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Round-Up of Anarchists Made by the Secret Service
Dragnet Put Out to Enmesh Every Disciple of Emma
Goldman in the United States.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Chief
Wilkie of the secret service will not get to Washington until tomorrow
afternoon. However, he has telegraphed instructions ahead and the
secret service dragnet has been put out. Every anarchist between
Chicago and Mobile will be rounded up in the attempt to discover
whether Czolgosz has any accomplices or is the member of any of
the groups of Reds that have their headquarters in the various cities.
Informally, it has been decided here
and at Buffalo, where most of the members of the cabinet are, that
the Reds of the country must be placed under a closer watch. It
is not expected to arrest them or to imprison them, but the policy
already tentatively formed is to scatter them and keep them moving
so they will have no chance to plot mischief. It is the intention
to ask for enough money to increase the secret service so men can
be put in every center of population where anarchists are and keep
the closest watch on them. The policy will be to disperse the gathering
by pushing the members of groups or circles along. There will be
a constant movement. Anarchists will be forced out of their places
of abode by methods that secret service men know how to apply and
the constant effort of the secret service will be to keep them from
concentrating anywhere.
The secret service officials now think
that Czolgosz acted freely on his own responsibility and that he
was not assisted by any anarchistic organization. The inquiries
being made are largely directed from Buffalo. Detective Ireland,
chief of the secret service division with headquarters at Buffalo,
was near the President when the shot was fired, but the secret service
men were ordered to Buffalo. The possibility of a disturbance was
believed to lie in Cleveland rather than in Buffalo. Several detectives
had already been ordered to Cleveland to watch over the President
during his attendance upon the Grand Army encampment. The presence
of many foreigners, and those suspected of anarchistic tendencies,
led to the taking of unusual precautions. If there is a group to
which Czolgosz belonged, the secret service intends to find it.
The President has always protested
against being surrounded by detectives and has remonstrated against
secret service men being employed to guard him. In many cases he
has been guarded without his knowledge. Much regret is expressed
by the officials here that the efforts of those with the President
were not able to prevent the shooting. In speaking on this point
today Acting Chief Moran said:
“The shooting of the President was
evidently the act of an individual, and so far there does not seem
to have been any conspiracy. Our officials at Buffalo who were with
the President when he was shot say that Czolgosz carried his right
hand against his breast, as though it had been injured. His hand
was carefully wrapped and there was nothing suspicious about the
man. The ruse of a wrapped hand was never used before. Had the assassin
resorted to any of the old-time dodges he would have been pounced
upon in a minute.”
The officials here are in possession
of positive information to prove that Czolgosz was not a member
of an anarchistic organization at Paterson, N. J. A search of the
secret service criminal records fail [sic] to show anything
to identify the assassin with those who have been designated as
cranks or dangerous characters.
It is shown by the records of the
pension bureau that Jacob F. Czolgosz was drawing a pension of $30
per month. It was allowed on account of a wound received in the
right hand and arm through the explosion of a shell at Sandy Hook
in 1899. The papers show that Czolgosz enlisted from 199 Hosmer
street, Cleveland, O., Sept. 15, 1898. His connection with the assassin,
if any, has not been established.
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