was insisted upon. We
also find that his statements made to the police concerning his
following and attempting to gain access to Colonel Roosevelt, and his
visits to various localities correspond, and his explanations of his
acts agree with those made to us.

Some of his statements to the Chief of Police, are as follows, as
extracted from document submitted herewith, marked Exhibit 3.

Q. Why did you want to meet him?

A. Because I wanted to put him out of the way. A man that wants a third
term has no right to live.

Q. That is, you wanted to kill him?

A. I did.

Q. Have you any other reason in wanting to kill him?

A. I have.

Q. What is that?

A. I had a dream several years ago that Mr. McKinley appeared to me and
he told me that Mr. Roosevelt is practically his real murderer, and not
this here Czolgosz.

* * * * *

Q. Did you know Johann Most when he was alive?

A. No, sir.

Q. Did you ever hear him talk?

A. No, sir.

Q. Did you ever hear Emma Goldman?

A. No, sir; I am not an anarchist or socialist or democrat or
republican; I just took up the thing the way I thought it was best to
do.

(It seems worth while to note that the defendant differs from many
assassins of rulers or prospective rulers in having no anarchistic
ideas or connections, but rather that he intended to be an upholder of
established government.)

* * * * *

"Mr. Grant was refused" (a third term) "and he was satisfied; this man
was refused and he is not satisfied; it's gone beyond limits; if he
keeps on doing this after election, he can't possibly carry a solid
Western state; the next thing we will have a civil war, because he will
say the scoundrels and thieves and crooks stole my nomination, and now
they will steal my election, and they will take up arms in all the
Western states; we are facing a civil war just to keep him in a third
term."

Q. Where did you get all this idea from?

A. I have been reading history all the time.

* * * * *

Q. What schooling did you have?

A. Well, I have attended school in the old country, and I attended
night school in New York for about four winters; that's all the
schooling I had.

Q. You haven't a very good education then?

A. Indeed I ain't.

Q. Have you always enjoyed good health?

A. Yes, sir; I am a healthy sane man, never been sick.