Witnessed the Shooting

     Rochester, N. J. [sic], Sept. 6.—C. Walter Calloway, of Boston, was one of the party that left Rochester to attend the Pan-American to-day, and reached here late last night. He says he was a personal witness of the shooting of President McKinley. He was the second man from Nieman, in the crowd waiting to greet the President. In the excitement that followed Mr. Calloway had a foot crushed and his injury was treated on the grounds.
     “I thought Nieman had a lame hand,” said Mr. Calloway. “There was something about the fellow’s actions that struck me as peculiar. He carried his right hand at his side and slightly behind, until he came up to where the President was standing, and then he extended his left one, holding up the other hand in a peculiar way.
     “His right arm trembled and he seemed to be laboring under some emotion. If I had been of any authority I would have cried out for them to arrest the man that instant. I was not greatly surprised when the handkerchief in the right hand spouted fire and the President fell back. I didn’t even start for an instant.”
     Mr. Calloway says the excitement ensuing was indescribable. People wrung their hands and hundreds wept[.] A woman who was standing beside him fainted, but so great was the crush that she was not allowed to fall, but was jostled back and forth until somebody seized her and dragged her to a place of safety.
     Although suffering the most excruciating pain from his foot, Mr. Calloway said that he was the one who raised a cry to lynch the would-be-assassin [sic].
     The cry was taken up by several, but one of the Exposition guards rushed in and shouted that the first one who made a move towards the prisoner would be shot. As the man seemed determined, Mr. Calloway and the others who favored a lynching party quickly forgot their resolve.
     Secret Service Officer Samuel R. Ireland lives in Rochester, and Mr[.] Calloway knows him well. Ireland, Mr. Calloway said, was only two feet away when the President was shot. He immediately jumped upon the assassin, struck him a crushing blow and forced him to the ground. Instantly a score of people, one or two women in the number, jumped upon the man.
     Ireland is 30 years of age, and he s [sic] an athlete, tall and well built. He was abundantly able to cope single handed [sic] with the man. Mr. Calloway says Ireland was quite the hero of the hour after the arrest of Nieman.