The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-21
Great Seal of the State at the Cap
itol in Charleston.
A. B. WHITE,
Governor.
WIN. NJ. o. DAWSON,
Secretary of State.
McKTNLEY'S MURDERER.
CzOlgOSz was Sane and RESPONSE
BILE, is the Careful COncluS-
ion Of Expert Medical
Authorities, Just
Announced.

An exhaustive report on the trial,
execution, autopsy and mental status
of CzoIgosz, the assassin of President
Mckinley, is given in the New York
Medical Journal, for January 4th.
The report embodies the result of
II much careful investigation by DIR.
Carlos +. Mcdonald and Edward A.
Spilzka, of New York city. The
question which these investigators set
to answer WAS when Czolgosz shot The
President, did he know the nature
and quality of the act he was doing
aud that the act was wrong? THIS
was from the legal standpoint. From
the standpoint Of medical science the
question that framed itself was, "was
Czolg,sz, at the time he committed
the crime, a victim of mental disease
or mental unsoundness ?" The reply
To these questions, which embodies
the entire history of the case from
the lrla of the criminal TO his execu.
ton and the dispose of his remains,
takes mp nearly twelve pages in me
Medical Journal, and, Invested of all
technicali!ies, is IL the effect that
Czolgosz was sane and responsible
under the law and punishable for the
"Hense, although everything in his
history, according to the medical ex-
ports, POINTED to the existence in him
of the social disease, anarchy, 0f
which ne vas victim. HIS refusal
10 reply to questions at the trial is re
garded as having been in line with
his roll expressed in the theatrica
defamation: II am an anarchist and
have done my duty" DIR. Mcdonald
explains that The anarchist creed
teaches that when one of their mum
Der is selected to do a certain deed
he is t. proceed about it quietly and
in his own way, taking no one into
his confidence; that, having accom-
plshed the deed, If apprehended, he
shall not admit his connection with
any ether members of the circle; that
if convicted and sentenced to die, he
shall 90 to his death without reveal |
ing HE connection with others, rest
ing secure in the belief that he will |
ever be regarded by his associates as
II marty and hero, who died III
the discharge of n noble duty. The !
course and conduct Of Czolgosz from |
the beginning down to his death, are
in keeping with THE creed |
And finally the courageous manner
in which he met his death and the
TACT that from the day of his arres t
until he d.ed. he never uttered n
word that could be used against his
acomplIances, if he had any, and that
he died as an anarchist who suffer the
death penalty always die, witholt !
utering a word that would tend to
incriminaie any Of his CO conspira-
tors tend to stamp him as an anarch.
ist.'
DIR. Mcdonald concludes his report
with the decl aration that Czolgosz,
when ae assassinated President Nc
Kiuley, was in all respects sane
mau--botb legally and medically
aud fully RESPONSE BILE for his act.
MIR 5pittka who made the autopsy,
concluded his report rs follows
There has been found absolutely
mo- condition Of any of the viscera
that could lave been st the bottom
of ans mental arrangement Taking
40 IN sll, The verdict must ne Social.
ly disease .1d perverted, but not
mentally diseased The most hor.
ribe violations oi human law cs7po.
always be combined by The plea Of
insanity The wills beast slumbers
in as all. IL is not always necessary
TO invoke insanity TO explain is
awakening"
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