The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
CzOLCOSz DEAD
TO The WORLD.
Face of the Assassin Will Not
Again be Seen
Except by Officials and Guests
at His Electrocuti0n.
ALL TO BE BURNED.
Not a Vestage of His Belongings
to Be Retained.
His Body will Be Destroyed by
Quick Lime.

Auburn. n. Y, Oct .2S.-The officials
of Auburn prison today began final pre-
parations for the execution of Leon r.
Czolgosz. Warden Mead. who has re-
covered from his recent indisposltlon
today conferred with Electrician Davis
and the keepers and guards VINO Will
assist in the execution and the pro-
gramme was carefully gone over War
den Mead had selected his assistants
from among the prison employees VINO
have had the widest experience in exc
cutions.
1t is understood that the prison Off
cials will use every precaution to pre-
vent Czolgosz from talking in the death
chamber, it being their desire that any
thing he may wish to say be said IN the
condemned cell.
The prisoners attitude is reported as
unchanged. Apparently he does not de-
sire to see any one and declines to talk
except in monosyllabIes- For two days
a brother-in-law of the condemned has
been seeking permission to see him.
In order to have him identified the war
den went to the prisoner and asked him
if he could describe his brother-in-law-
He replied:
Il did not see my sister married and
do not know the man
Would you like to see him?'' he was
asked.
No, don't care" was the reply
He wants to be let alone said War
den Mead today, "and we let I'm alone
The prisoner is unchanged in demeanor
and health
Tonight at o'clock, after the death
warrant has been read. an extra guard
will be placed in the cell with CZolgosz-
That portion of the prison in which four
other condemned men are kept has been
partitiOned off from Czolgosz's cell by
an iron screen The extra guards on
duty at the prison gates will be main
tanned until after the execution tomor-
row morning. The guards were doubled
merely as precautionary measure and
not because there is reason to believe
the extra men will be needed The po-
lice of the city are cooperating with
the prison officials and keep close
watch on all trains entering the city.
They, too, feel that there is a remote
possibility of an act of violence upon the
part of some crank imbued with plan
of either aiding or injuring the prisoner
and they hope to prevent anything of
the kind Guards and police keep a close
watch on State street upon which the
main entrance and prison wall front.
The prison was perfectly quiet today
and at no time We're there any loitererS
anywhere in its vicinity PaSSersby
took a fieeting look at the minaret-like
watch tower at the south wall which
is almost directly over the execution
chamber, or peered in through the gate
at the front of the building, but none
of them stopped. Whenever a visitor
rang the bell at the main entrance two
guards responded.
Warden Mead has thrown still anoth-
er safeguard around the prisoner to
prevent any miscarriage of the plans
formulated for his execution. He has
directed the death watch to insist that
n iCh he
prisoner may have with a visitor be car
ried on in English and be held within
the hearing of the guard. The one ex-
ception under the ruling will be in case
of the Polish priests. In that case the
guards will withdraw out of hearing
but not out of sight of the prisoner.
NOTHING TO GET AWAY
Auburn. n. Y, Oct. 2S--Auburn pris-
on has been closed to any who sought
Czolgosz, the assassin, and so it viii re-
main until the prisoner has been put to
death. The plan to deprive Czolgosz
living of any notoriety has been extend
ed to deprive Czolgosz dead of notori-
ETY.
Immediately after the execution the
clothing of the murderer, with the vast
accumulation of mail that came to the
prisoner, will be burned. If possible the
request of the parents of the dead man
for his body will be evaded. The plan
of burning the clothing and letters of
the murderer will prevent the exhibition
of relics.
Seven O'Clock Tuesday morning is the
time set by Warden J. Warren Mead
for the execution.
The chair in which Czolgosz will sit
to receive the deadly electrical shock
has been tested by the state electrician.
L F. Davis. Davis examined the wir-
ing, switchboard and electrodes and
satisfied himself that they are in good
condition. He also inspected the dyna-
IN os in the prison shop, where the cur
rent is generated, and at his direction
the current was for brief period sent
into the death house as it will go ON
Tuesday morning.
Czolgosz will be the fifty-ninth man in
the state and the fifteenth at Auburn
prison at whose electrocution Davis has
applied the current.
The firm purpose of Superintendan.
Collins and Warden Mead to avoid even
the appearance of sensationalism in
this case is demonstrated by an inci-
dent in connection with one of the prin
cipal witnesses DR.. Carlos Mcdonald
of New York city, a former president
of the state lunacy commission is TO l,a
the principal attending physician at the
execution He was one of the alienists
who examined Czolgosz in Buffalo and
pronounced the prisoner sane. A few
days ago Dr. Mcdonald had a talk win
superintendent Collins and asked him
to allow him. after the autopsy. to take
the brain to New York city for exanoi-
nation A1r. Collins said to him:
Doctor, I have planned to make this
execution an example of mystery that
will forestan any attempt at Sensation
alism. I cannot allow anything to go
away from the prison that viii in any