The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-09-12
The Victim of Anarchists Bullet.
TWO SHOTS FIRED INTO HIS BODY = ONE SERIOUS,
NEITHER FATAL.
Leon CzolgoSz, Polish Anarchist, Would-be Assassin
President Shot While Holding Public Reception in the
Tenn pie of Music on the Pan American Exposition
Grounds O'clock Friday Afternoon.

chanic. He offered no explanation
for the deed, except that he was an
anarchist and had done his duty. A
detail of Exposition guards was sent
for and a company of soldiers. A
carriage was summoned.
RAGE KNEW NO BOUNDS.
South of the Temple a space had
been roped off. The crowd tore out
the iron stanchions holding the ropes
and carried the ropes to a tlag-pole
standing nearby on the esplanade.
"Lynch him!" cried hundred voices.
and start was made for one of the
entrances of the Temple. Soldiers
and police beat back the crowd.
Guards and people were wrangling,
shouting and lighting. In this con-
fusion Nieman, still bleeding, his
clothes torn, and scarcely able to
walk, was led out by Capt. John F.
Valley, chief of the exposition detec
tives, Commandant Robinson, and a
squad of secret service men. Nieman
was thrown into carriage and three
detectives jumped in on him. Capt.
Valley jumped on the drivers seat
and dashed the horses into gallop.
The crowd burst into a roar of rage.
'sMurderer, assassin; lynch him, hang
himr' they yelled. Men sprang at
the horses and clutched at the whirl-
ing wheels of the carriage. Nieman
huddled back in the corner, concealed
between the two detectives. The
rope! the rope" yelled the crowd.
and they started forward, all in one
grand fight, the soldiers to save and
the citizens to take a murderer's life.
Soldiers fought way clear at the
heads of the horses, and, pursued by
the Infatuated thousands, the carriage
whirled across the explande, the
horses at full gallop, across the
triumphal causeway. and vanished
through the Lincoln Parkway gate,
galloping down Delaware avenue
police headquarters were reached.
| Thousands left the exposition grounds
and, hearing that the assassin had
been taken to police headquarters.
followed there, willing to do violent
| justice if the President had died.
DOCTORS RENDER RFLIEF.
While the crowd threatened the life
of the murderer, every effort was
being made to offer scientific aid to
the President and to bring to him the
! best surgeons that could be secured.
DR.. f. w. Lee, of St. Louis; DR..
Storer, of Chicago; and DR.. Van
! Payma, of Buffalo, were on the
grounds and joined the hospital staff.
DR.. Matthew d. Mann, DR.. Herman
Mynter and DR.. John Parmenter were
| summoned by telephone, and DR..
Harrington and DR.. Stockton were
brought to the grounds in swift auto
mobiles.
The President was borne from the
Temple of Music at Ala O'Clock by
DR.. Hall. DR.. Ellis and DR.. Mann, Jr,
in charge of the ambulance. The
crowd fell back when it saw the figure
of the President on the stretcher.
There was no need for the police to
ask the crowd to move back. Along
the route of fountains and through
the hall the crowd itself cleared a
pathway, crying keep back" ''keep
back" "make way" The ambulance
went swiftly to the hospital. The
doctors were at the Presidents side
within 80 seconds after his arrival,
and the nurses had made ready for
the task of the surgeons. Outside the
hospital the police established safety
lines and kept the crowd back, fhous.
ands remained there for hours and
whispering questions to those who
went in and out of the hospital.
There the President was stripped and
placed where the surgeons might see
his wounds. In the room with the
President were Messrs. Milburn and
Cortelyou.
The first news that came from the
operating room was that one bullet
had been extracted and that this
wound was superficial and by nc
means serious. Then came the news
of the second wound and the informa.
ton that the bullet had not been
found and that the doctors had de-
cided to wait for consultation Of
surgeons before beginning an opera
ton.
At 5:32 o'clock Secretary w. V
Cox, Of the Government Board of Ex
position Managers, arrived with DR.