Soldier Who Helped Catch Czolgolz [sic], Dead

     Pittsburgh, Aug. 17.—Louis Neff, aged 42, for sixteen years a member of the Coast Artillery, and one of the men who overpowered Czolgolz when the latter shot President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, September 6, 1901, is dead. Neff died suddenly while en-route to a local hospital, to undergo an operation for the purpose of removing an abscess from his lungs. Neff left the army five years ago, and since that time had resided in Sharpsburg.
     According to eye witnesses [sic] to the assassination of President McKinley, Neff, immediately following the shooting, jumped on Czolgolz and threw him to the ground.