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Source: Muncie Morning Star and News
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “Elder Wiles and Czolgosz”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Muncie, Indiana
Date of publication: 14 September 1901
Volume number: 3
Issue number: 109
Pagination: 3

 
Citation
“Elder Wiles and Czolgosz.” Muncie Morning Star and News 14 Sept. 1901 v3n109: p. 3.
 
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Keywords
Thomas M. Wiles (public statements); McKinley assassination (personal response); McKinley memorial services (Chesterfield, IN); McKinley assassination (religious response).
 
Named persons
Leon Czolgosz; Thomas M. Wiles.
 
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Elder Wiles and Czolgosz

 

Preacher Sorry the Assassin Was Not Killed.
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REMARKS AT FUNERAL

     Chesterfield, Ind., Sept. 13.—“It was a pity the police did not surround Czolgosz and permit the colored man to finish him,” remarked Elder T. M. Wiles, the Christian minister of Anderson, during a funeral discourse preached in the Christian church here. The elder declared that it was for no sins of his own that the President suffered but of anarchism and of the wretch who shot him.

 

 


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