The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-10
TRIAL OF Cz0LG0Sz.
THE PROSECUTION TO BE 4 LOCAL
 MATTER.

MATTER.
 The Hunt for Accomplfces-Govcrn
 ment's Full Powers to Assist in This
 No New Light from Prisoner-To be
 Examined Again To-day-His Treat-
 ment-Possible Arrest of Emma Gold
 man.
 Buffalo, Sept 9,-The question of the prosecution of Leon Czolgosz, the wo,lid-be assassin of President McKin- ley, the members of the cabinet now here are unanimously of the opinion, is purely local affair. There is no government statute covering an assault upon the president of the United States, and, in the eye of the law, the crime of last Friday is merely local offense, committed against a private citizen, in violation of the laws of the state of New York and of Erie county The government can have no hand in the prosecution of local offender. His trial will take place in the local courts.
 The only request Secretary Root has made to the superintendent of police and the district attorney here was one designed to prevent the would-be as- sassin from being made hero by eX- ploitation. MT. Roots view in this re- spect was shared by other members of the cabinet, and the local authorities have done everything in their power td comply with it. They have declined to allow reporters to have access to the prisoner, or even to see him. Of course, if Czolgosz had accomplices, they will be ferreted out, If possible, and all the aid which the government can furnish will be employed, but 1t may be stated upon the authority of cabinet officer that no wholesale pro- ccedings against anarchists are con- templated.
 Many sensational reports are being circulated about cabinet action looking to the wholesale apprehension and pros- ecution of EnNna Goldman and leaders of anarchistic Organizations, of myster- ious directions from the secretary of war to the chief of police here, and of developments of startling nature that are anticipated. The great majority of these reports, in the words of cabinet officer are manufactured out Of whole cloth. It is entirely probable that Czolgoszs crime will lead to agitation and a proper demand for an adequate statute to cover similar assaults upon the life of the chief magistrate in the future. But that is a matter for the future. It has no bearing upon the punishment of the wretch who shot President Mckinley.
 Czolgosz has made no additional ad- missions to the police officials, and nothing that they have learned from him has aided toward the solution of the criminal side of the case. He still insists that he alone conceived, planned and carried out the crime, and that he alone must answer for it. He admits that he attended meetings at which Emma Goldman spoke and where ne and his fellow-ana discussed their propaganda of murder, but stead fastly denies that any of them had a part in his plan His talks with them were fairly general he says, and he did not divulge to them any feature of lis scheme to come here and kill the
  ure made on Saturday created the im- pression that he acknowledged gen eral talk with his associates about this particular crime, but he now says there was no justification for that impress sion
 Czolgosz is to be subjected to anoth- CT examination to-day by Superinten- dent of Police Bull and District Attor- ney Penney, but the results are prob 1ematical. The stories that the prisoner is wearing out physically and mentally under the strain of his crime, imprls- onment, and the ordeal of questioning are denied by the police, who say that there is no appreciabl change in his general condition. They admit that he was clever enough to avoid admissions of damaging character on ground outside of his original confession.
 Notwithstanding the publication of several more or less sensational stories about alleged interviews with Czolgosz in his cell, and alleged acts of petty spite towards him on the part Of the police. nothing of an unusual nature has been done to him during his inn prisonment He is treated as any oth- CT prisoner would be, and the police have made 1t point, at the order Of Secretary of War Root to let nothing arise in the treatment of Czolgosz to cause Him to think that he is in any way an exception to his fellow-pr1son- CTS. or a hero His meals are plentiful and healthful, and he is permitted to smoke. The newspapers are denied him. however, but in that particular he is no exception. The prisoner health is good. He appears to have suffered no nervous strain since his ar rest His callers say that his manner Is that of one who accepts his position as the natural consequence of what he has done.
 District Attorney Penney is authority Tor the statement that when Czolgosz is put on trial, six separate counts against him will be included in the in dictment, and that he will be convicted on each count, and that the total for +he several offenses will aggregate a very considerable number of years inn ,,r,sonment. The counts in the list h. clude two separate assaults upon the nresident, for which, it is said, twenty years imprisonment may be inflicted; a charge of threatened assault against each of the three men who bore Czolgosz +o the ground and captured him, after the shooting of the president; and, last, the charge of carrying concealed weap- ons The penalties that may be ln-