Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-10-31
THE LAST
CHAPTER
Assassin Czolgosz is Now
Enroute to Join Booth
and Guitteau.


ed William Mckinley at the BufYal,
exposition on September e.
The final preparations have bee,
male for the execution to take place
az a. m. tomorrow, and before hal.
the population of the country have
{ arisen from their slumber, Czoleosz
Will have paid the penalty with his
own life in the electric chair which
has sent many before him to eterui
ty.
AS at all times before, Czolgosl is
sullen and refuses to talk. Not since
his arrest has he said enough to con.
vince anyone that he was a party to
a conspiracy for the assassination of
President Mckinley.
When his brother-in-law called at
the prison yesterday to see the CON
demned man he was denied admission
because he could not properly identi-
fy himself. When Czolgosz was ask
ed II he wanted to see his brOther-in-
law. he said no. he did not care to
see any one.
An extra squad of guards will be
placed over the prisoner this evening
at O'Clock when the death warrant
is read to him. and this extra guard
will remain with him until the execu-
: tion tekes place.
The prisoner will not be permitted
to talk to anyone after he leaves his
cell except to the Polish priest, and
this privilege will be granted solely
because it Is thought there is posi-
bility OF chance that the condemned
man may make confession.
AUBURN PRISON, Oct. 29-Leon
F. Czolgosz. who on September last
shot and mortally wounded Presi-
dent Mckinley, was electrocuted at
7:12:30 this morning.
Seventeen hundred volts were turn
ed on, and death was almost install
taneous. The current was applied
three times, but it is said that once
would have been sufficient
The condemned man did not weaken.
He passed a quiet night, sleeping
soundly until 4:45 this morning. He
turned over once or twice upon his
cot and then got up. Shortly after
he again lay down, but he did not
close his eyes. He appeared to be
thinking deeply. but replied only in
monosyllables when the guard wished
him good morning and asked him how
he had slept.
Shortly after six O'Clock the cloth
ing which the condemned man was TO
wear at the execution was sent to
the cell 1t consisted of new dark
pair of trousers, grey flannel shirt
and "a pnir npw GhnaS The 1aFi
leg of the trousers was slit in order
to allow the electrodes to be fasten-
ed to the leg when the prisoner took
the electric chair.
CZolgosZ put on the clothes without
a word. After he had finished dress
ing substantial breakfast was serv-
ed him and he ate heartily. apparently
relishing his food. After breakfast
the death warrant was read to the con
demned man. He barely raised his
eyes during the reading, and made no
reply.
Thirty minutes before the march
to the death chamber began Czolgosz
spoke to the superintendent and war
den and said
Il want to make a statement be-
fore you kill me"
What do you wish to say" Czoi-
gosz" asked the warden.
II want to make speech If there
are lot of people present. | want
them to hear me-" said the murderer.
well, you cannot make make
speech" said the superintendent.
"Then l won't talk at ALL said the
prisoner, with a slight trace of an
ger In his voice.
However. the prisoner changed his
mind when he entered the execution
room. Before the apparatus was Sc
cured to his body he said he was not
sorry he had killed Mckinley, and
that he considered the president had
been a foe to the good working peo-
pie. Just as the headgear was at
tached he said that he was sorry he
had not seen his father.
The current was applied at 7:l2,
and 80 seconds later the heart had
ceased to beat. When the current
was applied the body stiffened and
the straps which bound it were at
once stretched to their utmost.
When the current was turned off the
form of the murderer collapsed. The
third time the current was applied
there was no response In the stiffel-
ing of the body, showing that life was
extinct.
The march from the cell to the
death chamber and the execution
took less than fifteen minutes. The
execution was one of the most sue
cessful ever held in the state.
Immediately after the execution
the body was removed to anoth ai
room, where an autopsy was held.
AUBURN, Oct. 29.-The physicians
who held the autopsy on the remains
of Czolgosz say that his brain wa'
normal, If not above normal
AUBURN, Oct 29.-The body o
Assassin Czolgosz was buried in thu
prison cemetery Immediately afte
the autopsy. The remains were en-
closed in cheap pine coffin and afte
tho cnff1n had heen lowered into tn