The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-20
ZANGARA SORRY HE FAILED
TO STAY NEXT PRESIDENT
Gunman Calmly Pleads
Guilty on Each of Four
Counts; Given Limit.
UNAFRAID OF CHAIR
Willing to Die If Judge
Wished, Is Statement
on Stand.
BY +. w. LEWIS
United Press STAFF Correspondent

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 20
Giuseppi Zangari, who fired
a volley of shots 1T President
Elect Franklin ID. Roosevelt
and was sorry" he failed to
kill him, was sentenced to
eighty years Imprisonment
today, after he defiantly had
told why he attacked the
President-elect.
Zangara who told from the wit
ness stand how and why he at
tempted to assassinate Mr.. Roose-
welt, was sentenced to twenty
years mprisonment-the maxi
mum-on each of four counts of
assault.
The prisoner calmly pleaded gull
ty to each count as the prosecutor
went down the list of four, includ-
ing one involving the President
elect, and then, in statement from
the witness stand, said he was ready
to 60 to the electric chair if the
Judge wanted to send him there.
Assassin Calm in Court
Then the judge recounted the list
of charges. sentencing the little I'M
employed bricklayer to twenty years
on each of the four counts.
The formal charges against the
little bricklayer who declared his
hatred for Presidents and kings"
were assault with intent to kill''
and included on charge referring to
his wild attack on the President
elect, in which i've other persons
were wounded
The sentences will run consecu-
lively, the judge said, making the
sentence equivalent to a life term
as the assassin is 33 years old
Zangara tried to smile. His teeth
showed white and gliStening
against his dark face.
1T is fair he said. Il am sat-
ished."
He laughed loudly, almost hys-
terically, as he was pushed by
deputies through the rear door of
the criminal court room and taken
up to his Jail cell on the twenty
second floor
The aSSaSsin'S eyes were doWncaSt
as he stood before Judge E. G. Col
Inns in criminal court.
There was a faint smile on his
lips as the county solicitor read the
first information, charging him with
assault on Russell Caldwell.
Attorney Lewis IT. Twyman, chief
defense counsel, then announced
that zangara was pleading guilty to
all four charges. involving the
wounding of Caldwell, Miss Mar
garet Kruis, William Sinnott and
the attempt to shoot Mr.. Roosevelt.
Regrets He Failed in Attempt
Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago,
and Mrs. Joseph H. Gill, two more
seriously wounded, were not men,
toned, but should one of them die
the charges would be changed to
murder.
Cermak and Mrs. Gill we're re-
ported resting easily today. and
hope was stronger for their re-
covery.
To each charge Twyman formally
announced my client pleads guilty"
Tywman then announced that
zangaras counsel had a statement
to be read explaining some of the
background of Zangara's life and
the impulses which caused him to
hate the wealthy and powerful.
Twyman then declared that
Zangara's one regret was that the
volley of bullets ne fired wildly
into a crowd last week, had failed
to kill the President-elect.
The attorney said this determi-
nation of Zangara to kill Mr.
Roosevelt was "a grewsome one, but
one to which he said unwaver-
ingly."
Tells of Hatred for Rulers
The defense counsel has come to
the conclusion that zangara, whom
alieniSts described as a social mis-
mt is sane, Twyman added. lie
said Zangara "Scoffed at the idea
that he was insane and considers
himself perfectly sane
Zangara then was motioned to the
witness box.
Stomach trouble which had both
sred him for long time first
prompted his hatred for presidents
and kings" the aSSasSion said, his
dark eyes flashing.
He said he did not know that
Mayor Cermak was one of those
who fell under the volley of pistol
shots he fired at the President
elects automobile.
ut was all because of my stom-
ach," he said, referring to his at
tack. 1T was because my father put
me to work for capitalist when I
was a little boy.