The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-06-06
CONSTANT
PRECAUT|ON
Taken to Guard the Presi-
dent at Canton.

time that President Roosevelt ar.
rived until he departed, the city
of Canton was uneasy, and its
officials breathed deep sigh OF
relief when the special train went
pulling down the b. and O. tracks,
1t had the same scare three years
ago, when the President came here
to attend the Mckinley dinner.
Then 1t was said that certain An
archists had plotted to blow up
the Opera House, where the ban
,quet was served. To-day the
scare story had Michael Czolgosz,
brother of McKinley's assassin,
lurking here to kill Roosevelt to
avenge the death of his brother,
and his wife as well.
AT midnight last night Justice
w. r. Day was told this distress
ing news by United States Marshal
Frank Chandler, from Cleveland.
1t was said that Czolgosz' wife
had died here through worry
caused by the assassin.
tso happened that a prowler
was seen on the grounds near the
Mckinley cottage at about the
time the message came, and it
naturally deepened the alarm.
Daylight found the police hard at
work to find the assassin 8" trail,
Marshal Chandler came from
Cleveland soon afterward with two
detectives who knew Michael
Czolgosz. Secret Service Officer
Sutton also Joined IN the work,
and for some hours the city was
excited, the excitement increasing
as the detectives arrested suspect
after suspect.
When the Presidents train ar
rived he was taken to his carriage
under guard. On the way up town
TWO heavily armed mounted officers
acted as outriders and four Secret
Service officers walked beside the
yehi lie.
On the way from the Day home
to the Mckinley cottage the same
surveillance was maintained.
When it came time to take car
riages for the cemetery the Presl-
dent and his party went out the
side way and slipped unnoticed
into their transports.
lit afterward transpired that
THE was done to circumvent the
photographers, but it scared some
of the guests.
On the way to the cemetery and
back the guards allowed no one to
come near the carriage and refused
other vehicles permission to pas,
it in the line, These precautions
were not relaxed until the railway
station was reached and the Presi-
dent was safe in his room.
An investigation of the records
failed to disclose the death or
burial here of Mrs. Czolgosz with
in the past year. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that the suspect
ed man was not found. Had he
been it is safe to assert that an
other story would have been writ
ten, and 1T would be bloody one,
too
According to statement made
in Cleveland to-day by relatives of
Michael Czolgosz the latter Is to-
day in Newcastle, Penn, where he
went TO place flowers on his wife's
grave on Memorial Day. 1t is de-
clared that Czolgosz had no inten-
tion OF visiting Canton.
1t was half an hour after the
President boarded his car at Can
ton before it left for Akron juno.
tion. A large crowd assembled in
the vicinity in the meantime, and
the President several times ar-
peared on the platform and wished
the people well, to which they re-
eponded with rousing cheers. In
cidentally he took advantage of
the opportunity to say a word
about his visit and of the beauti-
full home life of Mr.. and Mrs. Me-
Kinley, speaking as follows;
"We came here to-day to attend
The funeral of Mrs. Mckinley.
President Mckinley rendered very
great services to this nation as a
public man, but no greater than
he and Mrs. Mckinley rendered