The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-17
THE ASSASSIN OF THE
PRESIDENT is
INDICTED
The Grand Jury Find Him
Guilty Of Murder in
First Degree.
\ ARRAlGNEO YESTERDAY
He Refused to Answer Questions and
Judge Emery Assigned Him
Counsel.
HE WILL BE ARRANGED AGAIN TODAY
And viii Then Plead 10 The indictment. When
CzoIgosz Appear, in the Crowed
Opurt He Was Shackl.d
10 a Detective.
(By the Associated Press.)


Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 16-Leon F.
Czolgosz, alias Fred Nieman, was indict-
ed today by the county court grand jury
for the crime of murder in the first de-
gree in fatally shooting President Will
liam Mckinley at the Temple of Music,
in the Pan American Exposition grounds
at AIS O'Clock on the afternoon of Sep
tcmber 9Th.
When arraigned before Judge Edward
X 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. Lorain L..
Lewis and Hon. Robert C. 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 Penny presented the
evidence in the murder case to the grand
jury.
LIST OF THE WITNESSES.
Aside from the surgeons and physicians
in the case, no witnesses were sworn
ether than those who were in the Temple
of Music and witnessed the, - shooting.
The complete list of witnesses in the or
der in which they appeared to testify is
as follows p
Dr. Herman Mynter, DR.. H. R. Gaylord,
DR.. H. G. Matzinger, DR.. NJ D. Mann.
Secret Service Detective Gallaher, At
torney James l.. Quackenbush, Attorney
Louis l.. Babcock, Harry Henshaw, Cap
tain Damer and Patrolman Merkel. of
the Exposition Guards; Corporal Louis
Bertschey and Privates Nef, O'Brien,
Fennenbaugh and James, of the Seventh
Coast Artillery; A. c. Knapp Mrs. Ven
derburg Davis, Captain Valley, Chief of
the Exposition detectives; Superinten-
dent Bull and Assistant Superintendent
p. V. Cusack, of the local police depart
ment; Fred Leighter, Charles j. Close,
Exposition Guards Westenfelder and
James and Detectives Geary and Solomon
of this city.
At 4:15 o'clock this afternoon exactly
ten days after the shooting, the grand
jury voted unanimously to indict
Czolgosz for murder in the first degree.
At AL o'clock the secret indictment
was presented to Judge Emery in the
county court.
THE COURT ROOM THRONGED.
Then ensued wait of an hour, but
the rumor that the murderer was to be
arraigned spread and in a short time
the court room was crowded. Great
secrecy was maintained as to the place
of confinement of the prisoner, but it is
believed that he was locked up in the
temporary Jail at the Erie county peni-
tertiary where prisoners have been kept
while the jail has been undergoing re-
pairs. After the indictment was reported
the prisoner was driven from the peni-
tertiary, a mile from the city hall. to
the Jail across the street from the hail.
Czolgosz was then taken under strong
guard from the Jail through the tunnel
under Delaware Avenue to the basement
OF the city nall and up the stairs to the
: court room on the second floor.
CROWD SURGED ABOUT HIM.
The prisoner was shackled to de-
tectlve and another detective held his
other arm; Assistant Superintendent
Cusack marching in front and a number
OF parchment behind. When the pris-
cner was taken before the bench the
crowd in the court room surged about him
en- all sides. They were compelled TO
resume their seats.
fleming INSANITY.
Czolgosz is of a medium height, of
fairly good build and has light curly
hair, but ten days growth of beard on
his face gave him an unkept appearance.
Apparently he feigned insanity, not stu
ridity and mis- glance roamed about, but
his eyes We're always downcast Ne.
once did he look the county prosecutor
or the judge in the face.