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Soberly, above the gilded angels on the Tribune, white-haired Gaston Doumergue faced the Chamber of Deputies last week. Disregarding Communist bellowings of "Assassin! Assassin!" he declared...
Died, William H. Wall. 58. longtime private policeman who helped capture Leon Czolgosz (President McKinley's assassin); of automobile accident injuries; in New York City. After the capture Czolgosz was hurled to the floor of a carriage where Wall sat on him with drawn revolvers during the ride to the Buffalo jail...
Died. Nathan Simms, 80 plus, Coatesville. Pa. negro believed to have unwittingly helped Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth to escape; in Coatesville. Simms said he held a fresh horse for Booth at the Washington boardinghouse of Mary Surratt, a Booth accomplice...
Next afternoon Premier Duca's body was sent back to Bucharest. Assassin Constantinescu, who after police hustled him to safety had spent several hours puffing out his chest and posing for photographs, was taken the same day to Ploesti near Bucharest for trial. The murdered Premier's brother-in-law, Radu Polizu, took the morning train out from Bucharest and burst wild-eyed into the Sinaia stationmaster's office where Assassin Constantinescu was held. He whipped out a small revolver and sent two bullets whistling round the prisoner. Bang! Bang! Neither of them took effect. Radu Polizu...
Died. Thomas Penney, 74, Buffalo lawyer, prosecutor (as district attorney) of Leon Czolgosz (executed assassin of President McKinley); in Buffalo...