The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-30

following and the chief keeper walking in front.
 The guards on either side of Czolgosz had hold of his arms as if either to sup port him or to keep him from making a demonstration. As he stepped over the thre shold he stumbled, but they held him up and as they urged him forward to- ward the chair, he stumbled again on the little rubber-covered platform upon which the chair rests. His head was erect and with his gray | fannsl shirt turned back at the neck, he | looked quite boyish He was intensely | pale and as he tried to throw his head | baci; and carry himself erect, his chin quivored very perceptibly. As he was be- i ing seated he looked about at the assem- | Died witnesses with quite a steady stare, | and wid:
 T killed the President because he was an enemy of the good people-of the working people
 His voice trembled slightly, but gained strength with each word and he spoke perfect English.
 "1 am not sorry for my crime" he said loudly, just as the guard pushed his head back on the rubber head rest, and drew the strap across his forehead and chin. As the pressure on the straps frightened and bound the jaw slightly. he mumbled: .I am awful sorry 1 could not see my fa- ther"
 It was just exactly 7:11 o'clock when he crossed the threshold, but minute had elapsed and he had just finished the last statement when the strapping was com pleted, and as the guards stepped back Warden Meade raised his hand and at I:l2:3 Electrician Davis turned the switch that threw 1,100 volts of electricity into the living body. The rush of the current threw the body so hard against the straps that they creaked Derceptibly. The hands clinched suddenly and the whole attitude nf fanG , seconds the full current was kept on and then slowly the electrician threw the switch back, reducing the current volt by volt until it was cut off entirely. Then | just as it had reached that point he threw | the lever back again for two or three | seconds. The body. which had collapsed | as the current was reduced, stffened up again against the straps. When it was l turned off again, Dr. Mcdonald stepped to the chair and put his hand over the heart. He said he felt no pulsation. but suggested that the current be turned on i for a few seconds again. Once more the , body became rigid.
 At 7:15 the current was turned off for good.
 From the time Czolgosz had left his cell until the full penalty was paid less than four minutes had elapsed. The pllT sicAans pr esent used the stethoscope and other | tests to determine if any life remained, l and at I:l7 the warden. raising his hand, | announced:
 ''Gentlemen. the prisoner is dead"
 The witnesses filed from the chamber. many of them visibly affected, and the body was taken from the chair and laid 1 on the operating table.
 | When the body or CZolgosz had been removed from the room where he was killed to the autopsy table, Auburn pris- | on returned to the routine of its ordi- nary life. The prisoners, who had been kept locked in their cells, were released | at 745 o'clock, and prison work was re- stunned at once. There was nc excitement among the convicts. Scarcely hundruf people had gathered outside the prison gate to watch the witnesses enter and 1 wait until they roappeared The witnesses | dispersed quickly, some of them leaving for their homes as early as o'clock.
 Prison Superintendent Collins made the following statement to the Associated | Press:
 Just consider that within about six weeks from the death of his distinguished victim CzoleosZ was regularly tried. con victed, sentenced and executed, and this des Lite the fact that the law comp He'd us to give him four weeks to prepare for death. All has been done n dighihed way, and the greatest credit is due to Warden Meade for the care he has taken to strip the case of sensationalism. The execution was one of the most successful ever conducted in the State Extraordi- nary care had to be taken in the case. because both the warden and l received hundreds of threatening letters. many of them asserting in violent and intemperate language that the prisoner would never be put in the chair. I have decided for
 the present that we will not destroy any of the hundreds of letters written to Czolgosz, the warden and myself as to
 the case.
 Eventually they will be destroyed, but 1t has struck me that perhaps we should make a list of them, especially of those
 letters signed with full and proper names, in which condolence was offered to the prisoner or threats against us were made Ny plan is to get the addresses of these people and keep the list for po- hp1 ref UnG hRl inNp come time when such d list would be valuable in running down anarchists: l
 have decided to bury the body ot Czol- gosz in the regular prison plot m the local cemetery. The funeral will take . place some time within the next forty eight hours We will keep th- grave guarded day and night until such time as the qucklimc which will n" placed around the body shall have entirely de- stToycd it.
 Electrician Davis made thia statement
 "I used 1,7Oc volts of electri rity, turn ing it into the body at full voltage for seven seconds and then slowly reducing it for fcrty-liNe seconds. Then l threw the full voltage on again for eigst sec onds. Then at the suggestion of Dr. Mc- Donald, l turned 1t on again for few seconds I did not think there was any necessity for the third contact and the lack of resistance shown when it was | administered proved that lif1 was eN- tinct. The body showed eight amperes of
 
 would be given hy a larger or stouter man where the current could have more chance to percolate. It was as success ful an execution as have ever operated in all my experiences"
 Rev. Cooledorc Herrick, chaplain of
 the prison. was in the death chamber ady for any call that might be made
 for his services. He was not wanted by the prisoner, however, and sat quietly in the rear of tho chamber throughout the ! execution. The clothing and pers )nal CT fleets of the prisoner were burned, under direction of Warden Maa1e shortly af-
 ter the execution. ". t..
 In his interview with Superintendent
 Collins last nielt CZolgosz made an other explanation of his visit to Chicago
 just before he went t. Buffalo but later
 admitted that he had lied. He said that
 when he reached Chicago a boy whom
 he did not know approached him at the
 depot and handed hlm a package of
 money He. said the money was useo
 on tEc Buffalo trip, but that he never krew who sent it to him, or the identity of the lad who delivered it. He then ex- plaiucd that most of the meetings of anarchists that he had attended al ' Cleveland were held in saloons designat-
 cd by n anarchist newspaper. Hall ar
 hour later when the Superintendent
 called in the brother and brother-n- law ] cf the prisoner, he brought the subject