The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-30
PASSING OF LEON CZOLGOSZ
EXECUTION or THE ASSASSIN OF
 PRESIDENT M,KINLEY.

Extreme Punishment of the Law Car
 ried Out Without Any Unusual Inci- dent-No Fear shown by the Con.
 demned Declared at tho Very Last
 That He Was Not Sorry for His Crime l Autopsy Reveals a Perfectly Healthy 1 State of All Organs Including the | Brain.
 Auburn, Oct 29.-The assassin of 1 President Mckinley was put to death
 in the state prison here at 7:12 q. m. | to-day, The electric current, of 1,700
 volts, was turned on three times before
 he was pronounced dead. No fear was | shown by the assassin, and his last
 declaration was that he was not sorry for his crime.
 His watchers said that he slept well
 last night, apparently unconcerned at l the approach of death. Half an hour
 before the execution the assassin stat
 ed to Superintendent Collins and War den Mead that lie wanted to make a bldltliltil WilSA lIlGIc StIC d lOt OA PCO-
 pie to hear me- When told that he
 could not do that he said he would not
 talk at all, but he later changed his mind,
 l There was no unusual incident to mark the execution. The witnesses gathered In the office of the warden at 6.45 o'clock. The jury was composed as follows: Foreman, John F. Jaeckel Auburn; Ashley w. Cole, Albany; H. Fl. Bender, Albany; Charles R. Skin ner Albany; George Weston, Nor
 wich; D. l.. Ingalls,, Westfield; H. O.. Ely, Binghamton; Charles R. Huntley, G. R. Trowbridge, Buffalo, and John A. Sleicher, New York
 Dr. Carlos F Macdonald of New York and Dr. Gerin of Auburn were the physicians, and other witnesses were H. Bonesteel, Troy; W. D. Wolff, Rochester; c. F. Rattigan, Auburn; George R. Peck, Auburn; w. N Thay- CT, former warden of Dannemora prison, and three newspaper men.
 Shortly before the party was taken to the death chamber, and its mem- bers, after being placed about the cleo trio chair, were cautioned not to leave their seats under any circumstances. After test of the apparatus, Warden Mead gave the signal for the prisoner to be brought in. As he stepped over the threshold of the death chamber the assassin stumbled but the guards held him up. He stumbled again on the lit- tie rubber covered platform upon which the chair rests. He was very pale.
 As he was being seated he looked about at the witnesses with a steady stare and said: T killed the president because he was an enemy of the good people-of the working people"
 His voice trembled slightly at first, but gained strength. T am not sorry for my crime" he said loudly, as the guard pushed his head back on the rubber headrest and drew the strap across his forehead and chin. As the pressure on the straps frightened he mumbled: I'm sorry I could not see my father"
 He had barely finished this utterance when the strapping was completed and the current was turned on. It was kept on full forty-f1ve seconds, cut off, turned on for few seconds and then, after an examination of the body by physicians. again turned on for few seconds.
 From the time Czolgosz had left his cell until his death less than four min- utes had elapsed. The physicians present used the stethoscope and other tests to determine whether any life re- mained, and at TIT the warden, rais- ing his hand, announced, "Gentlemen. the prisoner is dead"
 When the body of the assassin had been removed to the autopsy table the prisoners who had been kept locked In their cells were released and work was rsumed There was no excitement among the convicts and no unusual scenes about the prison. A crowd that numbered scarcely a hundred stood around the gate
 The witnesses filed down from the chamber, and dispersed quickly some of them leaving for their homes as early as o'clock.
 The body was taken from the chair and laid on the operating table AL most the entire attention of the phy- sicians assigned to hold the autopsy was directed towards discovering if possible whether the assassin was in any way mentally irresponsible. The autopsy was conducted by pr. Carlos F Macdonald, who is all expert alien- ist and ex-president of the New York State Lunacy commission; pr. E. A. Spitzka of New York, and pr. Gerin, tbe nriston nhysioian
 The skull was found to be of normal thickness. It was the unanimous agreement after lnicroscopical exam ination that the brain was normal, or slightly above normal. This demon strated to the satisfaction of the phy- sicians that in no way was Czolgosz's mental condition. except as it might have been perverted, responsible for the crime.
 At noon the autopsy surgeons issued the following brief statement:
 The autopsy was made by Edward A. erityl5a of New York, under the in,- mediate supervision and direction of pr. Carlos r. Macdonald of New York and pr. John Gerin, prison physician. The autopsy occupied over three hours, and embraced a careful examination of all the bodily organs, including the brain. The examination revealed 9 perfectly healthy state of all the or rans including the brain. All of the |