Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1901 — The Shooting of tie President. [ARTICLE]

The Shooting of tie President.

The facts of the shooting of President McKinley are already no doubt, familiar to most of our readers. While holding a public reception at the Temple of Music, at’the exposition at Buffalo, last Friday afternoon, about 4 p. m., Buffalo time, he was approached by Leon Czolg b'st, an anarchist of Polish descent. He had his right hand covered with a handkerchief as though injured. The president extended his hand, smiling and affable as usual, and Czolgosz grasped it with his left, and then raised the covered right hand, in which was a revolver. He fired two shots in quick succession. One struck the president in the breast, but struck a button and did not penetrate to any depth. The second bullet passed through the stomach and is thought to be embedded in the muscles of the back. Czolgosz was seized at once and is now in custody. He has made a statement that he was incited to kill the president by listening to a lecture by Emma Goldman, the noted female anarchist. The president Was, at first, thought to be mortally wounded, and was even widely reported to have died, but he rallied from the shock, and at latest reports, on Monday was believed to have very good prospects for recovery.