Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
THE ASSASSIN DEAD.
Czolgosz Pays the Penalty of
His Fiendish Crime.
A QUICK AND QUIET ELECTROCUTION
Doomed Man Showed No Signs of
Grief or Repentance In Final In
terNiews-Remnins TO he Buried
In Prison Yard at Auburn.

1alu lrlhUlC WIN his life to the law as
the murderer of President William Nc
Kinley
The electrical machine was made
ready for its work yesterday. Auburn
prison was carefully guarded, and the
city was in its normal calm. Nothing
occurred of 4 sensational character.
Walter n. Thayer, former warden of
Danncmora prison. at the request of
superintendent Collins was present TO
assist Warden Mead during the execu-
ton.
CzolgoSz was dressed in a very sim
pie manner for the execution, n Dair
of Mack trousers, Il loose gray shirt
ana pair of gray socks completing
the outht. lie wore no undergarments
and no shoes.
Among those who witnessed the exc
cution were superintendent Collins,
state Treasurer John p. Jaeckel, Su-
perlntendent of Public Instruction
Skinner, Sheriff Caldwell and District
Attorney Penney of Erie county. JUS
tlce White, who presided at the assas-
SINS trial; DR.. c. +. Mcdonald, Prison
Physician Germ, G. II. Peck and C. f.
katugan of Auburn, County Judge I'm
derwood and President Lispenard of
the state prison commission. State
Treasurer Jaeckel acted as foreman of
the execution jury.
When the assassin emerged from his
cell to pay the penalty of his crime. he
trayersed distance of twenty-five
feet. He passed two of the cells on
the same side of the building as the
one he left, walked fifteen feet to the
narrow corridor, five feet down that
and through great iron door that is
only opened when the law demands the
taking of life.
Through this door he passed. The
door was shut behind him instantly, so
that no sound might reach the ears of
the other men in the condemned cells.
Five feet from the door stood the chair
Of death.
Once in the chair short work was
made by the trained assistants of the
eXecutioncr in atiiXing the apparatus
TO his limbs and head and connecting
the wires that descend from the roof
of the cOnical metallic cap placed on
and legs of the chair which were
sheathed with active electrical CON
ductors
n hurried examination was made to
see that everything was all right.
Then the warden, with Il handkerchief
In his hand, signaled to the executioner
that all was ready.
Electrician Davis turned on the fatal
current, and in Il moment. which seem
ed to the tense minds of the witnesses
an eternity, the assassin of William
Mckinley was lifeless corpse.
CzolgosZ suffered a slight nervous at
tack late yesterday, but remained sui
len and Stoical up to the time the Dris
on closed at 10 o'clock. lie refused to
heed the words of the priest who came
to urge spiritual preparation for death
and declined to either re-embrace Ro-
man Catholicism or renounce anarchy.
lie showed no strength of love for kin,
nor did he turn to any of those higher
considerations which ordinarily claim
the thoughts of men occupying his DO
sition. He may have suffered untold
torture, but outwardly he seemed to be
sullen and Indifferent
The state is not to surrender posses
sion of his body, and by shutdown It
will have been secretly inferred in
ground controlled by the officials of
Auburn prison.
Waldcck CZolgOsZ. brother of the
murderer, foresecing endless difficult
ties and possibly angry demonstrations
n N nt Ia, ri.
nary burial needed the advice of SUI
perntendent Of State Prisons Collins
and Warden Mead and formally relin-
quished all claim to it, He merely sim
ulatcd that at the close of the autopsy
the body should be buried intact. All
chance of an unhappy and unfortunate
sequel to the execution either in dis
plays of popular contempt or the exhi-
bition of CHASTITY relics is therefore
finally estopped.
The plan of burning his clothing and
papers was carried out immediately
after the execution.
Czolgosz held his last two interviews
last night, the first with Superintend-
ent Collins and the second with his
brother and brother-in-law. Both of
the interviews were brief, and the in
reviewers did most of the talking I'M
I'll the question of religion was men
toned, when CzolgOsz broke from his
seeming lethargy and violently de.
nounced the church and the clergy and
made his relatives promise that there
should be no service for him living or
dead.
The resolution of Superintendent Col
Inns to prevent spectacle or sensation
In the transportation and burial or ere
nation of the body of Czolgosz took
new Zest from two offers that were
submitted by men of questionable en-
terprise. A museum keeper in one Of
the larger eastern cities telegraphed
him an offer of $1,000 spot cash for ell
tier the body or the garments of the
murderer, and the owner of a kineto-
scope wired Warden Mead that he