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Source: Daily Picayune Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “He Is a Pole, and the Law-Abiding Poles Deplore It” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New Orleans, Louisiana Date of publication: 13 September 1901 Volume number: 65 Issue number: 232 Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 7 |
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| “He Is a Pole, and the Law-Abiding Poles Deplore It.” Daily Picayune 13 Sept. 1901 v65n232: part 1, p. 7. |
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| Leon F. Wazeter; Leon Czolgosz (family background); McKinley assassination (public response: Polish Americans). |
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| Leon Czolgosz; Leon F. Wazeter. |
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He Is a Pole, and the Law-abiding Poles Deplore It
New York, Sept. 12.—Leon F. Wazeter, a Polish
lawyer of this city who went to Buffalo on behalf of the Polish colony of New
York in the hope of being able to prove by investigation of the ancestry of
Czolgosz that he was of Russian and not of Polish origin, has returned to New
York. He says that while he has established the fact that Czolgosz is a Pole,
and not a Slav, he is satisfied that the would-be assassin did not associate
to any extent with the Polish colonies.
The Polish paper here comes out to-day with a
long editorial branding Czolgosz as “an individual who disgraced himself by
an attempt to murder,” and expressing condemnation of his crime in unmeasured
terms, and says:
“We suffer and feel more keenly the effects of
the crime because the monster who perpetrated it belongs to out nationality.”