Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-31
Goes to His Doom Without Giving a
Sign Of Repentance.
THE EXECUTION QUICKLY OYER
Life Extinct Four Minutes After He Enter
ed the Chamber-SayS He Killed
Mckinley Because He Was
the Enemy of Work
ing People.

ing People.
Auburn, n. Y, Oct 29-At 7:l2 O'Clock
this morning Leon Czolgosz, murderer d
President Mckinley, paid the extreme
penalty exacted by the law for his crime
He was shocked to death by 100 volts o.
electricity. He went to the chair in ex
acty the same manner in which have the
m ,iority of murderers in this State, show
ing no particular signs of fear, but in fac
doing what few of them have dOne-;alk
Ing to the witnesses while he was beinl
strapped to the chair.
Czolgosz retired last night 10 O'CLOCK
and slept so soundly that when Warder
Mead went to the Cell shortly before
O'Clock this morning the guard inside hac
to shake Czolgosz to wake him. He sal
on the edge of bis cot and made no reply
TO the warden's greeting of good morn
ing"
The prison officialtook from bis pocket
the death warrant and read it slowly and
distinctly to the assassin, who hardly
raised mis- eyes to him during the perfume
tory ceremony.
Just as the warden stepped away from
the cell door, Czogosz called to him and
sud:
81 would like to talk with the superin-
tendent"
The warden responded:
HE will be down presently"
Then the condemned man rolled over
on his cot apparently anxious to sleep
again.
At sis. however, the guard brought to
him a pair Of dark trousers with the lett
leg split SO as to allow the free application
of the electrode, and light gray outing
shirt. He was told tor get up and put
these on, which he did.
Con trary to the usual custom, he was
given a new pair of shoes. When dressed
he laid down on the cot again and in this
attitude Superintendent Collins found him
at $50 when he went down to visit him.
The superintendent stood in front of the
steel bars and when the guard had called
Czogoszs S attention, he said:
81 want to make statement before
you kill me-"
"What do you wish to say Czolgosz?'
asked the superintendent
Il want to make it when there are lot
of people present. 1 want them to heal
me-" said the prisoner.
"we9, YOU cannot, said the superin
teudent
Then l won't talk at ALL" said th'
prisoner, sullsnly.
After the superintendent had left, tn
guards brought Czolgosz's breakfast, con
sisting of coffee, toast, eggs and bacon
and he ate with quite good deal of re-
ish. While he was partaking of this, tn
witnesses were gathering in the Office {
Warden Mead and at 7;06 o'clock th
procession passed to the death chamber
going through the long south corridor.
In the chamber Electrician Davis an
former Warden Thayer, of Dannemor'
had arranged the chair test, placing
bank Of twenty-five incandescent ligh
across the arms and cOnnectir
, the electrode wires at either end. TT
witnesses were ordered seated, and the
Warden Mead briefly addressed them sa,
ing:
"You are here to witness the legal deaf
of Leon Czolgosz. / desire that you ket
your seats and preserve absolute silence
the death chamber, no matter what ms
transpire. There are plenty of guarC
and prison officials to preserve order al
to attend to the proper details"
The prison physician, DR.. Germ, al
DIR. Carlos F. Mcdonald, of New Yor
took position to the left of the chai
Warden Mead stood directly in front, al
Electrician Davis retired 10 the little roo
containing the electrical switchboar
Thayer gave the signal aud the cure
was TUNED through the electric hgh
flooding the chamber with brilliant hg
and dramatically showing the power tn
was usedto killed the prisoner.
Warden Mead gave the signal to ha
the prisoner brought in, and al III
O'Clock, Chief Keeper Upper swung op,
the big steel door leading to the condem
ed cells, and as the steel bars behir
which Czolgosz had been kept, we
swung aside, two guards marched t
prisoner out into the corridor, two otht
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