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Source: Albuquerque Evening Citizen Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Once a Hero, but Now Only Waiter at Table” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory Date of publication: 23 January 1907 Volume number: 21 Issue number: 20 Pagination: 2 |
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| “Once a Hero, but Now Only Waiter at Table.” Albuquerque Evening Citizen 23 Jan. 1907 v21n20: p. 2. |
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| James B. Parker; McKinley assassination. |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley; James B. Parker. |
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Once a Hero, but Now Only Waiter at Table
New Haven, Conn.: James Parker, who was given
a house in Washington, D. C., and a position as messenger in congress, for capturing
Czolgosz after he shot President McKinley in Buffalo, has lost both his house
and job, and has just taken a position as waiter in the Yale dining hall.
At the time of the assassination, Parker was employed
as a guard at the exposition hall, and was near Czolgosz in the line of people
waiting to shake the hand of the president. As soon as the shot was fired, Parker
rushed forward, grappled with the murderer, and threw him to the floor, at the
same time disarming him. On the arrival of the police Parker gave the assassin
into their charge. The subsequent prosperity is said to have been too much for
him.