Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-04
HE WAS SANE.
Exhaustive Report by Experts
on Condition Of CzoIgosz.
Exhibited Every Sign Of the Bisterest
Of Bitter Anarchists.
He Was Socially and Mentally Perverted. but
Not Mentally Diseased.

New York. Jan. 3.-An exhaustive re-
port on the trial. execution. AUTOPSY
and mental status of Czolgosz. the
assassin of President Mckinley. is
given in the New York Medical Journal
Tor Jan. !. The report embodies the re-
suit of much careful investigation by
DR.. Carlos F. Macdonald and Edward
a. SpitZka of this city. The question
which these investigators set them
selves to answer was: When Czolgosz
snot the President, did he know the ma
ture and quality Of the act he was do
ing. and that the act was wrong?"
This was from the legal standpoint.
From the standpoint of medical sci
ence the question that formed itself
was: Was Czolgosz at the time he
committed the act a victim of mental
disease or mental unsoundness -
The reply to these questions. which
1T the same time embodies the entire
history of the case from the trial of
the criminal to his execution and the
disposal of his remains. takes up near
ly II pages in the New York Medical
Journal and. Invested of all technicali-
ties. is TO the effect that CZolgosz was
sane and responsible under the law and
punishable for the offense. though ev-
erything in mis- history. according to
the medical experts pointed to the eX-
istence 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 in line with his role. eX-
pressed in the theatrical declaration,
Il am an Anarchist and have done my
duty"
DIR. Macdonald explains that the An
archst creed teaches that when one OF
their number is selected to do GER
tain deed he is to proceed about ii
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 circle: that
il convicted and sentenced to die, he
shall go to his death without revealing
his connection with others, resting Sc
cure in the belief that he will be ever
regarded by his associates as a martyr
and a hero who died in the discharge
Of noble 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. courageous man.
ner in which he met his death, and the
fact that from the day of his arrest un-
til he died he never uttered word
that could be used against his accom-
plices. if he had any, and that he died.
as Anarchists who suffer the death
penalty always die. without uttering a
word that would tend to incriminate
any of his co-conspirators, tend to
stamp him as an Anarchist"
DR.. Macdonald concludes his report
with the declaration that Czolgosz
when he assassinated President Nc
Kinley was in all respects a sane man
both legally and medically-and fully
responsible for his act.
Mr.. Spitzka, who made the autopsy,
&C included his report as follows: 1T has
been found absolutely no condition of
any of the viscera that could have been
in the bottom of any mental derange-
ment. Taking all in all, the verdict |
must be socially diseased and pervert- |
ed. but not mentally diseased
THE most horrible violations of hui /!
man law cannot always be condoned /.
by the plea of insanity. The wild beast |
slumbers in us all. 1t is not always !,
necessary to invoke insanity to ex- |
plain its awakening"