The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-26
Continuously in Business for Nearly Forty
 Years.
WAS A MARKED MAN
FATHER LEO FOLLOWED FR0M
 PATTERSON TO DENVER.
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Denver. Feb. 25--Most of the priests of the Roman Catholic Church in tniu city believe that Father Leo Heinreichs. who was assassinated Sunday. was . marked man from the time he arrived in town last August or even before.
 The dead priest was stationed previ- ously in Patterson, N. l., and 1t is be- lieved that he may have incurred the enmity of the anarchists there and that a plot was laid to kill him. perhaps prior to his leaving Patterson. but that the machinery of the reds failed to get into running order Until Alto carried out orders.
 A woman who witnessed the tragedy. told a prominent Catholic priest yes terday that two weeks ago. during an early mass. she saw two evfl-appearing men. one of whom she believes was the assassin. standing in the aisle of St. Elizabeth's church. They were con- versing in a low tone, but sine saw one of the men point to two priests who were in the sanctuary. The priests, one of whom was Father Leo, were separated several feet, and the man who did the pointing directed his ftn- ger towaru Father Lea and remarked in a low tone. that is the man. The woman thought 1t strange that the two men should hold conversation in tue church, and this together with their
 
 impression upon her. When she saw the assassin running down the aisle Sunday, she declares she Immediately recognized as the man to whom Father Leo had been pointed out The police arc working on the conspiracy theory and hunting for two strange men. thought to have been accomplices of Allo.
 The body of the murdered priest will lie in state In the Sanctuary of Sy. Elizabeth's from 10 o'clock this moru- ing until midnight. when all will bs given opportunity to view the remains, Public funeral services will be hesa Wednesday.
 The murderer. who is kept in 1an at Colorado Springs In order te ps vent any attempt at iynching. denle that he belongs to any anarchistic b8n that wishes to murder a priest. or tliA . there was any plot at the bottom the shooting.
 T did the killing on my own accouu because I thought 1t would ease ms mind" he declared T received n orders to kill fhe priest, I did 1t be- cause I hate priests of ail kinds"
 In accordance with the rules of tne Franciscan order. Father Leos ms- sociates held a private ceremony over his body in the church at 3 o'clock fo- day. That Father Leo lived a fife of severe austerIty is evidenced by a dis covery made by the coroner when he prepared the body for burial. Next t0 the skin of Father Leo. wrapped about his waist and upper arms were heavy bands of linked steel chains and on each link was attached a hook. every one sharpened to a needles point and in such q fashion that every time he made a move 1t caused the hook to piece nis flesh and to remind him of the life Of death of Him in whose steps he struR. gIed to follow. Father Leo aevef spoke to his fellow clergy of his mode of penance.
 Father Eusebius said Ahat no one in the monastery surmised- that tho priest was undergoing such unusual and severe penance. His body and up- per arms were calloused entirely. show ing that when the pain became deadem- ed because of the tougheued skin, he had taken the net work of claims and adjusted them so that the pain might come again with renewed force.
 Few men are able to retain their self conceit after they get married,