The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-27
TWAS NO ONE ELSE BUT ME- CzOlgOSz Insists He Had No AccOmplice.
 IS SENTENCED TO DEATH Will Be ElectrOcuted the Last Week in october.
 The Prisoner Said No One Told Him to Commit Terrible Crime. Removed Last Eight to Auburn.
IS SENTENCED TO DEATH

Buffalo, Sept. 2s-Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President Mckinley was this afternoon sentenced to be electrocuted in Auburn State prison during the week be- ginnig October 2s 1901. Before sentence was passed the assassin evinced a desire to speak, but he could not get his voice above a whisper and his words were repeated to the court by his counsel
 There was no one else but me-" the prisoner said in a whisper. ''No one else told me to do 1t and no one paid me to do it. I was not told anything about the crime and never thought anything about that until a couple of days before I com- mitted the crime"
 CZolgosZ sat down. He was quite clam, but 1t was evident that his mind was flooded with thoughts of his own dis tress. His eyes were dilated, making them appear very bright. His cheeks were a triie pale and his outstretched hand trembled The guards put the handcuffs on his wrists. He looked at one of the officers. There was an ex- precision of the profoundest fear and help lessness in his eyes. He glanced about at the people who crowded the room in efforts to get look at him. The pri- soner's eyelids rose and fell tremulously and then he fixed his gaze on the floor | In front of him.
 At this point Judge Titus came over | to the prisoner and bade him good bye Czolgosz replied very faintly. letting his l eyes rest upon the man who has been his counsel.
 | Good bye," he said weakly.
 Czolgosz was then hurried down stairs and through the tunnel of sobs' to the jail, where he will remain until removed to Auburn to pay the penalty for his crime.
 converting of court was o'clock every seat and every foot of standing room Il were occupied before lao, and scores were ciamoring outside for admittance. The fl doors were locked and no more were ad- motted to the room.
 l g4 Record of Czolgosz Taken. .7' The prisonerNwas brought into the room at five minutes to two. As soon 1s Justice White assumed the bench District Attorney Penney said:
 | If your honor please, 1 move sentence in the case of the people vs. Leon F.. l Czolgosz. Stand up, Czolgosz. Clerk Fisher swore the prisoner and his record was taken by the District Attorney | as follows:
 IAgs 2S years; nativity. Detroit; resi- dence, Broadway, Nowaks, Buffalo; oc- | cupation, laborer; married or single, sin l gle, degree of education, common school and parochlal; religious instruction, Cath olic parents, father living. mother dead; temperate or incorporate. temperate; l former conviction of crime, none."
 The clerk of the court then asked: Have you any legal cause to show why the sentence of the courc should not now be pronounced against your l IT cannot hear that" replied the pris- | cner.
 Clerk Fisher repeated the question and Czolgosz replied
 I'd rather have this gentleman here speak" looking towards District Attor-
 At this point Justice White told those or they would be excluded from the | room.
 MT. Penney then said to the prisoner: | "Czolgosz the court wants to know if | you have any reason to give why sem | tence should not be pronounced against you. Have you anything to say to the | judge? Yes or mo-"
 The prisoner did not reply, and Justice White. addressing the prisoner said: "In that behalf, what you have a right | 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 de- fined by the statute.
 "The first is that you may claim that
 "Thh next is that you have good cause | to offer either in arrest of the judgment about to be pronounced against you or | specified by the statute in which you have a right to speak at this time and you are at perfect liberty to do so If you | wish"
 Prisoner Breaks Silence.
 The prisoner replied: q have nothing to say about that"
 The court said :"Are you ready?
 MT. Penney replied. yes"
 Have you anything to say?" asked Jus
 "Yea" replied the prisoner
 T think he should be permitted to make a statement in eXculpation of his act If the court please" said Judge IT. l
 The court replied That will depend upon what his statement is Justice White then said: Have you | (speaking to Judge Titus) anything to say | in behalf of the prisoner at this time?"
 'I have nothing to say within the defi- | milton of what your honor has read" me in order that the innocent should not suffer by this defendants crime, the court should permit him to exculpate his
 From the court Certainly, If that is the object of any statement he wishes to IT ake. proceed"
 The prisoner then said: There was no one else but me No one else told me to do 1t, and no one paid me to do 1t"
 Judge Titus repeated 1t as follows, ow Ing to the prisoners feeble voIce'
 He says no one had anything to do with the commission of his crime but himself; that his father and mother and no one else nad anytnlnB to do with ana knew nothing about it.. The prisoner continued: "I was not | told anything about that crime. and l never thought about murder until a | couple of days before l committed the | crime
 Judge T' gain repeated as follows:
 "He neV Jld any one about the crime and never Intended to commit it until couple of days before its commission
 Justice White Passes Sentence.
 Then Justice White passed sentence as follows:
 Tn taking the life of our beloved Presi- dent, you committed crime which shock ed and outraged the moral sense of the civilized world You have confessed that guilt and after learning all that at this time can be learned from the facts and circumstances of the case, twelve good Jurors have pronounced you guilty and have found you guilty of murder in the first degree.
 timony of creditable witnesses and your self, that no other person aided or abet-