Show Monarchs And Their Murderers I AN AMERICAN CRIME BY LADBROKE BLACK In dealing with the assassination of ot Alexander II of ot Russia Russill I stated that the anarchists ts were w re not organized until un until til after aft r the failure of attempt at tempt in 1879 1819 Lest Iest there thore should be beany beany beany any misunderstanding on this point it would Mould be as well perhaps to state that this remark refers to the secret organization of that section of ot the anart an art who carry their creed to the k logical conclusion of ot force torce In one sense the anarchists have been organized ever since 1869 when Bakunin one of ot the apostles of ot an any anarchism anarchism with a body of ot his followers entered the conference of ot the International Working Mens association hold holdt at t Basle BasIc Since then from time to time these the e doctrinaire anarchists or individualists have held regular con The last I believe took laatt J pia dl c at Rome within a 11 stones throw cf of the tho Vatican But these doctrinaire anarchists anarchist must be distinguished I t c i arly tron their thir more advanced brothers and sisters who seek to the faith by b murder and terror The English owe their freedom from this species of ot atrocity to the distinction distinct ton tion t on they make between thought and amI action An anarchist who attempts to toI I his doctrines by ordinary I philosophical arguments may live out outa ft n peaceful existence in England but buta ea a n th continent where wheN the tIlE terror in by the dread doings of ot the th central cen central committee ors o combat has bitten deep into the heart of the official world this distinction is not admitted A doctrinaire anarchist is looked upon as us an enemy of organized society and andas andas andas as such is hounded from place to place by the police and their army of spies spice It is Ie small wonder that under these circumstances men and women arc are driven from the passive into the active ranks of anarchism that from front simply believing organized society to be bp wrong they grow into thinking it right to use every means to destro destroy that so society clety Educated persons who in their or ordinary ordinary ordinary life quiet and good and in inoffensive inoffensive inoffensive offensive have been forced by police persecution into honestly holding it to tobe tobe tobe be a moral duty to murder the rulers ruten of the world After assassination assassination nation of King Humbert Hum ert of Italy Ital that criminal decadent received hundreds of letters and telegrams from people of every overy grade of society congratulating ing him him on what he had done and antI lauding his hii heroism On the other hand it would be wrong to ascribe to the secret machinations lot of the militant anarchists every everyone one of tit those crimes that have been commit committed ted in their name I have made inqui inquiries inquiries inquiries ries here and abroad and I am almost satisfied that the assassination of President McKinley by b the Polish an nn who gave the name of ot Czolgosz CzolgOSZ Czolgosz I gosz was not the result of ot a plot by the secret societies I use the word almost for it Itis is sometimes impossible ble to trace the handiwork of ot the cen central central central committee They work so Inge Ingeniously ingeniously ingeniously sometimes employing through their innumerable agents men who never even suspect that they are being made to do the work of ot others that ft Is a matter of great difficulty to say sa whether such and such a criminal was inspired from headquarters arters To this his I I day the American police who possess I probably the finest detective force f in iu inthe Inthe I the world have been unable to make makeup makeup makeup up their minds on this point poin The unfortunate wretch Czolgosz it will be remembered declared that he was inspired to commit the deed by Miss Goldman the celebrated anarchist lecturer Miss Goldman when in interviewed interviewed interviewed on the subject after atter the tho crime at first declared she did not know the that man but then went on to remark that she scarcely remembered anything about him except that he had hada a pale complexion When pressed to explain how it was that she knew the theman theman theman man who killed the president she he an answered answered swe ed with the somewhat unsatisfactory unsatisfactory tory retort I guessed it from the newspapers Miss Goldman played play d no part either active or passive in the death of Pres President President President ident McKinley but the fact tact that she knew Czolgosz and attempted to dis disguise disguise disguise guise her knowledge might argue the existence of some bome plot again the presidents life lite in which Czolgosz was to play the leading part but of which Miss Goldman had only heard the tine merest rumors There is another matter also which requires some elucidation Czolgosz when he fired the fatal shot had the revolver hidden beneath a handkerchief handkerchief handkerchief chief which was tied round his hand handA A man Is supposed to have confessed to the police that he had tied this handkerchief for tor the assassin He must therefore have nave known about the crime and acquainted as I am with the workings of the central centra commit committee tee I maintain that it is qute con eon conceivable conceivable that they employed a long chain of agents who culminated in the theman theman man who tied the handkerchief and Czolgosz But this Is the merest sur surmise surmise mise mis Whether was a tool in the hands of other and cleverer men or simply a fanatical lunatic acting un under under under der the influence of ot his own unbalanced unbalanced unbalanced judgment the fact tact remains that his deed was hailed with salvoes of ot cheers and the wildest expressions of ot enthusiasm by all the anarchist socie societies societies ties throughout the United States A group of anarchists at celebrated the event with feasts and anti antisin singing sin ing and the names of ot Bresci and Czolgosz were acclaimed as those of ot otmen men who had liberated the world And this meeting was vas but the Counterpart of similar gatherings elsewhere The story of the crime must be so fresh In the memory of everyone that it hardly ardly 1 needs retelling President McKinley had been attending the Pan American exhibition at Buffalo and on Sept 6 1901 1801 he made matle a great speech setting out Americas s new world poli poll policy policy cy Afterwards he held a reception in inthe inthe inthe the Temple of Music As usual no ne had to shake hands with a long line Une of enthusiastic citizens Among them a young man approached and held out his hand ha d A the president president president dent grasped it the other fired two Shots at him one of which entered his breast and the other his abdomen Eight days later the president died Czolgosz in a confession made soon after ater his arrest declared that certain words of Miss Goldmans had burnt into his brain brains and had determined him to kill the president He had hung bung about the exhibition from Sept 3 in Lt inthe inthe the hope of ot finding an opportunity On the fourth day he found his chance and Ind took It I kilted kUl d President Mc Me McKinley McKinley Kinley because I have done don my duty I dont believe that one man should have so much service and that an another another another other man should have none Nine days after the president ex expired exI expired expired I Czolgosz was tried found guilty and sentenced to death Though at first he seemed Inclined to wish to In Incriminate Incriminate incriminate criminate Miss Goldman at the tho end he frankly took the blame upon him himself himself self and actually in the death chair chah boldly gloried In his crime The last scene was probably one of the most gruesome executions ever witnessed On Oct 29 1901 the death chamber at the state prison at Auburn N Y T was prepared A certain number of witnesses had taken their seats at one end fronting them was the fatal chair and in an adjoining room was the elec electric electric electric switchboard under the control of an electrician Shortly after 7 at a signal from the chief warden Czolgosz was brought in guards on either side sid holding his arms He stumbled as he entered and except for the support he received he would have fallen As he heas was as urged forward towards the seat of death he again stumbled slightly this time on the plat platform platform platform form on which the chair rested There was something so boyish about Czolgosz at this moment so I have been told by an eyewitness of the scene that those who were there thre thereto to watch the end could with difficulty restrain their feelings of df pity He car carried carried carried ried himself proudly erect but the in tence pallor of ot his cheeks and the quivering of ot his chin told the real phy physical physical physical state of ot his feelings tee lings In taking his seat he looked at the witnesses in front of him with a calm steady stare The Th guards were busy buckling the straps round legs and arms While they were vere so engaged Czolgosz did a athing athing athing thing unparalleled in the grim history of electrocution He addressed the tha th witnesses speaking in a perfectly calm and unmoved voice I killed the president he said be because because because cause he was the enemy of ot the good people the good working people and I Iam Iam Iam am not sorry for my crime He could say sa no more for at that moment the guard seized his head and pushed it back on the rubber headrest of oC the chair drawing the leather thongs across his forehead and his chin As the straps were tightened routed round the th jaw he mumbled aloud I am awfully sorry I see my father These were the last words of ot the wretched being who had thought to create a anew anew anew new heaven and a new earth by eons com committing an abominable and an atro atrocious atrocious cious clous crime The guards stepped back the warden raised his hand and 1700 volts of ot elec electricity electricity electricity were through the chair The unfortunate mans body suddenly sudden became stiff stitt and erect the straps creaked under the pressure his hands han Fo clenched for five seconds he remained 1 thus and then the current was slowly reduced to be ba turned on again with full fuli force for two or three seconds At Atthe Atthe Atthe the end of this period Czolgosz the anarchist was dead deed and those these u h ho witnessed the terrible t scene for an nn execution by electrocution Is m in t ghastly to witness hurried out alm atur t overcome by their emotions Since the great outbreak of or anar n i Ism In 1804 the laws dealing with tr th the e propagation of this dangerous doctrine have hav become more mora and more seven severo with every crime rime committed The po Iu police p lice forces have been enormously in increased Increased Increased creased and all over the continent d s swarm in their thou nd There is hardly an anarchist wh is il not known to the authorities H Hevery Hevery Hevery every movement is watched and to cro 0 upon If It he lives in Fran and takes a fancy to go to Italy t tl l fact is telegraphed all along alona the h II H upon which he must travel As Ah o n nas i as he reaches re ches his destination declination he h i shadowed and if a very jr y character is sent back He is as a sort of ot leper from whose who e com ft ny fly every man shrinks shrink He is Ira tram tran trampled pled upon and persecuted without mercy and without pity The ordinary ordina laws of every country except England Englan Engan are suspended where he it is and harsh though hie hili treatment may seem it is doubtful whether any oth r course cour e could coul 1 be adopted It U ii the d 1 tense of organized society against the th force of ot disruption and terror |