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Source: Buffalo Review Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Knox Was Horrified” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Buffalo, New York Date of publication: 7 September 1901 Volume number: 19 Issue number: 79 Pagination: 7 |
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| “Knox Was Horrified.” Buffalo Review 7 Sept. 1901 v19n79: p. 7. |
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| McKinley assassination (public response: Pittsburgh, PA); McKinley assassination (personal response); Philander C. Knox (public statements). |
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| Philander C. Knox. |
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Knox Was Horrified
(Special to THE REVIEW.)
PITTSBURG [sic], Pa., Sept. 6.—When the bulletins
announcing the assassination of the President were posted up on the newspaper
bulletin boards there were expressions of doubt as to the truth of the story.
This feeling gave way to sorrow when the news was learned to be true. The streets
soon became almost impassible on account of the crowds that stood in front of
the bulletin boards. One bulletin said that an attempt had been made to lynch
the assassin and regretful remarks were made when it was found that the alleged
attempt had failed.
Attorney-General P. C. Knox was at his house when
the news was brought to him. He turned pale and almost fell to the floor when
he realized that the President had been wounded.
“I am inexpressibly shocked,” Mr. Knox finally
said: “I cannot imagine how any human being could have harbored sufficient malice
against the great-hearted man whom the people of this country have twice called
to preside over their government.”