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Source: Cortland Standard Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “A Living Machine” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Cortland, New York Date of publication: 25 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: 2926 Pagination: 2 |
| Citation |
| “A Living Machine.” Cortland Standard 25 Sept. 1901 n2926: p. 2. |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (hypnotism theory); McKinley assassination (conspiracy theories). |
| Named persons |
| Anarchist No. 13; Leon Czolgosz. |
| Notes |
| Quotation marks appear below as given in the original source. |
| Document |
A Living Machine
CZOLGOSZ ANIMATED BY MESMERIC INFLUENCE.
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A Stronger Will Controlled His Actions—The Man Who Preceded Him in the
Line, So Says Another Anarchist—Other Man Will Commit More Murders.
B, Sept. 25.—The Evening Herald this morning received the following letter:
B [sic], N. Y., Sept. 24.
M. E—Let
me say to you and you can puhlish [sic] it to the world, Leon Czolgosz is not
guilty, he was under strong mesmeric influences that it was impossible for him
to resist. For days he was under the will power [sic] of a man much stronger
in mind who controlled his actions and yet he is yet under this influence. What
has become of the man who was in front of him and held the president’s hand
so long? “Weak in mind, weak in body, Czolgosz was but a victim, a living machine,
worked by the mind of another, a cruel coward, a wicked assassin, but a man
with strange powers and a strong will.
Czolgosz in a few days is to be put to death by
electrocution, the real assassin will live, will find new victims and perhaps
assassinate others, the law cannot reach him, he is safe.
Signed,
A N 13.”