Publication information

Source:
Evening Times
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “That Canton Assault”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Muncie, Indiana
Date of publication: 30 September 1901
Volume number: 29
Issue number: 165
Pagination: 1

 
Citation
“That Canton Assault.” Evening Times [Muncie] 30 Sept. 1901 v29n165: p. 1.
 
Transcription
full text
 
Keywords
McKinley burial vault (attack upon).
 
Named persons
William McKinley.
 
Document


That Canton Assault

 

MAY HAVE BEEN MADE BY ESCAPED JAIL BIRDS.
——
Object May Have Been Merely to Obtain Possession of Guard’s Weapons
for Their Own Protection.

     Canton, O., Sept. 30.—The city is deeply stirred over the attempt of unknown persons assaulted [sic] the guard at McKinley’s tomb. It is the general belief that there was an attempt to blow up the tomb though some hold that the assault was the work of “jail birds” who escaped from the city prison last night and were bent on getting the weapons from the guards to protect themsedves [sic] from pursuit. The soldiers are prohibited from talking of the matter. Additional guards will be stationed about the cemetery.