• Found on the sidewalk at 11th and Pine.

Why, it's a damp, wrinkled pencil portrait of Leon Czolgosz, the Polish-American anarchy enthusiast who assassinated President William McKinley in 1901! Czolgosz approached the President in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition with a handkerchief covering his hand. Under the handkerchief, in the hand, was a revolver. Czolgosz then used the revolver to shoot the President twice in the abdomen.

William J. Gomph, the exposition's official organist, was softly playing Schumann's Träumerei on the massive organ that was a special attraction at the Temple of Music. At this moment, 4:07 p.m., Czolgosz advanced to face the President. McKinley reached out to take Czolgosz's "bandaged" hand, but before he could shake it Czolgosz pulled the trigger twice. James Parker punched Czolgosz in the face and tackled him, knocking the gun from Czolgosz's hand. Agent George Foster jumped onto Czolgosz and shouted to fellow agent Albert Gallagher "Al, get the gun! Get the gun! Al, get the gun!" Gallagher instead got Czolgosz's handkerchief, which was on fire.

• Czolgosz in jail, not being sorry for his crime.

His last words were "I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people — the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime." As the prison guards strapped him into the chair, however, he did say through clenched teeth, "I am sorry I could not see my father." His brain was autopsied by Edward Anthony Spitzka. Sulfuric acid was thrown into his coffin so that his body would be completely disfigured, resulting in its decomposition within twelve hours. His letters and clothes were burned.

This is one of the best things I have ever found on the ground.

UPDATE: Slog reader and internet art sleuth Brendan writes:

did you really find this on the ground?
I found it here.
is this some sort of incomplete promo for a friend's web project?

I really, truly did find it on the ground outside my office. Hey, artist Drew Christie, I think you dropped your Czolgosz. Do you want him back? (He's kind of wet and brown now.)