The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-04

Detroit; residence, Broadway, Nowak's,
Buffalo; occupation, laborer; married or
single, single; degree of education, COM
mon school and parochial; religious in
struction, Catholic; parents. father liv-
ing, mother dead; temperate or intern
perate, temperate; former conviction of
crime none
The clerk of the court then asked:
Have you any legal cause to show
why sentence of the court should not |
now be pronounced against your
II cannot hear that" replied the pris- !
oner.
Clerk Fisher repeated his question, and |
Czolgosz replied:
81 would rather have this gentleman
here speak," looking toward District At
torney Penney. 81 can hear him better"
At this point Justice White told those
IN the courtroom that they must be quiet
or they would be excluded from the
room.
Penney then said to the prisoner:
"CZolgosz, the court wants to know if
you have any reason to give why SEN
| tence should not be pronounced against
you. Have you anything to say to the
judge? Say yes or no.
/ The prisoner did not reply, and Justice
White, addressing the prisoner, said:
4
| to say relates explicitly to the subject in
hand here at this time and which the
law provides, why sentence should not
be now pronounced against you, and Is
defined by the statute. The first is that
you may claim that you are insane; the
next Is that you have good cause to offer
either in arrest Of the judgment about
to be pronounced against you or, for a
new trial. Those are the grounds speci-
; fed by the statute On which you have a
right to speak at this time. and you are
at perfect liberty to do SO IL you wish"
The prisoner replied:
81 have nothing to say about that"
The court said:
Are you ready?"
| Penney replied:
Yes"
Have you anything to say?'' asked
. Justice White.
ACTED ALL BY HIMSELF.
YES" replied the prisoner.
"I think he should be permitted to
make a statement in exculpation of his
act if the court please" said ex-Judge
Titus.
The court replied:
THAT will depend upon what his state
ment isl
Justice White then said:
Have you (speaking to Titus) anything
to say in behalf of the prisoner at this
timer?
> Il have nothing to say within the def
T milton of what your Honor has read" re
T piled the attorney, but it seems to mt
in order that the innocent should no
suffer by this defendants crime, the
}. court should permit him to eXculpate a.
least the father, brother and sisters"
l. From the court: Certainly, if that L
the object of any statement he wishes t.
U make, proceed"
The prisoner said:
There was no one else but me. NJ
one else told me to do 1t and no one pait
me to do it."
lie Titus repeated lit as follows:
Owing to the prisoners feeble voice
II he says no one had anything to do witt
the commission of his crime but himself
Le that his father and mother and no on
else had anything to do with and knew
'e nothing about it,
The prisoner continued:
IT II was not told anything about tina
crime, and 1 never thought anything
,e about the murder until a couple of day
before l committed the crime"
ID Titus repeated 1t as follows:
HE never told anyone about the Grim
1t and never intended to commit it until
couple, of days before its commission.
u SENTENCE IS IMPOSED.
3; Then Justice White passed sentence a
y follows:
In taking the life of our beloved pres
r ident, you committed crime whic
shocked and outraged the moral sens
of the civilized world. You have con
. fessed that guilt, and after learning a
that at this time can be learned from tn
D facts and circumstances of the case
:, twelve good Jurors have pronounced yo
" guilty and have found you guilty G
~ murder in the first degree.
You have said, according to the test
mony of creditable witnesses and you
self that no other person aided or abel
ted you in the commission of this terri
BILE act. God grant it may be So TIL
penalty for the crime for which yo
stand convicted is fixed by the statut
and it now becomes my duty to prC
nounce this judgment against you.
The sentence of the court Is that,
the week beginning October Is, 1901, {
the place, in the manner and by tn
means prescribed by law, you suffer ii
punishment of death.
Remove the prisoner"
The crowd slowly filed out of the roo
and court adjourned at 2:26.
The death warrant, signed by JustiC
White, is addressed to the agent an
warden of Auburn State Prison and d
reefs him to execute the sentence of Il
court within the walls of the prison c
some day during the week beginning o.
tober % next. by causing Ito pa:
through the body of the said Leon
Czolgosz a current of electricity of suf
cient intensity to cause death and thi
the application of the said current
electricity be continued until he, the sa
Leon F. Czolgosz be dead"