The age-herald., 1901-10-23
Assassin Receives Visit from a Priest in the Condemn
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COMPRISED IN POuLH TONGUE
Father szadlnskl, Pastor of St. stan- islaus Polish Church at Roches- ter, Tries to Administer
 Consolation.

Auburn. N. r., October 22-Leon F. Czolgosz the assassin of President Mo- Kinley. who is awaiting electrocution in the prison here during the week com mencing next Monday fully realizing that his death is now a question of few days, has asked for spiritual consolation and this afternoon received a visit from the Rev. T. Szadinski, Polish priest of the Roman Catholic church.
 Father SzadinslSi, who is pastor of St. Stanislaus church. Rochester, was in this city attending the forty hours devotions of St. Alphonsus church and was asked to visit the prisoner. This afternoon he went to the prisoner and remained there about an hour.
 The interview between priest and pris- oner proved very unsatisfactory to both. 1t took place in the condemned mans sell and the conversation was carried on in Polish. During the interview Czolgosz said that he had been baptized in the Roman Catholic fath in the Polish church in Detroit. He had abandoned the church early in life, and had lost all faith in its teachings.
 Urged to Renounce Belief.
 Father Szadinski urged him to renounce his belief in anarchy and return to the faith of his early years Czolgosz declared his inability to do so, and he was in- formed that unless he could, the consola- tion of the church would be denied him. The priest urged the condemned man to consider this matter carefully, and told him that if at any time he decided to reembrace the faith heswould return from his home in Rochester and stay with him until the end.
 Father Szadinski before taking his de- parture left with czolgosz some Catholic literature printed in Polish and also some emblems of the church. Czolgcsz assured Father Sazdinski that in case he deter mined to accept the offices of religion he would send for him, but he did not hold out much hope that he would renounce the doctrine of anarchy.
 Warden Mead and Superintendent Col lins at their conference in Albany yes- terday arranged all the details and fixed upon those to be invited to witness the execution.
 The law requires that invitations be sent out three days before the date of the execution, and tho law will be lived up to in the present instance.
 Father szadinskI Reticent.
 Rochester, October 22.-Rev. Father Szadnski. pastor of St. Stanislaus Polish church of this city, returned home to- night from Auburn, where he had seen and talked with Leon Czolgosz, the assas- sin of President Mckinley. When inter- viewed by representative of the Asso- ciated Press as his home Father Szad- inski said he would not say whether his visit had been of his own volition or up- on the request of Czolgosz. While very reticent Father Szadinski, after much persuasion, said Czolgosz should not be made the subject of notoriety by the newspapers and that he was very loath to say anything of the man. He stated that anything that had been said in the confessional was inviolate and that of course he could not divulge 1t. He said that inasmuch as there were hundreds of ignorant men who mistook Czolgosz' odious notoriety for fame, the more the man was advertised the more harm 1t would do, to lead the rest to follow his example.
 CzoIgosz's Moral Status.
 Regarding Czolgosz moral and religious status Father Szadinsk would not say word. He positively refused to state whether his religious advice had been sought by Czo1gosz or whether 1t had been offered to him unsolicited He was equally uncommunicative regarding the manner in which Czolgosz received that advice. Father Szadinski was asked if he did not think that the approaching death of the assassin had induced him to consider the future, but he refused to reply to this question. The priests, Father Letooka. Father Szulsa and Father Sta denon, who were with Father Szadinski,' would not say what their business was with him, but all seemed familiar with Czolgosz and his recent actions.
 Father Stadenon admitted, however, that Czolgosz was without the ban wholly incorrigible and an utterly hope less case.