McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination

Publication information

Source: Daily Picayune
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “Knew of the Plot”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: New Orleans, Louisiana
Date of publication: 12 September 1901
Volume number: 65
Issue number: 231
Part/Section: 1
Pagination: 2

Citation

“Knew of the Plot.” Daily Picayune 12 Sept. 1901 v65n231: part 1, p. 2.

Transcription

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Keywords

Ethelbert Stone; McKinley assassination (investigation of conspiracy: New Jersey).

Named persons

William McKinley; John Painter; Ethelbert Stone [first name misspelled below].

Document

Knew of the Plot

Detectives Arrest a Man at Camden, N. J.

Camden, N. J., Sept. 11.—Edelbert Stone was arrested in this city last night on the charge of “aiding and abetting in the attempted assassination of President McKinley.”
The arrest was made by Detective Painter, United States secret service. Officers were notified on Friday afternoon last before 3 o’clock that Stone is said to have told two of his fellow employes [sic] in the New York shipbuilding yard that he would not be surprised if President McKinley was killed that day.

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