The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1901, Page 2

9 - THR SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1901. CHIEF EXECUTIVE THE VICTIM "OF MOST COWARDLY ANARCHIST | SHOOTER PRONPT IRRESTED. Sawed From e - Enraged Pop- Ulace. Allemplflade l - Lynch Fiendish < YOS THAONG on0CKED Many Wiess Assault on Cuest, | President Stives f Cam Enraged | ‘ i L - Ksassin. { | et When Serious Nature of Offcers of the Law A | | Lose NoTime in Jail Wounds Appear an | ' Lose o 11 [ 1 Uproar Ensues, | . ing the Prisoner. | 1 —_—— UFFALO, Sept. 6.— nesses. A murmur arose, spre_arl President M(:an]ey1 and swelled to a hum of corfu- was shot and seri-| sion, then grew to a babel of ously wounded by a | soun_ds and l‘atcr to a pande- would-be assassin | | monium of noises. while holding a reception in the | | WITH A SINGLE Temple of Music at the Pami | mruz‘smn;mno IN: DRWA:BD American grounds :lifew minutes | The crswds thak 2 siceint Be. Riter. 4 o'clock” this A aftemgon. | fore had stood mute and motion- L1 sho} fook efied s the mght| less, as in bewildered ignorance breast, the other in the abdomen. | | [t the: eeity of ihe teagedy. \PJ‘-::':. f'l’:ttl ]t;:(g:ul;ft ;;1::?)2::1 :z: [ now with a s.,ingle impulse su}—ge«! tracted. The latter pierced the T +:;c:)rr\:?({ddr[:r::r%v}tl?l: ?:%Zr(:; ;‘je abdominal wall and has not been SCENE OF TH E DAR'NG ATTEMPT TO ASSASS]NATE PRESIDENT MCK[NLEY- welled up from a thousand \ located. : L | (DRAWN FROM A DESCRIPTION BY TELEGRAPH.) [throats and a thousand men .1.‘011}:, ("n (]‘?e:;:;?,‘recé\;fl]\;ina][_i+ 5 - A 1 ; : : T *icharged forward to lay _h;m(l: e it £ ‘m]) g '__1 |surrounded by the stern faced in-|survive, only to divine Provi-|John G. Milburn- of Buffalo,|of the dais until he was within rostrum, where a great tragedy {upon the perpetrator of the J]iffs""‘f"_‘ o1 1 T i me.\ican quisitors of the law, is a medium | dence can be attributed that ben- president of the Pan-American [two feet of the President. was being enacted. | | crime. AHPO:“”“- “““‘fars Of‘;' '?ce‘sized man of commonplace ap-|eficent result. . Exposition, chatting with the| President McKinley smiled,| Then came a commotion.| For thé moment the confusion S e fmm ok ;onf lF‘:‘f]gl |pearance with his fixed gaze di-| The _President, though svell|President and introducing him |bowed and extended his hand in | Three men threw themselves for- [was terrible. The crowd surged opEs and fears, Biie e ‘—“F‘ " rected on the floor, who presses {guarded by United States Secret | especially to persons of note who | that spirit of geniality the Ameri-|ward as with one impulse and |forward regardless of conse- wife, whose devotion is known to |}, lips firmly together —and|Service detectives, was fully ex-|approached. Upon the Presi-|can people so well know, when |sprang toward the would-be as-|quences. Men shouted and Bll the nation, listens with an air of assumed in- | posed to such an attack as oc-|dent’s left stood Secretary Cor- [suddenly the sharp crack of a re-|sassin. Two of them were United fought, women screamed and It e few ”,mme”{S a{‘,e_r 4! difference to the persistent|curred. He stood at the edge of | telyou. : volver rang out loud and clear|States secret service men '.\'hol;children cried. Some of those F: m}.fl ‘: ""}]‘3 Presxdent. A IC_}\”‘If." |stream of questions, arguments, | the raised dais upon which stands | preSIDENT EXTENDS . above the hum of voices, the|were on the lookout, and whose |nearest the doors fled from the )\Tits'n ‘loc-ng;g\?u:ccegrtnlotrllleml’;?§°‘?j“fga‘f°"5 and admonitions | the great pipe organ at the east] HAND TO COWARDLY! shuffling of myriad feet and vi-|duty it was to guard against just |edifice in fear of a stampede, -%mer;ican gr'om;ds A enitad fnth which his captors seek to | side of the magnificent strucfm'c. ANARCHIST WITH GUN | brating waves of applause that|such a ca]amity as had hére be- | while hundreds from the outside :':\rdiv etk it el i eoat induce or compel him to talk. Throngs_ of people crowded in at| It was shortly after 4 p. m. lever and anon swept here and f:jlllen the Prgsndent and the na- struggled blindly forward in the st M Al tell. | AssAssTN AcTs ‘the various entn%nces to gaze|when one of the throng' \vhl§h there over the a§semblage. tion. The third was a b)'sgander, efigrt to penetrate the crowded it ek et WHILE m&::;AngDY;upon thexr. executive, perchance | surrounded ; the. Presidential | There was an instant of a.l.most a negro, who had only an instant building and solve the mystery 2 GREETED BY MANIFOLD Frval i |to clasp his hand, and then file |party, a medium sized man of or- | complete silence. The President previously grasped the hand of [of the excitement and panic EXPRESSIONS OF Love| It Was just after the daily or-|their way out in the good na-|dinary appearance and plainly|stood stock still, a look of hesi- |the President. In a twinkling the | which every moment grew and Standing in the midst of thou- | 821 recital in the splendid Tem-|tured mob’ that every minute |dressed in black, .approach\’.d,as, lfxtancy.', almost of bewilderment, |assassinwas borne to the ground, | swelled within the congested in- sands, surrounded by every evi- |Pl€ of Music that the dastardly sw_e]lcd apd multiplied at the|to greet the President. Both'Sec- on his fage. He then retreated a h%s weapon was wrested from |terior of the edifice. X dence of good will, fwressed gk ‘at.tcmpt was mac}e. _Plann.ed';pomtsAof. ingress and egress t ret_ary Corte!you and President |step, whllg a pallor began to|his gra§p, and strong arms Pin- | pRESTDENT REMAINS motley throng of people, show- | With all the diabolical ingenuity | the building. ; Milburn noticed that the man’s|steal over his features. ioned him down. . IN MOST TRANQUTL erid with expressions of love and | 21d _fines_se of which anarchy or| The President was in a_cheer- hand was s\\vz}thed in a bandage| The multitude, only partially| Then the m}zlntude which STATE OF MIND loyalty from enthusiastic multi-|ihilism is capable, the would-be | ful mood and was enjoying tojor handkerchief. Reports of by-|aware that sometling serious |thronged the edifice began to| Inside, on the slightly raised tndes ol eager to clasp hisfas_sassm c;m_'xed out the woi—}uthe fulll the .hearty evidence of |standers differ as to which.hand. hafi happened, paused in sur-|come to a realizing sense of the |dais was enacted within those Bande. ~anid thede Surroumi.ings,!‘”t‘_mut a hitch, and should his good will which ev_eryyvherc met | He worked his way amid the|prise, while necks were craned [awfulness of the scene of which |few feverish moments a tragedy and with - the ever-recurringid“‘gns fail and the President!his gaze. Upon his right stood | stream of people up to the edge [and all eyes turned as one to the they had been unwilling wit- plaudits of an army of sightseers | ringing in his ears, the blow of | the assassin came and in an in-| stant ‘pleasure gave way to pain, | admiration to anger, folly turned | to fury and pandemonium fo]-l lowed. | To-night a surging, swaying, | cager multitude throngs the | city’s main thoroughfares, chok- ing the streets in front of the| principal newspapers, scanning the bulletins with anxious eyes | and groaning or cheering in turn at each succeeding announce- ment as the nature of the mes- sage sinks or buoys their hopes. Down at police headquarters, | +1- < While the Iynch him by the tempted assassination occurs during a Two bullets enter the President’ At three o’clock this ing that his temperature a enraged populace. STORY OF TERRIBLE CRIME TOLD IN BRIEF President William McKinley is shot twice by an anarchistic pupil of Emma Goldman. The at- public reception in the Temple of Music at Buffalo Exposition. s body, one penetrating the breast, tracted, and the second, which causes a more serious wound, enters the abdomen. utive is first cared for by physicians of Emer the home of Director General Milburn, assailant is being taken in the custody of the police to jail attempts are made to (Saturday) morning a bulletin is sent from the bedside of the President stat- nd pulse are improved. which was subsequently ex- Wounded Chief Exec- gency Hospital of the Exposition, and later removed to — so dramatic in character, so thrill- ing in its intensity that few who looked on will ever be able to give a succinet account of what really did transpire. Eventhose who attended the President came out with blanched faces, trem- bling limbs and beating hearts, while their brains throbbed with a tumult of conflicting emotions which could not be clarified into a lucid narrative of the events as they really transpired. Of the multitude which wit- nessed or bore a part in the scene of turmoil and turbulence tkere was but one mind which seemed to retain its equilibrium, one P et ron i, s el e £ Continued on Page Three ) -