The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-—NO. 109. ° i HALF MILLION MOURNING AMERICANS VIEW C DEAD CHIEF EXECUTIVE DURING EVIDENCE FOUND THAT CZOLGOSZ TRAILED McKINLEY TO THIS CITY; Mail Clerks Reed and Beebee Positive They Gave the Assassin Letters General Delivery Window at Postoffice | From the Isaak’s Former Residence on Clinton Avenue Is a Network of Electric Wires-—-His Safe Forced Open but No Papers Are Found T i» now an undisputed fact that Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, was in California during the Presidential visit. Yesterday it was discovered that Czolgosz was in San Francisco and received malil at the general delivery window ‘at the mein postoffice on a number of occasions. The discovery of the fact that the assas- sin was here at that time is due to the article published yesterday in The Call, it anneuncing that Czolgosz under the name of Fred Neiman had paid visits to the postoffice in Pacific Grove while the Presi- dent was at that place. Clerk W. E. Reed, who delivered the letters here, is very positive that he can- not have made cny mistake. He declares that Czolgosz called repeatedly for mail. Reed has been a clerk in the general de- livery department for nineteen years,, His description of Neiman coincides with the telegraphic accounts of Czolgosz, with the | exception that the-man who got the Jet- ters from Reed was much stouter than | the murderer of the President is de- scribed to be. That Czolgosz is much lighter now than when he was in San Francisco is easily accounted for by the fact that the weather in the East bas been extremely hot and the assassin may, as has nearly every one in“the East, lost considerable weight during the hot spell. When Czolgosz came to California has not yet been discovered. It is presumed that he traveled from town to town, fol- lowing the President and colc®bloodedly aweiting a favorable opportunity to as- sessinate him. - When Clerk Reed remembered that a man named Fred Neiman had called forl Y mail and had received two letters from his hands he immediately notified Secret Service Agent Hazen. This is a strong link in the circumstantial evidence against Czolgosz, and a secret service agent was immediately detafled by Hazen to try to secure evidence of the assassin’s brief so- journ in this city. ,Reed was seen yesterday and tells a straightforward and. convincing story about - Czolgosz's visits - to = the general postoffice. “My memory was first refreshad about Neiman's visits here for mail upon réad- ing the article in this morning's Call, which stated that he had been seen at Pacific Grove. ‘I immediately remembered that a young man named Nefman called several times while the Presldent was in the city. I gave him two letters myself. Looked Like Pictures of Assassin. “He was of fair complexion, about 2 years of age and about five feet ten inches tall. He had a very small mus- tache. "He used to-come very often for mail, and he would always stand at the left-hand side, about three feet from the window.” “Did this man Fred Neiman look like the picture of Czolgosz that was recently published in The Call?” was asked. “Well, yes, he did, with the exception that Neiman was much flller in the face,” was the reply. “How do you remember that Fred Nei- man was here when the President was here?” “I remember that fact owjng to my be- ing very busy at the time. Nelman would come often and inquire for mall at the busiest times. 3 ' “Neiman is-not a'common name,” Reed Continusd on Ninth Page. " = LocRnzr HEADOUARIERS OF THE BNARCHI/STS ‘236 W CZINNToTY AL Cipee ~ MAIL CLERK WHO POSITIVELY IDENTIFIES PHOTOGRAPH OF McKINLEY'S, ASSASSIN AS MAN TO WHOM HE DELIVERED LETTERS AT THE GENERAL DELIVERY WINDOW, AND ABRAHAM ISAAK'S FORMER RESIDENCE IN THIS CITY, WHICH CONTAINS A NETWORK OF ELECTR)C‘W:RE.S.- = REMAINS OF THE MARTYRED PRESIDENT BORNE PAST MANY THOUSAND MOURNERS People of ‘the Nation Show Their Sorrow During the Prog- ress of the Funeral Train- With Its: Sémber-Draped - Casket in Observation'CaerrOm'.Buff,aloi‘tb' the Capital ASHINGTON, Sept. 16.— Through a living. lane of bareheaded people stretch- ing ‘from Buffalo up over . the Alleghanies, down into i the broad valleys of the Susquehanna and the city on the banks of the shining Poto: _the nation’s mar- tyred Prestdent to-day anade his last jour- ney. to the seat of government, over which he presided for four Years and a half.” The whole country seemed to have drained its population at the sides of the track over which the funeral ‘train passed. The thin lines through the mountains and the sparsely -settled. districts - thickened at the little hamlets, covered ‘acres in towns, suddenly grew.to the proportions of Tespectable- cities and- ‘were ‘congre- gated into vast multitudes in. the larger’ . 4 . "pings and “tokens of ‘ woe. cities. Work was suspended in field and mine and -city. The schools were dis- missed. ‘Evérywhere appeared the trap- Mtllions of fiags ‘at half mast dotted hillsides and valleys and formed a thicket of color over theefties. - And'from almost every banner streamed a bit_of crape. - The - stdtions o PRICE FIVE CENTS. RNEY TO WASHINGTON l NEW YORKERS HANG:HEARST IN EFFIGY IN PUBLIC STREET Invitations ‘Are Sent Out for the Burning of the Figure at the Stake, but the Police Spoil-‘the Promised Programme Editor of the Three Yellow Journals Is Declared to Be the :Real Assassin of the Late President “William McKinley Special Dispatch to The Call. EW YORK, Sept. .16.--The efigy of William R. Hearst, editor of the New York Jour- nal,| which was hanged to.a walnut: tree at Cleveland and Jamaica avenues, in’ East | New York, on Saturday nigat, was cut down this afternoon as a preliminary to | tying it to a stake apd burning it. The second part of the programme was pro- hibited by the police of the Liberty ave: nu> station. The burning will take. place later, however, if the committée-of éit- izens which has the efigy business.in charge and which seems to stand for the sentiment ' of the entire Twenty sixth Ward, where the hanging occurred, can accompligh it. The effigy was allowed to hang at the corner of the two much-traveled avenues for nearly forty-eight hours without in- terferénce by the police or request from them that it be removed. If thepolice had beén looking for an éxcuse to act in the matter: before to-night they might have objectéd to the effigy on the conventional ground that it caused a crowd to:collect, for there had been a big gathering under the walnut_ tree eyer since one of the limbs was adorned with a stuffed figure labeled: B “William R. Hearst. Czolgosz.” % Some of the spectators were from as far away-as Manhattan .on one sile and the middle Long Island villages on the other. At least 20,000 persons have been to the tree.” <= - -« . Many have hooted the efigy and cheered the firemen who hanged it. - Boys Accomplice of il the way to school have thrown stones at it, mén in wagons have struck at it With ‘whips. If there is any one who ‘does not approve of the effigy as a means of ‘expressing public opinfon he has not declared himself. In addition to the label bedring Willlam R. Hearst's name there ‘was another placard on the effigy which read: “Warning to murderers and | nalists.” In oneé Hand of the image was fastered an . old-fashioned pistol and under the arm.was a bundle of copies of the New York Journal. All this the police winked at, but this afternoon ;when formal - notice of the burning was given out they objected. | This netice was tacked on the tree from | widch the effigy was suspended: ‘Hearst, the real assassin of President McKinléy, will be burned to-night. Music and refreshments.” | - Those ‘responsible for the effigy and notice were soon afterward informed they would not be allowed to have their bon- firc. Fearing this warning from the po- lice might.be followed by the seizure of the effigy itself the commitiee removed it to a hiding place to await develop- ments and opportunity red lour- Postoffices Will Close Thursday. | WASHINGTON. Sept. 16.—Acting Post- master General Shallenberger to-day fs- sued the following order: “Out of respect to the memory of our late President all postoffices will be closed on Thursday, Scptember 18, after 18 o’clock a. m. ¥