The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-09-12
STORY OF Cz0LGOSz
Would=Be Assassin Of Mckinley
Talks Boldly Of His Crime.
WAS A PLOT OF ANARCHISTS
CuIprit Says He Was Inspired to Do
DastardIy Deed Through
Speeches of Notorious
Emma Goldman.

A Buffalo special says: Leon Czol-
gosz, the self avowed disciple of EN-
ma Goldman and the other radical an
archist leaders, who shot President
Mckinley, insists that he alone is re-
sponsible for his crime. He says that
he 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
70 take the life of the president in
which any one else had part. He
declined to furnish the names of the
men with whom he discussed the
crime of Friday, but the police believe
they will yet learn them, and when
they do, they will have exposed the
anarchistic plot of which they are con-
ident the prisoner was the final agent
of murder.
Czolgosz submitted to six hours OF
examination and questioning at the
hands of the police officials Saturday
and was tired out when they led him
back to his cell and locked him up for
the night. The lengthy examination
Of the prisoner was fruitless save in so
far as his own individual fate is con-
cerned, for while he told nothing that
would implicate any one else IN his
crime, he went over the scene at the
Temple of Music when he shot the
president again and again, completing
a confession as ample as the law ever
exacted. He even went to the extent
of illustrating to the officers the man
ner in which he shot the president,
and told with manifest pride how he
deceived the president and his pro-
tectors with the bandaged hand that
held the revolver.
The statement of Czolgosz made to
the police, transcribed and signed by
the prisoner in part, is as follows:
81 was born in Detroit nearly twen-
ty-nine years ago. My parents were
Russian Poles. They came here forty
one years ago. 1 got my education in
the public schools of Detroit, and then
went to Cleveland, where I got work.
IN Cleveland 1 read books on social
ism and met a great many socialists.
1 was pretty well known as a social
O.
land for several years l went to Chi
cago, where I remained seven months,
after which I went to Newburg, on the
outskirts of Cleveland, and went to
work in the Newburg wire mills.
During the last five years 1 have
had as friends anarchists in Chicago,
Cleveland, Detroit and other western
cities, and. I suppose, became more or
less bitter. Yes, l know l was bitter.
l never had much luck at anything and
this preyed upon me. 1t made me mo-
rose and envious, but what started the
craze to kill was a lecture by Emma
Goldman. She was in Cleveland and
ana OCQeI dudrCulSIS WeuL W uCol ASA'
She set me on fire.
"Her doctrine that all rulers should
be exterminated was what set me to
thinking so that my head nearly split
with pain. Miss Goldman's words
went ringing through me, and when
left the lecture l had made up my
mind that I would do something heroic
for the cause I loved.
Eight days ago, while was in Chi
cago, read in Chicago newspaper
of President McKinley's visit to the
Pan-American exposition at Buffalo,
and got here with the determination to
put the chief executive out of the
way"
notwithstanding the statement OF
Czolgosz, the general theory now held
by the detectives is that a circle Of
the mans associates plotted the mur-
der of President Mckinley, and that
he was picked by lot or induced by per-
suasion to carry out the conspiracy.
They say that he lacks the shrewd-
ness to have planned and executed the
crime as he did.