The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-27

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 No reply.
 What schools have you attended?'
 Public and church schools"
 Are you temperate or intemperate?'
 "Temperate.'
 Have you ever before been convict ed of any crime?"
 No"
 Are your father and mother alive?'
 My father is alive; my mother is dead"
 Czolgosz's replies were so low that he could not be heard five feet away,
 The clerk of the court then asked: Have you any legal cause to show now why the sentence of the court should not be passed against you?''
 q cannot hear that" replied the prisoner
 Clerk Fisher repeated his question and Czolgosz replied: K
 I'd rather have this gentleman here, speak," looking towards District At torney Penney, "I can hear him bet ter"
 At this point Justice White told those in the court room that they must be
 
 the room.
 MT. Penney then said to the prisoner: fCzolgosz, 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 mo-
 The prisoner did not reply, and Justice White addressing the prisoner said: Tn that behalf, what you have right to say relates explicitly to the subject in hand here at this time, and which the law provides why sentence should not be 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 new trial. These are the grounds specified by the stat ute on which you have right to speak at this time, and you are at perfect lib- erty to do so if you wish'
 The prisoner replied: II have noth- ing to say about that
 The court said: Are you ready?"
 MT. Penney replied: Yes"
 Have you anything to say?" asked Justice White.
 Yes" replied the prisoner.
 Judge Titus said: T think he should be permitted to make a statement in exculpation of his act, if the court please"
 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?'
 q have nothing to say within the definition of what your honor has read, replied the attorney.
 "Then it seems to me that in order that the innocent should not suffer by this defendants crime, that the court should permit him to exculpate at least his father. brother and sisters"
 From the court Certainly, if that is the object of any statement he wishes to make. Proceed"
 Then the prisoner said: "There was no one else but me. No one else told me to do it; and no one paid me to do it..
 Judge Titus replied as follows: "Ow- ing to the prisoners feeble voice, he says no one had anything to do with the commission of his crime but him. self; that his father and mother, and no one else, had anything to do with it, and knew nothing about it.
 The prisoner continued: 1T was not told anything about the crime, and l never thought anything about murder until a couple of days before l com- mitted the crime"
 Judge Titus again repeated as fol- lows: He never told anyone about the crime and never intended to commit it until a couple of days before it's com mission"
 Then Justice White passed sentence as follows: Tn taking the life of our beloved president, you committed crime which shocked 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 circum- stances of the case, twelve good jurors have pronounced you guilty, and have found you guilty of murder in the first degree
 You have said, according to the tes timony of creditable witnesses and yourself that no other person aided or abetted you in the commission of this terrible act, God grant it may be so. The penalty of the crime for which you stand convicted is fixed by this statute and it now becomes my duty to pronounce this judgment against you.
 ''The sentence of the court Is that in the week beginning October 18th. 19O1 at the place, in the manner and means