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Show PRESIDENT'S ASSASSIN EXECUTED- Dies an Anarchist Vithout Remorse for His . Crime, In Conversation Will le Prison Warden, Czolgosz Says He H,- .4 McKinley Because Be-cause He Was au 4ny to Common People Electro n Successful Means Tab -: i Destroy the BocPy. S Leon Czolgosz, the Assassin of President Presi-dent McKinley, bus' electrocuted at Auburn prison, New: York, Tuesday morning at 7:12. He died an anarchist, expressing no regret for his crime. As he was being strapped in the electric qhair he looked about at the assemble'- witnesses with quite a steady stare sd said: rl "I killed the president because he was an enemy of the g ood people of the working people." His voice trembled ((lightly at first but gained strength rcitheach word, and he spoke perfect English. "I am not sorry for ny crime," he said loudly, just as the guard pushed his head back on the rubber head-rest and drew the strap across his forehead and chin. As the pressure on the straps tightened and bound the jaw slightly, he mumbled,' "I am awfully sorry I could not see m father." When he concluded t le signal was given and the electri- switch was turned. The rush of v irrent threw the body so hard agai t the straps that they creaked per , .ptibly. The hands clinched suddenly iid the whole attitude was one of ext-eme tension. For forty-five seconds ti e full current was kept on, and then slowly the electrician elec-trician threw the switch back, reducing reduc-ing the current voH by volt until it was cut off entirely. Twice more for a few seconds, the current was turned on and at 7:15 turned off permantly." From the time Czolgosz had left his cell nntill the full penalty was paid, less than four minutes had elapsed. LEON CZOLGOSZ. The physicians present used the stethoscope stetho-scope and other tests to determine if any life remained, and at 7:17 the warden, war-den, raising his hand announced: "Gentlemen the prisoner is dead." The witnesses filed from the chamber, many of them visibly affected. In an interview with Superintendent Collins Monday night Czolgosz made another explanation of his visit to Chicago just before he went to Buffalo, but later admitted that he had lied. He said that when he reached Chicago a boy whom he did not know approached ap-proached him at the depot and handed him a packet of money. He said the money was for use on the Buffalo trip, but he never knew who sent it to him or the identity of the lad who delivered deliv-ered it. ' He then explained that most of the meetings of anarchists that he attended at Cleveland were held iu saloons designated des-ignated by an anarchist newspaper. Half an hour later, when the superintendent superin-tendent called in the brother-in-law of the prisoner, he brought the subject up again and said: "How about the money you got at Chicago?" "What money?" asked the prisoner. "Why the money you told me about here earlier in the evening," said the superintendent. "Did I tell you that? I have forgotten forgot-ten if I did. I did not get any money. If I said so it was not true." An autopsy was held, which showed the brain to be in a normal condition. Upon completion of the autopsy the body was placed in a black-siained pine coffin, every portion of the anatomy anato-my being replaced under the supervision super-vision of Dr. lierlin and Warden Mead. Shortly afterward it was taken to the prison cemetery and' an extraordinary precaution taken to completely destroy it by pouring a gallon of acid upon it after it was lowered into the grave. Experiments with quicklime were unsatisfactory, un-satisfactory, and the acid was substi- ' tuted upon the suggestion of physi- j cians, as the object was to destroy the body as soon as possible. It was esti- 1 mated that the acid would do this in twenty-four hours. Loose straw was placed in the corners of the grave and o?er the coffin to absorb the gasses that would generate. The body was buried in the prison cemetery and will be guarded until all dange of its being molested is passed. |