New-York tribune., 1901-09-20
THE TRIAL OF CZOLGOSZ
TO BEGIN ON MONDAY WITH LEWIS AMI
TITUS AS COUNSEL.
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Buffalo Sept. 19.-It is planned TO have
the trial OF Czolsosz begin in the Criminal Term
of the Supreme Court on Monday morning
Justice Truman C. White will probably pre-
side. although effort is being made to have
the trial before Justice Henry Childs because
he is the oldest Supreme Court Justice in this
the With Judicial District The newspapers
of Buffalo making the demand for Justice
Childs.
Both ex-Judge Loran L. Lewis and ex-Juds.
Robert c. Titus will probably appear as Czol-
gosz's counsel. An effort has been made on the
part of the local Democrats to have Judge
Titus decline TO accept the assignment, but he
has intimated that if Judge Lewis does not
decline he will not do So and Judge Lewis has
stated that. under the command of the court. he
will appear for the assassin
Judge Lewis is more than seventy years Old
and has practically retired from professional
and political life Judge Titus is not yet hfty
years DID, and his political Oemocratic) friends
urge that his connection with the case as Czor-
gosz's counsel will put blight upon his politi-
cal career. and that he will be forced into an
unpleasant background The situation is rem
dered particularly embarrassing on the part of
ex-Judge Titus. he has been strongly urged
as a candidate for Mayor of Buffalo this fall.
and is also a Democratic candidate for Supreme
Court justice.
The probabilities are that he will disregard
the wishes of his political friends. and go into
court on Monday morning one OF the assas-
sins counsel 1t is probable also that the de-
fence will be insanity. The best criminal law
yers of Buffalo say there is no other defence
possible. No motive can be shown. and in the
absolute absence of motive for the murder
there is nothing to be done except to attempt
to show that Czolgosz is an irresponsible being
and shot the President because he is insane In
the cases of John Wilkes Booth. the murderer
of Lincoln. and that of Guiteau. the slayer Of
James A. Garfield. there was the semblance Of
motive. Booth enthusiastic sympathizer
with the Southern Confederacy. and Guiteau
thought that he had been cheated out of Fed
eral office which belonged to him
CzoIgosz alleges that he had no motive for his
crime Shortly after the President shot it
was reported that Czogosz said: II
anarchist and 1 only did my duty but there is
now some question as to whether or not he
made that statement
A theory being advanced by one OF the
headquarters detectives who have been with
Czolgosz since the tragedy is that he was insanely
infatuated with Emma Goldman. and took the
Presidents life for the purpose Of exalring him
self In the eyes OF the Goldman woman Whether
or not there Is anything substantial in that
theory. it is the belief OF the people Of this CITY
that an effort will be made 70 show that the
assassin was insane and acted without any well
defined motive. The Buffalo police do not claim
| to have any evidence showing that there was
an anarchistic conspiracy plot TO murder the
President at this time, and II Is not thought
that any witnesses will be sworn IN support OF
such theory. The Buffalo detectives say tney
are we'll satisfied that Czolgosz was not prom
inent anarchist, who had any particular stand
Ing in anarchist circles, but that ne was
hanger-on, a sort of spy on the outskirts OF
| anarchy, who kept his own counsel and acted
| upon his own impulses