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Show CZOLGO'SZ NOT ALLOWED TO PLEAD GUILTY. Pies of Not Guilty Entered by Instructions from the Court Jury selected. Leon F. Czolgosz was placed on trial Monday charged with the murder of President William McKinley. He entered en-tered a plea of "guilty," which was subsequently changed to "not guilty" by direction of the court. All the events of the day indicated that the trial will be short. Court convened at 10 o'clock and early in the afternoon the twelve jurors had been secured. Technicalities were not raised by the examining counsel, but it was significant signifi-cant that every man who said he had formed an opinion on the case was excused ex-cused by the district attorney. Those who acknowledged that they had formed an opinion or stated that they were prejudiced, but admitted that their opinion could be changed by evidence, evi-dence, were accepted by each side. The work of securing the jurors was then undertaken with a celerity that was amazing. Before the day was over the entire panel had been sworn, the jurors had noi-eueu to a description of the Temple of Music, where the crime occurred! had seen photographs of the interior of that structure and had been told by three surgeons what caused the death of the president and effect of the assassin's as-sassin's shot upon the various organs of the body. It is not probable that any defanse will be put in, owing to the character of the prisoner and the refusal to help his attorneys in any way to procnre evidence which they could use in his favor. The idea of an attempt to enter en-ter the question of his sanity is not thought of in view of the reports of the two alienists who have recently examined him and there is ground for the belief that the trial will be concluded con-cluded with a session of bnt one day more. |