Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-10-04
CzOLGOSz UNDER SENTENCE
OF DEATH
SHOWS HIMSELF A COWARD
Yes" replied the prisoner.

Yes replied the prisoner.
81 think he should be permitted TO
make statement in oxculpatioh of his
act. II the Court please" said Judge
titus.
The Court replied: THAT will deoend
upon what his statement is"
Justice White then said. Haze you
speaking to Judge Titus) anything
say in behalf Of the prisoner a, this
timer"
81 have nothing to say within the
definition of what your honor has
read" replied the attorney, but y
seems to me in order that the innocent
should not suffer by this defendants
crime. the Court should permit him to
cxculpate. at least, his father. brother
and sisters
! From the Court-"Certainly. II that
Is the object Of any statement he
wishes to make. proceed"
The prisoner said: "Trere was nc
one else but me. No one told me to DO
! 1t, and no one paid me to do 1t. was
not told anything about the crime, and
I never thought anything about murder
until couple of days before com
mitted the crime
Judge Titus repeated both these
statements.
Then Justice White passed sentence,
as follows:
In taking the life OF our beloved Presi-
dent. you committed crime which
shocked and outraged the moral sense
of the civilized world. You have con-
fnssed that guilt. and after learning
all that at this time can be learn I'd
from the facts and circumstances of the
case, twelve good Jurors have pro-
ncunced you guilty and have found you
guilty of murder in the first degree.
You have said, according to the testi.
mony of creditablN witnesses and your
self, that no other 20: son aided or ibct
ted you In the comIisSion OF This ter
rible act. God gra is Il may DC So The
penalty for the crime for which you
stand convicted is fixed by the statute
and it now becomes my duty to pro
nounce ii.
The sentence OF the Court Is thai. IL
the week beginning October 2S. 1870.
at the place. In the manner ali Means
prescribed by law, You suffer the run
lshment of death.
Remove the prisoner.
Czolgosz stood erect. looking straigh
. at the Judge. He did not tremble: no
muscle quivered. As soon as tn
death sentence was finished he took hi
seat in the same Indifferent name
that has characterized him through
out the trial. He was brought to hi
feet quickly by the officers at .: "a
They shackled him and led him ava!
10 the Jail. while the crowd surged af
ter him, and the officers had to force
passage for the assassin from thu
courtroom. Though elation and salts
faction were written on every face
there was no applause and no demon
i. stration Of any kind on the part OF tn,
spectators.
Czolgosz was taken from Buffalo I,
Auburn State Prison tonight to avail
death by electrocution. Sheriff Cald
. "'' "hh s'N'N'h ih'h 'boh
', In special car attached to the regula
New York Central train. The trail
left at 1906 p. m, and the railroa'
officials said that an effort to reacl
Auburn at 2:l2 o'clock would be made
which was schedule time. Sheriff Cald
!, well arranged for the departure, an,
his moves were kept so secret and wer
SO cleverly managed that no one bu
. the guards, the railroad men and tn
newspaper men who were In the jal
! knew that the assassin was bein,
struggled out Of the Jail.
/, Auburn. N. Y, Sept. 27.-Czolgos
reached the Auburn State prison at
. o'clock this friday morning, and Of
entering the penitentiary collapse
completely.