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Source: Daily Picayune Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Czolgosz’s Boyhood” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New Orleans, Louisiana Date of publication: 11 September 1901 Volume number: 65 Issue number: 230 Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 2 |
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| “Czolgosz’s Boyhood.” Daily Picayune 11 Sept. 1901 v65n230: part 1, p. 2. |
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| Leon Czolgosz; Albert Lemanski (public statements); Leon Czolgosz (friends, acquaintances, coworkers, etc.). |
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| Katherine Metzfaltr Czolgosz; Leon Czolgosz; Paul Czolgosz; Albert Lemanski; William McKinley. |
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Czolgosz’s Boyhood
An Aged Pole Who Knew Him Says He Was Brutal.
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 10.—The News to-day prints
an interview with Albert Lemanski, an aged Pole, who was a neighbor of the Czolgosz
family when they lived in this city and for eight years subsequently. As the
old man does not speak English, and the interview was secured through an interpreter,
he is quoted as saying:
“Leon Czolgosz gave his father no end of trouble.
The old folks were licking him with a strap all the time, but on the whole it
did no good. Mrs. Czolgosz thought Leon was crazy. He was bright in his books,
but indolent. Paul Czolgosz, the father, always predicted that Leon would die
on the gallows. His words were, ‘Leon, if I don’t knock it out of you with a
strap, you will swing some day.’
“Leon was a vicious boy. He used to abuse the
horses if he was angry and he delighted in torturing animals around the farm.
When given a severe drubbing he never cried.”
The boy was a pervert with a little sense of a
right or wrong according to the story of Lemanski.