This is an image of Leon Czolgosz in prison for assassinating President William McKinley. He was influenced by anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. Goldman was also arrested and accused of conspring with Czolgosz, though no evidence was found to prove this and she was eventually released.
Nonetheless, Goldman earnestly supported Czolgosz, comparing him to Marcus Junius Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caeser, a comparison that cast McKinley as a tyrant. Goldman derided McKinley as "president of the money kings and trust magnates."
Despite his affiliation with anarchism, Czolgosz was a registered Republican, the same party as President McKinley.
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