Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1901, Page 1

T T T T T T TRl TPy PART I. NG XA ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. [EN X-RAY MACHINE TO POINT OUT THE BULLET Surgeons Have to Send to Edison’s Laberatory for the Latest Apparatus. DUE TO REACH BUFFALO AT EARLY HOUR TODAY | Dr. Knoll, an Experl In Its Use, Accompanies lo; Superintend the Operation, | EXTRACTION OF BALL MAY BE SIMPLIFIED | later 1t nad risen to 10 | Septic Poiscning is the Thing Most Feared by | the Physicians. - DOCTORS AND NURSES WATCH FOR SYMPTOMS Bullet is Not Causing Any Immediate Worry, but Extraction is Urged if There are Sions of Inflammation, BUFFALO, Sept. 8.~The scene ahout the cheerless. A blustery windstorm blew up during the night and with it drifted light clouds of fog. he temperature fell materially and the sentinel who was on duty had to mu e up to keep warm. In addition. to the regulars a corps of police was also on guard, but all paced deserted beats. A few aded lamps burned in the Milburn bome, one marking the room where the president lies. It was the opening of the day named as the critical one for the victim and the watchers were keenly alert for the expected change. Those in the sick room re- ported that the paticnt was still doiug well. BUFFALO, Sept. 7.-10 p. m.—Senator Hanna returned to the Milburn house at 9:30 o'clock. A report comes from a reliable source that the president’s condition is quite satisfacto If he can sustain the same measure of strength for twenty-four hours longer the outlook will be decidedly improved. MILBURN HOUSE, S¢ Mr. Milubourn came from his bouse at 10:40 p. m. and joined the newspaper men at press headquarters, He was in good splrits and sald that the last reports from the doctors w vy pleasing. “Everything is proceding satisfactorily he continned, If the president maintains his strength for twenty hours more we feel that he will sure cover. 1 personally fecl quite hopeful.” Milburn home at midnight was B BUFFALO, Sept, Milburn House, 11 p. m. burn home tonight were Vice President Rooss diana, who arrived tonight from New Yo Secretary Root, Secretary Wilson and Postmaster General Smith, They left the shortly after 10 p. m., leaving Secretary Cortelyou with the president. Secretary Cortelyou has taken no rest since the president was shot and has been constantly in charge. He re- | fuses to leave the side of his wounded ¢hief, BU LO, Sept, 7.1 ) p.o mo—Drs, Rixe ina night vigil at the bedside of the president and the othe A very close watch is beiug kept on the patient, for favorable symptoms the re expected to manifest themselves in a few hours, MILBURN HOUSE, BU ALO Sept, 7.—At wmidnight it was stated that the condition of the president was'unchanged. Among the callers at the Mil elt Senator Fairbanks of In s Minter are to keep the s have left the house. if there are to be un NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Thomas A. Edison this evening shipped b; wanna & Western train, an X-ray app: remaining in President McKinley's body. LOMOrTow. Dr. Knoll superintendent of the House of Relief in this city, who is an e pert in the use of the appartus, and sevei dison’'s assistants, were o the train. | BUFFALO, Sept. 7.--President McKinleyls condition is extremely grave } The crisis will probably come within twenty-four hours. While bis physi- | clans hold out Lope and the developments of the day have been somewhat en- | couraging in thut none of the symptoms of peritonitis or blood poisoning which | they so much dread have appeared, medical experience with similar wounds eanses much anxiety and the physicians shake their heads gloomily when they speak of the future. P | Although their distinguished patient's condition has been favorable through out the day, they do not desire to buoy the country up with false hopes. In flammation is what they fear and at the first sign in that direction the coun- | try must st 21 itself for the blow. | For the time being the bullet of the assassin, which is still in the body, Is a secondary consideration. While it has not been absolutely located, they all agree that after passing through the abdomenal cavity and perforating both | walls of the stomach proper it lodged in the fleshy muscles of the back, and 1f necessity required It could be easily located with the roentgen ray and ex- tracted, They agree that it is now me lmportant that the president should recover from the shock of the operation than that the bullet should be re- moved. Peritonis is what they dread most, and after that, septic poisoning and suppuration of the wound, | The turning point will come within forty-elght hours, possibly sooner.- In deed, one of the attending physicians said today that if no signs of inflamma tion appeared before tomorrow night he would consider the chances of ulti mate recovery exceedingly good. Several of Lis colleagues, however, are not so sanguine. the 6:30 loy Delaware, L , atus to be used to locate thie bullet The train is due in Buffalo at 7 a. m The president has been dozing drowsily thronghout the major portion of the day. Two physicians aud two trained nurses ave constantly at his bedside. e has not yet fully recovered from the effects of the ether which was adminis tered to him. He was under the influence of the powerful anaesthe an | hour. The vesult is that although perfectly rational when conscious, he dozes much of the thme. Absolute quiet and freedom from excitement the physi I as the great essential now, and visitors are rigidly excluded. MRS. M'KINLEY HiS ONLY CALLER. Not a cabluet officer, not even Secreary Cortelyon, was allowed in the sick chamber today, With the exception of the physicians and attendants, Mrs, Me Kinley was the only person who the threshold, The president asked to see her and his physicians did not have the heart to refuse his request. She was there but a few minutes, seated at his bedside, as he in his devotion to her in her iliness has so often been at bers. Mrs. NMeKinley had been warned not to talk | and the president and his wife exchanged only a few words. It was only when he asked her to be brave for both their sukes that she faltered and almost | broke down. With choking_throat and brimming eyes she promised with a | bow of her head, Alwost immediately thereatter she was led from the room by | Dr. Rixey. | over ans rkable forti- | and has been alomst ws | And no wore than that conld i Mrs. MeKinley throughout this trying ordeal las shown rema tude. She has been mistress of herself aud her calm and self-possessed as the president hims If. AContluued on Secoud Page.) OMATA, (E DOES IT§ BE SUNDAY MORNI |REPORTS FROM THE BEDSIDE | Mopetul Physicians b Abs . Inte There in an e of Unfavorable | i Conditions BUFFALO Kinley's bedside lssued 6 o'clock this m lock this evening, and showed a of unf herally Sept The absence tions they were hopeful. The wide var alarm occa imized by a state president’s physician, pulse under normal to be erratic and that he bly impressed by the circums'a physiclans were not concerned tient's temperature. During and well into the afternoon it I degrees and then began to increas AL 3:30 1t was at 1022 and thie but ey viewad the wounded pres as belog quit MeKinley 8 was incl was not unfavora s. 'ihe to th pa the forenvon 1d at 10 slihtly. latter point 1t was not cern. The respiration of ident was looked upon isfactory Vie eatdent Arviy Vice President Milburn restdence shortly today, after travellng con o'clock last night 1 he Vt. He was escorted from far as the Hotel Iroquois ! mounted police and th way by a squac of bicyeie police pressed his deep distress at th but beyond that deciined to make any stat ment. He remained at the residence about half an hour and then went to the ne home of Ansley Wilcox, whos be during his stay. By evening all the m inet except Secretary Long had arrived steam and st the secretar: Roosevelt r aftor ously left Burlington, the s as ot remair the sin tation ad t He ex- tragedy gue e will mbers of the cab- Hay and retary | They came fast a could carry them. Both | ind the secretary of | the navy are expected tomorrow. Secretary | Wilson and Secretar Root spent mo of the day at the Milburn residence. the members of the cabinet will remain here until the result of the wound is determined. It Is probable that after they all arrive a cabinet meeting will be held Roosevelt to Wait. Informally they have discussed the possi- bility of Vice President Rosevelt being called upon to act as magistrate during the disabllity of the prasident, but all pre- cedents are against such a course while the prasiden lives. Arthur did not assume the reins of government until after President | Garfleld's death, and the contingency of | Vice President Rooseveit being called upon | Q0] \ Ol0} @ CHICAGO, Sep! made to the police, transcribed ar “I was horn in Detroit here forty-two years ag land, where 1 got work. was pretty well known 1 got as a A special to the nearly In Clev socialist in the west. ‘I'THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. NG D R S PO Day o! I:rayer (From a Staft ¢& LINCOLN After returning * ernor Savage /s spondent.) T.~(Spectal.)— office today Gov- d the following dng for general aroughout the recovery of the cutive s CHAMBER, LINCOLN m The ates, tim of fired upon state na- tion's « Proclania Whereas, United the vi boen president Vitliam cruel without § greeting his conntrymen on the exposition grounds of the, city of Buffalo, N. Y., and Wher His administration has been di ished by a breadth and force of statesmanship unequalled in r o I8 therefors essential to the well & of a people patriotism nd his demise to challenge of the Kinley, 1s having svocation tellow- ssassin, ory, and intelligence nd pro- ! entall ope and computa- wo tien Whereas ance ou His recovery fs that tranquiliity shall and tustrial nall be onw the moral, this gover upward Theret ernor aud P gOV- of Nel do proclamation earnestly ple of this common- ir to their houses of rehip tomorrow (September §, 1901), and offer up prayer to Divine Provi- o to spare his life and for the re y of our beloved chief executive, itness whereof 1 have b set my hand and caused to be the great seal of the state of braska Done Septem age tate ska Ne- Lincoln, this A. D, 1901, EZRA P, the Governor. G. W. MARSH, cretary of State. Tth day of SAVAC By B - eecscsecccs sesscssssessscccsessstsses D B liiBii i s i @ecsecsesseccscesoccccscceg to serve temporarlly except in the case of | unlooked for foreign complicatious is re- garded as very remoto. A plan to insure absolute quiet for the president was put into operation, and the safeguards are now such that it will be vractically impossible for him to be dis- turbed In any way. General Brooke, com- mander of the Department of the East, who came here this morning trom New York, as- sumed personal charge of the military and | under his direction the picket lines were ex- tended in every direction. Aided by the city police the soldlers roped off the streots which {ntersect Delawaro ayepue near the 18 IPTEMBER 8, 1901--TW | established an office | amination | The Milburn residence and both' toams and pedestrians were kept out of the district. Daily News from Buffalo says: by the prisoner, s twenty-nine years ago. My my educ eland 1 1 signed d books on soclalism and After being in Cle INTY-FOUR PA(C 51 T0 SAVE PRESIDEN [ o St slatl SR S SR Uk A O N i L PAGES 1 TO 12, o i S S o o o ol i ES, SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. T IKINLE SEARCHING OUT CZOLGOSZ’S PAST RECORD The telegraph office established fn the Mil- burn stable was removed to a tent pitched n a lawn on the opposite side of the “venue. An additional tent for the use of the newspaper correspondents was aleo ced there, The White House clerical force, which had in the main drawing room of the Milburn residence, was moved to the Glenny residence, whick joins th Milburn home and which had been tendered to Secretary Cortelyou for the purpose. Mrs. Duncan, sister of the president, and her son and the Misses Barber, also left the Milburn residence and at midnight departed for Cauton. They are to be closely adv 1 of the condition of Mr. McKinley and should there be a serfous change will return here Other members of the presidential party who have been quar residence will further aid quiet for hows its Kkeeping aw ed in the Milburn ily withdraw of securing pc wounded man. The st approval of the tem. ors the piau the tr ect plan opposition. any n move e about the house and 15 in the quietest manner possible. PUNISHMENT FOR THE CRIME the Masimum NEW YORK, Sept. 7 recovery would mean that his would- be assassin could be confined in prison fo: ten years, the maximum penalty under ¢ penal code of New York state. methods of procedure could be The prisoner could be arralgned before a Justice and there he could demand an ex- woul have the right time to prepare his defense. prisoner conld waive these formalities and elect to go before the grand jury Erle county. The grand jury could then find an indictment for assault in the first degree. An act of congress prescribing ponalty for offenses against the person of the president or other United States off clals would, according to legal authorities, take precedence of the penal code of the state of New York in the case of the man who made the attempt on President Me- Kinley's lite. A search falls to dlscover such a law. It would not be possible to in- flict any greater punishment on the An- archist Czolgosz by an act of the legisla- ture fixing & more severe penalty for an attempt on the life of the president and counsel and o ~President McKin- | [PRESENT EFFORT IS TO FIND ACCOMPLICES adopted. | 1o ot | | | | KNOWN AS A DISCIPLE OF E 'Would Be Assassin Comes from Cleveland, Where His Father and Mother Reside. 1A GOLDMAN Stepmoiher Denies This and Asserts that He Was ? Weak Mentally and Physically. public | by | from the locality and neither | the sentries nor the police have encountered i Those whose presence is OT IN LEAST WORRIED BY TERRIBLE CRIME {Police Authorities Have Noi Decided When He Will Be Arraigned, \Prisoner Put in the Sweatbox and Haunts of | Anarchists Al Over the Country Are Being Watched. It Las been definitely ascertalned that Leon Czolgosz, who shot President McEinley, resided in Clevels one story 1s that later he kept a saloon and attended His fathe for work. Is a p ked In ling mill at one time and anarchist meetings. v hard working man and is now away from home lookin His stepmother says that be was always weak physieally and The death of President McKinley would that he quit work in the rolling will on account of {ll-health. Ehe denles that result in the trial of the assailant for| he ever assocluted with anarchists and asserts that he w homicide and his conviction would mean | to comprebend that or any other doctrine. death in the electric chuir. ® The statement of Leon Czolgosz, as follows: nts were Russinn Poles. S fon In the public schools of Detroit and then went to Cleve- met eland for several T ecame a great many socialists, 1 ars 1 went to Chicago, where I remained seven months, after which I went to Newburg, on the outskirts of Cleve land, and went to work in the “During other western had much luck the ecraze to kil other anarchists went to hear . doctrine that all rule head nearly split with the pain. ture I had made up my mind th “Eight ¢ 2o, while I was visit to the with the last cities ¢ at Wi five 1l years @ “I went to live I suppose T be nything and this pre a lecture a little time ago by 3 should ut 1 Newburg wire mills, I bave had as friends anarchists in ame more or less bitter. Yes, d upon me Emma me on fire. exterminated Goldman. She set he Miss Goldn W in Chicag 1 a plan which Is a saloon and hotel, for years, owns it. we crazy, EMMA GOLDMAN INFLAMES HIM Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and I know I was bitter. I never It made me morose and envious, but what started She was In Cleveland and I and s what set me to thinking, so that my s words went right throngh me and when I left the lec- would have to do something herole for the cause 1 loved. ? I read in a Chicago newspaper Pan-American exposition at Buffalo, the determination to do something. the president, but I had not form 1074 Broadw tician, who has led his people her knew nothing about what was sett! President McKinley's That day I bought a ticket for Buffalo and got here but T did not know just wnat to do. 1 thought of shooting John Nowak, a Pole and sort of poli- I told Nowak that I came to see the fair. He HiS RESOLVE TAKES SHAPE “I went to the exposition resolution to shoot the president t had sident’ 1 boughi could not it Tuesday, have conquered I heard it was T up my mind to kil that ruler. “On Tuesday night 1 went to tial party arrived. I tried to back, so that the great ruler but was afraid to attempt the watched him. I was not af) that my chan day 1 was at which he spoke. the grounds and grounds ould pass. ssassination, 1id of thew or that 1 should get hurt, but afrald I might be seize g that time und I went home, right under hin, u would be gone forever, a couple of ke hold of me. iy life been at stake. lay. times a day. a falr r him, liber revolver and the but the police forced me I was clos because there were e near went the away pr stood sident, Not until Tuesday morning did the It was in my heart; there was no escape for me. There were thous: All these people seemed bowing to the great ruler. loaded it. unds and was near the rallrond gate when the presiden- back. to the president when he got into the grounds, 80 many I nds of people In town on 1 made They forced everybody men in the bos that and Ou Wednes the stand from THINKS OF IT MANY TIMES “T thought half 1T was afraid I might miss, fall. 1 waited Wednesday him and forn; its and were *Yesterday burning we up. from that 1 s low. 1 Aty worning I went gate, but tl ed at the grounds all day ‘During y to draw It fr first one, and waited at the spot and the don that I could T was aluost hope police allowed noboc w walting sterduy 1 first thought of hiding my pistol under my handkerchief. m my pocket I would be then the g president not get got into his carriy through, again to the exposition grounds, seen and seized by the where the reception w guards, to be held. a dozen times of shooting while he was speaking, but I could not get close enough. it crowd was always jostling and I was afraid lest my aim ge again and a lot of men were about I was tossed about by the crowd and my spir- s that night as I went hon Emma Goldman's T walted near the central entrance for the president, who was to board his spe but the president’s party to | speech was still il train where the train walted, so T was afraid if T had I got to the Temple of Music the OULD HAVE FIRED OFTENER Then he came—the president right body jumped on we. . Did you really wean to kill 1 did," was the cold-blooded “What was your motive “I am an anarchist with not the slightest tremor, “I deny that I bave had un accomplice at any time,” I wus dolng what 1 don't regret my act, becaus Paterson group, or one to help. with those ang OIOI0 oJo ¢ VOO E [ COOLONOIOROIOJOTOIORORO0) up to him, and then I shot but I was stunned by a blow in the face—a frightful blow, that knocked me down—and What gor Iam a disciple of Emma Goldman, the ruler—and I got in him twice through my line and white handke When he had about conc the president?’ veply. Her Czolgosz told DRIOID e (e 0 ) ) s ) ) trembled *ludy words set me ild for the great cause, rehists who sent Brescl to Italy to kili Humbe I was alone, absolutely,” and trembled until T got 1 would have fired wmore, then ief, every I thought T would be Killed and was surprised the way they treated me.” gosz ended his story in utter exhaustion. 1 he was asked: 1 could it do you?" he was asked. on fire,” he replied, District Attorney Penney. “I ] am not connected with the t. 1 had no confidants; no | the family bad a letter from him dated at an lndiana town, This as too weak mentally He left home some weeks ago nnd was a couple of weeks since. He bas a brother serving in the army In the Phillp- pies. It has not been decided when he will be arralgned, but it is likely this will be deferred until the result of the pre The police in various citie: | has auy. |, At a me sident’s injuries is ascertained. are searching for evidence of mecomplices If ho ting of anarchists beld in Chicago last night groauns greeted the | mention of the pawe of McKinley, while that of the would-be assassin was cheered, POLICE MAKING ‘z0lgosz More Com Six Examinatl Plot is the BUFFALO, Sept avowed disciple of Emma the other radical anarchist shot President McKinley, insists that he alone Is responsiblo for tho crime. He says that he talked the matter over in ad vance In a general way with his friends but that he was not advised by them and that there was no plot or conspiracy to take the life of the president in which any one clse had a part. He deciined to furnish the names of the men with whom he discussed the crime of Friday, but the police belleve they will yet learn them and that when they do, they will have ex- | posed the anarchistic plot of which they are confident the prisoner wus the final | agent of murder. Czolgosz underwent six courses of ex- amination and was tired out when the po- lice led him back to his cell and locked him up for the night. The lengthy ex aminatien of the prisoner was frultless, save in so far as his own individual fight |18 concerned, for while he told nothing that would implicate any one else in his crime, he went over the scenc at the Temple of Music when he shot the president again !and again, completing a confession as am- ple as the law ever cxacted. He even went to the extent of {llustrating to the officers the manner in which he shot the president and told with manifest pride how he decelved the president and his pro- tectors with the bandaged hand that held the revolver. Expect Him to Break Down, ~Czolgosz, the self- Goldman and leaders, who When he was first brought before Super- intendent of Police Bull and District At- torney Penney he was not disposed to talk very frecly and when a question was put to him took ample time to weigh his swers deliberately. He mixed with his | swers some of the philosophy of the perate political sect to which he belongs and seemed to be posing. Later his tongue loosened somewhat and by the close of the afternoon he talked freely. The confession that he had discussed the crime in advance with some friends was finally drawn from him, but there he stopped. He was fn the hands of a group of shrewd exuminers, but they could not break him down. The po- lice say in the end, when he comes to a true appreciation of his position he will break down and fully confess. In re- viewing his confession he made open avowal of his belief in anarchy and sald he | V¢ had merely done his duty as he saw it.| a0y one spuaks to him. In addition to the examination to which ¢ prisoner was subje tectives spent the day In scouring the eity |for some trace of possible confederates They took up the trail of the prisoner fron: th day of his arrival and partially | pleted an outline of his mov | the commission of the crime | Find No A | They d1a not succeed tn cone with any of the socialists who 1 here and by nightfall con iplice, ting him ake their ne had ahout nconed the theory that he was assisted | for They also showed an in- ' here any one here. | ana that | dent tha PROGRESS | federate preceded the prisoner in the line leading up to the president, but work along that line had not been abandoned. The general theory now held by the detectives Is that a circle of Czolgosz's assoclates | plotted the murder of President McKinley ho was picked by lot or inducel by persuasion to carry out the conspiracy. They say that he lacks the shrewdness to have planned and executed the crime as he did it. The police said temight that they hat made no other arrests and that they had none in contemplation. It s they have not made much pr ress toward the ostablishment of thelr th ory with material evidence aud that their chief reliance at present is on & confea- slon from the prisoner. Czolgosz's trall | bas been taken up at Cleveland and it is | | I | bis tmmediate custod | i expected that the inquify there will let in some valuable light as to his companlons and possible fellow conspirators. No One May See Him. The prisoner was kept secluded today d as a result of a suggestion from Sec- retary of War Root the police inquiry will be made as secretly as possible. No one is entitled to seo the prisoner other than ns, and confessions taken down in writing will not be made public for the present at least. The pris- oner has not retained counsel and when the subject was mentloned to him today he said he did not desire a lawyer to defend him. The police sald that when he got over the idea that he was a great hero among his fellow anarchists he would very llk:ly resort to the usual means to aveld punishment for his crime, whatover time shows 1t to be. No one who ever knew him mado ap- plication to see him today and mo word camo to him from his relatives. He had a couple of dollars when arrested and today asked that it be expended for & new shirt. His request was granted and he spent some thne in rearranging his dress. The police made another search of his room and effeets, but found nothing that would throw any light on the erime. Not Appenr Insnne, Cuolgosz Dete a fow fe loes not appear to be insane. rzeant John ary, who stood t irum Czolgosz when he fired the s and who caught Prasident McKinley when he fell, was asked whether, in his opinion, Czolgosz was {nsane “Ho may bo,” ssid the dntective, “but from all I paw of bim he Is just An an- archis C20lg032 15 not &bove the avarake height. His face {5 that of a typical German, He aross at an e y hour this morning and ute a bearty breakfust. He appears to be nervous &nd starts suddenly when He proves to be The police worked very elusive In arguing. ted city and federal de-| With him until & late hour last night and he rog dmitted that very little progress had n made in bringing out facts from him his past history To a reporter District gave the e of sion, a3 fol Attorney Penny ihslan Vzolgosz's confess w3 ed for Three Dayn “This president him; that he the last He w man has admitted shooting the He he intended to kil had been planning to do 4y th days, slnce he camg the Te of Musty says cdlaation to glve up (Bo beliof that & cop-wilh murder 1 Lis boart, inladiug ta,