The Washington times., 1901-09-14
ALERT TO GUARD CZOLGOSZ
Militiamen in Buffalo Ordered Out
to Their ArmOries.
Police Lines Around Headquarters
Extended - All Precautions Taken
to Prevent Mob ViOlence-The
Assassin Declared to be Sane.

Extended - All Precautions TakeI
to Prevent Mob ViOience-Ths
| Assassin Declared to be Sane
| BUFFALO. Sept I3.-As soon as the un
favorable bulletins began to come down
| town over the wire from the Mtlburr
house this morning before dawn. Super
| intendent Bull began to make his ar
rangements to protect the assassin Czol
gosz from any violent outbreak of re
vengeful wrath that might follow the an
| nouncement of the end.
The assignment of special details oi
police was comparatively easily arranged
as were the plans for the removal of the
assassin to an actual dungeon cell such
| as some imaginative writer's have said
| that he has been locked UP in for the
last week.
At 7:30 o'clock the police established
lines around police headquarters. At q
distance of two blocks from the building
ropes were stretched along the tree boxes
and lamp posts and policeman was sta
toned at intervals of five or ten feet.
Deputy Superintendent Cusack said that
this was done because of the experience
the police had week ago tonight, just
after the President was shot. when a mob
came to police headquarters determined to
take Czoigosz out and kill him.
The anger has lost much of its terrific
quality since then. but the police intended
to take no chances that they would be
caught unawares. At s o'clock there was
an ominously quiet crowd, three deep, at
he ropes of the closed of streets. Small
oys of the sort who weld a mob together
nd stir 1t into the fever which finally
snds in delirium were already running
Ia TX and forth out of the streets yelling.
ill him. String him up,''
Iperintendent Bull held the full police
rtment in reserve and made his plans
- tnat 800 men could be assembled at po-
lice headquarters on five minutes no.
tice. After communicating with Superin-
tendent Bull. Samuel NJ. Welch ordered
out the Sixty-fifth and Seventy-fourth
Regiments of the National Guard These
regiments were assembled at their ar
mories at Sis o'clock and stood armed in
readiness for any call.
The members of the two regiments were
summoned to their armories by messen-
ger from public places. This news only
helped to direct attention from the Presi-
dent to the cell which held his assassin.
Superintendent Bull issued public state
ment in which he said he was prepared to
check by force. If necessary. any demon
station that might be made by the people
against the prisoner.
New details of police from the outside
stations came in from time to time and
Superintendent Bull kept in constant
touch on the telephone with Colonel
Welch, who was at the Sixty-fifth Regi-
ment Armory. less than a mile away
Among the crowds the report was eircu-
lated that Czolgosz had been removed to
the Jail or some other place of confine-
ment, but this was denied by Superintend-
ent Bull and other police officials.
Although the crowd near police head
quarters dwindled away as the night
wore on, the police did not cease their
vigilance. Instead, they extended the
ropes SO that the people barely could get
in sight of the building where Czolgosz is
imprisoned.
Another step taken was to offset the
anger of the people by convincing them
that there were no reasons to believe that
there would be miscarriage of justice
to the assassin, however true the pretext
that he was insaneiy irresponsible for his
act. or the possibility that he might die
before justice could be meted out to him.
1t was learned today indirectly that
Superintendent Bull had asked the insan-
ity experts who have had CZolgosz under
their observation for a week. and the po-
lice surgeon, DIR. Fowler. who has had
special charge OF the prisoners physical
health, to prepare a statement of the ex-
act truth about the prisoners health of
mind and body. The physicians, the in
said. had prepared the state
ment, signed it, and put IT into the hands
of Superintendent Bull. 1t stated in eff
feet that the prisoner was certainly sane
so sane that it would be impossible for
any amount of adroit handling to make
him out irresponsible.
The physicians have had almost daily
of him with and without his
They have secured an unim-
peachable record of his mental activity.
on which they base their diagnosis, and
It is so well backed up by corroborative
evidence that it is asserted. not the most
perverter OF expert opinions
In the world could well pick flaw in it.
There has been the liveliest curiosity TO
earn who the insanity experts who have
oeen examining CZolgosz are. On at least
)ne occasion when it was known that
medical difference had been held at pO-
Ice headquarters the TWO pest known men
al specialists in this division of the State
we're seen leaving the prison. DR.. James
W. Putnam was one of them and DIR.
floyd S. Gregg was the other. DIR. Put
nam hurried away before he could be in
erviewed and DR.. Gregg refused t. say
anything DIR. Putnam is living oGc of |
he city ana it was impossible to reach |
lin last night to learn of the truth of the |
story that statement such as that de- |
'cribed above had been signed by him. |
Dr. Gregg has been out of town since |
Tuesday and if his name is to be at |
ached to the statement the authority will |
AVE to come by telephone or telegraph. |
DR.. Fowler. the police surgeon. said that |
my information given out must have |
ONE from Superintendent Bull.