Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1901-09-07
PRESIDENT
M'KINLEY
SHOT BY AN
ANARCHIST
His Condition Now Easy and
Free From Pain
ASSAILANT UNDER ARREST
His Name Is Leon CzoIgOsz and
His Home Cleveland
THE PISTOL WAS CONCEALED
WOuId.be Assassin Threw Hand
kerchief Over Weapon
MAKES A FULL CONFESSION
Became An Anarchist Through
Emma GOIdman's Teachings
MAKES A FULL CONFESSION
Became An Anarchist Through
Emma GOIdman's Teachings

Buffalo, Sept. president McKin-
ley was shot and seriously wounded oy
a would-be assassin while holding a
reception in the temple of music at
the Pan-American Exposition a few
minutes after 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon. One shot took effect in the
right breast, the other In the abdomen.
The first is not of serious nature,
and the bullet has been extracted. The
latter pierced the abdominal wall and
has not been located.
The last bulletin of the Presidents
physician was to the effect that the
chief executive is free from pain and
resting well.
"6lackest Day In 6uffaIo's History"
Not more than a brief twenty-four
hours ago the newspapers of the city
blazoned forth in all the pomp OF head
line type: THE proudest day in Buff
falo's history" This morning in sack
cloth and ashes, in sombre type. sur
rounded by grewsome borders of black,
the same newspapers are telling in
funeral tones to a Mortified populace
the deplorable details of the "blackest
day in the history of Buffalo"
President Mckinley, the idol of the
American people, the nations chief ex-
exutive and the city's honored guest
lies PROSTATE, suffering the pangs in
fiicted by the bullets of cowardly as
sassin, while his life hangs in the bal
ance.
Out on Delaware avenue. at the
home of John G. Milburn, president Of
the Pan-American exposition, with
fearful face and heart torn by conflict
ing hopes and fears, sits the faithful
wife, whose devotion is known to all
the nation.
1t was few moments after p. m.
while President Mckinley was holding
a public reception in the great Temple
of Music on the Pan-American grounds
that the cowardly attack was made,
with what success time alone can tell.
Standing in the midst of the crowds
numbering thousands surrounded by
every evidence of good will, pressed
by motley throng 81 people, show
cred with expressions of love and 10y
y
to clasp his hand, amid these sur
roundings and with ever recurring
plaudits of an admiring army of sight
seers ringing in his ears the blow or
the assassin fell and In an instant
pleasure gave way to pain, admiration
to agony, folly turned to fury and pan
demonium followed.
Clear up till midnight last night a
surging, swaying, eager multitude
through the city's main thorough
fares, choking the streets in front of
the principal newspapers, scanning the
bulletins with anxious eyes, and groan-
Ing or cheering in turn each succeeding
announcement as the nature of the
message sank or buoyed their hopes.
Down at police headquarters. sur
rounded by stern-faced inquisitors of
the law, sat a medium-sized man, of
commonplace appearance, with his
fixed gaze directed on the floor, who
pressed his lips firmly together and lis.
tened with an air of assumed indiffer-
ence to the persistent stream of ques-
tions, arguments. objurgations and ad-
monitions by which his captors sought
to induce or compel him 10 talk
1t was just after the daily organ
recital in the splendid temple of music
that the dastardly attempt upon the
life of the President was made.
Planned With DiaboIIeaI Ingenuity.
Planned with all the diabolical in
genuity and fnesse of which Anarchy
or Nihilism is capable, the would-be
assassin carried out the work without
a hitch. and should his designs fail
and the President survive, only to
Divine Providence can be attributed
that beneficial result
The President. though well guarded
by United States special service de-
tectives, was fully exposed to such
an attack as occurred. He stood at
the edge of the raised dais upon which
stands the great pipe organ at the
east side of the magnificent structure.
Throngs of people crowded in at the
various entrances. to gaze upon their
executive, perchance TO clasp his hand,
and then fight their way out in the
good d-natured mob that every minute
swelled and multiplied at the points
of ingress and egress to the building
The President was in a cheerful mood
and was enjoying to the full the hear
ty evidences of good viii which every
where met his gaze. Upon his right
stood John @. Milburn, of Buffalo, the
president Of the Pan-American Expo