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Source: Buffalo Evening News Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Trying to Avoid Sensationalism” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Buffalo, New York Date of publication: 7 September 1901 Volume number: 42 Issue number: 127 Pagination: 1 |
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| “Trying to Avoid Sensationalism.” Buffalo Evening News 7 Sept. 1901 v42n127: p. 1. |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (investigation: secrecy); Thomas Penney (public statements). |
| Named persons |
| William I. Buchanan; William S. Bull; George F. Foster; Thomas Penney; Elihu Root. |
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Trying to Avoid Sensationalism
Secretary Root Asks That the Attempted Assassination Be Treated as Lightly as Possible.
Director-General Buchanan and Secret Agent Foster
called at Police Headquarters shortly after 12 o’clock and were closeted for
some time with Supt. Bull and District Attorney Penney. When they left, District
Attorney Penney said:
“In order that the people shall not be unduly
and improperly excited, Secretary of War Root has asked that this matter be
treated as quietly as possible. The making of a hero of this man with certain
classes or the bitter condemnation of him will tend to disturb the people, and
Mr. Root’s idea is to curb that.
“We shall, therefore, not make public the confession
made by the prisoner nor shall we permit any one other than officials or witnesses
to see the prisoner. We fully appreciate the force of the suggestion by Mr.
Root. I cannot say when the prisoner will be arraigned. I imagine that we shall
take no formal action against him until the result of the President’s wounds
is known.”