The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-04
MENTALSTATUS OF CZOLGOSZ
YTCTIM SOLELY or THE SOCIAL
 DIsEASF, ANARCHY.
of the Searching Investigat attons Of Experts Macdonald and spitzka- sible to tho Law Absolutely No Com diuon of Any of tho Vfscera Found
 That Could Have Caused Any Mental
Dorangcment.

New York, Jan. 3.--An exhaustive re-
 port on the trial, execution, autopsy
 and mental status of Czolgosz, the as-
 sassin of President Mckinley, is given
 in the New York Medical Journal for
 January 4 The report embodies the re-
 suit of much careful investigation by
 pr. Carlos F. Macdonald and Edward
 A. Spitzka, of this city. The question
 which the investigators set themselves
 to answer was, ''Whea Czolgosz 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 science the question that framed itself was, Was Czolgosz, at the time he committed the
 act, victim of mental disease or men, tai unsoundness? ?"
 The reply to these questions, which
 at the same time embodies the entire history of the case from the trial of the
 criminal to his execution. and the dis posal of his remains, takes up nearly twelve pages in the New York Medical Journal and, divested of all technicali-
 ties. is to the effect that Czolgosz was sane and responsible under the law and punishable for the offense, though
 everything in his history, according to
 the medical experts, pointed to the eX- istence in him of the social disease, an- archy, of which he was a victim. His refusal to reply to questions at the trial
 Is regarded as In line with his role, eX- pressed in the theatrical declaration, "I am an anarchist and have done my duty"
 pr, Macdonald explains that the an-
 archist creed teaches that when one of
 their number Is selected to do a cer-
 tain deed he is to proceed it about it
 quietly and in his own way, taking no one into his confidence; that, having
 accomplished the deed, if apprehended' he shall not admit his connection with any other members of the circles; that, if convicted and sentenced to die, he shall go to his death without revealing | his connection with others, resting se- | cure in the belief that he will be ever regarded by his associates as q martyr and a hero who died in the discharge of | a noble duty. The course and conduct l of C,zoleosZ from the beginning down to 1 his death are entirely in keeping with this creed. And finally, the cool, cour- | ageous manner in which he met his death. and the fact that from the day of his arrest until he died he never ut tered 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- ! criminate any of his o-conspirators, tend to stamp him as an anarchist | Dr. Macdonald concludes his report with the declaration that Czolgosz,
 when he assassinated President Me
 Kinley, was in all respects a sane man, both legally and medically, and fully responsible for his act
 l Mr Spitzka, who made the autopsy l concluded his report as follows: "There i has been found absolutely no condition
 of any of the viscera that could have 1 been at the bottom of any mental de-
 rangement. Taking all in all. the yer ] dict must be, Socially diseased and per 1 vertcd, but not mentally diseased.' The most horrible violation of human law | cannot always be condoned by the plea of insanity. The wild beast slumbers
 in us all. It is not always necessary 1 to invoke insanity to explan it's awak ening'"