Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-11-01

7:1oEs O'Clock Chief Keeper Topper
swung open the big steel door lead
ing ito the condemned cells, and as
the steel bars behind which Czolgosz
had been kept were swung aside two
guards marched the prisoner out into
the corridor, two others following,
Rnd the chief keeper walking in front.
3 The guards on either side of Cool
gosz had hold of his arms, as if either
to support him, or to keep him from
making q demonstration. AS he
stepped over the threshold he STUN
bled, but they held him up, and as
they urged him forward toward the
chair he stumbled again on the lit
tie rubber-covered platform upon
which the chair rests. His head was
erect, and, with his gray flannel shirt
turned back at the neck, he looked
quite boyish. He was intensely pale
and as he tried to throw his head
back and carry himself erect his chin
auivered very perceptibiy.
EiIence Broken by Impious Speech.
\ AS he was being seated he looked
about at the assembled witnesses
with quite steady stare and said:
81 killed the president because he
was an enemy of the good people
tf the working people,
. His voice trembled slightly at first,
but gained strength with each word,
ind he spoke perfect English.
81 am not sorry for my crime" he
said, loudly, just as the guard pushed
his head back on the rubber head
rest and drew the strap across his
Forehead and chin. AS the pressure
nm the straps frightened and bound
The jaw slightly, he mumbled:
81 am awfu1fy sorry could not see
ny father"
Current Turned On.
It was just exactly I'LL o'clock WREN
he crossed the thres hold, but min
ute had elapsed and he had just fin
Ashed the last statement when the
Atrapping was completed and the
guards stepped back. Warden Mead
raised his hand and at 7:12:3O Electro
clan Davis turned the switch that
Ahrew 100 volts Of electricity into the
living body.
A speedy Execution.
! From the time Czolgosz had left his
cell until the full penalty was paid,
less than four minutes had elapsed.
The physicians present used the
Kaleidoscope and other tests to deter
mine if any life remained, and at 7:17
The warden, raising his hands, an.
bounced:
Gentlemen, the prisoneris dead"
Prison Superintendent Collins made
khe following statement to the press:
"Just consider that within about six
weeks from the death of. his distinguished
victim CzolgosZ was regularly tried, con-
Nieted, sentenced and executed, and this
Despite the fact that the law compelled us
10 give him four weeks to prepare for
Heath. All has been done in dignifed
way and the greatest credit Is due tc
Warden Mead for the care he has taken to
strip the case of sensationalism. The
AIecution was one of the most successful
aver conducted In the state. Extraordinary
care had to be taken in the case because
both the warden and ! received hundreds
of threatening letters, many of them as
serting In violent and Incorporate Lam
guage that the prisoner would never be
put In the chair. have decided for the
present that we will not destroy any of the
hundreds of letters written to Czolgosz,
Eventually they will be destroyed, but 1t
has struck me that perhaps we should
make a list of them especially of those let
tiers signed with full and proper names, in
which coincidence was offered to the pris-
oner or threats against us were made. My
plan is 10 get the addresses of these people
and keep the list for police reference be-
hteve that there may come a time when such
n list would be valuable in running down
anarchists. j have decided to bury the
body of Czolgosz in the regular prison plot.
In the local cemetery. The funeral will
take place some time within the next 49,
hours. We will keep the grave guarded
DAY and iaeht until such time as .the
luickiime. which will be placed around the
body shall have entirely destroyed it,
Z Electrician Davis made this state
enent as to the execution:
81 used LOO volts of electricity, turning
Gt into the body at full voltage for seven
seconds and then slowly reducing 1t for
Is seconds. Then threw the full voltage
IN again for eight seconds, Then, at the
Suggestion Of DR.. Macdonald, turned itJ1
Pm again for few seconds. 1 did not think1
6lfS mas any nennss!tY far the third con.