Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-09-13


tives of this city and every other
department. in the country have joined
hands with the great secret service
of the federal government and if in
genuity, skill and energy count, the
secrets of the crime will be ferretted |
out. Czolgosz insists that he alone
planned the crime which may rob
the United States of its chief exec
utive, but that statement is not ac-
cepted as true. There is belief that
he was aided by others in deliberate
plot, and that confederates accom-
panied him to Buffalo and assisted in
its execution. The police insist that
the prisoner locked up at the police
station is not insane and that his act
was not simply the crime of lunatic
with homicidal tendency. There is a
suspicion that one of the prisoners
confederates accompanied him to the
Temple of Music and by walking in
front of him concealed the bound hand
which carried the revolver. The at
tention of the police who were with
the presidential party was directed to-
wards a man who reached the presi-
dent just before Czolgosz did. His
actions were so suspicious that one of
the secret service men kept his hand
on his arm until after he had shaken
hands with the president and passed
along. A description of that man is
now in the hands of the police of the
entire country and he undoubtedly
will be run down. Czolgosz is kept in
absolute seclusion by the police and
none save the officers has seen him.
Czolgosz Formerly a Saloonkeeper.
Cleveland, O., Sept. S.-Leon Cool
gosz, the man who shot President Nc
Kinley, is said to have formerly kept
a saloon at the corner of Third ave-
nue. and Tod street, this city. Later he
was employed in one of the mills of
the American Steel & Wire company.
Foreman Frank Halser, of the galvan
ling departments consolidated mill
of the latter company, said: Il know
Leon Czolgosz very well. His father,
I believe, lives in the vicinity of War
rensvil1e, o., on a farm. There are
five sons, I think, all residing in this
city, two or three of them living on
Hosmer street. Leon at one time was
employed as blacksmith in the con-
solidated mill. Later he kept saloon
at the corner of Third avenue and Tod
street. Later he sold out the saloon
and lived on the farm with his father.
/ know that Leon is, or was, an anar-
chist. He attended socialist and an
archist meetings very frequently. He
is a man of rather small satue, about
90 years of age. The last time I saw
him he had a light brown mustache."
The Czo1gosz family is Polish and
evidently very poor, the father having
left home Saturday morning looking
for employment. The step-mother
cannot speak English, but through an
interpreter gave out the following:
s'Leon left home about 60 days ago.
We heard from him a few weeks ago
He was then in Indiana and wrote to
us that he was going away stating
that in all probability we would not
see him again. His father had not
asked Leon to work, having always
considered him too weak for manual
labor Regarding the shooting Of the
president, Mrs. Czolgosz says: 81
can't believe Leon was the one. He
was such a timid boy, so afraid of
everything. Why, he was the biggest
coward you ever saw in your life"
She also empha Ideally disclaims that
the boy ever dis played any anarchist
admirer of his brother. the Philip
pine soldier, liked his country, never
showing the least sign of discomfort.
Czolsosz' Brother Pensioner.
Washington, Sept. S.-The records
of the pension office show that there
is one man by the name of Czolgosz
on the rolls. His first name is Jacob
F., and he is drawing a pension of
$50 a month because of a wound in
the right hand and forearm. The
wound was received through the eX-
plosion of shell at Sandy Hook in
1899. Czolgosz enlisted from Cleve-
land, O., (giving his address as 1919
Hosmer street,, first in battery NJ,
Sixth artillery, on September Is, 1898.
He was afterward discharged on JAN
uary %. 1899, and then re-enlisted in
the ordnance branch in Capt. Bah
bits company, and was serving there
when wounded. He was born at Alpen.
Mich. and was % years and 10 months
old when he first enlisted.
CzoIgosz Was Born in Michigan.
Alpena, Mich, Sept. s.-Leon Czol-
gosz was born in Alpena in about
1881. The family left here nine years
ago and it is supposed they went to
Cleveland There were eight sons
and one daughter in the family. The
elder Czolgosz was born in Providence,
Posen county, Brumburg, and came
to Alpena from there about 80 years
ago. The father and elder sons were
quiet, peaceable citizens, with no
known anarchistic tendencies, and
were well thought of by the Polish
v,aonJe here Leon was e. small bow
when he left here and at that time
was apparently no different from 9TH
er boys of his age