Posted on 10/28/2020 8:54:39 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Back ’round the fin de siècle, everybody who was anybody* was being whacked by anarchists.
On this date in 1901, unemployed (and seemingly unbalanced) steelworker Leon Czolgosz rode the lightning at New York’s Auburn Prison for inducting the late U.S. President William McKinley into the club.
It hadn’t even been eight weeks since Czolgosz met McKinley gladhanding a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and fatally (though it took the victim a week to succumb) shot the second-term Republican president.
Matters progressed from there as one might expect....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
The mountain is still McKinley to me.
It hadn’t even been eight weeks...
That's how the death penalty is a deterrent. When someone is executed and no one can remember who he is or what he did, it loses its impact.
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Polak?
What are you talking about? I agreed that I liked the name Mount McKinley. How you get Polak from that?
Czolgosz
I have no idea. I just know what a Polish girl gets on her wedding night that’s long and hard... her last name.
That's a good one. Might be better to say a girl who marries a Polish guy. If she's already Polish, she probably already has a long and unpronounceable name.
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