...Czolgosz waits the next day at the…

...Czolgosz waits the next day at the Temple of Music on the exposition grounds, where the president is to meet the public.

Czolgosz conceals his gun in a handkerchief and, when he reaches the head of the line, shoots McKinley twice in the abdomen at close range. 

McKinley urges his aides to break the news gently to Ida, and to call off the mob that had set upon Czolgosz, a request that may have saved his assassin's life.

McKinley is taken to the exposition aid station, where the doctor is unable to locate the second bullet.

Although a primitive X-ray machine is being exhibited on the exposition grounds, it is not used.

McKinley is taken to the home of John G. Milburn, president of the Pan-American Exposition Company.