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Show Laid in wait for Four Days to do the Awful Deed. Tho ititement of Leon Gzolgotz to the police transcribed and .isoed by the prisoner, is as follows: '1 was born in Detroit nearly 20 years "Bo. My parents wero Hussion Poles. Tlioy camp hero 22 years ago. I got uiy education in Detroit, and then went to Cleveland, where I got work. In Cleveland Cleve-land I read books on socialism, and aiet n t;n:at many socialists After beiny in Cleveland for several ycaiB I went to! - Chicago, where I rcmaitud 7 mouths, after which 1 went to Newbury, on tho outskirts of Cleveland, and wont to work in the Newburg wire nillle. "During tho l.tet 6 yearn I htivo had as friends anarchists tu Chicago, Cleveland Detroit and other cities, and I suppose luoro or less bitter. Yea, 1 knov I wan bittur. But nluit s'Jirted tho vuizo to kill was a ledum llivaid oomu Unlet. me iijj,o by Kuinia Goldman. S!iu was up in Cleveland, and I win I other mian-hisls went to hear her. She set on tiro. "Her doetriiiu that all lultrn Hlioold ho exterminated was what fct mo lo thinking, so that ui.v head nearly ephl wltli tlio pain. Muss Goldman's winds went right thru me, m.d when I left tin lucturo I had made up my mind thai 1 I would have todosomiithing lietoii lui I '.io cause I loved. "Whlloiu Cli'caio, I read in.a Chicago newci paper of the I'rcsidcnt'H proposed vloil to tho Kin-Aineiican exposition at !Buff'ilo. I bought a ticket for Buffalo, and horo with tho determination to do ' something, but I had not formed a plan. y "I'wcntto live nt 1078 Broadway, which is a saloon and hotel. John Nowak a Polo, a sort of politician, who ban hie pcoplo hero for years, owns it. I tolci . u...Nowuk. that I came to bco the fair, life .' rj"' knew nothing' about vhii was' setting '' ufo crazy. " Resolved to kill tho President. "Not uutil Tuesday morning did the 3 resolution tu shoot the president takr I hold of me; it waa in my heart; there was no escape for me. I could not have conquered it had my life hecu at stake. Thcro were tliousandH of people in town on Tuesday. I heard it was Presidents day. "I rcado up uiy mind to kill that ru!ci 1 bought a li2-oiilabto revolver and loaded load-ed it. On Tuesday night I was near the lailroadgate when tho Presidents puny arrived, 1 tried to get near him, but the policj forced ino back. Tlay forcco j everybody back bo that tho gnat ruloi could pass. I was cIojo to the president when ho got into the grounds, but wan I atraid to attempt tho nsuwBinaliou be- caiuo there wcro ho many men in the ' bodyguard that watched him. I whs not '' ufiald of them or that 1 should get hurl but afraid I might bo seized ami that my chanco would bo gone forever. "Well, he went away that tiuio and 1 v- went homo. Ou. Wednesday I went to ' the grounds andjstood near the President j right under him, near tlie eland from ' which ho spoke. "I thought half a dozen limes of shoot 1 ing while lie was speaking, but 1 could not get close enough. I was afraid I ' might rules, and then tho great ciowd avuh always jostling, and I wad afraid Jest my aim fail. 1 waited Wednesday and tho Picsident got into his carriage again and a lot of meu weru about him wind formed a cordon, so that I could not got through. I waa toesed ubou by tho crowd, and my spirits wcro getting get-ting pretly low, 1 was almost hopeless that night as I went homo. 'Yesterday morning I went again to tho exposition grounle. Kninm Goldman's Gold-man's speech was still burning mo up, I waited near tho central eutiaiico for the president, who was to board his special train from that gale, but tho polico allowed nobody but tho presidents party to pass whoro tho train waited, eo I stayed at tho grounds all day waiting. "During j eslerdayl llrst thought of hiding my pistol under my ban Uorchlr-f T was a'raid if I hnd to draw it from my pocket I would ue seen and eolzed by tho giiiuds. I got to tho totnplo of uiuhIo tho fiist one, and waited at the spot where the reception was tohoheld. Then ho cnino tho president -tlio i uler and I got in line and trembled and trembled until f got right up to him, and thou I shot him twice tluough my i I i - whlto handkerchief. I would have fired more, but I waa Btunnr-d by ft blow r the face- n frightful blow that knocked mo down- and every ono jumping on iuo-1 thought I would bo killed, and was surpriecd tho way they treated in . Czolgosz ended his storv in utter ex. haustion. When ho had about concluded ho was asked: "Did you really mean to kill the-president?" "I did," waa tho cold-blooded reply. 'What was your motive; what good could 11 do you?'' he asked. I uni an anarchist. I am a disciple o Kmraa Gold man. Her words set in on firo"lio replied, with not tho sligh em Itcraor "I deny that. 1 have had an accomplice acc-omplice at any time" Czolgosz told District Atlorney Penny: "I don't regret lny net, because it was doing what 1 could for the great camo I am not connected with tho Patcuon group or with tho3i iiuaichisU who sent . llrescl to Italy to kill Humbert. I had no confldintsi'no one to help e I was alone absolutely. |