Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-31
TO BE BURIED
IN PRISON YARD
BODY OF ASSASSIN CZOLGOSZ
NOT TO LEAVE AUBURN.
ALL READY FOR DEATH
Murderer of President May Go to His
Doom Unconfessed and Unrepent-
ant-Indifferent to Relatives -
Brother ReIinquishes All Claims for
Remains-Museum Friends Offer

Auburn, n. Y, Oct. 29.-Leon F. |
Czolgosz will have paid tribute with |
his life TO the law as the murderer OF
President Mckinley by 7:15 O'Clock
today and unless he undergoes a great
change of heart and strength in the
few hours of life left him he will go
to the electric chair uncOnfesSed and
unrepentant He suffered a slight
nervous attack late yesterday but re-
manned sullen and stocial up to the
time the prison closed at 10 o'clock.
He refused to heed the words Of the
I priests who came to urge his spiritual
preparation for death and declined
| either to re-embrace Roman Catholi-
cism or renounce anarchy. Hence,
unless he changes his mind, there will
! be no religious ceremony at the end.
| CzolgosZ showed no strength of love
for his kin, nor did he turn to any of
those higher considerations which or
dinarily claim the thoughts of men
occupying his position. He may have
suffered untold torture but outWardly
seemed sullen and Indifferent. The
state will not surrender possession of
| the body and it will be secretly in
tered in ground controlled by the Of
ficials of Auburn prison. Valdez
| CZolgosZ, brother of the murderer,
foreseeing the endless difficulties and
possible angry demonstrations that
might result in the attempt to give the
body ordinary burial, needed the ad
vice of the prison officials and formal
ly reliIiquished all claim TO it. He
merely stipulated that at the close of
the autopsy all parts of the body be
buried. All chance for an unhappy or
unfortunate sequel to the execution
either in the display of popular con-
tempt or the exhibition of CHASTITY
relics will therefore be finally pre-
vented.
The plan of burning the clothing
and papers will be carried out imme-
| diately after the execution. The city
is in a normal calm and there seems
to be NO circumstances standing in the
way of a successful and expeditions ex-
eution of the law. Last night CZol-
gosz had brief interviews with Super
intendent Collins and his brOther-in-
law, but did little talking. When the
Czolgosz broke from his lethargy and
| violently denounced the church and
clergy and made the relatives promise
there would be no service for him.
| living or dead Prior to these inter
views, CZolgosz reluctantly received
Fathers Fudzinski and Hickey, after
he had once refused to meet them.
They remained three-quartrs Of an
hour, but he refused to listen to plead-
ings to repent.
In the interview with his brother, he
positively denied that anyone urged
i'm to assassinate the president
do you want to see the priests
again." asked his brother. He an
swered with more vehemence than he
had previously shown:
mo, damn them; don't send them
here again; | don't want them"
His brother-in-law interjected here:
"That's right, Leon"
STEPPING close to the bars the con-
demned said: And don't you have any
| IA oJ ms Wv CA liz NnCll L III uSStU L
don't want any Of their damned re-
ligion."
After a painful pause of a few min
utes, the brother-in-law suggested he
and the brother be permitted to wit
ness the execution.
Before the superintendent could re-
ply Leon said: Yes, Mr. Superintend-
ent, let them see me killed.
Collins refused and they soon left.
Soon after notice was received from
Cleveland that the father had signed
the REIMBURSEMENT as to the posses
sion of the body Of his son. The
prison was absolutely quiet at 10
O'Clock at which the superintendent
and warden retired with the announce
ment that there will be nothing given
out. Before the superintendent re-
tired the death watch reported that
Czolgosz was sleeping soundly.
The body will therefore not be re-
moved from Auburn. Superintendent
| Collins and Warden Mead, after an
| hours controversy with CZolgOsZ