The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1901-09-14
EMMA GOLDMAN ARRESTED
THE TEACHER OF 4 -ARcHY


Chicago, Sept, ls.-Emma Goldman. th'
high priestess Of anarchy, whose sPeeehe'
it was claimed turned to lire the brain O
Leon CzolgusL, the would Be assassin OF thu
president, is under arrest here.
her manner was defiant IS she VS. ttkeI
to the office Of the chief Of police, but she
disclainled any knowledge oI Czolgosz and
his crime, save that she admitted having
met him here Jaly II.
| do YOU know that YOU or your words
are what CzOglosz claims stirred him to
shoot the president.'' she was asked.
Il do not; / never advocated violence. |
scarcely knew the man. / was leaving for
Rochester via Buffalo when CzolgOsz had a
few words with me. He said he had heard
me lecture al some memorial hall in Cieve-
land last May, and that he wanted to know
me. He said he knew was in Chicago
and looked me up. scarcely remember
anything about him, save that his complex
ion was light"
Then how do you know that this man
is the one who tried to Kill the president =
'-Oh,v she replied, with a shrug Of the
shoulders, Il guessed that from what the
newspapers said"
What did you think when you heard
that an attempt to kill the president had
been nader" the woman was asked.
With wave of her hands and another
shrug Of the shoulders, she replied, dis
dainfully:
L thought, Oh, the fool
The prisoners manner thus TAR had been
growing more and more excited, although
she made an evident effort to control her
self In this she finally succeeded aRd
launched into discourse on the teachings
OF anarchy. she declared that anarchy did
not teach men to do the act which had
made CzolgOsz despised and hated the
world over.
we work against the system, and edu-
cation is our watehword,7 said. 1T was
early last July when l came to Chicago
to visit the Islaks family she continued,
in answer to interrogations concerning her
whereabouts recently.
-on the night Of July Il Mr. ISlaks Was
out of the house. The bell rang and
went To the door. The man who, learn
through the newspapers was CzoIgosz,
stood there He said he wanted to see
me- | was about to eaten the Nickel
Plate train, as | and MIR. Isaaks daugh-
ter were about to 90 to Rochester. lie
vent TO the Rock Island depot With us,
but | was 50 busy taking leave OF my
friends that / scarcely noticed him. 1t
was not time when one would want to
make new friends. At the depot 1 had
the few words with him of which have
told. That WAS all there ever vas be-
tween US.
Il am an Anarchist student Of soeiol-
ogy-but nothing in anything / ever slid
to Leon Czolgosz kno NIngiy could have
led him TO do the act which startled every
body Friday"
Not even in your lectures she was
asked. -He says your words set his brain
on fire."
Am accountable because some crack.
Drained person puts a wrong construction
on my wOrdss Leon Czolgosz, l am con-
WINGED, planned the deed unaided and en- |
tirely alone. There IS no anarchist ring
which would help him There NAV be /
anarchists who murder, but there are also
men IN every walk Of life who sometimes
feel the impulse to kill. l dom taow 1
surely, but | think Czolgosz was one Of 4
those dOwntrodden men who see all the
misery which the rich infiict upon the
poor, who think Of it, who brood over il
and then IN despair resolve to strike a
great blow, as they think, for the good Of
lhelr fellowmen- But that is not anarchy.
"Czolgosz Russian woman Dro-
bounced the word with the greatest ease
'Czolgosz may have been inspired by me.
tut If be was he took the wrong way Of
moving it,"
The police are not entirely satisfied with
Hiss Goldman's story. When Captain
and Detective Hertz discovered
Ter at the home of one Norris at 3O3 shef
Ieid avenue, she denied her identity.
Hello, Miss Goldman said the cap
ain, as he entered the parlor. Are YOU
lad to see me?7
I'm not Miss Goldman; I'm a Swedish
roman and my name is Lena Larson. s.
ns"ered the anarchist, endeayoring to
initiate Swedish dialect.
All right; / speak Swedish myself" {
md the police officer, as he poured out a I
w questions in the Swedish tongue. Miss
Oldham did not reply, affecting to mis-
detective Hertz meanwhile had diseoy- I
ed penholder with the name Emma 4
Oldham engraved on it. what dos 4