Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-11-06

Auburn, n. Y.-Leon f. Czolgosz,
the assassin of President Mckinley.
WAS put 20 death i'll the auburn Prison
at III Il. m. Tuesday. The electric
current. of 100 volts was turned on
three times before he was pronounced
dead. No fear was shown by the as
saSS.n. and his last declaration was
that he was not sorry for his crime
His watchers said that he slept well
during his last night on earth. appar-
entity unconccrned ut the approach of
death. Half an hour before the exc
cutton the assassin stated to Superin-
intendent Collins and Warden Mead
thai he wanted to make Il statement
when there arc Il lot of people to
hear me" When told that he could
not do that he said he would not talk
nj all. hut he later changed his mind.
There was no unusual incident TO
mark the execution. The witnesses
gathered in the office of the warden
nj Go o'clock. DR.. Carlos T.. Melon
aid. of New York City. and DR.. Germ.
of Auburn. were the physicians.
Shortly before the party was taken
To the death chamber. and its mem
hers after being placed about the elec-
dric chair. were cautioned not To leave
nheir seats under any circumstances
After test of the apparatus Warden
Mead gave the signal for the prisoner
10 be brought in. AS he stepped over
The threshold of the death chamber
The assassin stumbled. but the guards
held him up. He stumbled again on
he little rubber-covered platform
llrpn which the chair rests. He was
Very pale.
AS he was being seated he looked
about ut the Witnesses with steady
stare and said:
II killed the President because he
was an enemy of the good peoplc-of
The working people,
His voice trembled slightly at firs,
but gained strength.
Il am not sorry for my crime" he
said loudly. rs the guard pushed his
head back on the rubber headrest and
drew the strap across his forehead
and chin. AS the pressure on the
straps frightened he mumbled: I'm
sorry | could not see my father
He had barely finished this utter
1nce when the Strapping was complet-
ed and the current was turned on. 1t
was kept on full for forty-fivc seconds.
cut off, turned on for few seconds
and then, after an examination of the
body by physicians, again turned on
for Il few seconds.
Ii was at III that Warden Mead,
raising his hand. said: "Geutlemen.
the prisoner is dead"
When the body of the assassin had
been removed to Tho autopsy table the
prisoners who had been kept locked
in their cells were released and work
WAS resumed. There was no excite
mcnt among the convicts and no un-
usual scenes about the prison
Tine 1ufOnSV WAS mnlp nv Dr EI.
ward SpitEka. under the immediate
supervision and direction Of Dr. Carlos
l.. Mcdonald and pr. John Germ. INC
prison physician. The autopsy occu-
pied over three hours and embraced Il
careful examination of all the organs
of The body. The examination re
VcalSd perfectly healthy state of all
The organs. including the brain
After the autopsy the body was
placed in black stained pine coffin.
shortly afterward it was taken to the
prison cemetery ana an extraordinary
prccIutiOn taken To completely destroy
il. y carhoy of acid was obtained and
poured upon the body i'm the coffin
after II had been lowered into the
grave. Straw was used in the four
corners of the grave as the earth was
put in TO give vent to such gases as
might form. Ii was the belief of the
physicians that the body would he en-.
tircly disintegrated within twelve
hours.
After the execution Warden Mead
said:
II went TO Czolgoszs cell at 80 and
read the death warrant to him. The
guards said he had slept like Il baby.
He half rose up as | read the warrant
said nothing, and dropped back when
] finished 4 small breakfast was
-r'Nr Ii inn ~ at nj 10
asked for no priest. ana that is why
tGere was no clergyman in attend
ancC."
CZoigoSz held his last two interviews
on Monday night. the first with Su-
perintcndcnt Collins. and the second
with Waldcck CZolgosz. his brother.
aud Waldcck Bandowsd. his brother
in-law. Both the interviews We're
brief. and the interviewerS did most
Of the talking, until the question of
religion was mentioned. when CZolgoSZ
broke from his seeming lethargy ana
violently denounced the church and
The clergy ana made his relatives
promise that there should be 10 scrV-
ice for him. living or dead.
1t was : o'clock when SuDcrintend-
cnt Collins went into the death house
and tried to get the prisoner to talk to
him. Although he stayed in the cell
some time, he apparently was not sue
cessful in getting anything material
from him.
At o'clock the brother and brother
in-law arrived and Superintendent Col
lins took them down to the condemned
mans cell. There was no demonstra-
tion when they met. Czolgosz merely
stepped to the front of his steel cage
and said
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