Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-09-27
is FOUND GUILTY.
MoKinley's Assassin Is Convicted
of Murder.
The Trial mt Buffalo Consumed Lesr
Than Two Days-Prosecution Oc-
cupied Nearly All of This
Time, ms No Defense Of Any
Consequence was Made.

was yesterday placed on trial,
charged with the murder of Presi-
dent Mckinley. He entered plea
of guilty" which was subsequently
changed to mot guilty" by direction
of the court.
All the events of the day indicated
that the trial will be short. Court
convened at 10 o'clock. Within two
hours eight jurors had been secured.
Technicalities were not raised by ex-
nmining counsel, but it was signifi-
cant that every man who said he had
not formed an opinion on the case
was excused by the district attorney.
Those who acknowledged they had
formed an opinion, or stated that
they were preiudiced, but admitted
that their opinion could be changed
by evidence, were accepted by each
side.
Justice Truman C. White. one of
the oldest supreme court judges, was
on the bench. Immediately after the
opening of court and after the pris-
oner had pleaded, Justice Lewis,
senior counsel for the defendant, an
nounced that together with his col
leagues, ex-Justice Robert c. Titus
and Carlton L. Ladd, they were
ready to act in behalf of the pris-
oner.
The work of securing the jury was
then undertaken with CELEBRITY that
was amazing. Before the day was
over the entire panel had been
sworn, the jurors had listened to a
description of the Temple of Music,
where the crime occurred; had seen
photographs of the interior of that
structure and had been told by three
surgeons what caused the death of
the president and the effect of the
assassln's shot upon the various or
gans of the body.
The first witness, Samuel j. Field,
chief engineer of the Pan-American
exposition, described the ground
floor plan of the Temple of Music and
was followed by Perry A. Bliss, a
photographer, who presented views
of the interior of the building. The
remainder of the afternoon was TAX
en- up with the testimony of three
physicians, two of whom had attend
ed the president during his last days,
while the other performed the
autopsy. The latter, DR.. Harvey II.
| Gaylord, described the location of
the wounds in the stomach and the
| direction of the bullet. The cause
of death was attributed to the gum
shot wound. but fundamentally, he
| said, it was due to the changes back
| of the stomach, in the pancreas,
caused by the "breaking down" of
the material of the pancreas, as n
result of the passage of the bullet.
DIR. Herman Mynter followed and
his testimony brought out the fact
that the reason why the fatal bullet
had not been located at the autopsy
was because of the unwillingness of
| the presidents relatives TO have the
body further mutilated by their in
struments. DIR. Mynter and DIR.
Mann, who followed him, both testi-
fled that the primal cause of death
was the gunshot wound in the stom-
ach. One effect of this wound was,
they said, to cause gangrene to form
in the pancreas and the spot OF
poisoned tissue was as large as sill
YER dollar.
Buffalo, n. Y, Sept. 25.-Leon F.
Czolgosz was yesterday found guilty
of murder in the first degree by a
| jury in the supreme court, in having
shot President Mckinley the wounds
inflicted afterwards resulting in the
| ueath OF the preSldent.
The wheels of justice moved swift
ly. The trial of the assassin con-
sumed eight hours and 26 minutes
and covered period of only two
days. Practically all of this time
was occupied by the prosecution in
| presenting a case so clear, so con-
elusive that even had the prisoner
entered the plea of insanity it is
doubtful if the jury would have re-
turned a different verdict.
The announcement made yesterday
afternoon by the attorneys for the
prisoner that the eminent alienists
summoned by the Erie County Bar
association and by the district at
torney to examine Czolgosz and to
determine his exact condition men,
tally declared him to be perfectly
sane, destroyed the only stage of a
defense that Judges Lewis and Titus
could have put together
Before adjournment Justice White
said that he would pronounce sem
tence on the defendant on Thursday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock. The prison
er was taken at once through the
tunnel, under Delaware avenue, back
to the Jail. To all appearances he
was in no way affected by the result
of the trial.
The father, brother and sister of
the assassin were put through rigid
examination last night by Assistant
District Attorney Haller in the pres
ence of Assistant Superintendent Gu
sack and Detectives Geary and Solo
mon. For an hour and a half they
were under a scorching fire of ques-
tions which resulted in the informa-
tion that they knew nothing about
the dastardly plot; that they came
from Cleveland to vindicate their
own name and, if possible, to aid the
authorities by securing from the
prisoner some statement as to his
reasons for the assassination.
Emma Goldman Is Free.