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

ne was W1In1n Two 1eeG OF the preS1s
dent.
President Mckinley smiled, bowed
and extended his hand in that spirit
of genialty the American people so
well know, when suddenly the sharp
crack of revolver rang out loud and
clear above the hum of voices, the
shutting of myriad feet and vibrating
waves of applause that ever and anon
swept here and there over the assem-
blage.
When the multitude which thronged
the edifice began to come to realiz-
ing sense of the awfulness of the
scene of which they had been unwill-
ing witnesses murmur arose, spread
and swelled to hum of confusion,
then grew to a babel of sounds and
later to a pandemonium of noises.
A force of exposition guards were or
the scene and an effort was made to
clear the building.
The president was at once taken to
the emergency hospital, where bull
let which had lodged against the
breast bone was removed. Later the
president was reported as resting
easily.
the well known surgeon, arrived at
the hospital and after putting the
president under an anaesthetic began
probing for the ball in the abdomen
DR.. Harrington, the police surgeon,
at Gas p. m. announced for DIS.
Parke, Parmenter and Mynter, who
performed the operation, that the
first ball struck the sternum and
glanced off, causing slight flesh
wound. The second bullet perforated
both walls of the stomach and has
not yet been found. The bullet prob
ably is in the stomach. The wounds
are not necessarily fatal.
When it was decided to remove the
president from the exposition hos
pital to the A1ilburn residence the
new was broken to Mrs. Mckinley as
gently as might be. She bore the shock
remarkably well and displayed the
utmost fortitude.
While the wounded president waa
being borne from the exposition to
the Milburn residence between rows of
onlookers with barred heads a far diff
ferent spectacle was being witnessed
along the route of his assailant's
journey from the scene of his crime to
police headquarters. The trip was
made so quickly that the prisoner
was landed within the wide portals
of the police station and the doors
closed before any one was aware of his
presence.
A big crowd soon gathered outside
and cries of Lynch him!" Hang
him!" were uttered, but the police
to
The Culprit Confesses.
Buffalo, n. Y, Sept. Leon Czo1-
gosz, the accused and self-confessed
assassin, has signed confession
covering six pages of foolscap and
which states that he is an anarchist
and that he became an enthusiastic
member of that body through the
influence of Emma Goldman, whose
writings he had read and whose lee
lures he had listened to. He denies
having any confederate and says he
decided on the act three days ago
and bought the revolver with which
the act was committed in Buffalo.
He has seven brothers and sisters in
Cleveland. He is now detained at
police headquarters pending the re-
suit of the presidents injuries.
What Mrs. Parsons Says.
Chicago, Sept. Mrs. Lucy Par
sons, whose husband was executed for
his part in the Haymarket riot, says:
| ''that no man who has the true prin-
ciple of anarchy in his heart would
attempt to injure President Mckinley
and that he was a good president
and tried to do his best for the peo-
pie.