O'Connor, engineer-in-chief of Western Australia (10 March 1902), purported suicide note "How do you do, Cushing? I am glad to see you." - John Peter Altgeld, 20th Governor of Illinois (12 March 1902), greeting a visitor "So little done, so much to do." - Cecil Rhodes, British businessman and politician (26 March 1902) "Have you brought the chequebook, Alfred?" : 19 - Samuel Butler, English novelist (18 June 1902) "I feel sick. 10/3/02 Put the wing walls to Helena Weir at once" - C. The Coolgardie scheme is all right and I could finish it if I got a chance and protection from misrepresentation but there's no hope for that now and its better that it should be given to some entirely new man to do who will be untrammelled by prior responsibility. I feel that my brain is suffering and I am in great fear of what effect all this worry will have upon me. We may not have done as well as possible in the past but we will necessarily be hampered to do well in the imminent future. Anxious important work to do and three commissions of enquiry to attend to. Don't make a mess of it!" - Breaker Morant, Anglo-Australian military officer and war criminal (27 February 1902), to his firing squad "The position has become impossible. President William McKinley (29 October 1901), prior to execution by electrocution "I've been looking forward to this." : 58 - Edgar Edwards, convicted murderer (1902), on the way to the scaffold "Shoot straight, you bastards. I am sorry I could not see my father." - Leon Czolgosz, assassin of U.S. It, and the month's wages coming to me will be all she will ever have." - Carlos Tafolla, Arizona Ranger (8 October 1901), handing a silver dollar to posse member Henry Barrett after being mortally wounded in Battleground Gunfight "I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people-the good working people. His will be done." - William McKinley, president of the United States (14 September 1901), dying after being shot on 6 September "My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians." - Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1 October 1901), to Habibullah Khan "Come right out this way." - William Thomas Maxwell, American tracker and deputized sheriff (8 October 1901), telling the Smith Gang to surrender prior to the Battleground Gunfight "Give this to my wife. The fatal shooting of President William McKinley in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
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