Publication information |
Source: Cleveland Leader Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “An Italian Anarchist” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Cleveland, Ohio Date of publication: 16 September 1901 Volume number: 54 Issue number: 259 Pagination: 7 |
Citation |
“An Italian Anarchist.” Cleveland Leader 16 Sept. 1901 v54n259: p. 7. |
Transcription |
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Keywords |
Robert C. Wuestenberg; anarchism (Cleveland, OH). |
Named persons |
William McKinley; Robert C. Wuestenberg. |
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An Italian Anarchist
HE FORCES REV. R. C. WUESTENBERG TO TAKE DOWN
PRESIDENT M’KINLEY’S PICTURE.
Rev. Robert C. Wuestenberg, pastor
of the Woodland Avenue Methodist Church, at the corner of Woodland and Slater
avenues, was placing a portrait of President McKinley on the outside of the
church at about 4:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon, when an Italian came along
and ordered him, with a show of violence, to take down the picture.
Fearing that the portrait would be defaced or
torn down if left on the outside, the pastor went into the church and was about
to hang up the picture there when he found that the Italian had followed him
and was wildly gesticulating to him to take down the picture, and at the same
time deriding the President with vicious tones.
The minister laid the picture aside and the Italian
departed. The police were then notified of the incident, and the whole police
force is searching for the Italian. He is described as being about thirty-five
years of age, five feet seven inches tall, and weighing 170 pounds. He also
wore earrings.