Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-09-27
THE DAY OF
DOOM FIXED
CzolgoszTried and Convi-
cted-Prisoner Speaks

President Mckinley was pronounce
ed guilty of murder IN the first de-
&c, and on yesterday was senten-
fenced to be electrocuted on
of October. There was no special
feature Of the trial. The prisoner
maintained a stolid, stubborn in
difference all through the trial.
When .he Jury tiIed in, after
bong out only thirty-four minutes,
there were probably five hundred
people, many of them women, in
the court room. There was absolute
silence When the verdict a
"guilty or murder In the first
degree" was announced by the
foreman, the assassin was still
unmoved. He was quickly taken
back to his cell, where he immedi
ately ate hearty dinner and
SIN oked two cigars.
The trial was one of the most
remarkable on record. There were
seventeen witnesses examined by
the prosecution, and none by the
defence. The time taken in ex
aiming witnesses was -four hours
and fifteen minutes, the argument
of the prosecution consuming only
fourteen minutes. The defence
consumed only eighteen minutes,
only one OF the two lawyers spetk X
ing. The time elspsing between
the commission of the murder and
the conviction OF the murderer was
eighteen days and twenty minutes.
The time between the death OF
the President aud conviction of the
assassin was ten days and a half.
Buffalo, N. Y, September 90
Czolgosz, the assassin OF President
Mckinley was this afternoon SELL
fenced to be electrocuted in Auburn
State prison during the week be-
ginning October %, 1901.
The prisoner was brought into
the room at FIVE minutes TO 2.
Five minutes later Justice White
t"ok his place upon the bench.
District Attorney Penny said:
"If your honor please, | move
sentence in the case OF the people
vs.. Leon Czolgosz. Stand up Czol-
gOsz."
The clerk ofthe court then asked;
slave you any legal cause to
show now why the sentence of the
courtshould not now be pronounced
against youf"
Before sentence was passed the
asss. ssin evinced desire to speal
but he could not get his voic'
above a whisper and his word
were repeated to the court by hi
counsel.
"There was no one else but me,
2 the prisoner said in q whisper. AN
. one else told me to do it and u
a one paid me to do It. / was no
!, told anything about the crime an
d 1 never thought anything .abou
s that until couple OF days befor
d | committed the crime"
e Then Justice White passed sen
,e tence as follows:
o ain tsking the life Of Our believe
Is President you committed n GRIN
r, which shocked aud outraged I'll
a moral sense OF the civilized worl
10 YOu have confessed that guilt aft
r. learning all that at lhls time can
le learned from the fact and cIrcur
stance Of the case, twelve got
~ Jurors have pronounced yOu gull
ne and have found you guilty Of mt
De der In the first degree.
IS "You have said according to t
testimony OF creditable witness
and yourself that no other pess
~ aided OF abetted you in the col
ad mission of this terrible act. G
ON grant it mag he so. The penal
/. O for the crime for which you sta
"a convicted is fixed by this stat'
Of and It now becomes my duty
pronounce this judgment agsi
on sou.
"The sentence OF the court
that in lbe week beginning Octo
2Stb, 1901, at the ce 10
- manner in means prescribed by