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Source: Public Opinion Source type: magazine Document type: news column Document title: “News of the Week” Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: 3 October 1901 Volume number: 31 Issue number: 14 Pagination: 443 |
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| “News of the Week.” Public Opinion 3 Oct. 1901 v31n14: p. 443. |
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| Keywords |
| Leon Czolgosz (trial); Leon Czolgosz (sentencing). |
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| Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley; Truman C. White. |
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| Ellipses (“. . .”) appear below as given in the original document. Omission of text within the excerpt is denoted with a bracketed indicator (e.g., [omit]). |
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News of the Week [excerpt]
D.—Leon F. Czolgosz was placed on trial at Buffalo for the murder of President McKinley; the jury was empanelled and the prosecution introduced a large part of its evidence . . . . [omit]
D.—The assassin of President McKinley, Leon Czolgosz, was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Buffalo, after a trial lasting less than nine hours and covering a period of two days . . . . [omit]
D.—Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, was sentenced by Justice White, in Buffalo, to be put to death in the week of October 28; he declared in court that he had no accomplices in the murder . . . .