The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-11
But Later Admitted ''The Game Was Up
and Then UnbOsOmed Herself Freely.
Confessed She Had Met CzoIgocz but Asserted She
Had Not InCited Him, and Denounced the
President Mr.. Hannas Tool.

me lecture at some memorial hall i'm Cleve-
land last May, and that he wanted TO
know me. He said he knew 1 was i'm Chi
cago. and looked me up. 1 scarcely re-
member anything about him. save that
his complexion was light"
''Then how do you know that this man
is the one who tried to kill the President?''
"oh," with a shrug of the shoulders. II
guessed that from what the newspapers
say"
SHE THOUGHT HIM A FOOL.
what did you think when you heard that
an attempt to kill the President had been
made?" the woman was asked.
With a wave of her hands aid another
shrug Of the shoulders. she replied disdain-
fully: II thought, oh the fool"
The prisoners manner thus far had been
growing more and more excited. although
she made an evident effort TO control her
self. In this she finally succeeded and
launched into a discussion on the teachings
of anarchy. She declared that anarchy did
not teach men to do the act which has
made Czolgocz despised and hated the
world over. I'VE work against the system
and education is our watchword," she said
lit early last July when L came to
Chicago to visit the Issak family" she con-
tinued in answers to interrogations con-
cerning her whereabouts recently. "One
gybt IsaIx- IL.
house. The bell rang and 1 went to
the door. The man. who l learn through
the newspapers. was CzoIgocz. stood there.
He said ne wanted TO see me. l was about TO
catch the Nickel-plate train, as 1 and Mr..
Isaaks daughter were going 10 Rochester.
He went alone to the Rock Island depot,
where he met US. but I busy taking
leave of my friends that / scarcely noticed
him. Ii was not a time when one would
want 10 make new friends. At the depot
had the few words with him of which
have told. That was all there ever was be-
tween US 81 am an Anarchist student
of sociology-but nothing In anything I
ever said to Leon Czolgocz. knowingly.
would have led him to do the act which
startled everybody Friday"
mot even i'm your lectures?' she was
asked. "He says your words set his brains
on fire."
Am 1 accountable because some cracked
Drained person put a wrong construction on
my words? Leon Czolgocz. 1 am convinced.
planned the deed unaided and entirely
alone. There is no Anarchist ring which
would help him. There may be Anarchists
who would murder, but there are also men
in every walk OF life who sometimes feel
the impulse TO kill 1 do not know surely.
but 1 think Czolgocz was one OF those
down-trodden men who see all the misery
which the rich inflict upon the poor. who
think OF IL. who brood over ii and then. in
despair. resolve to strike a great blow. as
they think, for the good OF their fellow
man. But that is not anarchy. Czolgocz
dhe Russian woman pronounced the name
with the greatest ease) may have been in
spired by me. but II he was. he took the
wrong way OF showing it,"
FIRST DENIED IDENTITY.
The police are not entirely satisfied with
Miss Goldman's story. When Capt. Schut-
Ter and Detective Hertz discovered her at
the home OF c. J. Norris. At No. COZ Shelf
field avenue. she denied her identity.
Hello. Miss Goldman" said the cap
tain. as he entered the parlor. Are you
glad to sec me?'
Il am not Miss Goldman. Swedish
woman. and my name is Lena Larson"
answered the Anarchist. endeavorinS to
initiate a Swedish dialect.
"All right; | speak Swedish myself" said
the police officer. as be poured out a few
questions in the Morse tongue Miss Cold
man did not answer him. affecting 20 mis-
understand.
Detective Hertz. meanwhile had dscov-
cred "A penholder with the name Emma
Goldman" engraved on H.
What does this mean asked Captain
Schutler holding the inscribed penholder.
1T means that the game is up." size said.
she then admitted her identity fully. and
accompanied the officers.
The woman was hurried 10. the police
chiefs Office Her appearance tailed eK-
actly with the description sent out yester-
day During the talk which followed Miss
Goldman detailed. As best she could rec
ollect. her movements since last july She
went from Chicago 10 Buffalo. accom-
panied by Miss Issak. the daughter OF the
alleged Anarchist editor under arrest here.
In Buffalo they stopped two days and then
proceeded TO Rochester. where they stopped