Publication information |
Source: Times Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Czolgosz Taken to Auburn” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Richmond, Virginia Date of publication: 27 September 1901 Volume number: 16 Issue number: 199 Pagination: 3 |
Citation |
“Czolgosz Taken to Auburn.” Times [Richmond] 27 Sept. 1901 v16n199: p. 3. |
Transcription |
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Keywords |
Leon Czolgosz (removal to Auburn State Prison); Samuel Caldwell. |
Named persons |
J. P. Bradfield; Samuel Caldwell; Leon Czolgosz; Charles E. McMaster; George N. Mitchell. |
Document |
Czolgosz Taken to Auburn
BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 26.—Sheriff
Caldwell and sixteen men left at 10:06 with Czolgosz in a special car attached
to the rear of the second section of the 9:30 train on the New York Central.
The train is due in Auburn at 2:12 to-morrow morning, but being half an hour
late may not reach there until later.
Czolgosz was “sneaked” out the back entrance of
the Erie county [sic] jail surrounded by the seventeen men, and was hustled
into the special car, which had backed down on the tracks a few rods in the
rear of the jail a minute before. The jail was left at just 9:40 o’clock, but
a slow run was made to the union station, as the engine and car were on the
wrong track, which had been cleared.
Sheriff Caldwell arranged for the departure, and
his moves were kept so secret and were so cleverly managed that no one but the
guards, the railroad officials and the newspaper men, who were on the watch,
knew that the assassin was being smuggled out of the jail. Sheriff Caldwell
had given orders to his most trustworthy deputies to appear singly at the jail
at different hours during the evening, and he also made arrangements with Superintendent
Bradfield, of the New York Central, to have an engine an dspecial [sic] car
on the terrace tracks at Church Street at 9:25 o’clock.
As soon as the car arrived a few rods from the
hear [sic] entrance to the jail Czolgosz appeared handcuffed to Jailer George
N. Mitchell and surrounded by the sheriff and his deputies and Chief McMaster,
of the Auburn Police Department. The car containing the murderer was attached
to the second section of the train.
The news that a car containing the murderer was
in the train soon spread quickly, and all the railroad men in the station left
their work to clamber upon the platforms and get a look at the assassin. Just
before the train pulled out a representative of the Associated Press saw Czolgosz
seated easily in a seat and smoking a cigar. The authorities received word from
some source to-day that the sheriff might ercounter [sic] considerable difficulty
in getting the prisoner to Auburn. Just what sort of trouble was feared could
not be learned, but great care was taken that no advance news of the departure
of the train was telegraphed along the line.