Arizona republican., 1901-10-30
DETAILED STORY.
Of the Death of President Mckinley S
 Assassin.

 Of the Death of President McKinIey's
 Assassin.
 In the chamber. Electrician Davis and former Warden Thayer of Danna- more. had arranged the chair test placing a bank of twenty-two incades- cent lights across the arms connect ing the electrode wires at each end. The witnesses were ordered seated. then Warden Meade briefly addressed them. saying: You are here to wit ness the legal death of Leon F. Czol- gosz. I desire you to keep your seats and preserve absolute silence in the death chamber no matter what tran spires. There are plenty of guards and prison officials to preserve order and to attend to the proper details"
 The prison physician. Garin and Dr. Carlos Mcdonald, of New York, took a position at the left of the chair of Warden Meade, who stood directly in front of Electrician Davis. He retired to little room containing the cleo trical switchboard. Thayer gave a signal and the current was turned through the electric lights. flooding the chamber with a brilliant light, dra- matically showing the power that was used to kill the prisoner.
 Warden Meade gave signal to have the prisoner brought in at 1:1O:3O o'clock. Chief Keeper Tupper swung open the big steel door leading to the condemned cells. As the steel bars be- hind which Czolgosz had been kept swung aside two guards marched the prisoner out into the corridor and two others followed. the chief keeper walk ing in front. The guards on either side of Czolgosz had held of his arms. as if to support him or keep him from making a demonstration. As he step- ped over the threshold he stumbled. They held him up. and as they urged him forward toward the chair he stum- bled again on the little rubbish which covered the platform upon which the chair rested. His head was erect and with his flannel shirt turned back at the neck, he looked quite boyish-
 He was intensely pale and as he tried to throw his head back to carry himself erect his chin quivered perceptibly. AS he was being seated he looked about at the assembled witnesses with quite steady stare and said: II killed the president because he was the enemy of the good people-of the working peo- pie" His voice trembled slightly at first, but ne gained strength with each word, but spoke in perfect English "I am not sorry for the crime" he said loudly just as the guard pushed his head back on the rubber rest and drew a strap across his forehead and chin. As the pressure on the straps frightened and bound the jaws tightly he mum bled: "I am awfully sorry could not see my father"
 It was just exactly I'll o'clock when he crossed the threshold, but before a minute had elapsed and he had just finished his last statement the strap ping was completed and the guards stepped back
 Warden Meade raised his hand and at 80 Electrician Davis turned the. switch that threw HOO volts of cleo tricity into the living body. The rush of the current threw the body so harl against the straps that they creaked perceptibly; the hands clenched sud- denly and the whole attitude was one of extreme tension.
 For forty five seconds the full current was kepl on and then slowly the cleo | trician threw the switch back, reduc- l ing the current volt by volt until it was l cut off entirely. Then, just as it reached that point. he threw the lever back again two or three seconds. The body, which had collapsed as the cur | rent was reduced, stiffened up again against the straps.
  l Macdonald stepped to the chair anl put his hand over the heart. He said | he felt no pulsa tiOn. He suggested that the current be turned on for a few sec onds again. Once more the body be- came rigid. At 7:15 the current was l turned off for good.
 From the time CZolgosz left his cell until the full penalty was paid less 1 than four minutes elapsed The phy- ! sicians present used stethoscope and | other tests to determine if life re- 1 mained. At 7:17 the warden. raising his hand, announced: "Genetlemen, the | prisoner is dead"
 | The witnesses filed from the chamber
 many of them visibly affected. The | body was taken from the chair and laid | on the operating table.
 l Prison Superintendent Collins made | the following statement: Just con | slider that within about six weeks from | the death of his distinguished victim Czolgosz was regularly tried. convicted sentenced and executed; this despite
 .'e fact that the law compelled us C
 give him four weeks to prepare foi death. The execution was one of tho most successful ever conducted in tn,
 state. Extraordinary care had beer
 taken in the case because both the war | den and I received hundreds of threat ' ering letters. many of then asserting
 in violent and incorporate languag'
 that the prisoner would never be pu
 in the chair. l have decided for tn present that we will not destroy am
 of | e hundreds of letters written t
 the warden. Czolgosz and myself. Eventually they will be destroyed l but it has struck me that perhaps
 should make list of them. especial, those letters signed in their full prope names in which coincidence is offere