The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-04
CzOLGOSZ WAS SANE
-oxcITsION REACHED BY MEDI-
CAL EXPERTS.
AFTER EXHAUSTIVE INQUIRY.
ms M'DoNALD AND sPITz&A PUB
LISH REPORT.

ratss In Twelve Pages of New
,,rL Medical JOurnaI-The Com
,t,.ion Is That President Mckin-
Tvs Assassin Was Perfectly
,opnd Mentally and Physically
a,d Morally Responsible for His
,~ime. But Everything Points to
fine fact That He Was the Victim
-, the "sociaI" Disease, known as
,narchy.
>ew York, Jan. 3.-An exhaustive
rooort on the trial, execution, autopsy
and meatal status of Czolgosz, the as
saegin of President Mckinley, is given
n ne New York Medical Journal for
Ian. A. The report embodies the result
If much careful investigation by Drs.
carlos Mcdonald and Edward A.
sritgka of this city.
The question which these investiga-
'tors set themselves to answer was:
when Czolgosz shot the President did
he know the nature and quality of the
act he was doing. and that the act was
vrong?" This was from the legal
standpoint.
From the standpoint of medical
science the question that framed it.
self was: "Was Czolgosz at the time
he Committed the act a victim of men
TAI disease or mental unsoundness? ?"
The reply to this question which en-
bodies the entire history of the case
from the trial of the criminal to his
execution and the disposal of his re-
mains, takes up nearly u pages in the
New York Medical Journal, and, di-
vested of all technicalities, is to the
effect that Ccolgosz was sane, and re-
sponsible under the law and punishable
for the offense, although everything in
his history. according to the medical
experts, pointed to the existence in him
of the social disease, anarchy, of which
he was a victim His refusal to reply
to questions at the trial is regarded as
having been in line with his role ex
pressed in the theatrical declaration:
I am an anarchist and have done my
duty"
The Anarchist Teachings.
Or. Mcdonald explains that "the
anarchist creed teaches that when one
of their number is selected to do GER
tain deed he is to proceed about it
quietly and in his own way, taking
no one into his confidence; that, hav-
ing ACCOMPLISHED the deed, if appre-
hended he shall not admit his connec-
ton with any other members of the
circle: that if convicted and sentenced
10 die, he shall go to his death with
.out revealing his connection with 9TH
lers, resting secure in the belief that
he will be ever regarded by his asso-
GATES as martyr and hero, who died
in the discharge of a notable duty. The
course and conduct OF CZolgosz from
the beginning down to his death are
entirely in keeping with this creed.
And finally, the cool and courageous
manner in which he met his death, and
the fact that from the. day of his ar
rest until he died he never uttered a
word that could be used against his
accomplices. if he had any. and that
he died, as anarchists who suffer the
death penalty always die, without ut
tering word that would tend to in
eliminate any of his co-cohspirators
tend to stamp him as an anarchist"
DR.. Mcdonald concludes his report
with the declaration that Czolgosz,
when he assassinated President McKin-
ny was III al leSpetls a Sdhe mar
both legally and medically-and fully
responsible for his act.
Dr.. Spitzka, who made the autopsy,
concluded his report as follows
There has been found absolutely no
condition of any of the viscera that
could have been at the bottom of any
mental arrangement. Taking all in
all the verdict must be socially dis
eased and perverted, but not mentally
diseased The most horrible violations
of human law can not always be con-
doned by the plea of insanity. The
wild beast slumbers in us all. 1t is
not always necessary to invoke insan-
ity to explain it's awakening"