The age-herald., 1901-10-29
BODY WILL NOT BE SOLD
Brother of Condemned Man Relin- quIshes Ills Claim on the Remains and They Will Be Inferred
 Inside the Prison Walls.

Auburn, N. Y, October 2S.-Leon F. Czolgosz will have paid tribute with his life to the law, as the murderer of President Mckinley, by 7:15 o'clock tomorrow morning, and unless he un- dergoes great change of heart and strength in the few hours left to him, he will go to the electric chair un- confessed and unrepentant.
 He suffered slight nervous attack late today, but remained sullen and stoical up to the time the prison closed at 1 o'clock. He refused to heed the words of the priests who came to urge spiritual preparation for death and de- clined to either re-embrace Roman Ca- tholicism 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 kin, nor did he turn to any of those higher considerations which ordinarily claim the thoughts of men occupying his position. He may have suffered untold torture, but outwardly he seemed sullen and indifferent. The State is not to surrender possession of his body, and by sundown it will have been secretly inferred in ground con- trolled by the officials of Auburn prison.
 Brother Relinquishes Claim on Body. sWaldeck Czolgosz, brother. of the murderer, foreseeing endless difficult ties and possibly angry demonstrations as the result of an attempt to give the body ordinary burial, needed the advice of Superintendent of State Prisons Collins ana Warden Meade and formally relnquished all claim to it. He merely stipulated that at the close of the autopsy all parts of the body should be buried. All chance of an un- happy and unfortunate sequel to the ex- ecution. either in displays of popular con- tempt. or the exhibition of ghastly relics is therefore finally prevented.
 The plan of burning his clothing and papers will be carried out immediately after the execution.
 The electrical, machine Is ready for its work; Auburn prison is carefully guard ed the city is in it's normal calm and there seems to be no circumst ances standing in the way of the successful and expeditions execution of the law
 Czolgosz held his last two interviews &nfafr fHn Ar- Collins and the second with his brother end brother-in-law. Both of the inter- viewers did most of the talking until the question of religion was mentioned when Czolgosz broke forth from his seeming lethargy and violently denounced the church and the clergy and made his relatives promise that there should be no service for him living or dead.
 Prior to the. late evening interviews Czolgosz reluctantly received Fathers Fudzinski and Hickey
 Did Not Want Priests.
 When they reached the prison superin- tendent Collins conveyed the request for an interview to the prisoner Czoleosz sent back word that he did not care to see them. but the priests asked to see him despite his refusal. Superintendent Collins consented and personally escorted them to the cell. The priests remained with Czolgosz for quarters of an hour and earnestly pleaded with the prisoner to repent and pray for divine forgivness. He rejected all their ad- vances. however. and they regretfuly withdrew They told the prisoner they would hold themselves ready to answer call from him at any hour of the night 1t was o'clock when Superintendent Col 10 Anaf1 tr4o to get the prisoner to talk to him. AL though he remained in the cell some time he was apparently not successful in get ting anything material from him.
 At o'clock the brother and brother-in- law arrived and Superintendent Collins took them down to the condemned mans cell. There was demonstration when they met. Czolgosz merely stepped to the fronS of his steel cage and said: '.Hello.'' The brother ventured the remark: .I wish you would tell us, Leon. who got you into this scrape." The assassin an swered in slow, hesitating manner 4No one; nobody had anything to do with it but me-"
 .'That is not how you were brought up" said the brother" and you ought to tell us now
 Hasn't Anything to Tell.
 "I havn't anything to tell" he an- swered in a surely manner.
 Do you want to see the priests again." asked his brother, and he answered with, more vehemence than he had previously shown: NO; damn them don't send. them here again; don't want them"
 The brother-in-law interjected here: sThat's right, Leon."
 The brother looked rather disturbed by the answer Then stepping up close to the bars the condemned said:
 And don't you have any praying over me when I'm dead. don't want it. don't want any of their damned religion"
 There was a painful pause of few minutes, and then the relatives resumed casual conversation with him, to which he replied in monosylables until the brother-in-law suggested, much to Super intendent Collins surprise. that he and the brother be permitted to witness the execution. Before the superintendent could reply. Czolgosz said:
 'sYes, MT. Superintendent. let them see me killed"
 c,,rortntendent Csollina told fhe trio in