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Source: Daily Signal Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “The Different Ways of Punishment” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Crowley, Louisiana Date of publication: 17 September 1901 Volume number: 4 Issue number: 14 Pagination: [5] |
| Citation |
| “The Different Ways of Punishment.” Daily Signal 17 Sept. 1901 v4n14: p. [5]. |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (public response); punishment; McKinley assassination (personal response). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley. |
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The Different Ways of Punishment
The assassination of President McKinley has brought
to light more different modes of punishment that should be inflicted on Czolgosz,
than could be printed in a big book. Hanging, electrocuting or burning are all
too easy. Something special and henious [sic] should be inflicted on him is
the opinion of all.
But the most unique we have heard of comes from
one of our bright young Americans not so many years old.
He heard his father reading of the assassination
and remarking on the punishment. Looking up and stopping from his play he asked
“Papa, where did he shoot President McKinley?” “In the stomach, son,” was the
answer his father gave him. “Well, do you know what they ought to do to him?
They ought to stand him up and shoot him in the stomach. Then not let him have
a doctor, and if he gets well, why shot [sic] him in the stomach again, and
if he gets well then, keep shooting him in the stomach until he dies.”