The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-05
WILD BEAST IN
HUMAN BREASTS
Expert NeuroIOgist Asserts it
Lies Dormant in Everyone.
COMPATIBLE WITH SANITY
BRUTE NATURE AROUSED DOES
NOT SIGNIFY MADNESS.

New York, Jan. Am exhaustive re-
port on the trial. execution, autopsy
and mental status of Czolgosz, the
assassin of President Mckinley, is Civ
en- in the New York Medical Journal
The report embodies the result Of much
careful investigation by DR.. Charles
Mcdonald and Edward A. Spitzka Of
this city.
The question which these investigat-
ors set themselves to answer was:
When CzoIgosz shot the president
did he know the nature and quality Of
the act he was doing and that the act
was wrong?"
This was from the legal standpoint.
From the standpoint Of medical sci
ence the question that framed itself
was:
.eWas Czolgosz at the time he com
mitted the act a victim Of mental dis
| ease OF. mental unsoundnessF
| The reply to these questions, when
embodies the entire history OF the case
from the trial of the criminal TO ms
| execution and the disposal of his re-
mains, takes up nearly tWelVe pages IL
| the New York Medical Journal anu
Invested of all technicalities, is to the
! erect that CzoIgosz was sane and rea-
| sonable under the law and punishable
for the offense. although everything IN
/ his history. according to the medlcal
| experts. pointed to the existence In MIN
| of the social disease, anarchy, OF Whlch
he was a victim.
Stamps Him AS An Anarchist.
His refusal to reply to questions at
the trial is regarded as having been
| in line with his role, expressed IN the
| theatrical declaration:
Il am an anarchist and have done
my duty"
DR.. Mcdonald says:
1.-THE anarchist creed teaches that
when one of their number is selected
to do a certain deed he is to proceed
about it quietly and in his own way.
taking no one into his confidence; that,
having accomplished the deed, if ap-
! pretended ne shall not admit his con-
nection with any other members of the
circle; that if convicted and sentenced
to die he shall go to his death without
| revealing his connection with others,
resting secure in the belief that he will
ever be regarded by his associates as a
martyr and a hero who died in the
discharge of a noble duty
THE course and conduct of Czolgosz
| from the beginning down to his death
are entirely in keeping with this creed.
Responsible For His Act.
And. finally, the cool and courage
Gus manner in which he met his death
and the fact that from the day of his
arrest until he died he never uttered
a word that could be used against his
accomplices, if he had any. and that
he died as an archist who suffers the
death penalty always dies, without ut
tering a word that would tend to in
eliminate any Of his co-conspirators
tend TO stamp him as an anarchist"
DR.. Mcdonald concludes mis- report
with the declaration that Czolgosz
when he assassinated President Nc.
Kinley, was in all respects sane. botl
legally and medically, and fully re
spOnsible for his act
Mr.. Spitzka, who made the autopsy
concludes his report as follows:
There has been found absolutely
none of the viscera that could have
been at the bottom of any mental de
rangement. Taking it all in all, th'
verdict must be socially diseased anC
perverted, but not mentally diseased.
The most horrible violation of human
law cannot always be condoned by tn,
plea of insanity. The wild beast slum
bers in us all. 1t is not always neces
sary to invoke insanity to cause il
awakening"