Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-09-11
MEDICINE LODGE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER H. 1891

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pose the plot against the life of the
president if plot there was. Detec-
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
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 a deliberate
plot, and that confederates accom-
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
which carried the revolver. The at
tention of the police who were with
the presidential party was directed to-
wards 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 Czol-
gosz, the man who shot President Nc
Kinley, is said to have formerly kept
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-
izing Department. consolidated mill
of the latter company, said: 81 know
Leon Czolgosz very well. His father
l believe, lives in the vicinity of War
rensville, o., on a farm. There are
five sons, / think, all residing in this
city, two or three of them living or
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
Il l.af1 1.1 4 t,a sol
and lived on the farm with his father
L 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
26 years of age. The last time l saw
him he had a light brown mustache.
The Czolgosz family is Polish anc
evidently very poor, the father having
left home Saturday morning looking
for employment The step-mothel
cannot speak English. but through al
interpreter gave out the following
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 emphatically disclaims that
ic tendencies whatever. He was ar
admirer of his brother, the Philip
pine soldier, liked his country, never
showing the least sign of discomfort.
Czolsosz' Brother a Pensioner.
Washington, Sept. S.-The records
of the pension office show that there
is one man by the name of Czolgoss
on the rolls. His first name is Jacot
F., and he is drawing pension o.
$50 month because of wound il
the right hand and forearm. The
wound was received through the ex
plosion of shell at Sandy Hook il
1899. Czolgosz enlisted from Cleve
land. o., (giving his address as 10!
Hosmer street,, first in battery NJ
Sixth artillery, on September IS. 1898
He was afterward discharged on Jan
uary %. 1899, and then re-enlisted il
the ordnance branch in Capt. Bah
bits company, and was serving ther,
when wounded. He was born at Alpen
Mich, and was % years and 10 months
old when he first enlisted.
Czolgosz Was Born in Michigan.
Alpena, Mich, Sept. s.-Leon Czol
gosz was born in Alpena in abou
1881. The family left here nine year,
ago and it is supposed they went tt
Cleveland. There were eight SOM
and one daughter in the family. TIL,
elder Czolgosz was born in Providence
Posen county, Brumburg, and cam,
to Alpena from there about 30 year,
ago. The father and elder sons were
quiet, peaceable citizens, with NJ
known anarchistic tendencies, and
were well thought of by the Polisf
people here. Leon was small boy
when he left here and at that time
was apparently no different from 9th
er boys of his age.
Czolgosx May Get On Lightly.
New York, Sept S.-President Nc
Kinley's recovery would mean that
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