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Source: Sunday Herald Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Grave of Czolgosz” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Syracuse, New York Date of publication: 14 September 1902 Volume number: 23 Issue number: 1162 Pagination: 21 |
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| “Grave of Czolgosz.” Sunday Herald 14 Sept. 1902 v23n1162: p. 21. |
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| Leon Czolgosz (gravesite). |
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| Leon Czolgosz; William McKinley. |
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Grave of Czolgosz
SOUVENIR FIENDS AND OTHERS ATTRACTED TO THE SPOT.
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A Beaten Path Leads to the Mound in the State Burial Plot under
Which President McKinley’s Assassin Lies.
A, Sept. 13.—The
mound of yellow earth in the State prison burial plot in Fitch avenue [sic],
under which lie the remains of Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley,
attracts daily a large number of curious and morbidly inclined visitors, most
of whom are people from out of town.
A beaten path leads from the entrance of the plot
and ends at the misshapen mound of earth under which the murderer’s body was
buried in the bed of sulphuric acid and quicklime. A rank growth of weeds surrounds
the grave but the mound has been kept clear by the souvenir “fiends” who have
carried away pebbles and packages of earth as mementoes [sic] of their
visit.
The principal visitors to the assassin’s grave
are members of theatrical companies showing in Auburn and people from distant
States. More women than men it is said are attracted to the spot.