The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-17
Murderer of President William Me
Kinley Indicted for Murder
in First Degree. S
Made No Answer to Questions Of
District Attorney or Court
Feigned Insanity.

BUFFALO, Sept. 16-Leon F. Czolgosz,
alias Fred Nieman, was indicted today
by Erie county court grand jury for the
crime of murder i'll the first degree IN
fatally shooting President William Nc
Kinley at the Temple of Music in the
Pan-American exposition grounds at 4:15
o'clock on the afternoon of Sept. g..
When arraigned before Judge Edward
K. Emery, in the county court, the
prisoner stubbornly refused to answer
questions repeatedly asked of him by
District Attorney Penney as to whether
he had counsel or wanted counsel. The
district attorney then suggested that, in
asmuch as the defendant refused to an
Swer, counsel should be assigned
Judge Emery assigned Hon. Loran L.
Lewis and Hon. Robert G. Titus, former
supreme court justices of this city, whose
names had been suggested by the Erie
County Bar association.
Czolgosz probably will be arraigned
again tomorrow morning to plead to the
Indictment.
District Attorney Penney presented the
evidence in the murder case to the grand
jury.
Aside from the surgeons and physi-
clans in the case no witnesses were
sworn other than those who were in the
Temple of Music and witnessed the
shooting. The complete list of witnesses
in the order in which they appeared to
testify is as follows:
LIST OF WITNESSES.
DR.. Herman Mynter, DR.. IL r. Gaylord
Or. I'll. G. Matzinger, DR.. M. D. Mann,
Secret Service Detective Gallaher,T At
torney James L. Quackenbush, Attorney
Louis L. Babcock, Harry Hinshaw, Capt.
Damer and Patrolman Merkel, of the ex-
schey and Privates Nef, o.Brien, Fenne-
baugh and Brooks, of the Seventy third
United States Seacoast artillery; Il. C.
Knapp, Mrs. Vandenburgh Davis, John
chief of the exposition detectives; Supt
Bull and Assistant Superintendent p. v.
Cusack. of the local police department; /;
Fred Leighter, Charles J. Close, Exposi-
ton Guards Westenfelder and James
and Detectives Geary and Solomon, of
this city.
INDICTMENT RETURNED.
At 4:15 o'clock this afternoon, just ten
days after the shooting, the grand jury
voted unanimously to ipdict Czolgosz for
murder in the first degree
At Al the secret indictment was pre-
sented to Judge Emery in the county
court.
Then ensued wait of an hour, but the
rumor that the murderer was to be ar
raigned spread and in a short time the
court room was crowded. Great secrecy
VAS maintained as to the place of con-
finement of the prisoner, but it is believed
that he was locked up in the temporary
Jail at the Erie county penitentiary.
where prisoners have been kept while
the Jail has been undergoing repairs. Af-
ter the indictment was reported the pris-
oner was driven from the penitentiary, a
mile from the city hall, to the Jail across
the street from the hall. Czolgosz was
then taken, under strong guard, from
the Jail through the tunnel under Della
ware avenue to the basement of the city
hall and up the stairs to the court room
on the second floor.
HANDCUFFED TO DETECTIVE.
The prisoner was shackled to detec-
tive and another detective held his other
arm, Assistant Superintendent Cusack
marching in front and number of pa
trolmen behind. When the prisoner was
taken before the bench the crowd in the
court room surged about him on all
sides. They were compelled to resume
their seats.
CZolgosz is Of medium height, of fairly
good build, and has light curly hair, but
a ten days growth of beard on his face
gave him an uIikempt appearance. Ap-
parently he feigned insanity, not stupid
ity, and his glance roamed about, but his
eyes We're always downcast. Not once