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Source: Cairo Bulletin Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Overheard a Plot” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Cairo, Illinois Date of publication: 24 September 1905 Volume number: 37 Issue number: 278 Pagination: 1 |
| Citation |
| “Overheard a Plot.” Cairo Bulletin 24 Sept. 1905 v37n278: p. 1. |
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| Keywords |
| Edward Hobart; McKinley assassination (hypnotism theory); McKinley assassination (conspiracy theories). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz [misspelled below]; Edward Hobart; William McKinley. |
| Notes |
| In accordance with the original source, the second paragraph (below) is not indented. |
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Overheard a Plot
To Hypnotize Czolgoz, and Eventually Landed in Jail.
Milwaukee, Wis., September 23.—Edward Hobart
has been arrested at Juneau, Wis., charged with having mailed an obscene letter.
Te saysc [sic] that while he was staying at a hotel in Waterloo, Wis., he overheard
two men who occupied the room next to him reciting the manner in which they
hypnotized Czolgoz, who assassinated President McKinley, and compelled him to
commit the deed. He says he wrote letters to the police, but they failed to
act and he wrote the missive which causer [sic] his arrest.