Evening star., 1901-10-28
All Preparations Made for the Execu-
tion of Czolgosz.
PRISONERS ATTITUDE UNCHANGED
Seems Utterly Indifferent as to
His Death Tomorrow.
WARDEN MEAD'S PLANS

AUBURN, n. Y. October 2s.-The officials
of Auburn prison today began final prep
arations for the execution of Leon F. Czol-
gosz. Warden ]. Warren Mead. who has
recovered from his recent indisposition to-
day conferred with Electrician Davis and
! the keepers and guards who will assist in
the execution. and the program was care
fully gone over. Warden Mead has selected
his assistants from among the prison en-
ployes who have had the widest experience
in executions.
II is understood that the prison officials
will use every precaution to prevent Czol-
gosz from talking in the death chamber. II
being their desire that anything he may
wish to say be said in the condemned cell.
The prisoners attitude is reported as IN
changed. Apparently he does not desire to
see any one and declines to talk except in
monosyllables. For two days a brother-in-
law OF the condemned man has been seek
ing permission 10 him. In order TO have
him identified the warden went to the pris-
oner and asked him if he could describe his
brother-in-law. He replied:
Il didn't see my sister married. and ]
don't know the man."
Would you like to see him." he was
| asked.
NO, don't care" was the reply
He wants to be let alone" said Warden
Mead today, "and We let him alone The
health"
Extra Guard Over Prisoner.
Tonight at O'clock, after the death war;
rant has been read. an extra guard will be
placed in the cell with Czolgosz. That por-
tion of the prison in which four other con-
demned men are kept has been partitioned
on from Czolgosz's cell by an iron screen.
The extra guards on duty at the prison
gates Will be maintained until after the ex-
ecution tomorrow morning.
The guards were doubled merely as
precautionary measure and not because
there is reason to believe the extra men
Will be needed. The police of the city are
cooperating with the prison officials. and
keep close watch on all trains entering
the city. They, too. feel that there is a
remote possibility of act of violence
upon the part of some crank imbued with
wild plan Of either aiding or injuring the
prisoner, and they hope to prevent any
thing of the kind. Guards and police keep
a close watch on State street, upon which
the main entrance and prison wall front.
| The prison was perfectly quiet today, and
| at no time were there any loiterers any,
| where In its vicinity. Passersby took r.
fleettng look at the minaret-lilSe watch
| tower at the south wall, which is almost
| directly over the execution chamber, or
peered in through the gate at the front OF
the building, but none of them stopped.
whenever visitor rang the bell at the
main entrance two guards responded.
Still Another Safeguard.
| Warden Mead has thrown still another
| safeguard around the prisoner to prevent
any miscarriage Of the plans formulated
for his execution. He has directed the
death watch to insist that any general con-
versation which the prisoner may have
with visitor be carried on In English.
and be held within the hearing Of a guard.
The one exception under the ruling Will be
in case the prisoner makes a confession
to one of the Polish priests. In that case
the guards will withdraw out Of hearing,
but not of sight, of the prisoner.
Czolgosz's brother, Waldeck Czolgosz,
and brother-in-law Waldeck Thomas Band
owski, did not see the prisoner this morn
ing.
Waldeck Czolgosz appeared In front OF
the prison very early, but made no request
to see his brother. He walked up ana
down in frcnt of the prison and once or
twice stopped at the gate and peered
through. He did not seem specially wor-
ried. Bandowski asked to see the prisoner.
however and was refused admittance pend
ing the arrival of Superintendent of State
Prisons Collins at this afternoon.
Bandowskfs Probable Motive.
In addition to Czolgoszs lack of interest
in a visit from his brother-in-law, the
prison officials had another motive in de-
laying the matter. They have a suspicion
| that Bandowski is using his relationship to
| the prisoner in behalf Of individuals who
are said to have paid his expenses If the
| fact can be established to their satisfac-
| ton Bandowsk will speedily forfeit any
| right to recognition and admittance.
waldeck Czolgosz has made no formal
request for the body of his brother. He
| merely discussed the question in a general
way with the warden. Bandowski is the
! author of the plan to take the body to
Buffalo for cremation.
State Controller knight today tele-
graphed Warden Mead declining the invf-
tation to act as foreman of the jury that
will witness the execution.
1t will therefore be necessary to select
| another foreman, and that will be done
this afternoon. State Treasurer John
| Jaeckel will probably be asked to take the
| forenanship. He is in Auburn and is
| among those required to witness the execu-