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RICHMOND
PALLADIUM,
WEF.KLKiTABLIHE 131.
DAILY tsTABUHtUlI.
RICIIMOXo DAILY PALLADIUM, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1901.
ONE CENT A COPY
CZOLGOSZ.
THE ASSASSIN OF WILLIAM
McKINLEY ELECTRO
CUTED. Details of the Execution-It
Lasted But Four Minutes
Last Words of the
Fiend
Auburn, N. Y., Oct. 29. At 7:12
this morning Leon Czolgoz, the mur
derer of President McKinley, paid
the penalty of his crime, by a shok
from 1,700 volts of electricity. He
went to the chair talking to the wit
nesses and while being strapped to
thechair. ,4I killed the President,"
he said, "because he was the enemy
of good people, good working people.
I am not sorry for my crime. 1 am aw
fully sorry I could not see my
father."
Czolgosz slept well last night, re
tiring at 10 and being awakened by
a guard at 4:45 when the death war
rant was read to him by the warden.
Before leaving the ceil he said he
wanted to mate a statement before a
whole lot of people. The warden told
him be could not. "Then I'll not
talk at all," he said sullenly. His
breakfast was then brought and he
ate with a good relish. Meanwhile i
the witnesses gathered and at 7:08
passed through he-daath,chaOer go-4
ing through the large south corridor. !
Warden Meade told the witnesses '.
they must keep their seats and keep
sileuee no matter what transpired;
there were enough guards to pre
serve order. After throwing the
current into a lot of incandescent
lights showing its great power the
chair was made reaiy for the prison
er and the signal given to bring him
in. At 7:10$ the dour opened and
two guards marched with the prison
er into the corridor, two others fol
lowing, and the chief keeper in front
of the guards had hold of Czolgosz s
arms either to support him or to pre
vent a demonstration. As he step
ped over the threshold he stumbled
but they held him up. and again on
t he rubber covered platform on which
the chair sat. He was intenssly pale
and his chin quivertd. He tried to
look brave. Within a minute he was
placed in the chair and had
spoken the words saying he
was not sorry for his crime. The
guards stepped b-C. Warden Meade
WARDED J. WARREN MEADS.
raised his hand aDd at 7:12.30 the
electrician turned the switch that
throws 1700 volts of electricity into
the living body. The straps creaked
perceptibly, hands clenched and his
whole attitude was one of extreme
tenseness.
For 45 seconds the full current was
kept on and then slowly turned oif,
then turned on again for two or
three seconds. After the doctor had
felt the heart and found no pulsa
tion, he suggested another current,
and then at 7:15 the current was
turned off finally. All this was done
in less than four minutes after he
left the cell. Tests made by physi
cians showed death and the warden
at 7:17 announced "The prisoner is
dead" and the body was laid on the
operating table. , ,
Czolgosz in a talk last night with
Superintendent Collins said when he
jrent to Chicago a boy at the depot
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gave him a packet of money to be
used at Buffalo. He did not know
from whom It came .nor the boy who
brought it. Half an hour later when
asked again about it he pretended to
have forgotten that he had said any
such thing. His brother Waldrek
says Leon s statement that he was
illiterate was not true, that he could
read and write. Physicians declare
his brain normal if not above normal.
Superintendent Collins says the
execution was the most successful
ever conducted. Extraordinary pre
cautions were taken because of hun
dreds of threatening letters reeei ed.
It is decided not to destroy these
letters for the present. He will
also 1 reserve the letters sent
to Czolotz for police reference in
tracing anarchists. Lists of the full
names signed will be kept and efforts
made to trace the writer. Tney
will bury Czolgosz within 43 hours
and keep the grave guarded day and
night until the quick lime placed
around the boly has destroyed it.
Every portion of the anatomy of
the dead assassin was p'aced in a
plain black coffin, and after being
lowered in the grave carbolic acid
was poured in. It is expected this
will thoroughly disintegrate the
body in twelve hours. All the oloth
ing and personal effects are burned.
Waideek czoigosz, brother of the
murderer, foreseeing endless difficul
tle8 and possibly angry demonstra
tions as the result of an attempt to
give the body ordinary burial, heeded
the Advice of Superintendent of State
Prisons Collins and Warden Mead,
and formally relinquished all claim to
it. He merely stipulated that at the
close of the autopsy all parts of the
body should be buried. All chance of
an unhappy and unfortunate sequel
to the execution, either in displays
of popular contempt or the exhibition
of ghastly relice is therefore finally
prevented. The plan of burning his
clothing and papers was carried out
immediately after the execution.
Czolgosz held his last two inter
views last night, the first with Super
intendent Collins and the second with
brother and brother-in-law. Both
CTOLGOi-Z IN THE DEATH CHAIR.
61 the Interviews were Dnei ana me
interviewers did most of the talking
until the question of religion was men
tioned, wtR-n Czolgosz broke from his
seeming lethargy and violently de
nounced tue church and the clergy and
made his relatives promise that there
should be no service for him living
or dead. Tne brother said: "I wish
you would tell us, Leon, who got you
into this scrape?"
The assassin answered in a slow,
hesitating manner:
"No one. - Nobody had anything to
do with it but me. "
"That is not how you were brought
up," said the brother, "and you ought
to tell us everything now."
"I haven't got anything , to tell."
he answered in a surly manner.
"Do you want to see the priests
igain?" asked his brother. He an
swered with more vehemence than he
had previously shown:
"No, damn them; don't send them
here again; I don't want them." "
The brother looked rather disturbed
by the answer. Then stepping up
close to the bars the condemned man
said:
"And don't you have any praying
over me when I'm dead. I don't want
it. I don't want any of their damned
religion."
Czolgosz spent his last day of life
much as he did all the others since
he passed into the hands of the law.
The approach of death seemed to
awaken no greater consciousness of '
his position. He again turned his back i
upon the priests who came to urge j
him to confess and repent and was
undemonstrative in the presence of
those of his kin. who came to say a
last farewell to him. When alone with
his guards he remained silent and
passed the time either lying on his
bunk, or in slowly pacing up and down
the celL He talked, when addressed,
to those admitted near his cell, but
with his old deliberation and slow
ness. If he knew strong emotion at
any time, he was successful in con
cealing it from those who watched
over him. -
(Con 1 in Bed on Eighth Page )
COUNTOAM ?
Its History, Improvements,
Occupants. Manage
ment and What It
Takes to Run It.
Situated about seven miles west of
Richmond is the county farm, or, as
some term it, the "poor house It
was established in the year 1S45. The
hrst superintendent was John Crum.
It at that time consisted of a small
brick building with a wing where
were huddled together the unfortun
ate poor acd more unfortunate ones
of a deranged mind. A large enclo
sure with a sol:d board fe&ce eight
feet high was used for the latter dur
ing the day time, in weather suitable
In the early years of its history im
provements were made as fast as
funds could be secured for the pur
pose. At times many donations were
made by individuals, until at present
it is a model of its charn-ter, with
every convenience possiuie for the
care of the worthy poor of this coun
ty. A modern constructed brick house
for the superintendent and his fami
ly, with wings extending to the east
and west is occupied mostly by the
aged acd crippled inmates. To the
north of the main building are two
two story brick wards and the dining
rooms and kitchen, one ward for
men the other for women. Between
the two wards is the laundry, a com
modious building fitted up with every
convenience that a building of this
kind is in need of. The other build
ings on the farm is a large stable
capable of housing 12 head of horses
and 20 cows. There is a barn
to the west with a capacity of housing
sixty cattle. It is 50x36 feet In the
main barn there is a silo with a ca
pacity of 200 tons. A large building
is used for agricultural implements
with large corn crib on eUher
side a large and roomy carriage
house, paint shop and general repair
shop. Tne farm consists of 307 acres,
and this year produced 2,500 bushels
of corn, 1,150 bushels of wheat, aver
aging 31 bushels to the acre, and 200
bushels of oats. Besides this all veget
ables for the use of the inmates are
raised on the place, such as potatoes,
cabbage, tomatoes, onions, beets,
and an abundance of fruit, apples,
pears, grapes and other small fruits.
It re5'tires"for'heatiDg and othgiB
purposes 50 tons of coal a6drl7a
cords of wood during the year. Am
ple coal sheds and a large wood
shed are conveniently arranged for
the purpose. A detail of men, those
who are physically able, distribute
the fuel every day to the residence,
kitchen and different wards.
The doctrine that ''cleanliness is
next to Godliness" is believed" in
here. Every Saturday the wards and
halls are thoroughly scrubbed and
disinfected. Every inmate, and none
escapes it, must bathe and make an
entire change of clothing. They must
also on that day change their bed
linen, and take the same to the laun
dry by 6 o'clock on Monday morn
ing. The bedsteads are of iron, but
even at that a weekly inspection
is made throughout as a precaution
against vermin. i
Those who give but little t or no
thought to an institution of this kind,
with the exception that it is a "poor
house," andibave no idea of how well
these unfortunate poor are pro
vided for, would be surprised were
they at some time to visit this place
at any meal hour. The food is pure
and wholesome and plenty of it. Meat,
and that good, twice a day, potatoes,
rice, meat gravy, good bread and all
the coffee andjmilk one can drink are
provided. The meats vary during
the week, fried ham, country sausage
and fresh meat, pie and pudding
three times a week.
The inmates are provided, with
good, warm under garments, also
with suitable outer clothing and good
honest made shoes,and fonhose who
work out doors in the winter felt and
rubber boots are provided.
John Nicholson is the present su
perintendent and is ably assisted by
his wife. They see that every com
fort is extended to the inmates that
lays in their power. In cases of sick
ness both are untiring in their ef
forts to relieve the sufferer. Their
orders are strict and must be obeyed
in regard to the inmates treating
each other with respect nd no pro
fane language toward each other is
tolerated at any time. Mr. Nichol
son and wife seem to havt the respect
of all. I
There are at present in
the institution 37 as ales and 16
females, and considering the ad
vanced age of a- large number the
death rate is comparatively small.
One female inmate has been here ever
since it started and is bow in her
seventy-second year. She v as known
when brought here as the wild girl,
fifty-six years ago. i i
In the past two years there has
been over 70 rods of fence put up
which now encloses over 200 head of
hogs and other cattle.
The water supply is furnished by
springs. A large reservoir with a
capacity of 45,000 gallons is situated
a short distance from the house on
an elevation.
George McCullough
has inst
pleted a contract for electric lighting
and all the principal build irgs are
now lighted by thirty incandescent
lights, which is a great improvement
over the old coal oil lamp.
Coming to Richmond.
(Winchester Herald, Octjbr :.
Well, commencing this morning
the switch engine and crew have
taken up their headquarters at Rich
mond, adding five or six more to the
fifty or sixty empty houses in Win
chester. A majority of the people
are sorry to lose the engineand cew,
but are a great deal sorrower that
they did not take some of the ft Hows
who done the kicking and have never
been worth a dollar to the town since
they have been in it along with them.
We did not blame Sandy Alexander
for kicking, but there are some others
who signed the petition to have the
engine removed that kick on every
enterprise that does not just suit
their fancy. Winchester had better
be holding out inducements to locate
industries instead of driving them
out, acd if we continue to drive en
terprises out we had better fence the
town and place a tombstone at each
street crossing.
DROPPED DEAD.
Henry J. Haynard Died Sud
denly in Chicago Yes
I terday Evening.
Henry J. Hay ward, formerly a res
ident of this city, dropped dead at
his home in Chicago last night, aged
59 years.
-Mr. Hayward came to Richmond
from Massachusetts, about 1SG5, and
practiced law here for a number of
years before moving to Chicago. He
married a daughter of James M.
King, who, together with several
daughters, survives him. Mr. Hay
ward was here a short time ago to
see his brother-in-law, Henry King,
who was then seriously ill. He
seemed to be in excellent health at
that time.
Mr. Hayward's remains will be
brought to this city next Friday for
burial. .
I
rrT9tvnd, ; f InleysTOI i
Not Be Honored-Gov.Dur- j
bin Will Announce His j
Determination Some j
Time This Week, !
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Special Dispatch to the Palladium.
Indianapo'is, Ind , Oct. 29.
Unless there are new developments
Gov. Durbin will some time this j
week refuse to honor the Taylor
Finley Kentucky requisition. The
governor has about completed read
ing the transcript in the first Caleb
Powers trial, which was done at the
request of Arthur Goebel, so the de
cision will follow soon. It is ac
knowledged that had Powers been
acquitted at his second trial he would
have been disposed to grant the re
quisitions.
Two Women Suffocated.
Chicago, 111., October 29. Mrs.
D. Ryan and daughter, Mrs. King,
were suffocated and three others
were injured in a fire in Eagle flats
on Taylor street today.
Buffalo Bill and Forepaugh
And Sells Suffer Serious
ly Large Number of
Horses and Wild
Animals Killed.
Washington, D. C, Oct. 29. Buf
falo Bill's show has been wrecked at
Milborn, N. C, today. Four cars
were wrecked and 150 horses killed.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 29. Fore
paugh and Sells, circus train was
wrecked at noon today near Baton
Rouge. Four cars containing ani
mal cages were wrecked. None of the
animals escaped except the elephants
and they were secured and driven
into Baton-Rouge.
Communication Establish
ed With Miss Stone.
s Washington, D C, Oct. 29. The
j tate department has been advised
y its agents in Constantinople and
Sofia that communication has been
established with Miss Stone. No de-
ails are furnished.
f " .
Marriage Licenses.
! William R. Little feld and Nellie
Smith, Richmond-
i Theodore Lynch and Orella Jen
tins, Webster. ,
Lost A cane on the road to Ca m n-
REQUIS
TON
SHOWS
WRECKED
com-ibellstown. Return to 131 south
jfourth street.. . ,r . :
ORATORICAL
CONTEST AT EARLHAM
LAST NIGHT.
The Orations, the Winners,
Decision of the Judges
Some Fine Efforts
Joseph W. Kenney
The Victor.
The oratorical contest at Earlbam
last evening to decide who shall rep
resent that institution at the state
contest drew out a good sized audi
ence, many from the city being pres
ent, who were well repaid for their
time and trouble it was a splendid
affair, creditable to the college and
the participants and Prof. Trueblood
whose fine work was evident in the
excellent delivery of each contestant.
Mr. Luther Feeger announced the
various events, opening the evening
with some well chosen remarks, re
ferring to the past proud history of
the college in oratorical contests,
having been at the top or near the
top, always, in state contests; and
expressing the conviction that their
prospects for winning had never
been brighter than on the present
occasion.
A quartet composed of Misses
Johnson and Jenkins and Messrs.
Wesson and Tomlinson rendered
"Forget-Me-Not, and Arthur W.
Ellis spoke, his subject being
OLIVER P. MORTON.
The civil war was a conflict between
right and wrong ideas, be
tween liberty and slavery.
For years orators had urged
the question, but argument could not
settle it. There was such an awful
blot on our institutions that it could
only be wiped away with blood. In
I860 the crisis came. In Indiana
stood a man who with keen insight
into the future declared that "if
South Carolina succeeds in going out
of the Union I prefer that it should
be at the point of the bayonet."
With that trumpet call Morton start
ed Indiana upon the war that meant
freedom to four millions of people.
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corrupt. A large pSiou'of the
state had secession ideas. Prominent
men assisted them and people largely
rallied to their standard, but Morton
by his indomitable will saved Indiana
to the Ucion. Thisalone would have
placed him among the greatest men
of his time: he imported to others
the heroic enthusiasm that swayed
his great soul, the men of Indiana
mingled their blood with that of the
soldiers of the other states. By his
courage, energy and devotion to the
cause he made himself the greatest
of the great wargovernors. He was
a friend to the soldier; clothed him
when bis state would no. No sooner
was the smoKe lifted from the battle
field than his ministers of mercy were
there to care for the wounded. When
the soldier returned home Morton
was the first to meet him with the
hands of love. Then came the recon
struction period with its herculean
tasks; the hand of the assassin re
moved the head of the government.
Men of great talent were needed in
these crises. Indiana recognized t he
need and sent Morton to
the senate where he
as a giant among the great
minds of the time; bis
1. 1 nr hie 1 1 n rmnrii r it
will made him the ruler of them all.
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In his power he was the champion of
right. In war the ablest champion
of war; in peace the warmest friend
of the stricken south. In his mem
bership of the electoral commission
he made himself beloved by his friends
and admired by his enemies. He be
lieved in his party, but he made that
party the incarnation of a principle.
Would that we had more partisans
like him; Ambitious, he never al
lowed himself to rise at the expense
of the good of the people. Indiana
may point with pride to her war
statesmen, her quiet soldiers but
her greatest son was Morton . Vir
ginia has given us a Washington;
Illinois blessed us with a Lincoln;
Ohio has given us a Garfield and a
McKinley.- Indiana has her great
war governor, her inspired patriot,
her peerless statesman, that noble
man, Oliver P. Morton.
NATIONAL IISRESPECT
Was the subject of R. Roy Bart
lett. The respect of a nation is as
real as the respect of an individual,
and its disrespect is as potent an in
fluence. It is as essential that we
protect our respect for our institu
tions as that we extend our domin
ion. The names of many of our great
cities are already synonyms for cor
ruption; in some of our states ameet-
ing of the legislature is almost dread-
ed. We are now confronted
with a disrespect for the ju
dicial system which is expected to
enforce our criminal laws. In ques
tions 01 grave crimes it is no rantv
to have the fear expressed that the j in speaking of Victoria. Her name
criminal will never be punished. Thus ! belongs high among the names of the
is anarchy born. It came first from S benefactors of mar kind. The Victo
across the sea it is of the down- j rian age shows a simple dignity and
trodden of other lands; but it is fos- I (Continued oa tman pe, "
tered in our land by the non-enforce-j
ment of our laws. Our laws are not
i oppressive, but by non-enforcement
j they become despised. The spirit of
j lynch law was not bom out of our
own confines it is an American in-
stitution. It is in every state, until
! in the last twenty years there have
j been 3,000 lynchiugs more than
twice the number of legal executions,
i The result of the non-enforcement of
! law in France is an example to us.
I The seeds for the same result exist
I in America todav. It finds its
strength in the perversion of the law.
It leads to anarchy and the end of
anarchy is death. The people are
not to blame. It comes from the
conditions under which our courts
are found: frcm the belief that the
courts which do not enforce the laws
are the creatures, not of the l?w,
but of its con-enforcement. It is be
cause that the people fear the guilty
will not be punished that they make
a law unto themselves. What is to
be done how is it to be cured? Only
by changing the idea of the
practice of the law. So long as the
lawyer understands his sole duty to
be to clear his client so long will peo
pie have no confidence in the law.
TOCSSAI.NT lOCVEHTCRE.
Joseph W. Kenney, who was the
winner of the contest took this for
his subject.
A little more than 100 years ago sla
very was fully established in the
world, planted in the constitutions,
defended in the pulpits.believed in by .
the people. The slave had no right.
The laws were made for the white
man and the white man alone. To
day slavery is no more, and the slave
is being raised to equality with the
master. When did this begin? It
begun when a negro struck the first
blow for his race; a slave whose
genius must shape the practices of
civilization Toussaint L Ouverture.
His father was a slave, stolen from
Africa and made a slave in Santo
Domingo; and the boy often saw his
people suffer beneath the lash, saw
his own father whipped. Then be
heard the voices calling him to the
liberation of his race. As the spirit
of leadership grew stronger within
him be resolved that slavery
should die by his voice, by his acts,
by his blood. The opportunity
came in 1793. He was fifty years
old. The European wars aud tur
moils gave the opportunity. Then
15,000 blacks arose in Santo Djuiingo
and demanded their rights. The
French governor ordered them to
disband., L'Ouyerture faced him
j as owj to us Tnc-u the
man. With the grim determination
i of a man hardened by fifty years of
slavery LOuverture planned and
prosecuted tne war. rrom every
part of the island swarmed the
blacks .and frcm them he
formed his army. That army tf
blacks swept the oppressor from the
island. Black was pitted against
white. Spain poured in hi?r army of
the most skillful soldiers of Europe
armed with the most scientific weap
ons tocombat untrained blacks armed
with clubs and corn knives. With
indomitable resolution L'Ouverture
swept the chivalry of France, noted
warriors of Europe, from his coun
try, and the slaves were free. Cr.iu
will, Napoleon, the others of the
world's great soldiers, note of them
attained that for which they fought.
But here stood a man without arms,
without trained soldiers, beating
back the best warriors of Europe and
bringing peace to his country. But
his ability did not end in war. He
laid the foundation of his state so
4., j wisely unitv of government was es
lowerea , . , , 1 j u.j ..t 1 .
y..,ZV"l't
v
1 H nmrv ann A mprina
and America, but
his government the first
j j s
i ciaUe
of the constitution
gave religious lioerty 01 tne
broadest. Though offered the crown he
formed a republic replying that the
negro asked only the freedom that
his God had given bim. He pro
claimed anew the brotherhood of
mankind. The slave had secured for
Sante Domingo the blessings of free
dom and of peace. When, with Na
poleon casting covetous eres upon
his island, he asked aid from Amer
ica, from England, from Europe,
only to meet with refusal, he found
; himself with t0,000 trained troops on
j his shores. He burned his cities, fled
; to his mountains, then descending
I annihilated the krmy that made Eu
j rope tremble. Then came his betrayal
ouu uij wtwg wcaa-u iu VruaiU9 wf
France and his martyrdom the man
who had vanquished Europe in the
field and set a pace for the marching
of the nations, died in a dungeon.
Napoleon died, and his achievements
died with him; but the spirit of
O'Ouverture never died. It inspired
patriotism, equipped armies, ani
mated orators, and the emancipation
proclamation of Lincoln is its echo.
The work of L'Ouverture is done. No
dirge was sung over his grave, but
from the throbbing heart of the lib
erated regro comes always his song
ot praise, from the oppressed to his
deliverer.
QCEIX VICTORIA.
Miss Florence T. Morgan, th . only
j lady in the contest, presented this
subject, superlatives are not needed
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