Show TALE OF PLOT TO KILL 4 St Louis Man Declares He Was Vas Cz Accomplice t STORY IS NOT BELiEVED BEl EVED t SUPPOSITION IS THAT TEAT HIS MIND IS AFFECTED St Louis Louls Sept 24 Edward arrested Monday r afternoon of larceny en told Chief of of oC Detectives Desmond today that he was one of three men men who conspired to assassinate lt t McKinley at Buffalo on Sept 6 and that that he tied around gosas hand the handkerchief that con concealed concealed concealed the weapon with which he shot the president The Tile story Is not gen generally generally emily believed It is thought Sat mind Is affected The chief says that he will hold subject to the fed federal federal federal eral authorities until he Is convinced that the mans story Is untrue was vas arrested Monday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon on suspicion of having stolen ar articles articles tides valued at 4 from a department store at Broadway and Morgan street i This morning Chief Desmond was talk talking talkIng talking I ing to In his outer office when a detective remarked the striking resent resemblance r m blance the prisoner had to Czolgosz I said sald that he had on more than occasion been taken for the assas zin In reply to Chief Desmonds ques questions he replied that he knew Czolgosz and other anarchists Chief Desmond immediately took him into his private office and sweated him for several hours h urs td Chief Desmond Des that he would tell all he knew regarding the plot to kill the president He prefaced his remarks by bv telling of his life prior to the present year ear Tells Tale of Plot I It was on the Monday before be ore the president was w s lulled killed that I first knew ew that anything was to happen In an anarchist anarchist anarchist I circles said On thAt date Frank Harrigan an ar anarchist I that I had known In New York and other oth r eastern cities located me and I made an appointment p for me e to meet W ea nth 3 b ro i him at the saloon In this I city cit 1 I did not know then why hy I was to toI I meet him He knew me of old and he knew that my weakness was liquor We both drank but b ut what I 1 drank af affected affected affected me most I Harrigan told me that he wanted me meto meto to go to Buffalo with him He said that there was a man to be killed a prom prominent pl m man I asked e him who It was as ir He Be t told l m me to t wait and n I would W d see e I 1 finally finall consented to go with him We Ve left here on Tuesday and got into Buffalo lo on Wednesday evening late Harrigan gave me 50 and paid my way there and gave save me a return ticket to St Louis When we Ve sot got to Buffalo we went to toa toa I a boarding house I do no not remember the name of the proprietor r ro nor o the l eer heer sP street where It was located The T man was arrested after the president nt was When we got into the boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse boardinghouse house we saw Czolgosz I knew him having met him in Chicago several sev ral years ago I go Czolgosz told me that he intended killing the president He said he had gone to Niagara Falls with that in view but had failed railed He was to make snake another attempt soon Harrigan was present pr ent at that time Harrigan told Czolgosz os he had better postpone it until the president left Buffalo falo talo He Me said there were so many peo people people pIe that It was a sure thing that he would be caught Czolgosz said he did not care If It he was caught He Be said s Jd he would shoot the president he called him Mack where all people would know why he was killed Harrigan told him to go ahead If It money could save him he would be saved 7 day Friday I got up about 10 Czolgosz told me that It was the day cia that the killing was to take ac He asked me ne to tie a iler let lef around I did so and Ii hb placed placeda a revolver r In his hand band under the handkerchief He asked me rae if I could see that there was a weapon in his hand I said that I could not I Then he told me that I was to go to the Temple of Music I was to fix up i imy my hand the same saute as I had fixed fix his If I the guards guard all owed me to get by he would quid have hav no trouble in getting by b But BU If it they stopped me he would not try t tat at afternoon we ae went out as he sug sted I tied the handkerchief abou his hand Mine was fixed up the same ny Harrigan was vas to meet us Continued d on Page 3 i TALE OF PLOT TO KILL Continued from Page 1 at tile the tle grounds gounds and he was wa to t be im Sm immediately Immediately mediately back of Czolgosz CD lb t prevent any interference Declares He Hie Weakened At the t gate I weakened weene I told Cl gosz that tat I would go back and get gt Harrigan to do what had been bee laid out for forme me I left Czolgosz then thea and an never saw him afterward At the boarding house hous I saw Harri Harrigan Har Harrigan gan He told me that tat he had ha not been on the grounds when the te murder took tk place He gave me 20 2 as a I was WI going ging home home I feared to t take a a train for tor St StLouis St StLouiS Louis for fear ter of being detained detine I tramped it part of or the way w ad beat my way on trains It I took tk me se Ie four days to get back is 24 2 years yer of age and says ys he was wa born brn in Cologne He left lef his hi country when he was wa 10 years old He has ha lived lve in many cities cite of ot the United Unie States State He was present he stated at ata ata ata a meeting of anarchists at Paterson N J in 1301 when the assassination te of King Humbert of Italy was planned plane said sid that tat Harrigan presided over that meeting and ad that tat he St g was employed by b Harrigan to t write letters leter to German anarchists over the coun country cun country try tr Thomas Thoma Pettit a waiter waler who Is IB em employed employed employed at 03 8 Market street where Sal fig tig boarded boarde says that tat was wa in St StLouis St StLouis Louis on the te day dav President McKinley was shot and the two read rea bulletins of or orth th tha tragedy in front of newspaper of floes He added that Sart was wa a seeker seker after notoriety This afternoon was confronted w with Pettit Sf despite Pettits positive statement to the te contrary said Bd he was wa In Buffalo Buo on the day dY in ques question que question tion ton told a representative of the te Associated Press Preas Pre that thiu t t he first tnt met Czolgosz gosz in Chicago where whre he was wa known kown as a Nieman He had ha a letter leter of ot intro introduction ducton from Harrigan Hagn who tig said was ws a lawyer lawer living at 37 West Wet street New York City said sa he himself once on lived lve in New York at 40 West street street The prisoner would not tell teU where or when he met In Chi Chicago Chicago cago Asked Ake if I he knew Emma Goldman said sid he had ha never met her but buthe buthe buthe he had heard her speak in Paterson N NJ NJ J in June 1898 89 and elsewhere As A far tar faras faras as he knew the t prisoner said he was wa ot W w not t known n to o oe the e Goldman en woman the police say s served a term tr in the te workhouse for stealing a book bk and secured seure his release rl in August Augut Two days dals later he was taken from Union station to the te city hospital hopital suffering from internal injuries received in a fall fal from a Baltimore Ohio Ohi train at Car Carlisle Cr Carlisle lisle Ill lL Henry Henr Schneider proprietor of ot the restaurant where Pettit was employed as ns a waiter waler corroborated the statement made m de by Pettit that was in iii Sc St Louis on Sept Sept 6 The story of the te confession was wa with withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn drawn from late late editions of the te Post Dispatch which first frt printed it It the t Im Sm Impression prevailing that brain brin had railroad been train trin affected by the fall fal from the |