The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-09
SULLEN AND DEFIANT.
Czolgosz Expresses Regret That He
Failed to Kill the President.

Buffalo, Sept. 9.-Sul1en, defiant and
yet filled with morbid fear. Leon Cool
gosz covers in his cell at police head
quarters at times in a frenzy Of self
glorification and again in an ague of
fear, when he realizes what the future
may have in store for him.
The assassin of President Mckinley
presents a character that would make
an interesting study. That he is sane
there can be no doubt. He realizes the
enormity Of his crime. and when his
soul is not agitated by fear he looks
upon himself as a hero. Even when
thoughts of the punishment that is inc
vitable come to him he refuses to re-
greet
Now and then he inquiries of his guard
whether his victim still lives. Each
time an affirmative has been given him
he has shaken his head and expressed
regret.
once he was deceived. The guard told
him that the president had just died.
The face of this monstrous man lighted
up, smile of pleasure fitted across his
features, and in a tone that betokened
candidness, he said:
L am glad; 1 am glad that he is
dead I had a duty and did it well.
Now you can do with me as you will"
With this declaration Of bravadO
Czologsz paced restlessly up and down
his cell mumbling to himself They
said that I was afraid. 1 am the only
man who had the courage"
Three minutes later Czologsz was "
ing on his cot all a-tremble. His lips
tWitched and tears We're pouring down
his cheeks. When his guard attempted
to again engage him in conversation
either he could not or he would not
speak, and he did not talk until he had
been assured that mistake had been
made and that the president lived
At this Czolgosz scowled and hurled
a dprRiWar.
You told me he was dead" he said,
"and I am sorry that 1t is not so.
Il am not frightened. / care not for
the result to myself. 1 came to Buffalo
to perform certain deed and unless
have accomplished it my work has not
been well done-y
In this manner the day has been passed
The Greatest fear of Czofofysz is that he
will meet with summary punishment at
the hands of mob. The least commO-
ton in the street causes him to start and
to tremble. More than once he has de-
manded assurances that his life will be
He is an anarchist pure and simple, op-
posed to an forms Of go govern neat ana ana
desir4uS OF the DEAN ad1, cI seo5s W. W. t6at
among his kind he will be looked upon
as a daring hero. and it is quite probable
that he will face the ordeal of legal pun
ishment with fortitude-
When seen by a correspondent he APP
r,earad to he extremely anxious to submit
dent paused in front Of his cell and was
forward with a smile on ms race, reacnea
formal salutatiOn-
Il shot the president of the United
States said Czologsz, and in 50 doing
1 was upholding the principles that hstd
been taught. am sorry
At this point the prisoner was inter
rupted by q policeman. who had accom-
panied the correspondent and who said
that his instructions had been not 70 per
nit Czologsz to talk to anyone The IN
terruptions threw CzolOgsz into a. TIT OF
sullenness, from which it is said he cid
1snf
The police locke upon the man VINO at
tempted to assassinate the nations ruler /
as a moral and physical coward Ihey |
say he was in parOxysm CT fear so long /
as the mob remained outside the jail and
he could hear their demands for his life, I
yet he has given no demonstration OF scr- /
when asked If he had thought about the |
presidents wife while planning his crime |
1T was not the husband that 7 in |
tended to kill, it was the president OF the /
United States. The bullet that fired was |
at the representative of the present con |
ditfous of law, which are all mistakes
Several times Czologsz has been put /
through a series of interpretations BY the |
police. At one OF these Secretary Of War