GUILTY OP MURDER.
Czolgosz, The Assassin, Convicted in
Short Order.
JURY WAS NOT LONG IN AGREEING.
The Trial Was Bief But Fair, and the
Verdict Was Inevitable Will Be
Sentenced Soon.
Buffalo, Special. Leon F. Czolgosz,
' alias Fred Nieman, was found guilty
Tuesday of murder in the first degree
by a jury in Part III of the Supreme
Court, in having, on the 6th day of
September, shot President William
McKinley, the wounds inflicted after,
wards resulting in the death of the
President. .
The wheels of justice moved swiftly
and covered a period of only two days.
Practically all of this time was occu
pied by the prosecution presenting a
case so clear, so conclusive that even
had the prisoner entered a plea of in
sanity, the jury would not have return
ed a verdict different from the one ren
dered today.
The announcement made in the af
ternoon by the attorneys for Czolgosz
that the eminent allienista summoned
by the Erie County Bar Association
and by the district attorney to exam
ine Czolgosz and to determine .his ex
act mental condition had declared him
to be perfectly sane, destroying the
only vestige of a defense that Judges
Lewis and Titus could have put to
gether. Before- adjournment Justice
White announced that he would pro
nounce sentence upon, the prisoner on
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Ho
was taken at once through the tunnel
under Delaware avenue to the jail. To
all appearances he was in no way af
fected by the result of the trial.
The crowd gathered at the city hall
was the largest which has seen him
since his arraignment. People were
lined up on both sides of the big ro
tunda on. the second floor when court
convened and fringed the stairs lead
ing from the floor above. There was no
demonstration except that of curiosity.
A large number of women witnessed
the proceedings.
At 2:44 in the afternoon District At
torney Penny abruptly announced that
the case of the prosecution was ended.
Judge Lewis arose slowly and, address
ing the court, said that the sudden
lose of the case against Czolgosz was
a surprise to him and his colleague.
They had no witness to call for the
defense. He asked the court that he
be allowed to address the jury at once.
The court consented and the venerable
jurist began an address that will long
be remembered by those who heard it.
The jury retired at 3:51 to consider
the evidence. The scene, in the court
" " f;; "t
treme. pecorum was somewhat forgot-
ien una vue fpixun. ouu up
many walked about the room and en
gaged in conversation. The guards
about the assassin, who still sat in his
seat, before the bench, were doubled
Chief of Detectives Cusaek and two of
his men taking positions just back of
Czolgosz's chair. Others took seats to
the left and right and many "plain
among the crowd surging about the
clothes'! men were seen mingling
room closely watching every one whose
face was not familiar to them. Thero
was no disposition to crowd about tha
prisoner, although the object of every
one seemed to be to get in a position
-where he. could have a full view of his
face.
Czolgosz had been seated in his chair
all afternoon, his hands clasped on
the arms of the chair and his head
fcent forward. The room was not
warm but he frequently took his hand- ,
kerchief from his pocket and mopped
the perspiration from his forehead and
cheeks. At one time during the ab
sence of the jury did he raise bi3 eyes
or lift his head or seem to know that
he was tne object of interest to sever
al hundred men and women. Every
time the door was oepned all eyes
rwere turned in that direction, the evi
dent thought in every mind being that
the jury would take only a few minu
tes to agree on a verdict.
It was 4:30 when the crier rapped for
order and the jury filed into the room.
The clerk called their names, each jur
or responding present as his name was
called. No time was wasted- The
lurors did not sit down. . -
Judge White said: "G-entlemen, havo
you agreed upon a verdict?"
"We have," responded foreman
Wendt.
"What is your "verdict?"
"That the verdict is guilty cf mur
der in the first degree."
There was a moment of silence and
then a murmur arose from the lips cf
the crowd. It ended there. There wa3
no handclapping; no cheers. Justice
White's voice, could be clearly heard
In every part of the. room when he
thanked thejurbrs for their work and
allowed them to go until 11 o'clock to
morrow morning. Court wa3 at once
adjourned. Czolgosz was immediately
handcuffed to his guards and hurried
from the court room down-stairs to
the basement and through the tunnel
under Delaware avenue to the jail.
I sOTENCED T0 ELECIR0CUT!ON-
President TtcKinleys Murderer Must
Pay the Penalty Dale Fixed For
Week Beginning October 27.
Buffalo, Special. Leon F. Czol
gosz, the assassin of President Mc
Kinley, was Thursday afternoon sen
tenced to be electrocuted in the Au
burn State prison during the week
beginning October 28, 1901.
Before sentence was passed the
assassin evinced desire to speak,
but he could not get his voice above
a whisper and his words were re
peated to the court by his counsel.
"There was no one else but me," the
prisoner said in a whisper. "No one
else told me to do it and no one paid
me to do it. I was not told anything
about the crime and T never thought
anything about that until a couple
of days before I committed the
crime."
Czolgosz sat down. He was quite"
calm but it was evident that his
mind was flooded Avith thoughts of
his own distress. His eyes were
dilated, making them heavy and
bright, and his cheeks were a trifle
pale. The guards put the hand
cuffs on his wrists. He looked at one
of the officers. There was an ex
pression of the profoundest fear and
helplessness in his eyes. He glanc
ed about at the people who crowded
together in efforts to get a look at
him. The prisoner's eyelids rose
and fell and then he fixed his gaze
upon the floor in front of him.
LEON F. CZOLGOSZ.
At this point Judge Titus came
over to the prisoner and bade him
good-bye. Czolgosz replied very
faintly, letting his eye rest upon
the man who had been his counsel.
"Good-bye," he said weakly.' Czol
gosz was then hurried downstairs and
through "the Tunnel of Sobs" to the
jail, where he will remain until re
moved to Auburn to pay the penalty
for his crime.
Although the time announced for
the convening of court was 2 o'clock
every seat and every foot of stand
ing room were occupied before 1:30
and scores were clamoring outside
for admission. The doors were
locked and no more were admitted to
the room. The prisoner wa3 brought
into the room at 5 minutes to 2. Five
minutes later Justice White took his
place upon the bench.
As soon as Justice White assumed
the bench, Crier Hess said: "Pur
suant to a recess, this trial term of
the Supreme Court is now open for
i the transaction of business."
District Attorney Penney said: "If
yQur h(mor peag j mJQ gentence
, th s nf ppnri1e VH T,pnn n-r.nU
gosz. stand up, czolgosz.
Clerk Fisher swore the prisoner
and his record was taken by the dis
trict attorney as follows: "Age 28
years; nativity, Detroit; residence,
Broadway, Nowak, Buffalo; occupa
tion, laborer; married or single,
single; degrees of education, com
mon school and parochial; re
ligious instruction, Catholic; par
ents, father living, mother dead;
temperate or intemperate, tempera
perate; former conviction of crime,
none."
Then Justice White passed sen
tence as follows: "In taking the life
cf our beloved President you com
mitted a crime which shocked and
outraged the moral sense of the
civilized world. You have confessed
that guilt, and after learning all that
at this time can -be learned from the
facts and circumstances of the case,
twelve good Jurors have pronounced
you guilty and have found you guilty
of murder in the first degree.
"You have said, according to the
testimony of creditable witnesses and
yourself, that no other person aided
or .abetted you In the commission of
this terrible act. God grant it may
be so. The penalty for the crime for
which you stand convicted is fixed by
this statute and it now becomes my
duty to pronounce this judgment
against you: The sentence of this
court is that in the week beginning
October 28, 1901, at the place, in the
manner and means prescribed by
law. you suffer the punishment of
death. Remove the prisoner."
The crowd slowly filed out of the
room and court adjourned at 2:2G.
Brvan Favors Free Speech.
Lincoln, Neb., Special. W. J. Bryan
is opposed to any limitation upon the
freedom of speech, which he says has
been suggested as a cure for anarchy.
Mr. Bryan believes the evils of restric
tion are greater than the evils of free
dom and further declares the death ot
President McKinley cannot be traced to
anything said or written against him.
The warfare, he says, must be against
anarchy, not against freedom of
speech. Anarchy, he insists, is a Euro
pean product, and thrives most there,
where there is the least freedom of
peech and the press.
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SITTINGS RESUMED.
The Schley Court of Investigation in
Session Again.
TWO WITNESSES WERE EXAMINED
Nothing Startling Has Been Brought
Forward Thus Far By the Witnes
ses Against Schley.
Washington. D. C, Special. Two
witnesses were introduced in the
Schley court Wednesday. They were
Admiral Cotton, who as captain com
manded the auxiliary cruiser Harvard,
and Captain Wise, who comanded the
auxiliary cruiser Yale during the Span
ish war. Both these vessels were
used as scouts and both came up with
the flying squadron off Santiago on
the 27th of May, before the retrogade
movement to Key West began. Ad
miral Cotton testified that he had
pone aboard Admiral Schley's flag
ship, the Brooklyn, on that date to
take dispatches to him and he said at
first that he gave him four or five
dispatches addressed to the com
mander of the squadron. He afterward.
modified this statement, saying that
probably all but two of these dis
patches were addressed to himself
(Admiral Cotton) but that they con
tained information which he thought
should be in Admiral Schley's posses
sion. One of these was a cony of a
j dispatch from Admiral Sampson which
iiau nut ueen printed in me omciai re
cords, stating that the Spanish fleet
was at Santiago. He also said that coal
could have been taken from the Merri
mac on the 27th of May, the day on
which the retrogade movement to Key
West was begun for the purpose of
coaling. Captain Wise testified that on
the 27th day of May he had signaled
Captain Philip, cf the Texas, his
opinion that Cervera was inside the
harbor at Santiago, but the testimony
wsa ruled out.
The first witness called was A.
B. Claxton, the machinist on board the
Texas who had begun his testimony
when the settings of the court were so
abruptly terminated Tuesday morning
by the death of Judge Wilson. Mr.
Claxton said on July 3, 1898, he had
been on duty in the engine room of
the Texas. The engine indicator had
called for full speed ahead early in the
morning, which had, within an hour
after the beginning of the action been
changed to "full speed astern." To his
knowledge there had been no signal 1
for the revrsal of the engine. He said
that he had been excused from service
in the engine room, but still he knew
that the engines were reversed for
about two minutes.
Rear Admiral Cotton, now com
mandant of the Norfolk navy yard,
who commanded the auxiliary cruiser
Harvard during the Spanish war, was
the next witness. He said that on May
27, 1898, he had delivered dispatches
to Commodore . Schley from Admiral
Sampson and the Navy Department.
He had, he said, boarded the Brooklyn
about 10:30 o'clock. The weather was
then moderate and he had had no. diffi
culty in going aboard the Brooklyn.
"What was said about the dispatch
es?" "I delivered to Commodore Schley
the original ciphers in which the dis
patches had been received by me at
St. Nicholas Mole, together with trans
lation of those dispatches made by
Lieutenant. Bcall, of the Harvard. I
handed them personally to him in his
cabin in the order of their date. He
received them, read them and com
mented in a general way upon then
purport; spoke of the difficulty he had
in getting coal on board his ships
while at Cienfuegos and subsequently
to the date of which I am speaking.
May 27, and said it had been an al
most impossibility to get coal on board
on account of the weather. He ques
tioned me relative to the practicabili
ty of coaling ship at St. Nicholas Mole
and Gonaive's Channel. As to St.
Nicholas Mole, I said: 'There is no
question the small ships can coal
there. As to Gonaive's channel, I
know of no reason why you should not
be able to coal there.' The commodore
made remarks upon mv statements.
the language of which I do not recall,
but he asked me, 'How about the large
ships at St. Nicholas Mole?' I said:
'You can't coal your big ships there.'
I had special reference in my reply to
the battleships and protected cruisers
oi the Brooklyn and New York class.
I said, thinking of the" fact that mv
own ship had been there and was of
some 12.000 tons displacement and
nearly 000 feet in length, 'possibly un
der favorable conditions, you might be
able to coal the large ships there, one
at a time.' But the area of deep water
for the anchorage of 'large ships is so
little there it was not practicable to
coal at the very utmost more than one
large fchip at a time and in case the
weather became bad she would imme
diately have to go to sea.
Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House.
Washington. D. C, Special. Mrs.
The. Roosevelt, the wife of the Presi
dent, took up her permanent residence
in Washington Wednesday night when
as mistress of the White House, she
occupied apartments for the first tim2.
She reached the city about 9:30
o'clock, bringing with her two of the
Roosevelt children, a governess and a
housekeeper. President Roosevelt met
Mrs. Roosevelt and the children at the
portcochere of the White House.
Apartments in the southwestern pa-t
of the building have been specially fit
ted up for the new presidential party.
For two hours late in the afternoon
the President enjoyed a horseback ride
accompanied by Col. Sanger, the Aj
autant Secretary of War.
PENITENTIARY REPORT.
Report to Governor Aycock is flade
Public i
The following is the report on the
penitentiary, made Thursday evening
to the governor:
We, the finance committee of the
State's prison, to whom was referred
your request by J. S. Mann, superin
tendent, for a full investigation of the
receipts and disbursements of tho
said prison from January 1st, 1899, to
January 1st, 1901, and from the latter
date to April 3, 1901, (this last date
being the date on which the present
administration assumed charge), beg
leave to report that we, have ex
amined the books, vouchers and pay
rolls of the prison up to and inclu
sive of December 31st, 1900, and find
the following assets ,and liabilities:
Assets January 31st. 1901.
Balance on hand $ 4,039 24
Proceeds from 878
bales cotton.. 34,121 97
Proceeds from 55,-
2o5 1-5 bu. pea
nuts 31,601 93
Proceeds from 359-
370 brick . . . 1,790 SG
Proceeds from cot
ton seed ... 492 OS
Proceeds from cat
tle.. .... .. 267 58
Proceeds from
mattresses . . 000.00
Bills receivable . 13,192 60
Permanent impro
vements. . . 18,347 33 104.4479 CS
Liabilities 22,470 58
Balance $
82,003 10
Appropriations for
1899-1900. ..$105,414 10
By mules, horses,
farming imple
ments, sold from
Halifax, North
hampton, Anson
and Castle Hayne
Farms. . .$12,084 82 $117,498 92
Leaving a deficiency in earnings of
$35,495.82.
The former superintendent claimed
and credited his statement with
$32,141.78 as having been expended
for permanent improvements. We ex-
amid, in detail the invoices sup
porting this account and found of this
amount $14,257.14 that was expended
for fertilizers, horses, mules, wagons,
carts and farming implements. This
amount, in the judgment of this com
mittee, should have been charged to
the expense account. We, therefore,
credit the permanent
improvements
account with the difference between
$32,142.78 and $14,257.14, which is
$17,S35.64.
Your excellency will note an item
of $12,084.82, which we charged to
the State's prison. The amount was
receipts from the sale of horses,
mules, wagons, carts and farming im
plements from Castle Hayne, Halifax
and Northampton farms. The past
administration having discontinued
the working of these farms, sold all
the stock and farming implements
As they found these farms in full
operation and stocked when they
came in, we did not think it proper
for them to take the receipts from
the sale of this material and apply it
as their earnings; hence, the charge,
Your excellency will note that in
stead of the State's prison earning
$34,450.73 in excess of the cost of the
maintenance, as claimed by them,
there was really a deficit of $35,495.8
There is on the books of this in
stitution $11,900.15, which we have
not been able to collect. A great
many of these accounts have been
brought forward from year to year.
There are others against parties we
cannot find, and others against par
ties who say they do not owe them.
We think it proper to place such of
these accounts as may be considered
worth anything in the hands of the
Attorney General, with instructions
from you to bring suit on them and
credit the proceeds, if any, to the
former administration.
There are now several claims
against the prison, aggregating $1,200
to $1,500, which the board of direc
tors are investigating. . Should they
be allowed they should be charged to
the former administration.
Below you will find a statement
showing the financial condition of the
State's prison on April 3rd, 1901;
also on September 7th, 1901.
April 3, 1901, cash
in drawer. . .$ 130 66
Cash in treas- "
ury 12,017 52
Bills receivable. 10,711 05
Cash received
from Martin's
shortage .. . 16,000 40
144. 79 brick. 611 90
55,255 bushels
peanuts . . 31,601 9S
399 mattresses . 3 99 00
Two bales cot-
ton
6,300 pounds dam
aged cotton . .
Beef cattle. . .
Cotton seed. .
Liabilities
78 10
200 00
267 58
282 39$ 72,360 58
43,133 93
$ 29,226 63
$9,016.89 of the Martin shortage oc
curred prior to the Day administra
tion. April 3rd to September 7th.
April 3, 1901, cash
on hand. . .$ 2S.20S 58
Receipts from
April 3, to Sep
tember 7th . 53,105 32
7th 53,105 32
Total receipts $ 81,313 90
Disbursem e n t s
April 3rd to
Sept. 7th. . . 79,485 75
Balance . . .$
Damaged cotton
Bills receivable.
1.52S.289 brick .
417 mattresses .
1,?2S 15
200 00
8.244 67
6,495 26
417 0017,185 OS
Total assets Sep
tember 7th .$ 17,185 OS
Liabilities: Sep
tember 7th: Old
debts prior to
April 3. 7,013 92
New debts since
April 3d. . . . 1,125 00
Balance $
Deducting old debts and
exnended for permanent
8,138 92
9.046 16
amounts
improve-
ments, there was expenaea ,
801.12, from January 1st, 1899, to D u
cember 31st. 1900, or an average djt
$16,079.17 per month. From April 3d '
to September 7th there was expend
ed $51,954.34, or an average of $10,
390.86 per month.
All of which we respectfully sub
mit. (Signed) Nathan O'Berry, J. A. .
Brown, Finance Committee.
. State News.
A petition is being circulated in
Rowan county for the pardon of James .
Howell, who was sent up for three
years for house burning.
Asheville i3 now connected by long
distance telephone with all tho large
northern and western cities. The line
was completed Tuesday.
Telegraphic Briefs.
Failure of the airbrakes cause 1 a-,
collision on the Northern Pacific Rail
road, near Lake, Wash., injuring a.
number of persons.
Tho police at Memphis, Tenn., have
caught Garrett Nugent, of New York,
charged with embezzlement of $10,000.
The trial of Mrs. Bonine for killing -Census
Clerk Ayres in Washington, D.
C, will be called in November.
The Marcus Daly estate has paid
the government $131,407 inheritance
tax. The National
tarian Churches
toga, N. Y.
Conference of Un
assembles at Sara-
Browned in Reservoir.
bima. O., Special. Frank Hague,
better known as Zero, an areonaut,.
was drowned in the city water-works,
reservoir Tuesday afternoon. Hague
was in a parachute and balloon race
with C. M. Hawley, at the county fair
grounds and was 1,200 feet in the air,
when they cut loose. Hawley landed in
a private yard year the reservoir, while
Hague landed in the middle of the big
reservoir and was drowned, by becom--ing
entangled In the ropes of the para
chute. Notes of Progress
Representatives of thirty loading
compresses have organized a State
association with avowed object of
securing uniformity and increased den
sity, so as to enable it to compete with
any other package on the market.
The Bowling Green, (S. C.) Knttias
Mills, recently reported, ha3 organ
ized, with J. T. Patrick, president,and
R. M. Dulin, secretary-treasurer. Di
rectors have also been chosen. The
other facts as to this $15,000 plant
have been previously announced.
The Dulin (Ga.) Cotton Mills, re
ported last week cs to i3SU2 $30,000 of
bonds, does not contemplate any im
provements. The plant has just beeu
completed, and is now preparing t.
commence operations. About eighty
hands will be employed, 5.0GO spindles,
and 160 looms operated, and sheeting,
and shirtings manufac:ured.
It is reported that Messrs. J. T.
Holmes, E. Nolte & Sons and others ot
Segnin, Texas, have purchased for
$8,000 the Ers'.dno Falls, intending to
develop the water-power and erect a
cotton factory to utilize the energy ol;-.
tainable.
Walthour Defeated.
New York, Special. Jimmy Michael
of Wales defeated Bobby Walthour of
Atlanta in two straight heats at Madi
son Square garden. The men were
matched to ride heats of five miles .
each behind motor pace, best two in
three. In the second heat Walthour
established a new in-door record for
one and two miles, covering the first .
mile in 1.32 3-5 and the second in.
3.00
Embezzler Caught.
New York, Special. Garrett Nug-
gent, 19 years of age, who is alleged
to have embezzled abopt $10,000 from
his employers, Townsend and Mc
Ilvaine, lawyers of this city, by means
of false entries in the firm bank
book, has been arrested at Memphis,
Tcnn., according to information re
ceived here from the police authori
ties of that city. Nugent disappeared
last March and has been traced all .
over the country until he was appre
hended at Memphis.
Brief Mention.
Boers captured a company of British x
mounted infantry and two guns at
Viakfontein, in the Transvaal.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall .
and York were welcomed at Ottawa.
The Czar and Czarina spent a quiet
day at Compeigne, France.
The Russian press has been forbid-.
den to mention plaudits for Count
Toistoi bestowed by his admirers.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
arrived at Helsingbore, Sweden, oca a,-.
Fialt to King Oscar.
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