The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-10-29
THE ASSASSIN DEAD.
Czolgosz Pays the Penalty Of
His Fiendish Crime.
i QUICK and QUIET ELEC1ROCu1lOy
Doomed Man Showed No Signs of
Grief OF Repentance In Final In
terviews-Remains 10 De Buried
h In Prison Yard at Auburn.

pCnNy Aoi ITO WI hubuiA
prison was carefully guarded, and the
city was in It's normal calm. Nothing
occurred of sensational character.
! Walter N. Thayer, former warden Of
pannemOra prison. ut the request of
Superintendent Collins was present to
hssiSt Warden Mead during the execu-
kIon.
y CZolgosz was dressed in 4 very sim
pie manner for the execution, a pair
pr black trousers. loose gray shirt
hn1 a pair of gray socks completing
The outfit He Wore no nndergarments
= hn no shoes.
! Long before the gray light of morn
Ing broke Warden Mead and his as:
Elsiants were astir. Most Of the TWEEN
~ witnesses selected to attend the
eyc ttion had arrived at the prison by
p:% o'clock. A few came before day
lig'.t.
an!ong those who witnessed the exc
fut!el were Superintendent Collins.
Stat Treasurer John p. Jaeckel, Su.
perntendent of Public instruction
Eki.nsr. Sheriff Caldwell and District
kttorhey Penney of Erie county, JUS
ticc White, who presided, at the assas-
Ein's trial; DR.. G. F. Mcdonald. Prison
Physician Germ, q. r. Peck and c. F.
Ratttgan Of Auburn, County Judge I'm.
Norwood and President Lispenard Of
the state prison commission. State
Treasurer Jaeckel acted as foreman Of
the execution jury.
I When the assassin emerged from his
rell to pay the penalty of his crime|he
traversed distance of twenty-five
feet. He passed two of the cells Oh
the same side of the building as the
one he left. walked fifteen feet to the
narrow corridor. five feet down that
and through Il great iron door that is
only opened when the law demands the
taking Of a life
Through this door he passed The
door was shut behind him instantly, SO
THAT no sound might reach the ears of
the other men in the condemned cells.
Five feet from the door stood the chair
Df death.
oIlCt III tlit NIl'iil SHbil WI NilS
made by the trained assistants of the
executioner in alilXing the apparatus
10 his limbs and head and connecting
The wires that descend from the roof
of the conlcal metallic cap placed on
The head Of the prisoner with the arms
ma legs of tie chair which We're
eheathed with active electrical con-
nuctor.
4 A MISREPRESENTATION was made to
bes sAAt everything was all right.
Then the warden. with handkerchief
tn his hand, signaed TO the eXecntioner
that all was ready
Electrk. an Davis turned on the fatal
current, and in a moment, which seem
ed to the tense minds Of the witnesses
IN eternity, the assassin Of William
Mckinley was Il i1feless corpse.
Czolgosz suffered a slight nervous at
Jack late yesterday, but remained sui
len and stolcal up to the time the prls-
on closed at 10 o'clock. He refused to
heed the words of the priest who came
to urge spiritual preparation for death
and declined to either re-embrace Ro-
man Catholicism or renounce anarchy.
lie 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 po-
stion. He may have suffered untold
torture. but outwardly he seemed to be
sullen and indifferent.
The state Is not to surrender posses.
sion of his body, and by sundown It
will have been secretly inferred in
ground controlled by the officials Of
Auburn prison.
Waldeck Czolgosz, brother of the
murderer, fOreseeing endless difficult
ties and possibly angry demonstra tions
u an attempt to give the body ordi.
nary burial, needed the advice Of Su
perintendent Of State Prisons Collins
and Warden Mead and formally relin.
quishsd all claim to It. He merely stlp-
ulated that at the close Of the autopsy
the body should be buried intact All
chance Of an unhappy and unfortunate
sequel to the execution either In dis.
plays Of popular contempt or the exht-
bitton Of ghastly relics IL therefore
finally estopped.
The plan Of burning his clothing and
papers was carried out Immediately
after the execution.
Czolgosz held his last two interviews
last night, the first with Superintend-
ent Collins and the second with his
brother and brother-in-law. Both of
the interviews were brief. and the in
terviewers did most of the talking lln-
Gil the question of religion was men,
toned, when Czolgosz broke from his
seeming lethargy and violently de-
noupced 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. 1t was late In
the afternoon and occurred after he
had once refused to meet them. When
they reached the prison. Superintend-
ent Collins conveyed their request for
an interview to the prisoner. Czolgosz
sent back word that he did not care to
see Them, but the priests asked to bs
allowed to go to him despite bis re-
fusl.
Superintendent Collins consented and
personally escorted them to the cell.
The priests remained with Czolgosz for