The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-11-08
M'K|NLEy'S MURDERER
EXECUTED At AUBURN

CzoigosZ, the assassin OF President Nc
Kinley, was electrocuted at 1:l2 o'clock
this morning.
The prisoner was given three shocks
before he was finally pronounced dead.
The prisoner made a brief speech in
the chair. He said he was not sorry for
what he had done. but expressed re-
greet that he had not seen his father.
Czolgosz rested exceedingly well for
a man in the shadow of death. He went
to sleep at 10 o'clock last night and it
was 4:45 o'clock before he finally walked
up and left his cot. His sleep was al
most unbroken throughout the night
and was restful and refreshing. He did
not break his silence when he awoke,
nor did he show any indication of fall
ing courage. Superintendent Collins
and Warden Mead also arose at 4:45
O'Clock, and their first inquiry was as
to the prisoner. They breakfasted early
and at once set about to perfect the
final details of the execution.
The prison was exceedingly quiet dur
ing the earlier hours, and a few news
paper men who watched in front of the
building were long without company.
A. couple Of guards and policemen
watched the streets surrounding the
prison. but there was nothing in the
line of duty for them to do
Lights began showing in the main
prison at o'clock and within an hour
the entire household was astir for the
new day. The night had been clear
but cold, and the morning was bright
but chilly.
Czolgosz lay down again shortly after
o'clock, but did not sleep again.
Shortly after o'clock the clothing in
which he was to be executed was sent
into his cell and he got up and dressed
himself. A few minutes after he had
finished dressing a substantial break
fast was sent to his cell
Czolgosz was dressed in very sim
Pile manner for the execution, a pair of
black trousers, gray shirt and pair
of gray socks completing the outfit. He
wore no undergarments and no shoes
The left leg of the trousers was slit at
the bottom to permit the free adjust
ment of the electrode, and the shirt
was open at the neck, so that the doc
tors could take the heart action. He
wore no collar.
The preliminaries were exactly like
those Of every other execution. The
witnesses gathered in the Office o( the
Warden on the second floor of the bris
on at 6:45 o'clock. At few minutes be-
fore the witnesses were told to quickly
follow the Warden and State Superin
tendent of Prisons, and after walking
through the long corridor took their
places silently beside the death chair
in the execution room.
The iron door leading to the con-
demned cells was closed, but behind 1t
the Warden's assistants We're prepar
ing Czolgosz for death. The Warden
waited until the witnesses were seated.
and then made The usual formal declar-
alton that those present in the room
were merely there as witnesses to IA
legal execution Of a murderer, and that
under no circumstances and no matter
what the provocation no one was to
leave his seat or make any disturbance.
Electrician Davis then put upon the
arms Of the chair a bank of twenty-five
incandescent electric lamps. and. at
taching the electrical wires, passed the
current through them so that the lights
glowed out brightly. An assistant in
the meantime put the two electrodes.
which were lined with sponges. into
pals OF salt water, so as to get them
wet enough to prevent the current from
burning the victims flesh.
The chamber in which the murderer
of President Mckinley was executed
was not the same in which the first cleo
trocution took place here. 1t is a COM
paratively new building, strikingly
elaborate in comparison with the very
old prison structures about it. 1t is
built of gray stone and is situated about
halfway down the prison yard on the
left hand, or south side. Entrance to it
is possible either from the prison yard
or from the main corridor, and the eX-
ecution-room proper may be entered
without passing the condemned cells.
From the time Of his entry into the
prison, Czolgosz was confined in the cell
nearest the death chamber, so that
when he entered the execution room
this morning he mad only to step a few
feet through the stone arch, and as the
great iron door swung behind him. he
was beside the electric chair.
The eXecution-room has seats for the
witnesses and is lighted with several
windows placed high in the walls. In
one corner of the wall is the closet in
which the keyboard is situated, and in
which Electrician Davis stood when he
switched the current on.
The jury that witnessed the execu-
ton of Czolgosz and returned the formal
findings in this case was composed as
follows: Foreman, John =. Jaeckel,
Auburn; Ashley w. Cole, Albany; II.
II. Bender, Albany: Charles r. Skinner,
Albany; George Weston, Norwich, n.
Y; d. L. ingalls,, Westfield: II. o. Ely,
Binghamton; Charles j. Wallace, SYRIA
cuse; Charles r. Huntley, Buffalo; DR..
W. A. Howe, Phelps. n. Y; DIR. C. r.
Trowbridge, Buffalo, and John \. Slei-
cher, New York.
The physicians We're: DIR. Charles A.
Mcdonald of New York and DR.. Germ
of Auburn,
Other witnesses We're: H. Bonesteel.
Troy: w. d. Wolf. Rochester; C. F.
Rattigan, Auburn; George Il. Peck,
Auburn: w. n. Thayer former war;
den OF Dannemora Prison, who assisted
Warden Mead, and three neWspaper