The Red Cloud chief., 1901-09-13
EMMA IS IN JAIL
Must Face a Charge OF Murder
Gus Conspiracy.
POLICE OF CHICAGO CATCH HER
Calls Czolgosz n f~ool-Says She knows
Denies Any knowledge
OF Any Plot.

Emma Goldman. 1.-THE anarchist
queen" under whose red banner Leon
Czolgosz claims he stands, whose words
he claims fired his heart and his brain
to attempt the assassination of the
president, was arrested a, Chicago
shortly before noon Tuesday.
She disclaimed all but the slightest
acquaintance with the prcsident's as
s%ailont; she denied absolutely that she
or any anarchist she knew was impli-
Gated in any plot to kill the president.
She said she believed Czolgosz acted
entirely on his W responsibility, and
that he never claimed t. have been in
spired by her. as nc is quoted as affirm
ing.
The president, she averrcd with q
yawn, was an insignificant being to
her-a mere human atom whose life or
death were matters of supreme indif-
ference to her. or to any anarchist.
Czolgosz's act was foolish. yet, she de-
clared, 1t probably had it's inspiration
in the misery which the Pole had seen
about him. Violence, she said, was
not n tenet in the faith of the an
archist, and she had not advocated it
In Cleveland. where Czolgosz has said
he heard her. or elsewhere.
She was held on a warrant sworn
out by Captain Colleran charging her
with conspiracy to murder the presi-
dent. The anarchists already in Jail
here were named as her co-conspira-
tors.
She will be taken before a magistrate
and 1T is expected that the city will
ask Tor a continuance of the case, pend
ing advices from Buffalo.
II shall insist upon an immediate
hearing" she said in speaking of the
probability of a postponemcnt being
asked for by the city prosecutor. '.They
want me to go to New York without re-
QUESTION papers but will not 60. |
know the legal ropes and III make
them fight every step. And I'm not
afraid to 60 at that"
Her was defiant as she was
led into the Office of the chief of police,
but she disclaimcd oil knowledge Of
Czolgosz and his crime, save that she
admitted having met him here July ~.
DO you know that your words are
what CZolgosz claims stirred him to
shoot the presidcnt?" she was asked.
II do not. ] never advocated vio-
lence. l scarcely knew the man. I
was leaving for Rochester, via Buffalo,
when Czolgosz had n few words with
me. He said he had heard me lecture
at some memorial hall in Cleveland
last May and that he wanted to know
me. He said he knew ] was in Chicago
and looked me up. | scarcely rcmem-
Der anything about him save that his
complexion is light
Miss Goldman arrived in Chicago on
Sunday morning from st. Louis. Her
Immunity from arrest while in the
Missouri metropolis and up to Tuesday
in Chicago afforded her much amusc-
ment. She told in sentences punctu-
ated with laughter of her capture. In
her conversation with reportcrs-and
She talked with them at length twice
during the day-thc excitement she
was laboring under was suppressed.
and only once did she break down com
pletely. That was when CAPTAIN
Schuettler led her from the Office of
Chief of Police O'Neill to the cab which
was waiting to convey her to the wom-
ans annex to the Harrison street DO
lice station. For a moment she became
a woman. pure and simple, and cried.
In a moment, however, this exhibition
OF distress was over, and when she put
her foot on the step to mount into the
carriage she was again Emma Gold
man, the high priestess Of anarchy"
as she has been styled by her follow
ers.
She said her purpose in coming here
had been to assist the anarchists who
were arrested here scvera! days ago.
She had intended, she said, to give her
self up to the police, but delayed it for
one reason and another until the police
she had derided $ much had taken
the matter into their hands.