Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-21
HEARS HIS FATE.
Assassin of Canovas Receives a
Death Sentence.
Doomed to Perish by the GnrrOtc-
Turns Pale on Receiving Decision
of Court-Mnrtinl-TeIIs How He
Conceived His Terrible Crime.

Madrid, Aug. IL. - Michel Angiollilo,
the anarchist assassin of Premier
Cauovas del Castillo, who was tried by
court-martial Sunday at Vergara, was
found guilty and was sentenced 20
death. Upon hearing the sentence
Angiollilo turned deathly pale and had
to be assisted from the courtroom.
Angiollilo will be garroted within the
prison.
About 200 persons were present ut
the trial. The vicinity of the prison was
almost deserted, the public being APP
parently Indifferent in view of the GER
tainty that the death penalty would fol-
low the court-martial. Angiolli, heavi-
lymanacled, sat between two gendarmes
and Immediately in front of the judges.
On table near by lay his revolver and
other materials evidence of the crime
The president of the court read the
declarations of eyewitnesses, after
which the written statement of the
prisoner was read by the clerk of the
| court.
Angiolli, in the course of the state
ment, said that he left Foggia in Octo-
| DNlr lOOos anu NChG w 4htil oSlllCS anu
Barcelona, where he took the name of
Jose Santos. At first he had no thought
of becoming an anarchist, but while at
Corininia he began to be interested in
anarchist doctrines. He then returned
to Marseilles and after his expulsion
from that city, he went to Belgium and
London, where he spent most of his
time in the society of anarchists. When
the execution took place at Barcelona
on May 4, of five of the anarchists con-
victed of participation in the bomb out
rage at the feustof Corpus Christi, he con-
ceived the idea of assassinating Canovas.
Without seeking an accomplice he pro-
ceeded to Spain and carried out the
resolution. Angiolli went on to say
that the passion for vengeance led him
to commit the crime. AS he was unac-
quainted with the manufacture of ex-
plosives he used the revolver.
The public prosecutor described the
crime as "premeditated murder" and
asked the court to impose the death
penalty.
Lieut.. Gorria, whom the court had as
signed as counsel to Angiolli, urged that
the prisoner was demented at the time
of the shooting, and made a strong APP
peal to the benevolence of the judges.
While his counsel was presenting this
plea Angiolli listened in silence. Then
he asked permission to speak for him
self, which was granted. He thanked
Lieut.. Gorria for all his efforts and de-
MED that he had any accomplices, OF
that he was an accomplice of those who
committed the bomb throwing outrage
Mt Barcelona, or that he had partici-
pated in secret gatherings of anarchists
When he began to discuss anarchist
theories, the president of the court in
terrupted him and threatened to STOP
him II he pursued that line of remarL
or touched upon any matter not con'
nected with the trial.
Angiolli persisted in speaking of poll
tics and of the wars in Cuba and the
Philippines.
The president said: "All that ha,
nothing to do with your crime"
Angiolli replied; Unjust justify my,
self"
The president retorted: That is nc
Justification. Moreover, you can con
vince nobody in that way"
Angiolli began again, but the presi
dent declared the trial ended and or
dered the courtroom cleared. After
the prisoner had been conducted to hi!
cell, the judges deliberated for an houl
and then announced the sentence of tn,