M'KINLEY'S MURDERER

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1544, 2 October 1901, Page 47

M'KINLEY'S MURDERER

TRIAL OF THE ASSASSIN CZOLGOSZ. SENTENCE~OF DEATH. WASHINGTON, September 24. •-CzfSlgosz has been placed on his , trial for the murder of President McKinley at Buffalo. The prisoner refuses to speak. Doctor Gaylard stated in evidence 'that the actual cause of Mr McKinley’s death was the absorption of brokendown matter of the pancreas. WASHINGTON, September 25. , Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, maintains an air of unconcern. At his trial evidence was given that, while m gaol, the prisoner, in the pres ence of several witnesses, deliberately and unhesitatingly confessed that he had dogged the President for days seek ing an opportunity to shoot,_him. He further stated that he did not believe -in .anv form of Government ‘ or marriage, feyery head of a State-was, in his opinion, a tyrant, and ought to be killed. Miss Goldman’s teachings had, >he f said, .influenced him, hut he alone had planned the deed, and-'ac cepted responsibility. ■ Mr Lewis, one of the counsel for the

declared that the prisoner "steadfastly refused to aid them, but was entitled to any doubt. If the jury were able to declare that he was an irre sponsible*person they would lift a great load from, the public mind. - The jury returned a verdict of mar' der in the first degree, and the prisoner was remanded until Thursday for sen-

tence. r . Miss Goldman, the anarchist lecturer, has been discharged. - Mr Lewis, Czolgosz’s counsel, informed the press that he refrained from calling witnesses to establish the prisoner’s insanity, because the medical experts were prepared to testify, that he was sane.

WASHINGTON, September 27. Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley, was placed on the stand today for sentence. Replying to a question as to whether he wished to say anything, he listlessly remarked that he alone was" guilty, and that nobody had been aware of his plans. The murderer was then sentenced to

electrocution. He stood erect and motionless, looking straight at the Judge' a* bis Honor pronounced sentence of death. - - " ' -

The - execution has been fixed to take •place on October 28th at Auburn Prison. This is the earliest date the -law allows.. ' '

There was no demonstration made by the SDectators in the Court.

NEW YORK, September 24. Owing to absence of evidence, nine persons Avho Avere arrested in Chicago on suspicion of being anarchists were discharged. •• . ; •• . ...