The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-25
NEXT MONDAY.

e Only a few hours longer than .fv
t days will Czolgosz be permitted t
I remain on earth a living, sentier
l being. Although the sentence whic
consigns him to occupy the execution
: [er's chair in Auburn prison direct
that he shall be put to death within
the week commencing October %, tn
latitude allowed the officers of the Law
is granted only because of the posi-
bility of something happening to tn
electrical machinery which Nigh
make it impossible to execute the sen
tence upon the date specified. Fol
this reason an entire week is allowed
within which to carry the laws man
date into effect. Not at any time since
electricity was designated by law as
the means of carrying capital senter
ces into effect in New oYrk has M
thing occurred making it necessary
to delay an execution, and it is safe
to assume that the present one viii
not be the exceptions.
AS it is the custom Of the prison
officials O execute death sentences as
soon as possible after the hour of mid
night of Sunday, the probability is
that Czolgosz will have descended tile
dark stairs. for it is hard to imagine
cxe guilty OF lis Cr.n4e climbing the
auriferous stairway leading to the
realms above. AS the number Of spec
tators is limited to twenty and the
sentence will be carried cut in the
depth of night and every precaution
will be exercised to deprive it of ev-
erything in the slightest akin to the
spectacular or sensational, the miser-
able assassin will not have. even the
slight satisfaction of dying in the
sight Of m%ultitudes and going to his
death as the martyr which his deprav-
ed and perverted mind causes himself
to- imagine. Alone and fnrsaken he
must walk from his cell to- the cleo
trio chair, with only the officers of
the Law and the few witnesses permit
ted by law present to see his end.
His death as it will really occur and
the death he had no doubt pictured
for himself are entirely, different. In
stead of being the hero he thought he
would be and instead of the crowds
Of admlring anarchists like himself
whom he probably thought would as
semble to see him go to his doom,
a willing sacrifice to the cause" they
espouse, he will have only those
around him in whom no pity for his
condition finds place and who will be
only too glad to seem him die. Were
all anarchists to know that they must
die in the same manner it would prob
ably have a tendency to check their
murderous desires, for a death like |
that which Czolgosz must die is but
little if any better than he %proverbial
death. Not once since his arrest
and conviction has he been permitted
be lioniZed or revel- in the publicity
which men of his mould crave as they
life. From the first he has
ben treated in. such a manner as to
make plain to him the way in which
he is regarded by all right minded peo-|
pie, and aside from breathing and hav-
ing the spirit of life in him he might
as we'll have been dead, for to the
world he has been dead, as he should
been. The difference in the treat
of him by the New York officials
and that which other a~ssassins of the
kind have received from the Of
Of the District of Washington
and the state of Illinois is so marked
to call for the most generous COM
.%endations of the former.