The age-herald., 1901-09-25
LEON CZOLGOSZ FOUND GUILTY
 OF MURDER OF WM. M'KINLEY


 and dignifed trial, but will be strung up to a tree on the bare suspicion that some one may hold the belief that they have committed some crime.
 Tt is not long since I read in a paper that colored man in the South had his
 life taken because he had insulted white man. What 1t was the paper did not say, but he was strung up. I sug- gest gentlemen. that that class of the community who are crying out in our cities and are sending letters to lawyers suggesting that the man who is charged with the crime that this defendant is
 should not be permitted to have a trial before a court of justice, are more dan gerous class to the community than the anarchists about whom we read so much "Stand Firmly by the Law." Now, it is the duty of every American citizen, of every good man, to stand firmly by the law and put his voice against any Idea that a man should be punished for any crime until he is proven guilty in court beyond any reasonable
 doubt.
 My associate and are here to uphold the law Some weak-minded people en- certain the notion that the lawyer who appears in defense of a defendant is in court to obstruct the due process of the
 
 1 calities. But every man who knows the members of the bar understands that this is not so. My associate and l are here for the same purpose that the learned district attorney Is here for-to see that this trial progresses in a legal, orderly and proper manner. We must in every way possible put down and sup
 press this feeling that cases may be dis posed of without the intervention Of courts of justice
 Judge Lewis was crying when he fin- ished and the eyes of many of those in
 the court room were filled with tears. | Judge Titus then arose and said that Judge Lewis had so completely covered | the ground that 1t seemed entirely un-
 necessary for him to reiterate it and he
 would therefore rest.
 District Attorney Penny Speaks. | At 3:1O District Attorney Penny began | summing up. He spoke in a clear well
 modulated voice. and every word could
 be heard in any part of the room. He said:
 | Tt is hardly possible for any man to 1 stand up and talk about this case with out the deepest emotion. It was the most
 awful tragedy that ever came upon the | world. Counsel for the prisoner and l l have endeavored to eliminate all Sensa- | tionalism from this case. This terrible thing has happened because there are people in this country who, unless they feel the irresistible force of prompt and proper action in this case, will cause something awful to happen in our be- loved country.
 Think, gentlemen, of that grand man who stood but few days ago in the 1 Temple of Music, and how he came from | the lowly walks of life; how he was first a school teacher, then a lawyer, then judge, Governor, Congressman ana | then a President of the United States;
 and above all, loving husband; and that on to the last day, when he said. l It's Gods way; goodbye, all; good-bye; a man so great that he could raise his l hand and save his own assassin; a man
 who could shake the hand of even the
 worst man you could imagine. l "It is a great lesson that so great a
 man can stoop so low that he was so | great that he could forgive his own as- l sassin. He was the noblest man, l be- 1 lieve. God ever created. A man who l stood near him in the Temple of Music I said to me: I have travelled in all parts ! of the world and have seen people as- | sembled to greet their rulers, but when
 I saw the people stand in the railroad l stations and along the country through l which the funeral train passed that they l might get glimpse at the casket of this
 great man, I was convinced. as never be- | fore that there is such thing as a na- l tional heart
 | Natlonal 1eart 6rOkcH.
 That national heart was broken and
 it will take Gods way and time to l heal it.
 1 Ut was broken by class of people
 who are coming to our country in increas- 1 ing numbers, and while harbored by our l laws are propagating their malicious views; a class of people that must be l taught that we have no place for them l on our shores; a class of people that must l la to,tu haf l of any one irrespective of consequences. l Think again, gentlemen. Here is a | man who does not want a lawyer; who
 does not believe in God, nor in law; a | man who does not believe in the married l relation; yet our laws are such that he is | defended by two of the ablest jurists in | our city, as if he were the most respect | ed defendant. Yet, gentlemen, you are | required, under the constitution, to listen | to the formal presentation of the evil dence, notwithstanding that this man | does not want it.
 Gentlemen, I have said all have to
 say; have said more, perhaps, than I 1 ought to say You have sworn to give 1 him a fair trial on the evidence. Now, what Is the evidence? I say as 1t has
 been presented to you 1t fully substan-
 tiates the crime charged.
 l "The duty of counsel on both sides Is
 ended. The court will charge you briefly,
 then 1t will be your duty to take up the case. No doubt the same thought, the | same object Is in all our minds-that, d. l though our beloved country has lost her | greatest man, it still should maintain the l respect of the whole world and it should l be made known to the whole world that no man come here and commit such a
 dastardy act and not receive the full l penalty of the law"
 Justice Whites Charge.
 Justice White began his charge to the
 jury at 329 He arose from his seat and
 stepped to the side of the bench nearest | the jury box. He said:
 "Gentlemen of the jury: In this case
 the defendant has acknowledged his guilt.
 Such an acknowledgement cannot go to
 the jury or court. The law requires that
 the defendant charged with such a crime
 must be tried The law says that all the
 facts must be observed and reviewed by
 YOU. The law guarantees that the de- | fendant shall have fair trial by twelve | men impartial and fair, capable of talk
 ing the testimony of the trial and give | if thorough consideration. If. when all | the circumstances of the case are consld- 1 cred by you, there still exists In your
 minds a reasonable doubt that the de-
 fendant is not guilty, you cannot ma | this man guilty The people nave sup | mitted evidence tending to show this oe-
 fendant committed this crime; they have | given evidence tending to show that IL