Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-28
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Tuesday morning carrying final pun
isnment to the murderer.
Electrician Davis will look the ap-
paratus over again tomorrow and re-
view with the prison officials the plan
under which the sentence of death is
to be carried out. Czolgosz will be
the fifty-ninth man in the State and
the fiftieth at Auburn prison at whose
electrocution Davis has applied the
current.
The death warrant has not yet been
read to the prisoner, but it is believed
it will be tomorrow afternoon. The
general practice is to read this paper
some time after the commencement of
the period of execution designation de-
signed by the court. The period in this
commenced at midnight tonight.
The firm purpose of Superintendent
Collins and Warden Mead to avoid
even the appearance of sensationalism
in this case demonstrated by an Incl
dent in connection with one of the
principal witnesses. DR.. Carlos F. Nc
Donald, Of New York City, a former
president of the State lunacy commits
sion, is to be the principal attending
physician at the execution He was
one of tne alienists who examined Czol-
gosz at Buffalo and pronounced the
prisoner sane He has been very anX-
ious to take away with him from the
autopsy the assassins brain for pur-
poses of microscopical examination. A
few days ago Dr.. Mcdonald had talk
with Superintendent Collins and ask
ed him to allow him, after the autopsy,
to take the brain to New York City
for examination. Mr.. Collins said to
him:
Doctor, have planned to make this
execution an example of mystery that
will forestall any attempt at sensa-
sionalsm. l cannot allow anything to
go away from the prison that will in
for notoriety. You may stay at the
prison for a week if you will, and ex-
anime any portion of the anatomy you
please, but my present plan is not to
allow any portion of the man, his
clothing or even the letters he received,
to leave this place.
DR.. Mcdonald replied:
81 would like to have taken the brain
away, but l am frank to say that you
are absolutely right in the mat er. If
desire to make an examination / will
do 1t at the prison"
The plan of Superintendent Collins
is heartily aequiesced in by Warden
Mead, and it is understood that an I'M
repealed law has been found that will
allow the warden to refuse any request
for Czolgoss's body from even his rel
atives and will give the warden the
privilege of disposing of it. In that
event within two hours after the exc
cution, unless Dr.. Mcdonald cares to
make an analysis Of the brain, Czol-
gosz's body, clothes, letters and every
thing reminiscent of him in the prison
will be disposed Of; the body of the
assassin will be buried in quick lime,
and the clothes, letters and packages
will be consumed by fire. And this is
not all. Warden Mead, with Superin-
tendent Collins approval, has decided
that for the next thirty hours preceding
the execution of Czolgosz, not one word
of his condition or actions shall be
given out from the prison. In other
words, the man, beginning from mid
night, is practically dead so far as the
public is concerned.
When his death is accomplished,
Warden Mead will give out brief state
ment of the prisoner last hours, in
Guiding any confession he may make
The result of the autopsy will also be
given out by the warden.
At the act of Tuesday, Dr. Carlos F.
Mcdonald, of New York. and Prison
Physician Germ will be the attending
physicians and the priests, if they are
requested by Czolgosz, will be the two
Polish ones that have heretofore visit