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Source: New York Times Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Czolgosz Hanged in Effigy” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New York, New York Date of publication: 30 October 1901 Volume number: 51 Issue number: 16166 Pagination: 5 |
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| “Czolgosz Hanged in Effigy.” New York Times 30 Oct. 1901 v51n16166: p. 5. |
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| Leon Czolgosz (hanged, burned, etc., in effigy); G. A. R. (Moses A. Baldwin Post, No. 44); McKinley assassination (public response: Hempstead, NY). |
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| Leon Czolgosz; Robert Tilley. |
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Czolgosz Hanged in Effigy
A Hempstead Crowd Cheers the Action of Moses A. Baldwin Post,
G. A. R., No. 44.
HEMPSTEAD, L. I., Oct. 29.—Czolgosz was hanged
in effigy here to-night amid hisses and groans. Moses A. Baldwin Post, No. 44,
G. A. R., marched with the elaborately constructed effigy from the shoe shop
of Robert Tilley, where for a week the effigy had been in readiness to hang
on the day the assassin himself was executed. It was carried to Smith’s Hotel
and then swung up into a tree. As it hung for a few minutes many pistol shots
were fired at it. Rockets, Roman candles, and red fire were burned, and under
the effigy a fire of tar barrels was started. Then amid the cheers of the thousand
and more persons who had gathered the effigy was cut down and allowed to drop
into the fire, where it was consumed.
The effigy was of life size and was made of plaster
of paris. It was clothed entirely in black. The face was carved from plaster
of paris by a veteran.