The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-07
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY SHOT.

all persons outside the medical attend
 ants, nurses and the officials immedi-
 ately concerned were excluded and the
 task of probing for the bullet which had lodged in the abdomen was begun
 by pr, Resell Parke.
 When the news of the crime was tel
 ephoned to the home of President Mill
 burn, where Mrs. Mckinley was rest
 ing, immediate steps were taken to | spare her the shock of a premature
 statement of the occurrence before the
 true condition of the president could be l obtained. Guards were stationed and
 no one permitted to approach the | house.
 | When it was decided to remove the | president from the exposition hospital | to the Milburn residence the news was | broken to Mrs. Mckinley as gently as | might be, by the members of the Mill burn family.
 She bore the shock remarkably well
 and displayed the utmost fortitude. At 9:30 the representative of the As
 sociated Press was admitted to the Mill
 burn mansion, where Secretary Cortel- you gave him the official bulletin pre-
 pared by the physicians.
 Secretary Cortelyou said that a tele-
 graph office would be established at
 once in the Milburn residence and bull letins giving the fullest information
 information possible would be issued
 at short intervals. At the Milburn
 house were Secretary of Agriculture
 Wilson, President Milburn, Director
 General Buchanan of the Pan Ameri-
 can exposition, Dr. Rixey and Secre-
 tary Cortelyou. Telegrams poured in
 by the hundred and Secretary Cortel-
 you was kept busy replying to them. Two stenographers with their typewrit-
 CTS were placed in the parlor, which
 was quickly transformed into a bust ling room.
 While the wounded president was be-
 ing borne from the grounds to the Mill burn residence between rows of on- lockers with barred heads, far differ ent spectacle was being witnessed along the route Of his assailants jour- ney from the scene of his crime to Do- lice headquarters. The trip was made so quickly that the prisoner was safely landed within the wide portals of the police station and the doors closed be- fore any one was aware of his pres ence.
 The news of the attempted assassin ation had in the meanwhile been spread broadcast by the newspapers. Like wildflre it spread from mouth to mouth. The bulletins began to appear on the boards along newspaper row and when the announcement was made that the prisoner had been taken to police headquarters, only two blocks distant from the newspaper section, the crowds surged down toward the terrace, eager for glimpse of the prisoner
 At police headquarters they were met by strong cordon of police, which was drawn up across the pavement on Pearl street, and denied admittance to any but officials authorized to take part 1 in the examination of the prisoner In l a few minutes the crowd had grown | from tens to hundreds and these in turn quickly swelled to thousands un- l til the street was completely blocked | with a surging mass of eager humani- ty.
 It was at this juncture that some one 'aised the cry of Lynch him. Like a fash the cry was taken up. Closer the crowd surger forward. Denser the -hrong became as new arrivals swelled each moment the swaying multitude. The situation was becoming critical when suddenly the big doors were flung open and squad of reserves advanced with solid front. drove the crowd back rom the curg; then across the street md gradually succeeded in dispensing hem from about the entrance to the station.
 By this time there were about 50.000 people assembled In the vicinity of Pearl, Seneca, Erie streets and the Ter ace. The crowd was so great that 1t became necessary to rope off the en- ire street in front of police headquar- CTS, and at late hour tonight the police were still patroling in the streets II the neighborhood in squads of three IT four.
 Inside the station house were assem- lied District Attorney Penney, Super ntendent of Police Bull, Captain Rea- ,an of the first precinct and other off, ials The prisoner at first proved quite communicative, so much so in fact that lttle dependence could be placed on what he said li
 He first gave his name as Frederick !, Jeiman, said his home was Detroit, , dich., and that he had been in Buffalo bout a week. He later admitted that is name WIS Leon Czolgosz and that is home was in Cleveland. He said e had been boarding at a place on :. Broadway. Later this place was locat- d at John Nowak's saloon, Raines aw hotel, Mo- 107S Broadway Here . he prisoner occupied room 8. Nowak, he proprietor, said he knew very little | bout his guest. He came there, he :. eclared last Saturday. saying he had < ome to see the Pan American and that is home was in Toledo. He had been lone at all times about Nowak's place, z nd had had no visitors. In his room was found a small trav- :, ling bag of cheap make. It contained d n empty cartridge box and a few il Iothes. With these facts in hand the 4 office went at the prisoner with renew f d vigor in the effort to obtain full z onfession or a straight account of his F