Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-10-29

4S hours. We will keep the grave
guarded day and night until such time
as the quicklime, which will be placed
around the body, shall have entirel!
destroyed it,"
Electrician Davis said: II used 1,70t
volts of electricity, turning it into the
body at full force for seven seconds
then slowly reducing it for As seconds
Then I threw the full voltage on agair
for eight seconds Then, at the sugges-
tion of DR.. Macdonald, turned it or
again for few seconds. I did not
think there was any necessity for a
third contact, and the lack of resist
ance shown when it was administered
proved that life was extinct. 1t was
as successful an execution as ever
operated att
The jury that witnessed the execu-
tion Of Czolgosz and returned the for
NAL finding was composed as follows:
Foreman, John P. Jaeckel, Auburn;
Ashley w. Cole, Albany; H. H. Bender,
Albany; Charles r. Skinner, Albany;
George Weston, Norwich, N. Y; D. L.
ingalls,. Westf1eld; H. o. Ely, Bing-
hampton; Chas. r. Huntley, Buffalo;
DR.. w. A. Howe, Phelps. N. Y; DR.. G..
r. Trowbridge, Buffalo; John A..
Sleicher New York.
Other witnesses were: H. Bonesteel,
Troy; Mr.. w. D. Wolf, Rochester; c..
F. Rattigan, Auburn; Geo. R. Peck,
Auburn, N. Y; w. N. Thayer, former
warden of Dannemora prison, who as
sisted Warden Mead; three newspa
per correspondents.
The physicians holding the autopsy
decided, after critical examination,
that Czolgosz's brain was normal, if
not above normal.
Rev. Cordelo Herrick, chaplain of
the prison, was in the death chamber,
ready for any call that might be made
for his services. He was not wanted
by the prisoner however.
The clothing and personal effects of
the prisoner were burned under the di-
rection of Warden Mead shortly after
the execution.
LII oil lllCIF1CW Will
Collins last night, Czolgosz said that
at Chicago, just before he went to
Buffalo, boy, whom he did not know,
handed him packet of money and
said the money was for use on the
Buffalo trip. Half an hour later, when
the superintendent called in the
brother-in-law of the prisoner, he
brought the subject up again, asking:
"How about that money you got at
What money!" asked the
prisoner.
'Why the money you told me about
here earlier in the evening"" said the
did tell you that? I have forgot
ten, if did. did not get any money.
If I said so it was not true"
Waldeck Czolgosz positively assured
Warden Mead that his brother Leon
could read and write, in direct contra
diction of the oft-repeated claim of the
prisoner that he was illiterate.
SHOWED LITTLE EMOTION.
Cleveland, O., Oct. 29.-The father
and two brothers of Leon Czolgosz
heard the news Of the execution at the
Associated Press Office here. but
showed little emotion. When told that
Leon was sorry he had not seen his
father, the latter said he would have
gone to Auburn If asked, but felt he
was not wanted.
After the autopsy, the surgeons is
sued the following statement: "The
autopsy was made by Edward A.
Spitzka Of New York, under the imme-
diate supervision and direction Of DR..
Charles F. Macdonald Of New York.
and DR.. John Germ, the prison physi-
clan. The autopsy occupied over three
hours, and embraced careful exami-
nation Of all bodily organs, including
the brain. The examination revealed
a perfectly healthy state Of all organs.
including the brain. All the physicians
who attended the execution were
present at the autopsy, and all con-
Cured in the findings Of the examiners.
Signed John Germ, M. D., Carlos F.
M. D., 3. A. Spitzka."
A carboy Of acid was poured upon
the body in the coffin after 1t had been
lowered into the grave. It II the be-
lief of the physicians that the body
will be entirely disintegrated within ~