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Source: Sunday Morning Star Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Guarding the President” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Wilmington, Delaware Date of publication: 29 September 1901 Volume number: 21 Issue number: none Pagination: 4 |
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| “Guarding the President.” Sunday Morning Star 29 Sept. 1901 v21: p. 4. |
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| Secret Service (protecting Roosevelt); Theodore Roosevelt (protection); Theodore Roosevelt (plots against); John E. Wilkie (public statements); McKinley assassination (government response). |
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| Theodore Roosevelt; John E. Wilkie. |
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Guarding the President
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Washington, Sept. 28.—A tall, well-built, muscular
Secret Service operative has been stationed since early yesterday morning in
the little hallway adjoining President Roosevelt’s office. It is rumored that
he was placed there because word had reached Washington that an anarchist was
on his way to the capital, bent on taking the President’s life.
Chief Wilkie, of the Secret Service, denied that
he received any such warning, but admitted that the man was stationed there
for precautionary reasons.
“We felt that after the tragic affair at Buffalo,
some means ought to be taken to more carefully guard the President,” said Wilkie,
“and this is one of them.”