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Source: Burlington Hawk-Eye
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “Cleveland Is Shocked”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Burlington, Iowa
Date of publication: 7 September 1901
Volume number: 63
Issue number: 77
Pagination: 2

 
Citation
“Cleveland Is Shocked.” Burlington Hawk-Eye 7 Sept. 1901 v63n77: p. 2.
 
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Keywords
Grover Cleveland; McKinley assassination (personal response); Grover Cleveland (public statements).
 
Named persons
Grover Cleveland; William McKinley.
 
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Cleveland Is Shocked

 

Ex-President Believes It Must Have Been the Act of a Crazyman.

     Winstead, Conn., Sept. 6.—Ex-President Cleveland was fishing at Darling Lake in Tyringham, Massachusetts, when he received the news regarding the shooting of the president. He at once started for shore in order to hear more details in regard to the matter and anxiously asked for the latest advices from McKinley’s bedside. Cleveland was horrified at the news and said:
     “With all American citizens I am greatly shocked at this news. I cannot conceive of the motive. It must have been the act of a crazy man.”

 

 


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