The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-02
CzEGH'S LAST DAY
All Preparations Made for
the Mufderer's Hang
ing Tomorrow.
THINKS HE IS PROSECUTED
Tells a "Jersey City News Re-
porter That He Ought to
Have a New Trial.

Sheriff Toffey said this morning that
he had completed all t.s arrangements
for the execution of Fish John Czech
tomorrow. Van Hise, the hangman, Will
adjust the moose and touch the spring
which will cause the death OF the muir
derer. The gallows will be erected TO-
day in the jail, precisely in the same
place where Altenberger, Hallinger ana
Disque were hanged. The execution VIII
take place Immediately after ten O'clock
Thursday morning. and will be witnessed
only by the persons appointed under the
law governing executions.
TIL condemned murderer is pretty BAD
iy broken UP, although he has become
resigned to his fate. and endeavors 70
act in a phlegmatic manner. he re-
selves no visitors and converses but Ut
Gle with his keepers. That he regrets
the deed which will bring him to the gar
lows is manifest from his unguaroeu
mutterings to himself occasionally. III
ten he hasdben heard to mention III eihls
of affection the name of his VIE ne sho'
down in the street, and the keepers nave
noticed tears roll down his cheeks "nen
he thought he was unobserved.
The condemned man Is confineu Ia
front cell on the third floor, ana Is CON
suantly under the eye or the death va.
Night n day a constable is WILL ~ M
for it isefeared that if he should De =.
alone for a brief time he might attempt
to commit suicide.
He receives daily visits from ms spur
s.,a1 odvisar and appears to be grateful
for them. Il
PLACED INaSEGLUsIoN--
NJ doomad man-was shaved thus
morning for the first time since his I'M
.nrisonnent. After the barber lett nun
he vasmremoved from the little cell on
the east side of ward No. 1 to an Inner
cell. secluded from the gaze Oh prison.
ers and others. There three keepers @te
with him. He will be under their eyes
.-.sleeping or waking" until the uieeo
sentence is carried out. sst{.
shortly after three o'clock Hansnldn
Wan Hise's wagon drove up to the jan
ward. On 1t, were several long pieces u
4imhar nainted black. All the prisoners
In ward No. 6 were removed anu Win
the assistance of a carpenter, van Hise
nut ND these timbers to form his scar
fold. ssA 80
The changing of the prisoners carrieu
the news all over the Jail that the sea-
fold had arrived, and the greatest excite
.ment prevailed among the prisoners
They congregated in groups ana IN WINS
pers talked of the awful drama Oh To-
morrow.
Czech will meet his doom at ten
o'clock. After a short time hanging ne
I will be cut down and the doctors VIA
{ perform an autopsy to determine ms
death.
AS the wretched man has no money,
he will be buried at the expense of the
county. Undertaken John Burke of New
ark avenue has secured a permit 10
bury Czech in the Catholic Cemetery
and the interment will take place about
three o'clock in the afternoon.
CZECH COMPLAINS.
Czech, in an interview with a reporter
of The Jersey City News" yesterday
afternoon, said:-"I do not understand
why.I am not granted a new trial. All
the witnesses that were produced at the
last trial were against me. nave a
number of witnesses from Harrison,
Kearny and Newark, and it is but fair
that they should be heard. l do not
see, anyway, why they are so anxious
to hang me. Genz and Sheehan were
here months before me, but l must go
first. The witnesses produced on the
other side were all intimate with her
meaning his murdered wife). Why, one
of them was with her for seven weeks,
while 1 secured the vicinity for her. Such
witnesses as these were called, but mine
We're not. h was a lewd woman, but
I-would not have killed her had she
not called me a grey-heded - -.
As far as I am concerned, l do not care
whether I am hanged or not, but I do
not want to cast a stigma upon my