Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-09-13
KEPT FROM THE PUBLIC.
Secretary of War Root Directs That
the Assassin Czolgosz Be Not
Allowed to Pose.
VANITY HIS CHIEF CHARACTERISTIC.
Detectives Confident Others Moved Him to
the Deed, He Is a Miserable Coward
CHASTITY Pale with Terror When He
Thought the Mob Would Get Him
World Wide Movement to Stop Anarchy

the Deed, as He Is a Miserable Coward
CHASTITY Pale with Terror When He
Thought the Mob Would Get Him
World Wide Movement to Stop Anarchy
Buffalo. n. Y, Sept. 1O.-At the re-
quest of Secretary of War Root. both
the district attorney and the chief of
police have adopted policy of keep
ing from the public as far as possible
all information concerning Leon Cool
gosz, the miserable creature down in
| the dungeon of police headquarters
who shot President Mckinley In TAX
ing this course Secretary Root seems
| intuitively to have g-rasped the char
acter of the assassin and to have hit
| upon the one thing that would cause
him the most chagrin. So far as can
be ascertained he is of a piece with
all the anarchist type of murderers.
| His one overmastering trait is vanity.
He is just the kind of conceited YER
min the anarchist master spirits use
| as tools for their senseless crimes.
| Like all of them, he is a shivering
coward at heart. When he had fired
| his two treacherous shots into the
| man who in all courtesy and kindness
| was reaching out to shake hands with
| had nerved him up to do was over and
| for the moment his own miserable
life seemed in danger, he was ghostly
| white with terror. How the anar-
chists who were back of him-for
there are few who believe his story
that the inspiration was his own
must have worked upon so despicable
a craven to get him up to the murder
| in Or1x
know. But their leverage was in the
same inordinate vanity, which, now
that the danger of being lynehed is
over, is enabling him to pose in the
role of hero and martyr.
He was hardly well within the pris-
on walls and there safe from mob
| violence before his conceit began to
bring back his nerve. He was quite
himself, although rather badly bat
| tered at the hands of those who first
fell upon him. The two policemen
who watched over him all night to
see that he made no attempt to kill
| himself report that he slept fairly
well until daylight. The new day
| brought with it to him the conviction
that he was one of the great ones of
the earth. He had endless satisfac-
ton in the thought that all the world
| was talking of him. 1t pleased him
greatly when he was summoned to
| have his photograph taken for the
| rogues' gallery. He posed for the
| samera in heroic attitude, with his
| head thrown back and his eyes turned
! upward in the approved style of the
| martyr.
| Czolgosz is Pole, of the whey
| faced, rather wall-eyed type, with a
narrow forehead and thick hair, light
brown in color and rather wavy. He
is evidently quite proud of his hair
| and has trained it to stand up right
| from his low brow in a semi-pompa-
! dour style. He is rather small in per-
son and slight, but is not badly built
The only bodily traces he bore of
| the rough handling was a cut and
| swollen lip and a scratched nose,
where Secret Service Officer Fosters
heavy fist fell upon him, driven home
| with all the vigor of the officers first
| furious transport of rage. The collar
| and necl<tie of the assassin had worn
were gone and his shirt was torn
| open at the collar. In this way he
was photographed, and no doubt 1T
would be q source of anguish to him
y
quested that none of the photographs
be made public. The publication of
their pictures throughout the world Is
to anarchist mufderePs a chief source
of delight.
They All Repudiate Him,
Cleveland, o., Sept. 10.-The board
of delegates to the Union of Hebrew
congregations have Issued statement
| "A haf tie
brew by BIRTH" as was stated In reso-
iutions adopted at meeting of Pol
ish-Amerieans In Philadelphia.
AZ Outs with Ills Family.
Cleveland, o., Sept. 1o.-Chief of po-
| lice Corner gave to the Associated
press statement in which he tells
what he has learned of the presidents
assailant. Czo1gosz was taeiturn.
mentally irregular, and at outs with
his own family. lie received $40 from
his family for his equity in II farm
near here, as he desired to leave the
city. Leon still has $50 coming to
him from the sale of his share. The
statement that he received S45 from
Ncwburg anarchists to take him to
| Chicago is not credited. There is a
strong impression that there is a ring
of anarchists in this vicinity working
| in conjunction with their comrades
| in Chicago.
No Action by the Government
Buffalo, n. Y, Sept. 10.-Many SEN
sational reports are being circulated
about cabinet action looking to the
apprehension and prosecution of
Emma Goldman and leaders of anar-
chistic organizations of mysterious