The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1901, Page 25

THE SAN FB,ANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1901. 25 ASSASSIN IS NOW REJOICING IN JAIL ANARCHIST SHOWS NO REGRET ABOMINABLE CRIME Young Criminal Declares He Was Incited to Do the Deed He Committed at the Buffalo Fair. FOR HIS 7.—A speciz from i | | police, my education in the »it d then went work. in sm and J was prett in the West. where 1 er which I went to New- rts of Cleveiand, and ewburg wire mills. e years I have had in Chicago, her Western go cities, re or less bit- 1 never - ng and this pre: me morose and en- he craze to kill litile time hists me on fire. d be ex- me to thinking. it with the nt right the lecture uld have to cause I loved. was in Chi- rewspaper of to the Pan- alo. That o and got | n to do some- st what. I dent, but I| went to live at | ch is a saloon and ho- . a Pcle, a sort of poli- his people here for Nowak that I came | knew nothing about I went to le of times | morning did ke President take in my heart; there 1 could not have een at stake. e in_town esident’s | bowing to mind to aliber re- ay night nd was near the ght Miss Him. T him, but the police rced everybody r could pass. t when he got raid to at- use there ard that | 'f them or afraid I might nce would be at time and I I went to the near the Presi- ar the stand from ught half a dozen s speaking, 1 wa in thai night 1_went Emma me up. e his again to Goidman's waited the Presi- cial train ce allowed rty to pa d at th the bled Before Crime. first thought of handkerchief. seized by the | le of Music t the spot Then | to him h my e fired more but I blow in the face, a «nocked me down, ped on me. 1 ed and sur- story in utter ex- d about concluded to kill the Presi- d blooded reply. ive, what sked good disciple of set me on slightest ad an ac- | told Dis- 2't regret my I could for not connected with anarch- to kill Hum- one to help the Paterson gro ists who sent bert. 1 had me 1 was absolutely Emma Goldman’s Malevolence. mma Gold: the prophetess of the the woman who was sentenced a year in prison for “inciting to 1893 1as written books ani rge cities of the Un- more rabid in_defl- wee of the Government than Herr Most, is an insignificant person in She is below der in buil 1o serve out notice in ordina throng. But | when she mounts a platform to speak she | gains attenti; at Her voice is.| strong and clear, and her sincerity is be- | nd question. Not only does she ists but many attract true anarch- hear her ex- pound the 7 ir faith. She is fearless i t stoppins | short of sacrile 1 forms of government. In a Juded to the Di speech she al- old gentleman | employs full _stomached idler: rabbis and ministers to mind his .”” She attacks the press at every | nity and charges it with respons bility for most of the ‘ She has spoken mockingly of President | McKinley, as of every other head of a nation or a government. Her hearers she calis “fools and slave and tells the | workingman that he ought to be shot| down for not & if every other m freedom!” is her cry waves flag says it. | It was in October, 1893 that Miss Gold- man was convicted in New York for in- Titing to riot. She was sent to Black- | Wells Island and her term of imprison- | ment was reduced to ten months on ac- | count of good behavior. When she was | freed she wrote and sold an account of | her imprisonment and the manner in | which prisoners are ireated on the island. a lecture tour, visiting from Boston to San evers 7y neisco. TP EVELAND, Sept. 7.—Later informa- tion concerning the identity of Czolgosz Gevelops that he is the son of Paul Czol- gosz, who it is aid now lives at 306 Fleet Eirect, this city. Other members of the family are John, who lives at home with his father and stepmother; Mike, a soldier | now serving in the Philippines; Viadiolan, | He was such a timid boy | was no impromptu gathering. Qver 200 | | persons were gathered in the hall. | days ago the members of several societies | talk, however. | McKinley | k3 THE PROFESSIONAL ANARCHIST WHOSE PUPIL ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDENT. :. 5 who is on his father's farm. located on the Chagrin Falls suburban line, and Ja- son of Marion avenue. Statement of Stepmother. The family is Polish and evidentiy very | poor, the father having left home Satur- | ¥ ‘morning looking for employment. be stepmother cannot speak English, but gave out the following interview through the medium of an interpreter: “Leon left home zbout sixty days ago. We heard from him a few weeks ago. He was then in Iniianapolis and wrote to us that he was going aw: stating that in probabilit. we would not see h!rn‘ gain.” | The stepmother failed to recollect the name of the city from which the latter | was received, put states that it was some place in Indian family had not heard from him The stepmotier enies that Leon was a disciple of Emma Goldman or_in ay interested in her doctrines. She as not interested | such matter: as scarcely intelli- | gent enough to understand them. They ! had always considered the boy partially | demented. Up to three years ago he had worked at the Cleveland Roiling Mill, but | had to quit on account of poor health. | Since that time he has been idle. While | living on the farm near Warrensville his father had not asked Leon to work, hav ing always considered manual _labor. Re; of the President, Mr “I can't believe that 1 him tooc weak for | rd the oting | a on is the one. 0 afraid of | everything. Why, was the biggest | coward you ever in_your life.” She also emphatically disclaims that the | boy everr displayed any anarchistic ten ! dencies whatever. He was an admirer of his brother, the Philippine soldier, and | liked Lis countr howing the least sign_of dlscontent. >zolgosz is an intelligent looking w Lut failed to| show any decided emotion when confront- | he ma cd with the account of Leon's horrible | crime. The home is neat and cleanly, but plain. P'paul Czolgosz, the father, moved- into Cleveland two wecks 2g0 to secure em-| ployment. He has.mot vet heard of his son's crime. Two uncles also live in| Cleveland, one of them residing at 12| Hosmer street. Chicago Anarchists Meet. | CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—Chicago anarchists, | in response to a call issued three days | ago, held a_meeting last night in a saloon | on West Chicago avenue and discussed the attempted assassination of the Presi- dent. Men and women known to be as sociated with the anarchists’ mcvement in the city were in the barroom. The at-| tendance at the meeting showed that it | Three | were notified that a celebration would take place last night. The reason for the issuance of the call for the meeting could not be learned from those present. Tley | made no secret of the fact that they an- | ticlpated something of which they might Not a word of sympathy for the man who was near his death was heard at the meeting last night. Instead there were speeches in which the name of was mentioned only to bring forth cries of condemnatioh. For the name of the President’s assailant there | were cheers. All the speeches were in German, al- though at times some members of the audience_would give vent to their feel- ings in English. It was not until early this morning that the meeting. broke up. Fate of the Assassin. NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—President Mc- Kinley's recovery would mean that his would-be assassin could be confined in prison for ten years, the maximum pen- alty of the Penal Code of New York State. Two methods of procedure could be adopted. The prisoner could be ar- raigned before a justice of Erie County an(f could demand an examination and would have the right to counsel and time to prepare his deferse. The prisoner could waive these formalities and elect to g0 before the Grand Jury of Erie County. The Grand Jury could then find an in- 2 A_search of the enactment has been made by Congre It would not be impossible to infli any greater | punishment on the anarchist Czolgosz by | for the laws as now enforced. “Some -of the men, 1 learned, have served terms in prisons their native countries for attempted crimes, inspired { by their anarchistic_ beliefs. The Free | Society, published by Isakk, 1 have I“Chances Seem to Be in Favor of the | isfied that the Kidneys | clated Press for an o+ dictment for assault in the first desree. WAn act of Congress prescribing a penalty | for offenses against the person of the President or other United States officials would, according to legal authorities, take | precedence of the Penfl Code of the State | of New York in the case of the man who | made the attempt on President McKin- any act of the Legislature fixing a more | severe penalty for an attempt on the life | of the President. The death of the Pres! dent would result in the trial of the a lant for homicide, and his conviction would mean death in the electric chair. CHICAGO, Sept. The names of the men arrested last night on the charge of being implicated in the plot to assassinate | President McKinley are: Abraham Isakk, | Abraham Isakk Jr., Nippolyte Havel, | Henry Trevegilo, Clemens Pfeutzner and / Alfred Schneider. The examination of the prisoners lasted | until early this morning, but the police refused to make public what information | had been secured. Captain Colleran, chief of the cCetective bureau, however, gave out the foillowing: ““The raid w made in consequence of a | telegram from secret service officers in Buffalo asking us to investigate and learn the whereabouts of the headauarters of a paper known s the Free Socief We | traced the owner to the house at 515 Car- roll avenue, and tiere found the persons arrested, apparently in the midst of an | important meeting.” All of the prisoners admit they are anarchisis. and do not | hesitate to say that they ve no regard learned, was formerly issued on the Pa- cific Coast, and it was only recently that Isakk opened an office here.” | Captain Colicran said the prisoners would be held pending a further exam- ination to-day, FEF ok NO INJURY TO INTESTINES | | Recovery of the Chief Executive. BUFFALO, Sept. 7.—The operation upon the President last night lasted almost an hour. Ether was administered. A five- inch incision was made where the ball entered the abdomen and its course was followed until the physicians became sat- had not been | touched or-the intestines perforated and that it had lodged probably in the muscles | of the back, where it could do no harm | for the present. The intestines were lift- ed out through the incision and carefully | examined, and the utmost confidence ex- | ists that there was no injury. The physi- | clans were exceedingly gratified at the | result and pronounced the operation a | complete success. | In response to a request from the Asso- | opinion as to the | probable result of the President’s wound, Surgeon General Wyman of the marine hospital service said: “The fact that the President was such good health: that skilled surgical assistance was immediately available that the necessary operation was not postponed, and the fact that the percent- agc of recoveries in similar cases is large | | all give ground for anticipating a favora- | ble Tesult. “The fact that the wound was received ' as late as 4:10 p. m., probably some hours | after lunch and before dinner, the stom- | ach being comparatively empty, is in his | favor. It is difficult to find ' statisties | based on a large number of cases with wounds of this character, but in a gen- eral way it may be said that recoveries average about 30 per cent. With a mag like President McKinley, it Is safe to say that the percentage of chances in his fa- vor are much greater than this. Cases with numerous perforations of the stom- ach and intestines, even accompanied b of the liver and kidneys, have re- covered.” | | Will Pray for His Recovery. 1 | BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. T.—Governor John Walter Smith this afternoon issued a proclamation calling upon all good cit!- zens of Maryland to join in giving thanks for the escape of President McKinley from immediate death at the hands of an assassin and praying for his restoration to health. Tuesday of next week is ths aay appointed by the Governor, | that he had been planning to do it for ! black mustache. THINKS HE DID A DUTY Czolgosz Tells the Police of His Crime. —_— Declares That He Is Great Admirer of | Anarchy. | | | i | Officials Compel Man to Give an Account of Himself. ST UFFALO, Sept. 7.—Leon Czol- gosz underwent six hours of examination and questioning at the hands of the police offi- cers to-day and was tired out when they led him back to his cell and locked him up for the night. The lengthy examination of the prisoner was fruitless, save in so far as his own individual fate is concerned, for while he told nothing that would im- plicate any one else in his crime, he weiit | over the scene at the Temple of Music when he shot the President again and again, completing a confession as ample as the law ever exacted. He even went to the extent of fllustrating to the officers the manner in which he shot the Presi- dent and told with manifest pride how he | deceived the President and his protectors with the bandaged hand that held the re- volver. When he was first brought before Su- perintendent of Police Bull and District Attorney Penney he was not disposed to talk very freely, and when a.question was put to him took ample time to weigh his answers deliberately. He mixed with his answers some philosophy of the desperate political sect to which he belongs and | seemed to be posing. Later his tongue loosenel somewhat and by the close of the afternoon he talked freely. The admission that he had discussed the crime in advance with friends was finally drawn from him, but there he stopped and could riot be moved. He was in the hands of a group of shrewd examiners and they set trap upon trap to catch him, but the effort to break him down failed. The police say that in the end, when he comes to a true appreciation of his posi- tion, he will break down and confess. 1n reviewing his confession he made open avowal of his belief in anarchy and sald that he had merely done his duty as he saw it. | Search for the Confederates. In addition to the examination to which the prisoner was subjected city and Fed- eral detectives spent the day in scouring the city for some trace of possible con- federates. They took up the trail of the prisoner from the day of his arrival ana partially completed an outline of his movements up to the commission of the crime. They did not succeed in connect- ing him with any of the soclalists who make their home here, and by nightfall had about abandoned fhe theory that he was assisted by any ene here. They also showed an inclination to give up the be- lief that a confederate preceded the pris- | oner in the reception line leading up to the President, but work along that line had not been abandoned. The general theory now held by the de- tectives is that a circle of Czolgosz's as- sociates plotted the murder of President McKinley, and that he was picked by Jot or induced by persuasion to carry out the conspiracy. They say that he lacks the shrewdness to have planned and executed | the crime as he did. | The police said to-night that they had made 1o other arrests and that they had none in contemplation. It is evident that | they have not made much progress to- ward the establishment of their theory with material evidence. and that their chief reliance at present is on a confes- sion from the prisoner. Czolgosz's trail has been taken up at Cleveland and it is pected that Inquiry there will let in | some valuable iight as to his companions | and possible fellow consplrators. | The prisoner was kept secluded to-day, | and as a result of a suggestion from Sec- | retary of War Root the police inquiry will_be as soon as possible. No one is | permitted to see the prisoner other than | his immediate custodians, and his confes- | sions, taken down in writing, will not be | public, for the present at least. The prisoner has not retained counsel, and when the subject was mentioned to him to-day he said he did not desire a lawyer to defend him. The police said that when he got over the idea that he was a great | hero among his ~fellow anarchists he | would very lkely resort to the usual means to avold punishment for his crime, whatever time shows it to be. No one who ever knew him made application to see him to-day, and no word came to | him from his relatives. He had a couple | of_dollars when crrosted. and to-day | asked that it be expended for a new shirt. His request was granted, and he | spent some time in rearranging his dress. The police made another scarch of his room and effects but found nothing that would throw any light on the crime. To a reporter District Attorney Penney gave the substance of Czolgosz’s confes- sion, as follows “This man_has admitted shooting the President. He says he intended to kill; | o | | the last three days—since he came here. He went to the Temple of Music with murder in his heart, intending to shoot to kill. He fixed up his hand by tying a bandkerchief around it and waited his | turn to get near the President. When he | got directly in front of the President he | fired. He sgys he had no confederate— that he was entirely alone in the plam~ | | | ning and execution of this diabolical act. He says he is a bellever in the thzories propounded by Emma Goldman. whom he eard several times. He does not believe in our form of government, and therefore he deemed it his duty to get rid of the President.” In an interview Secret Service Detective Ireland, who with Qfiicer Gallagher was | near the President when the shots were fired, said: Method of the Assassin, | “It is incorrect. as has been stated. that the least fear of an assault was enter- tained by the Presidential party. It has been my custom to stand back of the President and just to his left, so that I | uld see the right hand of every person | approaching, but yesterday I was re- | quested to tard opposite the President | so that Mr. Milturn could stand at the | left and introduce the people who ap- | proached. In that way I was unable to ! get a good look at every one's right hand. “A few moments before Czolgosz ap- | proached a man came along with three fingers of his right hand tied up in a bandage and he had shaken hands with bis left. When Czolgosz came up I no- lced he was a boyish looking fellow with an irnocent face. perfectly calm, and I also noticed that his right hand was | wrapped in what :x\peared to be a band- | age. 1 watched him closely but was in- | terrupted by the man in ‘front of him, who held on to the President's hand an unusually long time. This man appeared | to be an Italian and wore a short, heavy | He was persistent, and | it was necessary for the to push him along | s0 that the others cculd reach_the Presi- dent. Just as lie released the President's ‘ hand and as the President was reaching for the hand of the assassin there were | two quick shots. Startled for & moment, 1 looked and saw the President draw his right hand up under his coat, straighten up and pressing his lips togethe: give Czolgosz the most scornful and con- | temptuous look possible to imagine. ‘At the sams time ,I reached for the young man and caught his left arm. The big negro_standing just back of him, and who would have been next to take the . { market martyrs i { and listen to our debates. | so-called anarchists. | who are studying the philosophy of our | doctirines and are satisfied that our theor { anarchist i Free Society is the following: | these meetihgs and participate in the d. ANARCHISTS FROM EUROPE MUST BE REFUSED LANDING Vigorous Efforts Will Now Be Made to Prevent the Immigration of Murderers. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. —Strong efforts have been made to induce Congress to enact lawe¥ to_ prevent anar- chists from coming into the United States. but thus far without success. Probably the’ strongest movement in that direction was made when Governgr Stone of Pennsylvania was a member of the House of Represen- tatives. A measure advocated by him specifically excluded anarchists as such and provided various safeguards for iden- tifying them. The measure was vigorous- ly opposed, some of the most prominent men in Congress identifying themselves with the opposition, on the ground that the term “‘anarchist” was a general char- | acterization. Mr. Powderly, Commissioner of Immi- gration, in his annual reports, has asked Congress to give him power to exclude anarchists as such, saying men prominent in the anarchist groups of Europe had ar- rived at American ports from time to time and that there was no means of turning them back as anarchists. The only means of excluding them was under some of the general provisions of the ex- clusion laws, as eriminals or paupers, etec., and as a rule it was impossible to fasten crime or pauperism upon them. Commissioner Powderly to-day was asked if he thought the immigration laws could he amended so as to reach those who assoclate themselves with anarchistic groups. Greater Care Will Be Taken. “Immigration laws,” he sald, ‘“can be amended to exclude from landing in this country any one known to be an anarchist and every immigrant should be obliged to present a certificate from the municipality in which he resides at home to the effect that he was a respectable, law-abiding man, that he was not in any way identi- fled with any anarchist organization and that he was of good character. In order to make such a law effective representa- tives of the immigration bureau should be stationed in foreign countries from which immigrants come whose duty it should be to examine carefully into the character of immigration tending toward the United States. “I recommended in my annual report for the fiscal year 1900 that all persons landing in this country be liable to de- portation during the term they reside here before becoming naturalized, or for the period of five vears. The law should be so framed as to enable the authorities to place the strong hand of justice upon every anarchist who breeds such senti- ments as Emma Goldman gave expression to and deport them at once. “Every one attending anarchist meet- ings should be taken out and, if aliens, deported. If citizens, .they should be promptly tried for their offense, but in any event the authorities should prevent the assembling of such characters. They do not advocate reform nor redress of grievances of any kind. They applaud murder, and the man who applauds mur- der is himself a murderer at heart and should be punished.” Need for More Officers. Assistant Secretary Ailies of the Treas- ury Department, when asked whether he thought Congress could enact laws that wo,xld reach anarchists in this country, sald: ““Undoubtedly something could be done, but T believe that the secret service should be greatly enlarged and given supervision over groups or bodies of men who plot against the form of our government and L FAMILY PHYSICIAN OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY, WHO IS AMONG THE NOTED DOCTORS IN CONSTANT ATTENDANCE UPON WOUNDED CHIEF EXECUTIVE AT BUFFALO. THE Moran is not_inclined to believe that the he will arrive to-morrow or Monday. shooting of President McKinley yester- | day was the result of a conspiracy. believes it was the individual act Czolgosz. Major Richard Sylvester, superintend- He | ent of the Washington police, and Presi- of | dent of the Police Association of At the same time he is tak- | United States and Canada. took the first the ing steps to have the secret service men | steps to-day designed to bring about the co-operate with the local detective and police forces at all cities where Czolgosz has lived with a view to ascertaining whether any anarchistic organization was involved in the erime. Chief of the Secret Service Wilkie was at his summer home in Wisconsin vester- day when the President was shot. Mo- i co-operation of police officials to secure the enactment of laws which will ena- ble anarchistic societies and individuals to be dealt with more effectually. He sent a letter to the board of directors of the association to-day urging that members give this matter close and careful con- sideration, and offer such suggestions as against the officials of the Government.” | ran telegraphed him at once, and he left | will enable the association to act ef- Acting Chief of the Secret Service |on the next train for Washington. where | fectually. ANARCHISTS OF . SAN FRANCISCO Their Agent DiE{ml All Connec- tion With the Plots to Com- mit Murder, ‘Within a stone’s throw of the City Hall | is located the neadquarters of the anarch- ists of San Francisco. It is in a little bookstore, and its proprietor is as mild- mannered a man in conversation as ever embrated the tenets of an organization that males murder its motto and Em- perors, Kings, Presidents and minor of- place daily but as vet have not had cause to descend upon the place whence the in- flaming literaiare of anarchism is dis- tributed, At 232 Larkin street Richard Rieger con- ducts an unpretentious bookstore, where all varieties of lterature are dispensed. He is the collector for a number of an- archist papers throughout the United States, and especially for Free Soclet formerly the Firebrard, of Chicago, wh publishes his name among the list of its agents who arc authorized to receive and receipt for subscriptions. There are other journals of the same character for which Rieger collects, and he says that during the vear he collects from about 209 per- sons. Rieger is a small man with a tawny beard, who does not attempt to deny that | CZOLGOSZ’S ACT CAUSES SURPRISEB Known at His Father’s Home as a | Weak Youth of No Im- portance. CLEVELAND, Sept. 7.—¥Fernaps to no one else Is the would-be assassin of Pres- ident McKinley more a surprsie than to those who knew Leon Czolgosz during his residence of a half-dozen years or more in the southeastern end of this cit The unhappy ifmate of a home from which his mother had been taken by | ficia’s its subjects. Police officers pass the | geath, he never got along with his father's second acted or less wife. and the stubborn boy in his re- lations with her. During this time his father lived on a farm with hi large family of seven boys and two girls. Leon was not active in farm work, seem- ing to despise it as the drudgery incident to life. Shortly after coming to this city, fifteen vears ago, Leon’s father started a saloon. in the rear of which was a small building used as a rendezvous and meeting place for a dozen or fifteen men who called themselves anarchists. Leon was too young to be a member of that’gang, but he was a great listener to the harangues that these men induiged in, and they more { he is an anarchist, but rather glories in | probably had some effect on his youthful | the fact, claiming that Herbert Spencer was the greatest anarchist the world ever knew. “In San Francisco,” said Rieger last { night, “there ire between 200 and 500 an- | archists. We have had that many to- | gether at the times we celebrated the an- niversaries of the executions of the Hay- occasions of the visits of Emma Goldman and Herr Johann Most. We have no res- ular_organization in San Francisco, but on Sundays the Independent Debating Club meets in Pythian Castle, and there vou will hear a true exposition of an- ism. ne club has no regular officers or o nization, for we Go not belleve in he chairman is drawn from the bod. the people, Ly the people themselv: mectings are cpen, and any one can com Here we kaow nothing of the plans of other bodies of ‘We are anarchis: of government Is the ‘correct one. \Wo cannot be responsible for the actions of an insane man, and we feel it is an in- justice to blame anarchists for all the political "crimes of a century.’. | | } | | | mind. Leon worked in a rolling mill for several vears, but the work was too hard for him, and he left to go on This father's he finally became more or less of an idler, his hewlth never gaining robust condition. His effeminacy was the cause of more Finally he left home and became a wan- derer. The last definite information from him was a letter received from West Sen- eca, N. Y., written on the 15th of July. That letter was written to the secretary of a fraternal society inCleveland and 'was for the purpose of paying his monthly assessments. So far as his relatives and friends know, he has been nowhere else than in West Seneca since that date. The idea of a plot being hatched in this city to kill the President is not given serious thought by the police nor by those who have known Czolgosz for the past ten years. They regard his desperate deed as the result of a sudden inspiration to do something to attract public notice. Among his own brothers and sisters he was considered “strange,” and a sister- +in-law not long ago commented upon his chiidish conduct. He has a brother, Jacob, who was in- In the list of meetings of the recognized | jured by an explosion at the Sandy Hook Navy Yard Lwo years ago, and who has | organizations that appear in “San Francisco—Independent Debating Club meets every Sunday, 2-p. m., at 99 Market street. Free discussion.’ The attendance at these meetings on Sunday runs usually from fifty to a hun- ared persons, and the doctrines of ana chism and communism are freely cussed. Strangers are invited to atten nd bates, with a view of making conve Several rallying places are located abou the city, where the anarchists meet at odd times in small groups, but investi; tion fails to reveal any place other thun the foregoing where the anarchists il | admit they meet as an organized body., The local anarchist colony has been re- cruited mainly from European sour. Many who have been forced to flee from France, Germany, Russia, Italy and other Juropean countries have so far found a safe haven in this\.city. The Eastern States have furnished a small qucta, mainly of subjects that have been driven from the larger cities. at least fifty hav- ing come from Chicago when the police of that city made it too hot for them. disturbance has so far been traced to the anarchists here, as they have seemed sat. isfied tq put up with present condition rather than trifle with the temper of the President's hand, struck the young man in the neck with one hand and with the other reached for the revolver, which had beenl discharged through the handker- chief.” since been retired on a Government pen- sien. His recent letters to his family indicate | in this nothing unusual in his line of thought. | handed dssassins Recently the farm which his father owned a few miles southeast of this city | be stcpped in New Jersey. was sold and Leon’s share of the pro- | that assurance here and now. ceeds is still retained by the father, wait- Chicago, and cn the | or less comment among his acquaintances. | | | Presidents hav | Having regard for | a President, WOULD CRUSH THE ANARCHISTS Suggestion Is Made That Attack om the President Should Be Treason. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W.; WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Plunged in bitter grief by the dastardly ecrime in Buffalo, one clear note in Washington’s general discord of woe is the demand that assassins banded under the name of anar- chists he crushed as ruthlessly as one crushes other venomous things; that every ‘red” now blotting this land be hunted from it. Discussing the punishment provided the statute for an attempt upon the life of a President of this republic, James M. Beck, acting Attorney General, said there is no statute which makes an attack upon the President's life any graver of- fense than such an attack upon any other citizen. “It is passing strange,” said Mr. Beck, “that notwithstanding the fact that two o been assassinated and at- tempts have been made upon the lives of two mere no .aw has ever been passed to place an attempt on the life of the Presi- dent on the same plane as high treason. Where such ttempt had no reference lential office and was commit- ted within the territorial limits of a State | there might be some question as to the power of Congress to legislate, but where it is clear that the attempt has been made not upon the individual but upon the President, for the purpose of promoting anarchy and thus subverting government, the right of the Federal Government to lung trouble developed, and | protect its chief executive seems to be too clear for question. “If the President should be spared to the American people it is to be feared the assassin can be convicted for no higher crime than an assault with intent to kill. the immense conse- quences which follow the assassination of an attempt upon his life, whether successful or unsuccessful, ought in my judgment to be punished as high treason’ with death.” GREAT WRATH IN NEW JERSEY Law to Be Passed Which Will End the Activity of An- archists. NEW YORK, Sept. The World to- morrow (Sunday) will print a statement from Governor Foster M. Voorhees of New Jersey, in which he says: “‘Certainly the time has come for us to call a halt to anarchy and all anarchists country. This incubation of red- and king-killers on American soil has gone too far. It will I can give “A law is being prepared and will be ing for the money to be claimed by the | enacted by the next Legislature beyond | the remotest shadow of a doubt that will Paul Czolgosz, the father of Leon, was | seen at his home at 3% Fleet street to- j prosecute participants in any conspirac day. He did not appear to be deeply con- | in New Jersey that results directly %r m): son. cerned over the enormity of with which he had just shaved himself His wife was busily engaged household duties, from, which sisted to ald in directing an officer to the home of Waldak Baudurski. Bau- durski is said to be prominently identified with a Cleveland, socialistic organization and is a brother-in-law of Leon Czol- gosz. Baudurski is employed at the works of the Cleveland Frog and Cross- ing Company. Detective Sergeant James Doran of the Cleveland Police Depart- No | ment stated to-night that rigid examina- tion of a couple of friends of Czolgosz to- day failed to reveal any jndication of a case. —_——— Diplomatic Corps Depart. BUFFALO, Sept. 7.—The members of the diplomatic corps who have been in the city since ednesday started for ‘Washington on a special train to-night. in her | she de- | before the fact and the charge will be his” son’s | directly in tne a: crime and_was calmly stropping a razor | the world over, f fill the bill completely. It will allow us to nation of any ruler or the murder of any persen in or out of New Jersey. The conspirators will be treated as accessories murder. If convicted they will suffer just the same punishment as if they were con- victed of aiding and abetting in any or- dinary case of murder. “I am in correspondence with the state authorities of three European countries, who have written to me saying that their secret service men have found that plans to assassinate conspicuous political fig- ures in their respective countries have recently been hatched in Paterson. I will {mot give the names of the heads that are plot to kill the President. Sergeant Doran | said he was still working hard on the | supposed to be thus threatened, for that would defeat my scheme to ascertain whether the murderous. plots were really originated i New Jersey. But I am de- termined that the name of New Jersey shall no longer be associated abroad or at home with such dastardly plots.” Continued on Pagp Thirty-two,