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Source: Portage Daily Democrat Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Root Spoils Coroner’s Plan” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Portage, Wisconsin Date of publication: 18 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: none Pagination: 1 |
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| “Root Spoils Coroner’s Plan.” Portage Daily Democrat 18 Sept. 1901: p. 1. |
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| Elihu Root; James T. Wilson; William McKinley (coroner’s inquest); William McKinley (death: government response); William McKinley (death: false reports). |
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| Elihu Root; James T. Wilson [middle initial wrong below]. |
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Root Spoils Coroner’s Plan
Buffalo Official Had Selected a Jury of His Friends.
Buffalo, Sept. 18.—Secretary Root nipped in the
bud what is said to have been a scheme of some of the Buffalo politicians to
have their names connected with the obsequies of the president. He had word
sent to Coroner James C. Wilson that there would be no need of a jury to view
the body.
It was Wilson who announced last night that the
president was dead two hours before the end came, and on the strength of it
forced his way into the Milburn house.
Saturday Wilson started out to impanel a jury
and selected a panel of eleven of his friends. He subpoenaed them to appear
at the office of the district attorney in the city hall. He planned to have
them view the body at once, take their oath and then determine the exact manner
in which the president came to his death, but the district attorney at Root’s
request stopped the movement.