The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-11-01
Murderer Of President Mckinley
Was Electrocuted in Auburn
Prison Tuesday Morning.
DI2D UNCONFESSED AND UNREPENTANT
The Assassin Suffered a Slight Nerv-
Gus Attack Monday Evening. But
Remained StOical and Sullen.
The Family ReIinquished All Claim
on the Body and 1t Will Be
Buried in the Cemetery At
tached to the Prison

.
CzOlgosz paid tribute with his life to
the law as the murderer of President
William Mckinley at 7:15 o'clock
Tuesday morning. He went to the
electric chair unconfessed and urre-
pentant.
Czolgosz was dressed in a very sim
pie manner for ;he execution, IL pair
of black trousers, a loose gray shirt,
and pair of gray Socks completing
the outfit. He wore no undergar-
ments and no shoes. The left leg
of the trousers was slit at the bottom
to permit the free adjustment CT the
electrode, and the shirt was opened
at the neck.
Seated in the chair, with the fatal
current about to be applied, Czol-
gOsz, facing the witnesses said: "I
shot the president because I thought
it would benefit the good working
people. am not sorry for the crime"
During this the attendants were
busy strapping him to the chair. His
last words were:
Il am awfUily sorry did not see
my father"
This was said after the strap had
been drawn across his face, yet his
words were heard distinctly by all
the witnesses in the room. For the
first time in the history of the prison
a condemned man marched to the
fatal chair Hnaccompanied by a
spiritual adviser.
The current was applied three
times. Death was instantaneous. 4
current of 1,7OO volts was used, and a
first application of it undoubtedly
caused the mans death. There was
the usual straining of the body dur
ing the passage of the current, and
then, after its cessation, the usual
limp sinking back. The current was
turned off a few seconds while the
physicians listened at the heart and
felt for the pulse of the unhappy
man. There was no pulse, and Czol-
gosz was apparently dead. To make
sure, however, a reduced current of
1,2OO volts was sent through the body.
and when this had been turned off
and second examination made, the
assassin was officially pronounced
dead. The straps were unloosed
and the body removed at once
to the operating table, where the
autopsy was Immediately begun by
Drs. Macdonald and Gervin, the pris-
on physician.
He suffered a slight nervous attack
Monday evening, but remained sui
len and stoical until the prison closed
at 10 o'clock. He refused to heed the
words of the priests who came to
urge spiritual preparation for death,
and declined either to re-embrace
Roman Catholicism or renounce an
archy. CzolgOsZ showed no strength
of love for kin. nor did he turn TO
any Of those higher considerations
which ordinarily claim the thoughts
of men occupying his position.
The prisoner suffered no loss of APP
petite, and during the day ate the
usual allowance of food given to
prisoners. Throughout his entire
confinement he had good appetite
and his physical condition was excel
lent. He weighed about 1876 pounds,
which was thought to represent a
slight gain since his arrest.
Under orders from the warden
coffin was also prepared The latter
Is of plain pine, stained black.
The body of Leon Czolgosz, the
murderer of President Mckinley, will
not be removed from Auburn. Super
intendent of State Prisons Cornelius
V. Collins and Warden j. Warren
Mead after hours of controversy
with Czolgosz's brother, succeeded
in obtaining from him a reHnquish-
ment of the family claims to the re-
mains when the eNecutiOner shall
have finished his work.
The resolution of superintendent
Collins to prevent sensation in the
transportation and burial or crema-
ton of the body of Czolgosz took new
zest from two offers that were sub,
United Monday by men of questionable
enterprise A museum keeper in one.
of the larger eastern cities telegra PHI
ed him an offer of $1,000 spot cash for
either the body or the garments of
the murderer and the owner of n
kaleidoscope wired Warden Mead
that he would pay $4,000 for permits
sion 10 take a moving piebure OF Oz1l-
gosz entering the death chamber.
Monday night Superintendent Col
Inns received a tel, pho.le. message
from the chief of police at Cleveland
announcing that the father of the
convicted man had signed an agree
ment similar to the one signed ly
the brother here Monday evening,
giving the prison authorities the dis
posal of the body.
Czolgosz held his last two inter-
views Monday night. the first wlsh
superintendent Collins and the gee
ond with his brother and brother-in-
law. Roth of the interviews were
brief and the interviewers did most
o. the talking until the question of
religion was mentioned, when Jzll-
Sosz broke from his seeming lethargy
and violently denounced the church
anS the clergy and made his relatives