Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — CZOLGOSZ OWNS PLOT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CZOLGOSZ OWNS PLOT

ASSASSIN ADMITS A CONSPIRACY TO KILL M’KINLEY. L Confession Implicates Emma Goldman and Other Anarchists Sewers of Buffalo Searchel for Letters Supposed to Give Names of Culprits. A Buffalo dispatch ot) Wednesday said that Czolgosz had confessed to the police that his attempt upon the life of President McKinley was the result of a conspiracy iu which many besides himself had a part. So far as can be learned, Czolgosz refused to mention any name except that of Emma Goldman, but papers are in existence which. If they can be discovered, will lay bare the entire conspiracy, and will result in wholesale arrests, followed by prosecutions. In his confession Czolgosz told of hie attempt to destroy the written evidences of the conspiracy. He has said that time did not permit him to burn the papers as he had desired. Before leaving his room in Nowak’s Hotel, he gathered together all of his papers, taking them from his pockets, from his valise and

from the drawers of his table. All .were bound together in one package, which he concealed beneath his coat. Czolgosz says that he made a circuitous and aimless trip about the city, and that at some point, which he cannot now describe, he came upon aa open sewer. Into this sewer he cast his papers. Inch by inch the sewers of this city are being searched, and, if such a thing is possible, those papers will be recovered. On authoritative information it can be said that during the last ten weeks Emma Goldman has visited six anarchist organizations. She has been in Buffalo three times since July 12, having left the city the last time four days before the attempted assassination. Emma Goldman, Czolgosz and Abraham Izaak and Marie Isaak were in consultation in Chicago on two occasions. Marie Isaak accompanied Emma Goldman to Buffalo the last time the arch leader of the anarchists was there. Plotted a Year A go. A plot to kill the President is said to have been hatched a year ago when he was expected to visit Chicago during the Grand Army encampment and view the

big parade of veterans. The plot wag balked by the announcement at the last moment that, owing to the press of business at Washington growing out of the Chinese complications, the President would be unable to meet his old army comrades in Chicago. This Information is regarded by the authorities as of the utmost Importance, because it tends to show that at least some of the Chicago anarchists are connected with the attempted assassination of the President at Buffalo, and that they have had guilty knowledge of a plot to take his life longer than a year.

PARENTS OF THE ASSASSIN.

CZOLGOSZ HOME, CLEVELAND.