McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination

Publication information

Source: Caras y Caretas
Source type: magazine
Document type: dialogue
Document title: none
Author(s): anonymous
Date of publication: 14 September 1901
Volume number: 4
Issue number: 154
Pagination: none

Citation

[untitled]. Caras y Caretas 14 Sept. 1901 v4n154: [no pagination].

Transcription

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Keywords

Leon Czolgosz (name, pronunciation of).

Named persons

Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley [variant spelling below].

Notes

This comic dialogue (below) appears in a one-page literary column titled “Menudencias.” An English translation of the dialogue reads as follows:

— How should that Czolgosz, the author of the attack against McKinley, be punished?
— What is his name again?
— Czolgosz.
— Well, he should be condemned to pronouncing his last name for life.

English translation courtesy of Dr. Margarita Vargas, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University at Buffalo.

Caras y Caretas is published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Document

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— ¡Qué debían hacer á ese Czolgosz, el autor del atentado contra Mackinley!
— ¿Cómo dice usted que se llama?
— Czolgosz.
— Pues condenarle á vivir pronunciando su propio apellido.