The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-12
WOUNDS SERIOUS
BUT NOT THOUGHT LIKELY TO
PROVE FATAL.
PFssidsat Mckinley Was Holding Reception ia
Temple of Music At Psn.Amerlean When
Deed Was Committed Patient b Restina
Easy-Mrs. Mckinley Stood Shock Well
Many Messages Of Sorrow Received.

aIter O'CLOCK p. m. yesterday, while
President Mckinley was holding pub
lie reception in the Temple of Music on
the Pam-American grounds and thou
sands of men and women were eagerly
endeavoring to obtain a chance to shake
hands with him, well dressed man
giving the name of Fred Neiman, of De-
troit, approached the president as if to
greet him.
Both Secretary Cortelyou and Presi-
dent Millburn, who were standing near,
noticed that the mans hand was swathed
in bandage or handkerchief. He
worked his way amid the stream of peo-
pie up to the edge of the dais until he
was within two feet of the president.
President Mckinley smiled, bowed and
extended his hand in that spirit of geni-
ality the American people 80 well know,
when the sharp crack of revolver rang
out loud, clear above the hum of voices,
the shuffiing of myriad feet and vibrat-
ing waves of applause that ever and anon
swept here and there over the assem-
blage.
There was an instant of almost COM
plete silence. The president stood stock
still, look of hesitancy, almost of be-
wilderment, on his face. Then he re-
treated step, while pallor began to
steal over his features. The multitude,
only partially aware that something seri-
ons had happened, paused in surprise.
Then came commotion. Three men
threw themselves forward as with one
impulse, and sprang toward the would-be
assassin. Two of them were United
States secret service men who were on
the lookout and whose duty it was to
guard against Just such calamity as
had here befallen the president and the
nation. The third was a bystander, a
negro, who had only an instant previ-
Ously grasped the hand of the president.
In twinkling the assassin was borne to
the ground, his weapon was wrested
from his grasp, and strong arms pinion-
ed him down.
The president retained the full exer-
else of his faculties until placed on the
operating table and subjected to anes-
thetics. Upon the first examination it
was ascertained that one bullet had taken
effect in the right breast, just below the
nipple. The other took effect in the alb
domen, about four inches below the left
nipple, four inches to the left of the
navel and was ON level with it. Upon
arrival at the exposition hospital the
second bullet was probed for. After q
hasty examination it was decided to re-
move the patient to the home of Presi-
dent Millburn.
While the wounds are dangerous, the
physicians are hopeful of recovery. The
latest bulletins say the president passed
a good night.
Neiman, the name given by the assas-
sin, is an assumed one. The mans name
is Leoo Czolgosz. He is of Polish-Ger
man extraction. His home is in Cleve-
land, where he has seven brothers and
sisters. He is an avowed anarchist, and
an ardent disciple of Emma Goldman,
whose teachings, he alleges, are respon-
sible for yesterdays attack on the presi-
dent. He denies steadfastly that he is
the instrument of any body of anarchists
or the tool of any cOterie of plOtters.
He declares that he did not even have
confederate. His only reason for the
deed, he declares, is that he believed the
present form of governmental the United
States was unjust, and he concluded the
most effective way to remedy 1t was to
kill the president. These conclusions,
he declared, he reached, through the
teachings of Emma Goldman.
As soon as the news OF the shooting
became known kilograms expressing sor-
row began pouring In from every quarter
Of the globe.
The news was broken gently to Mrs.
Mckinley and though she stood it brave
ly she was much affected by the sad in
tellipence.