Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — QUEEN OF THE REDS CAUGHT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

QUEEN OF THE REDS CAUGHT.

Notorious Emma Goldman Arrested by Chicago Police. Emma Goldman, whose anarchistic lectures stirred Leon Czolgosz to shoot President McKinley, was arrested by the Chicago police iu the house at 303 Sheffield avenue Tuesday afternoon. In telling of her whereabouts during the preceding ton days she spoke freely, and said that she was in Pittsburg early the previous week. From there she went to Cincinnati, where she remained until Thursday evening, when she went to St. Louis. She said she reached Chicago Saturday morning, and saw the police at the station watching for her. The anardiist leader made admission* from which the police hope to gather much. She admitted knowing the would-

be assassin of the President. July 12 she met him for a few moments iu Chicago. Twice she admitted being in Buffalo this summer—once about the middle of July and the second time about the middle of August. On the second visit to Buffalo she visited the Pan-American Exposition. Miss Goldman denied emphatically that she was in any way connected with the attack upon the President. She declared that there was nothing in her teachings to result.in violence. In the same breath she called McKinley the most insignificant President in the history of the country—a weak tool of capital—the enemy of the laboring man. She declared that doubtless Czolgosz had “just causes” to drive him to the act he committed. The importance of the capture of thia anarchistic leader is deemed immense by the federal authorities. It is the intention to charge her directly with being an accessory before the fact in the attempted assassination of President McKinley. Saturday afternoon the woman called at the postofflee in St. Louis and gave orders that her mail shoul 1 be sent to Chicago, to the general delivery. The police were already on her trail at that time. Later she received a telegram. This she destroyed. From nearly every State in the Union nnd from nearly every public man comes the demand for the crushing of anarchism, the arrest of its exponents, the suj>pression of its literature, and the interdiction of its meetings.

EMMA GOLDMAN.