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Source: New-York Tribune Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Root Praises Erie County Officers” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New York, New York Date of publication: 15 November 1901 Volume number: 61 Issue number: 20088 Pagination: 9 |
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| “Root Praises Erie County Officers.” New-York Tribune 15 Nov. 1901 v61n20088: p. 9. |
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| Keywords |
| Leon Czolgosz (trial: government response); Elihu Root (correspondence). |
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| Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley; Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.; Thomas Penney; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root. |
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Root Praises Erie County Officers
HE COMMENDS EFFECTIVE AND DIGNIFIED WAY THE
CZOLGOSZ CASE WAS HANDLED.
Buffalo, Nov. 14.—District Attorney Penney to-day
received from Governor Odell a letter accompanied by a communication from the
Secretary of War. Secretary Root asks the Governor to accept and convey to the
officers charged with the administration of justice in the State of New-York,
and especially in Erie County, an expression of the Administration’s satisfaction
and approval of the effective and dignified way in which the law has been vindicated
and the ends of justice attained in the prosecution and punishment of the assassin
Czolgosz.
“The course of justice was swift but measured,”
the Secretary continues. “Protection against lawless violence was shown to be
consistent with the certain and awful punishment of guilt. No opportunity for
defence was withheld: but no opportunity for spectacular display or the gratification
of vanity, which is so great an incentive to such crimes, was afforded. I know
that this has been appreciated by the Cabinet of the late President McKinley,
and it is especially appreciated by the representative of New-York in that Cabinet.
I am authorized to say that President Roosevelt fully concurs in the sentiments
which I have expressed.”