New Ulm review., 1901-10-02
Scene in the Courtroom.

Scene in the Courtroom.
Although the time announced for
the convening of court was two clock
every seat and every foot of standing
room were occupied before 1880 and
scores were clamoring outside for ad-
mission. The doors were locked and
no more were admitted to the room.
The prisoner was brought into the
room at 1855. Five minutes later JUS
tice White took his place upon the
bench.
District Attorney Penney said: eff
your honor please, I move sentence in
the case of the people vs.. Leon Czol-
gosz. Stand up, Czolgosz.'
Clerk Fisher swore the prisoner and
his record was taken by the district at
torney as follows: Age, 2s years; ma
tivity, Detroit; residence, Broadway,
Nowaks, Buffalo; occupation, laborer;
single; degree of educa ton, common
school and parochial; religious in
struction, Catholic; parents-father
living, mother dead; temperate or in
temperate-temperate; former convic-
bto1 u Cllule, uOu0.
Judge Instructs Him.
Mr.. Penney then said to the pris-
oner: "Czolgosz, the court wants to
know if you have any reason to give
why sentence should not be pro-
nounced against you. Have you any,
thing to say to the judge? Say yes
or no."
The prisoner did not reply, and
Justice White, addressing the pris-
oner, said: ''In that behalf, what
you have right to say relates ex-
plicitly to the subject in hand here
at this time, and which the law pro-
vides, why sentence should not be
now pronounced against you and is
defined by the statute.
''The first is that you may claim
that you are insane.
"The next is that you have good
cause to offer either in arrest of the
Judgment about to be pronounced
against you or for a new trial Those
are the grounds specified by the
statute in which you have right to
speak at this time, and you are at
perfect liberty to do so if you wish"
Had Nothing to Say.
The prisoner replied:
''I have nothing to say about that"
The court said: care you ready?"
Mr.. Penney replied: "Yes.''
Have you anything to say?" asked
Justice White.
YES" replied the prisoner.
"I think he should be permitted to
make a statement in exculpation of
his act, if the court please" said
Judge Titus.
The court replied: "That will de-
pend upon what his statement is"
Justice White then said: "Have you
(speaking to Judge Titus) anything
to say in behalf of the prisoner at
this time ?''
Il have nothing to say within the
definition of what your honor has
read" replied the attorney, "but it
seems to me in order that the inno-
cent should not suffer by this defend
ants crime the court should permit
him to exculpate at least his father,
brother and sisters"
is the object of any statement he
wishes to make, proceed
ExcuIpates Others.
To this the prisoner said: "There
was no one else but me. No one else
told me to do it, and no one paid me
to do it
Judge Titus repeated it as follows:
Owing to the prisoners feeble voice,
he says no one had anything to do
with the commission of his crime but
himself; that his father, brother and
no one else had anything to do with
and knew nothing about it,
The prisoner continued: II was not
told anything about that crime, and I
never thought anything about muir
der until a couple of days before I
committed the crime"
Judge Titus again repeated as fol-
lows: He never told anyone about