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Source: Harrisburg Telegraph Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Soldier Who Helped Catch Czolgolz [sic], Dead” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Date of publication: 17 August 1917 Volume number: 86 Issue number: 196 Pagination: 4 |
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| “Soldier Who Helped Catch Czolgolz [sic], Dead.” Harrisburg Telegraph 17 Aug. 1917 v86n196: p. 4. |
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| Louis Neff; McKinley assassination. |
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| Leon Czolgosz [misspelled below]; William McKinley; Louis Neff. |
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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.