The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-29
CzOLGOSz DIES AT 7
McKINLEY's ASSASSIN WILL SOON
BE CORPSE.
He DAMNs THE PRIESTS.
SAYS HE WANTS NO PRAYING OVER
HIM.

tire in the Prison Cemetery.
Neither Physicians Nor Curiosity
Seekers to BE Given Any show.
Auburn, N. Y. Oct. 2S.-Leon F.
Czolgosz will have paid tribute with
his life to the law as the murderer of
President William Mckinley by 7:15
o'clock tomorrow morning, and unless
he undergoes great change of heart
and strength in the few hours of life
left to him, he will go to the electric
chair unconfessed and unrepentent. He
suffered a slight nervous attack late
to-day, but remained sullen and stoi-
cal I'D to the time the prison closed
at 10 O'Clock. He refused to heed the
words of the priests who came to urge
spiritual preparation for death and de-
cined to either re-embrace Roman
Catholicism or renounce anarchy.
Hence. unless he changes his mind,
there will be no religious ceremony at
the end.
C,zolgosz 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 nosition. He may have suffered
untold torture, but, outwardly' ne
seemed sullen and Indifferent. The
state is not to surrender possession of
his body and by sundown it will have
been secretly inferred in the ground
controlled by the officials of Auburn
prison.
Waldeck Czolgosz, brother of the
murderer. foreseeing endless difflcul-
ties and possibly angry demonstrations
as the result of the attempt to give the
body ordinary burial needed the ad-
vice of Superintendent of State Prisons
Collins and Warden Mead, and FORMAL
ly relinquished 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
unhappy and unfortunate sequel to the
execution, either in displays of popular
contempt or the exhibition of CHASTITY
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
lis work: Auburn prison is carefully
guarded; the city is in it's normal calm,
and there seems to be no circumstances
standing in the way of the successful
and expeditions execution of the law.
Czolgosx Hates Religion.
CzoIgosz held his last two interviews
tonight, the first with Superintendent
Collins and the second with his brother
and brother-in-law. Both of the inter-
views were brief and the interviewers
did most of the talking until the ques-
ton of religion was mentioned, when
Czolgosz broke from his seeming leth-
argy 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
Zudzinski 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 the request for an
interview to the prisoner Czolgosz
sent back word that he did not care
to see them, but the priests asked to
be allowed to go to him despite his
refusal
Superintendent Collins consented and
personally escorted them to the cell.
The priests remained with Czolgosz for
three quarters of an hour and earnest
ly pleaded with the prisoner to repent
and pray for Divine forgiveness. He
rejected all their advances, however,
and they regretfully withdrew. They
told the prisoner they would hold
themselves ready to answer call
from him at any hour of the mgnt.
1t was o'clock when superintendent
Collins went into the death house and
tried to get the prisoner to talk to
him. Although he remained in the cell
some time he was apparently not sue
cessful in getting any thing material
from him.
Had No AccOmpIices.
At 8 o'clock the brother and brother
in-law arrived and superintendent Col
Inns took them down to the condemned
mans cell There was no demonstra-
ton when they met. Czolgosz merely
stepped to the front of his steel cage
and said:
Hello"
The brother ventured the remark, Il
wish you would tell us. Leon, who got
You into this scrape?"
Leon answered in a slow. hesitating
manner: mo one: nobody had any
lhing to do with it but me-"
That is not how you were brought
up said the brother, "and you ought
" tell us everything now"
i haven't got anything to tell" he
answered in a surly manner.
DO you want to see the priests
'sa'hf = asked his brother. And he
lowered with more vehemence than
nad previously shown:
NO. damn them. don't send them
again; ! don't want them"
ne brother-in-law interJected here:
mats right, Leon"
ne brother looked rather disturbed
lno answer. Then stepping up
go 10 The bars, the condemned man