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Source: Morning Tribune Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “‘Don’t Let Them Harm That Boy,’ He Cried” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Tampa, Florida Date of publication: 12 September 1901 Volume number: 7 Issue number: 217 Pagination: 1 |
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| “‘Don’t Let Them Harm That Boy,’ He Cried.” Morning Tribune 12 Sept. 1901 v7n217: p. 1. |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination; McKinley assassination (popular culture); Der Freischutz. |
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| George B. Cortelyou; Leon Czolgosz; Ida McKinley; William McKinley; Carl Maria von Weber. |
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“Don’t Let Them Harm That Boy,” He Cried
Buffalo, Sept. 11.—(Special.)—Gradually the exact
truth as to what Mr. McKinley said immediately after he was shot is coming out.
After expressing his anxiety about Mrs. McKinley he noticed Czolgosz on the
floor with the men fiercely beating him in their fury. He said to his secretary,
Mr. Cortelyou:
“Don’t let them harm that boy.”
It is interesting to those who like coincidents
[sic] that immediately before Czolgosz shot Mr. McKinley the orchestra was playing
the song “Cursed Be These Bullets” from the scene in Weber’s “Der Freischutz”
where they are casting the bullets in the forest.