The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-18
YES NOR NO
LEON CZOLGOSZ REFUSES TO AN
sWER QUESTIONS OF COUN-
Sell OR COURT
STILL oBsTINATELY SILENT
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Attorney Assigned to the Murderer's
Defense Enters an informal
Plea of Not GuiIty-Pris-
Oner Kissed.

BUFFALO, Sept I7.-Leon F. Czolgosz,
the assassin of President Mckinley, was
arraigned before Judge Edward K. Emery
in the county court at 3 O'Clock this after
noon on the Indictment for murder in the
first degree in fatally shooting President
Mckinley, in the temple of music, at the
Pan-American exposition on September
6. Again the stubborn prisoner refused
to plead or even to utter word or sound,
and the Hon. Loran l.. Lewis ex-supreme
court Justice, entered plea of not guilty
The accused will be tried in the supreme
court next Monday morning.
Crowds focked to the city hall today
to see the prisoner, but the uncertainty
surrounding the question as to whether
or not counsel could be secured for him
saved congestion of the court room and
corridor of the hall.
The most notable incident of the day
was the Kissing of the prisoner by the
crowds who surged around him as he
was being escorted down the stairs still
draped in mourning garb. The strong
guard of patrolmen and deputy sheriffs
had been dispensed with, so that the peo-
pie were able to get nearer the prisoner
as he passed to and from the court room.
WOULDN'T TALK TO COUNSEL.
AS result of the urging of President
Adelbert Moot of the Erie county bar
association, Judge Lewis, one. of the at
torneys assigned as counsel by Judge
Emery yesterday, called at the Erie coun-
ty jail this afternoon TO see the prisoner
CZolgosz refused to talk to Judge Lewis
and even refused to answer questions as
to whether or not he wanted any ceun-
sci. Judge Lewis said that nevertheless
he would appear for the prisoner upon ar
raignment even if he decided not to ac-
cent the aSSignTne emf of the court
Absolutely no demonstration having
been made against the prisoner yester-
day, the authorities decided that the
strong guard was unnecessary today. Czol-
gosz was taken from the jail through the
tunnel under Delaware avenue to the city
hall by Detectives Solomon and Geary,
being handcuffed to the latter.
In passing from the bs aent of the
city hall to the court rod on the sec
ond floor Czolgosz was compelled to pass
close to the black and white bunting
with which the pillars, ceilings, windows
and stairways of the city hall were
draped when the body OF the president
was lying in state on Sunday, which garb
will not be removed until after the burial
on Thursday. These evidences of the
city's grief apparently made not the
slightest impression on the prisoner, and
he gave no more heed to them or to the
large portraits of the president tastily
draped with American flags than he dva
to the questions of the court or the dis
trict attorney. The prisoner entered the
court room just at the city hall clock
was striking o'clock, and as many Of
the curious spectators as could surged
into the court room behind him. A mur-
mur ran through the. audience but the
gavel of the judge and the tipstafr of the
crier soon restored order.
FORMALLY ARRATGNED
AS soon as Czolgosza was before the
bar and the handouts were removed.
District Attorney Penney began the
formal arraignment. He read the prin-
cipal charges of the indictment in a
voice of severity and asked:
How do you plead, guilty or moi
gusty?'
Not a sound was uttered by the pris-
oner. He stood mute before the bar oil
justice, apparently continuing his feint
of insanity, which was noticed for the
first time when he was taken into court
yesterday afternoon. His curly hair was
dishevelled and, although his linen was
white and clean, his disordered clothes
and the growth of his beard gave him
an unkempt appearance. Spectators In
the court room commented on the fact
that If shaved, which he has not beer
since the day of the shooting, he would
be fairly good-lookirg young man
Although his demearor was still one OF
stubbornness, he gave a little more evil
dence of concern than upon his first
presence in court. When questions were
being asked OF him rapidly ha mnistanAd