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Show PRESIDENT'S ASSASSIN EXECUTED. Din an Anarchist Without Remorse or. Hij Crime. In Conversation Wllh lh rrlann Warden. Canlgoal Sara lie Klll.d MiHIelrv Its-eooao Its-eooao II Waa an fnettir to tammnn l'ipl-r.lrlrocatlin SaM-aaarul Meant Takes la llealroy the Hour. Leon C.nlgose. the aaaaasln of Praal-dent Praal-dent McKiulry, waa electrocuted at Auburn priaon, New York, Tueeday morning at 7:13. lie died an anarrhlat, expreaalng no regret for bla crime. Aa be waa being atrapped In llieelrctrle chair he looked about at the an.mil. led wltneaaea with quite a atrady alaro and aald: C3 "1 killed the president because ha waa an enemy of the good people) of the working people," Ilia voice trembled allghtly at flrat but gained atrcnglh with each word, and be apoke perfect Kngllail. "I am not aorry fur my crime," ba aald loudly, juat aa the guard puahed Ilia head back on the rubber head-reat and drew the atrup acroaa hla forehead and chin. Aa the pretaure on the drape lightened and bound the jaw lightly, he mumbled, "I am awfully aorry I could not aee my father." When he concluded tha algnal waa given and the elrctrlu awltch waa turned. Tha ruah of current threw the body to bard agalnat the alrapa that they rrcakrd perceptibly. The hand clinched auddciily and the whole attitude waa one of extreme lenalon. For forty-five aec.in.la the full current waa kepi on, ami then alowly Ilia electrician elec-trician threw tba aw Itch back, reducing reduc-ing the current volt by volt until It waa cut off eutirely. Twice mora for a fat aeconda, the torrent waa turned on and at 7:19 turned off pnnnantly. From the lima Ciolgoet had left hie nil illitlll the full penalty waa paid, lata than four lulnutaa had elapaed. I I LEON CZOLOOSZ. the phyalclana preaent uaed the stelbo-ecopeaud stelbo-ecopeaud other leata to determine If any Ufa remained, and at 7:17 tha war-don, war-don, ralalng hie hand announced: "Gentlemen tha prlaoner la dead." The wltneaaea Hied from tha chamber, many of them viaihly alTeuted. in at Interview with Superintendent Colllna Monday night Colgoaa made another explanation of hia vlall to Chlcage juat before he went to llulTalo. but later admitted that ha had li.d. ita aahl that when he reached LMtSiro a boy whom be did not know approached ap-proached him at the depot and handed him a packet of money. He aald the money waa for tie on the Itiiffalo trip, but he never knew who aenl It to him or the Ideutlty of tha lad who delivered deliv-ered It, lie then explained that moat of the meetings of aner-Mileta that he attended at Cleveland were held In aaluuna ilea-ignatud ilea-ignatud hy an auarclitat ncwepapur. Half an hour laUr, when the auHrin-trndent auHrin-trndent called in tha brolher-ln-law of the prlaoner, he bruiigbl the aubjeut up again aud auid: "How kIhjiiI the money you got at Chicago?" What money?" aakrd the prlaoner. 'Vhy the money you told me about here earlier 111 the eveulog," aald the auprriuteiiileiit. "Diil 1 tell you that? I have forgot ten If I did. 1 did uot get any luuliry. If I auid ao It waa not iie." An autopsy waa held, which allowed the brain to ha In a normal ooudillon. I'pon coiuplotton of tha nutopay the body waa placed tu a hlHck-ataiucd pine rofllii, every portion of the anatomy anato-my being replaced under the aupcr-vialon aupcr-vialon of !r. lirrlin and Wiirdi-n Mck.I. Shortly nftern ard II waa taken to the priaon cemetery and an extraordinary precaution "aken to completely destroy it by pouring a gallon of acid upon It after it waa lowered Into the grave, hxpe rlmi'iita with iiilckllm were nu-aalinfaelory, nu-aalinfaelory, and the acid waa Bubxtl-luted Bubxtl-luted upon the ailggi-aliun of phyalclana, phyal-clana, aa the object waa to dratriiy the hwly aa aoon aa poaalble. It waa catl-mated catl-mated that the acid w ould do thla in twenty-four houra. I.oomo atraw waa placed In the i-ornera of the grave and over the colllu to uhaorb the gaaaca that would generate. The body waa hurled In the priaon rcoictery and w-lll be guar. led until nil danger of Ita being molratvd la pnacd. |