestly
Il don't believe he ever said it j have
read the accounts, but 1 don't believe
they are true l never urged violence.
My lectures have never been published in
pamphlet form or in book. They have
been printed in periodicals, but they
never have advocated murder. do not
favor such means 20 our end
Her stories of the meeting with Czol-
gosz tally with those of Isaak and of the
assassin himself.
Il met the man they say shot the Pres
ident. 1t was in Chicago, on July L.
would not know him if L should see him
again. did not learn his name, but i do
remember afterward seeing his name
published in Free Society,"" with the
warning that he was a spy.
Il was to leave FOR Rochester that day.
Miss Isaak was going with me, and her
desire to see Niagara Falls and the Pan
American Exposition led me TO make the
trip through Buffalo. Just as we were
starting from the house with the party
which went to see us OFF the door bell
rang. Some one went TO the door. and the
stranger asked for Mr. Isaak. Mr.. Isaak
was not in, but he was told that if he
would go to the Lake Shore station. Mr..
heed to such things when parting from
friends. 1 always stay at the Isaak home,
and We are warm friends
My train went at $50 o'clock SO it was
quite dark when we got there. Mr.. Isaak
was waiting for US, and he introduced
the man. Afterward / had a short talk
with him.
- came from Cleveland here said the
man. 1 have heard you lecture.
He said he came to Isaak-because the
latter was the publisher of Free Society.
only talked with him a few minutes. L
cannot recall his features. 1t was too
dark to distinguish them. ! think he had
light hair. His hat was pulled down over
his ears, and shaded his face so that |
could not distinguish his features at all.
would not know him again If / should
see him.
81 have never heard Of him since" she
continued Il never saw him before. We.
Miss Isaak and myself, arrived in Buff
falo the next day-Saturday. and l left
on Monday. We went to the Falls togeth-
er and on Monday Miss Isaak was taken
to the exposition / did not care to go
because | had seen the Paris Exposition.
and did not think the Buffalo Fair would
compare with it. From there l went to
Rochester. where | remained nearly six
weeks. with my sister. Mrs. H C. Hoch-
stein, In jackson Place"
Miss Goldman WIS asked: rs the man
Morris. with whom you are stopping, an
anarchist
NO. sir: he is not, so far as l know.
You would not implicate everyone with
whom / talked in this case. would you7
because he says he is an anarchist you
would implicate all of us
DO you believe, Miss Goldman. hat
anything you said melted that man to
his deed?" was asked by Mayor Harrison.
If he said that, he is not an anarchist.
That address dwelt particularly on the
chy with violence. I am not physcholo-
gist enough to see what going in
that mans mind. ard l am not RESPONSE
BILE for what he did, but know that what
l said did not incite him to anything
RASH
How long have you been In Chicago?"
nave Dettl mere several udyS i nave
been following the case closely, but 1
thought / would give the police a little
fun. | am rather glad | did not give my
self up earlier, for it would have been
hard to cause this man TO lose his posi-
ton" pointing to Captain SchuettlerD
Proceeding, she said:
Mckinley is simply tool in the hands
of the wealthy. He is the most insignifi-
cant President the United States ever
had. Still ! do not see what could come
out of killing him. / know that there are
people in desperate circumstances who
may be driven to commit desperate acts
Miss Goldman professed contempt for
the St Louis police She said: Il got to
Chicago Sunday, leaving st. Louis Sat
urday night | was in St Louis from
Thursday evening until Saturday night.
l saw them, but they did not see me"
why aid you come here2' was asked
Il came here to get Isaaks out. / was
at the house at 3O03 Sheffield Avenue since
yesterday afternoon. l wanted to know
II bail would be allowed 10 get them out
of prison"
She seemed to ignore the police and re-
marked that she wanted nothing to do
with policemen and that if they did not
make themselves appear necessary to the
people they would starve to death for the
want of intelligence. Continuing, she said:
II always travel under an assumed
name and my last trip began at Pitts
burg. whence | went to Cincinnati, st.
Louis. Chicago. and Buffalo. | was In
Buffalo on August l3, but do not remein-
her having met any such man as CZol-
gosZ. -
''If the police imagine they are going
to make another affair Ike that OF 1873
they are badly mistaken, because they