West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-09-12
THE AURDEROUS ANARCHIST
AND THE PARTICULARS OF HIS
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
THE PRESIDENT.


disciple of Emma Goldman and the
other redical anarchist leaders, who
shot President Mckinley, insists
that he alone is responsible for his
crime. He says that nc talked the
matter over IN advance in a general
way with his friends, but that he
was not advised by them and that
there was no plot or conspiracy to
take the life of the President in
which anyone else had a part. He
declined to furnish the names of
the men with whom he discussed
the crime of Friday.
Czolgosz is not above the average
height. His face is that of typ
ical German.
To reporter District Attorney
Penny gave the substance of Cool
gosz's confession as follows
"This man has admitted shooting
the President. He says he intend
ed to kill; that he had been planning
to do it for the last three days,
since he came here. He went into
the Temple of Music with murder
In his heart, intending to shoot to
Kill He fixed up his hand by
tying handkerchief around it and
waited his turn to get near the
President. When he got directly
in front of the President he fred.
He says he has no confederate,
that he was entirely alone in the
planning and execution of his
diabolical act.
q He says he is believer in the
theories propounded by Emma
Goldman, whom he heard lecture
several times. He also minated
that he did not believe in our form
of government, and therefore that
he deemed it his duty To get rid of
the President"
This, in substance, is the con-
fession of Leon Czolgosz, who is a
German Pole and says his home is
in the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio.
He is 20 years old, unmarried, has
seven brothers and two sisters
living there. He worked for a
time in the wire works at Newark,
Ohio. He exhibits no sign of re-
morse and aside from his nervous
ness, acts as if he had done what
he considered a praiseworthy instead
of dastardly act.
In an interview secret service
detective Ireland, who, with Off
GERS Foster and Gallagher were
near the President when the shot
was fired, said
at is incorrect, as has been
stated, that the least fear of an
assault was entertained by the
Presidential party. Since the
Spanish war, the President has
travelled all over the country and
has met people everywhere. In
Canton he walks to church and
down town without the sign of
secret service men of any kind as
an escort. In Washington he
walks about the White House
grounds, drives out freely and has
enjoyed much freedom from the
presence of detectives.
1t has been my custom to stand
back of the President and Just to
his left so that could see the right
hand of every person approaching,
but yesterday was requested to
stand opposite the President so
that Mr.. Milburn could stand TO
the left and introduce people who
approached. In shat way | was
unable to get look at every ones
right hand
A few moments before Czolgosz
approached, a man came along
with three fingers of his right hand
tied up in a bandage and he had
shaken hands with his left. When
Czolgosz came up l noticed he was
boyish looking fellow with an
innocent face, perfectly calm and I
also noticed that his right hand was
wrapped in what appeared to be a
bandage. | watched him closely.
but was interrupted by the man in
front of him, who held on to the
Presidents hand an unusually long
time.
This man appeared to be an Ital
ian and wore a heavy black nous.
tachc. He was persistent and il
was necessary for me to push him
along so that others could reach the
President. Just as he released the
Presidents hand as the President
was reaching for the hand of the
assassin there were two quick shots.
Startled for moment, | looked
and saw the President draw his
right hand up under his coat.
straighten up and pressing his lips
together give Czolgosz the most
scornful and contempious look
possible to imagine.
AT the same time reached for
the young man and caught his left
arm. The big negro sfapdtrt, ;,,-t