Attempt on the Life of President

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 37, 12 September 1901, Page 20

Attempt on the Life of President

M' Kin ley.

The news received by cable on Saturday that an attempt had been made to assassinate the President of the United States on the previous day caused a painful sensation throughout the civilised world. It appears that the President was staying at Buffalo, in the State of New York, and at the time when the attempt was made on his life was holding a reception in the Temple of Music in the Exhibition Building. His assailant approaching offered to shake hands, at the same time firing a revolver, which was concealed in a handkerchief in his left hand. Two shots were fired, one bullet striking the breast-bone and the other lodging in the abdomen. The former wm later on extracted, but the latter was not recoverable. Immediately after the shooting, the President walked to % chair and sat down. The would-be assassin has been identified as Leon Ciolgosz. He was born in Detroit, in the State of Michigan, and is about 28 years of age. Were it not for the police and soldiers the orowd would have lynched him on the spot. Czolgosz, on being arrested, avowed that he was an Anarchist and had done his duty. He asserts that Anarchist lectures and literature prompted him and that he had no confederates.

A bulletin issued om Tuefday stated that the President had a good night and that his condition was quite encouraging. The doctors believe that the President will recover should not bloodpoisoning set in.