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Source: Buffalo Evening News Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Words That May Have Inspired Czolgosz” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Buffalo, New York Date of publication: 10 September 1901 Volume number: 42 Issue number: 129 Pagination: 7 |
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| “Words That May Have Inspired Czolgosz.” Buffalo Evening News 10 Sept. 1901 v42n129: p. 7. |
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| McKinley assassination (investigation of conspiracy: Cleveland, OH); Emil Schilling; Emma Goldman (public statements). |
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| Leon Czolgosz; Emma Goldman; Emil Schilling. |
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Words That May Have Inspired Czolgosz
Emma Goldman Said Slayer of a Ruler Was a Hero and Not a Criminal.
CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 10.—Among the anarchists
of Cleveland nothing can be learned connecting Czolgosz, the President’s assassin,
with Emma Goldman, even though Czolgosz declared in his confession that it was
the female anarchist of New York who inspired him to commit the assault upon
the President.
Emil Schilling of 4 Elwell street is the treasurer
of the Liberty Club, an anarchist organization, before which Emma Goldman spoke
when she was here last May. Schilling admits that he and his wife and children
are anarchists. He refused to tell whether he knew Czolgosz.
Schilling said he did not believe Czolgosz had
an accomplice. Czolgosz says that it was Emma Goldman’s speech that made him
an anarchist. A man who heard that speech today quoted a part of it as follows:
“I do not believe in murder,” she said, “but if a man is made frantic by the
injustice of the Government and shoots one of the rulers, he is not a criminal,
but a hero.” Speaking of reforms, she said: “They must begin at the top with
the White House card parties.”