The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-09-25
EMMA GOLDMAN CAUGHT
Locked Up on a Charge Of Conspiracy
With Nine Others.
HER ARREST MADE IN CHICAGO

The Anarchist Leader Processes No ka@wl.
edge OF a Conspiracy to Kill the Pres
fdent-she Says That She Met Czol-
rosz Only Once-Makes Detailed
Statement of Her Movements.
Chicago.-Emma Goldman, the well
known anarchist leader and lecturer.
was arrested in Chicago, and a COM
plaint and warrant charging her with
conspiracy to murder President Nc
Kinley were secured from Justice
Prindiville. G. J. Norris, at whose
home Miss Goldman was captured,
was arrested later.
The warrant for Miss Goldman
charges her with conspiracy to murder
the President. 1t gives as her Cocoon
spirators Abraham Isaaks, Maurice
Isaaks, Clemence Pfeutzer, Hippolite
Havel, Henry Travaglio. Alfred
Schneider, Julia Mechanic, Marie
Isaaks and Marie 1saaks, Jr. All eX-
cept Miss Goldman were arrested
some days ago, but the men were
held without bail and are now in jail.
Miss Goldman disclaimed all save
the slightest acquaintance with the
Presidents assailant; she denied abso.
lutely that she, or anarchists she
knew, was implicated in any plot to
kill the President. she said she be-
lieyed CzolgoSz acted entirely on his
own responsibility, and that he never
claimed to have been inspired bJ her,
as he is quoted as affirming.
Referring to the attempt on the life
of the President, Miss Goldman said:
'It is a dirty trick to charge in the
newspaper reports that it was the re-
suit of an anarchist plot"
Referring to the would-be assassin.
Miss Goldman said:
81 feel that the man is one of those
rnfortunates who has been driven to
despair and misery to commit the
deed. I feel very deeply with him as
Sn individual, as I would feel with
anybody who suffers. If 1 had means
I would help him as much as could;
I would see that he had counsel and
that Justice was done him."
She said her purpose in coming here
had been to assist the anarchists who
were arrested here several days ago.
She had intended to give herself up
to the police, but delayed it. for one
reason and for another, until the
police she had derided so much had
taken the matter in their own hands.
Later in the day Miss Goldman was
interviewed in the women's annex at
the police station, and stenographic
report taken. Miss Goldman said:
II am an anarchist-a student OF
socialism-but nothing in anything l
ever said to Leon Czolgosz knowing.
ly would have led him to do the act
which startled everybody on Friday
mot even in your lectures? He says
your words set his brain on lre," said
the interviewer.
"Am I accountable because some
crack Drained person put a wrong
construction on my words. Leon
Czolgosz, I 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 their also are men
in every walk Of life who some times
feel the impulse to kill. Czolgosz (thc
woman pronounced the name with the
greatest ease)-Czolgosz may have
been inspired by me, but if he was he
took the wrong way of showing it."
Miss Goldman detailed as best She
could recollect her movements since
last July. She went from Chicago to
Buffalo. she said. accompanied by
Miss Isaak, the daughter Of the al
legged Anarchist editor under arrest
here. In Buffalo they stopped two
days, and then proceeded to Roches-
ter, where they stopped at the home
of Miss Goldman's sister, Mrs. H.
Hochstein. Here they visited little
more than five weeks. The only Incl
dent of it was q short visit to Niagara
Falls, and another to New York City
on business. In the latter city Miss
Goldman entered temporarily into the
employ Of a firm, the name of which
she would not divulge. Business for
them took her to Pittsburg. She was
in Cincinnati on Labor Day, and that
night she left for st. Louis.
Of her history she said: 81 was
born in st. Petersburg. Russia, thirty
two years ago; came to this coun-
try with my sister, who is now in
Rochester, sixteen years ago. 1 speak
Russian. German, French and English.
l came from the middle class in Rus
sia, but my heart has always been
with the poor and downtrodden. The
injustice Of the Haymarket prosecu-
ton made an anarchist of me. l have
taught the creed Of anarchy ever