The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 29, 1901, Page 1

@l LT XTRA. AT VOLUME XC—NO. 15 5 SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ASSASSIN CZOLGOSI PAYS DEATH PENALTY IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR AT AUBURN PRISON Exposition on Septémber 6, was clectrocuted. The assassin went to the clectric chair unrepentant and unconfcssed. AUBURN, N. Y., Oct. 29.—At 7:18 o’clock this morning Leon F. Czolgosz, the anarchist who fatally shot Préesident William McKinley at the Bufialo ELLIOTT IS GLAD THAT HIS BULLET ENDED : BRUTAL HUSBAND’S tIFE AND RESCUED GIRL HE LOVED FROM A CAREER OF DEGRADATION Wrs. Bessie Sherman, the Young Woman Who Was Widowed by the Tragedy of Sunday Night in San Jose, Testifies at the Coroner’s Inquest That AN JOSE, Oct. 28.—T am glad I killed him. He deserved it, for he y first love.” 1l Harry L. El- and killed J. W. l-repute last the excite- v had subsided me of mind that enormity of his with Be Sherman a e cause of the s an indifference , exeept when the oned, and then he State Senator Oneal make a fight for a the k v and he had aci- Sherman was B T PR RS R H ~ 7 — She Had Never Encouraged the Attentions of the Man Who Avenged Her e Hm)’ L ELlloTT + Public sentiment favors .fm to L3 armed. some extent and it is hardly likely a jury | could be found in the county that would convict him. The inquest over Sherman’s body was held this afternoon. Mrs. man, over whom the shooting occurred, took the stand. She denied that her fath- er, before his death, had asked Elliott to protect and waich over her. had known Eliott about five years. He bad been at her home only once. She had received letters from him from time to time, but had never answered them. Mre. Sherman said she married her hus- bznd a few months ago in Oakland. At| that time Sherman was working for Gun- | San zendorfer, at 209 Sansome street, APPEALS FOR FUNDS FOR A RELIEF BOAT Iound Necessary to Send a Whaler to Aid an English Antarctic Ex- ploring Ship. LLONDON, Oct. 28.—8ir Clements Mark- president of the Royal Geographical Society, “\Jealing for subscriptions to the amount writes to the papers to-day ap- of another £1000 to cover the cost of the | Norwegian whaler Morgenen, which has Bessie Sher- | She said she | — WIFE WHOM J. W. SHERMAN SUBJECTED TO A LIFE OF DEGRADA- TION AND THE MAN WHO, BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE FOR THE YOUNG . WOMAN, ENDED THE HUSBAND'S CAREER WITH A BULLET, Francisco. She had been in this city about & week. Sherman had met Elliott on the street yesterday and brought him | up to the house last night. After greet- ing her he left and a few seconds later the shots were fired. She said her hus- band was unarmed. . The Coroner's jury returned a verdict that Sherman came to his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by Elllott, and | charged him with the murder of Sher- man. Mrs. Nolan, mother of Mrs. Sherman, came to San Jose this morhing and this | evening took her daughter back with her to San Francisco. Elliott came to San Jose from Oxnard. He has conducted bootblack stands there, | in Stockton and other places. Some who | have seen him believe he is slightly de- [ mented. DRIVEN OUT OF OAKLAND. J. W. Sherman, the man who was shot | Antarctic exploring ship Discovery. The Discovery, on the voyage to Cape | Town, showed very serios defects. Al- | though proving herself an excellent and | stift sea boat, she leaked badly, turned | out to be a slow sailer and was found | wanting in adequate coal capacity. These | shorteomings, Sir Clements’ - Markham pointsbut, are reasons why a relief boat | for the Antarctic expedition s an impera- | tive necessity: . | As the Discovery was the first ship bullt in Great Britain for, polar expeditions, been purchased as a rclief ship to thai these revelations are disappointing. and killed in San Jose by Henry L. El- liott, had a bad reputation, and it was only three weeks ago that he was forced to leave Oakland, where he had placed his young wite in a notorious house, known as the Palm Leaf. Sherman's actions in Oakland were so despicable that the po- lice arrested him as a vagrant. When his trial came up some friends of his ilk procured his release. His young wife at that time told the police that she had entered the house of her own accord, but that she would refuse to ccutinue a life of shame and would réturn to her mother in this city. The pair left Oakland, and after remaining in this city for a few days went to San Jose, where the tragedy occurred. It appears, from all that can be learned of Sherman’s career, that three months after he married Miss Bray he induced her to enter a disorderly house in this city. The only work he was ever known to do was in the grafting line—that is, so- liciting for .fake photograph galieries, POPE LEO’S LIFE INSURED FOR A MONTH An American Company, Writes a Policy for Fifty Thousand Pounds. NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—A Sun special from Paris to the Daily Express says the local office of an American insurance com- ‘pany has just issued a policy of £50,000 on the Pope's life.. The company required a certificate from the Pontiff’s physiclans before undertaking the insurance and was only willing to insure him for a month, 4 tortyze, but outwardly he sedmied sullen | a slight nervous attack late to-day, but | Warden Mead, and formally relinquished REFUSES T BECEINE L CONSOLATIO Condemned Man Has but Insulting Words for Priests. Tells Brother Not to Have Religious Ceremony Over His Body. Remains of the Electrocuted Man to Be Buried in the Prison Yard in Order to Prevent Dis- turbances. Paae L AUBURN, N. Y., Oct. 25 —Leon F. Czolgosz will have paid tribute with his life to the law, as the murderer of Presi- dent Willlam McKinley, by 7:15 o’clock to- morrow morning, and unless he under- goes a great change of heart and strength in the few hours of life left to him, he will go to the electric chair un- confessed and unrepentant. He suffcred remained sullen and stoical up to the time the prison closed at 10 o’clock. He refused to heed the words of the priests who came to urge spiritual preparation for death, and declined to elther re-em- brace Catholiclsm or renounce anarch- ism. Hence, unless he changes his mind, there will be no religious ceremony at the end. Czolgosz showed no strength of love for kin, nor.did he turn to any of those higher considerations which ordinerily claim the thoughts of mel occupying his position. He may have siffered untold and indifferent. The State 1s not to sur- render possession of his body, and by sundown it will have been secretly in- terred in ground controlled by the of- ficlals of Auburn prison. All Relics to Be Destroyed. Waldech™®®lgosz, brother of .the mur- Gerer, foresceing endless- difficulties and possibly angry demonstrations as the re- sult of an attempt to give the body or- dinary burial, heeded the advice of Su- perintendent of State Prisons Collins and 2ll claim to it. He merely stipulated that at the ciose of the autopsy all parts of the body should be buried. All chance of an unhappy and unfortunate sequel to the execution, neither in displays of pop- ular contempt or the exhibition of ghastly relics, is therefore finally prevented. The plan of burning his clothing and | papers will be carried out immediately after the execution. The electrical machine is ready for its work; Auburn prison is carefully guarded, the city is in its normal calm, and there seem to be no circumstances standing in the way of a successful and expeditious execution of the law. Last Two Interviews. Czolgosz held his iast two interviews to-night, the first with Superintendent Collins and the second with his brother and brother-in-law. Both of the inter- views were brief, and the interviewers dld most of the talking until the question of religion was mentioned, when Czol- gosz broke from his seeming lethargy and violently denounced the church and the clergy. and made his relatives promise that there should be no service for him, living or dead. Prior to the late evening interviews, Czolgosz reluctantly received Fathers Fudzinski and Hickey. It was late In the afternoon, and occurred after he had once refused to meet them. When they reached the prison Superintendent Collins conveyed the request for an in- terview to thd prisomer. Czolgosz sent back word that he did not care to see them, but the priests asked to see him, despite his refusal. Superintendent Col- lins consented, and personally escorted tlem to the cell. The priests remained with Czolgosz three-quarters of an hour, and earnestly pleaded with the prisoner to repent and pray for divine forgive- ness. He rejected all their advances, however, and they regretfully withdrew. They told the prisoner they would hold themselves ready to answer a call from him at any hour of the night. It was 7 o'clock when Superintendent Collins went into the death-house and tried to get the prisoner to talkyto him. Although he re- mained in the cell some time he was ap- parently not successful in getting any- thing material from him. At 8 o’clock the brother and brother-in- law arrived and Superintendent Collins took them down to the condemned man’s cell, Assassin Grows Profane. There was no demonstration when they met. Czolgosz merely stepped to the front of his steel cage and sald “Hello" The brother ventured the remark: ‘I wish you would tell us, Leon, who got you into this scrape.” The assassin answered in a slow, hesi- tating manner: “No one. Nobody had anything to do with it but me.” “That is not how You were brought up,” said his brother, “and you ought to tell us everything now.” “I have not got. anything to tell,” he answered in a surly manner. - “Do you want to see the priest agaln?” asked his brother. f . g VENEZUELAN NATIONAL EXPEDITION LANDS AND BATTLES WITH GOVERNMENT FORCES ON THE COAST OF THE STATE OF MATURIN Troops on the Frontier of Rosario de Cucuta Number Fifteen Thousand Colombians and Six_Thousand Venezuelans---Former Prosperous Inhab- itants of Caracas Are Reduced to Beggary and Seek Alms on Streets s in- follow the e bt other, continues one of expectancy. The economic condition of the country is re- ported good, though awaiting the creased animation that will movement of the coffee crop. NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—A cable dispatch \ announcing the election of President Cas- tro of Venezuela, who has been pro- visional President for one year, has been received at the Venezuela consulate in this city. The offic proclamation will be made to-morrow by the Congress of that country. PRt Al IS GERMAN CRIES “HANDS OFFY” Captain von Wellheim Makes a Sen- sational Speech. BERLIN, Oct. 28.—During an address at a recent meeting of the Fleet Soclety in Hanover, Captain von Wellheim of the German navy is represented to have said: “German interests in the five republics of Central America, in of American competition, can only be maintained when we have a fleet strong enough to say to the Americans ‘Hands off The declaration was received with stormy applause. The papers generally ignote it, and the Freissinige Zeitung ob- serves: “There Is a species of political mischief- making which, while not punishable un- der the penal code, is none the less calcu~ lated to cause apprehension.” view x4 ORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD, Oct. 28.—The Venezuelan nation- alist expedition, .which left here the night of the 15th, effected a landing on the coast of the state of Maturin, Venezuela, and engaged the Government forces, under General Maica, near Canos. Particulars of the It is es- fight are momentarily expected. timated that the forces on the frontier of Rosario de Cucuta number 15,00 Co- lombians and 6000 Venezuelans, and on the frontier of Guajira, near Maracaibo, 6000 Colomblans and 3500 Venezuelans. Arrivals from Caracas give distressing that accounts of poverty perceptible in L a3 RO And he answered with more vehémence than he had previously shown: “No, — them; don't send them hera again. I don’t want them.” The brother-in-law interjected here: “That's right, Leon.” 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. 7T don’t want any of their — religion.” e Cannot Witness Execution. There was a painful pause of a few min- utes, when the relatives regumed casual conversation with him, to which he re- plied in monosyllables until the brother- in-law suggested to Superintendent Coi- lins that he and the brother be permitted to witness the execution. Before the su- perintendent could reply, Leon Czolgosz said: “Yes, see it.” Collins told them that no such thing could be done, ard ordered them to sav good-by. Czolgosz walked to the back of his cell, sat dowh on the edge of his cot and did not answer the last farewell. When the relatives reached the war- den's office they again renewed their re- quest to see the excution, to which Col- lins replied emphatically: «Czolgosz will be killed at 7 o’clock to- morrow, and if you apply to the warden in the afternoon you may be able to see the body.” . The two men were then let out of the prispn. Mr. Superintendent; let them A few minutes after they had left Su-" perintendent Collins recrived a telephone message from the chief of police of Cleveland, announcing that the father of the convicted man had signed an agree- ment similar to the one signed by the brother here this afternoon, giving the prison authorities the disposal of the body- The prison was absolutely quiet at 19 o'clock. A little crowd that had gathered city. A large part of the once progperous inhabitants are reduced to seeking alms in the public streets. Business is practi- cally at a standstill, and merchants ex- press the belief that they will soon be compelled to close their doors altogether. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Mail advices up to October 15 were received to-day from his country by Senor Pulido, the Venezuelan Charge d’Affaires here.” They came from Edward Blanco, the Minis‘er of Foreign Affairs, who reports that af- fairs are tranquil there and the condition of the country normal. The situation on the Tachira frontier, where the armies of Colombia and Venezuela are facing eacn il @ about the main entrance at dusk quietly didpersed with out any suggestion from police or guards. The superintendent and warden retirel at 10 o’clock, with the announcement that there would be nothing sgiven out and that no one would enter or leave the prison before ‘o-morrow morning. Be- fore the superirtendent had retired, the death watch reported to him that «Czol- gosz was sleeping soundly. RBesides th~ two regular men on the death watch in the corridor, an additional guard sat in Czolgosz’'s cell to-night. —_—— BODY NOT TO BE REMOVED. Remains of the Assassin Will Be In- terred in Prison Grounds. AUBURN, N. Y., Oct. 28.—The body of Leon F. Czolgosz, the murderer of Presi- dent McKinley, will not be removed from Auburn. Superintendent of State Prisons Cornelius V. Collins and Warden J. War- ren Meade, after hours of controversy with Czolgosz's brother, succeeded in ob- taining from him the following relin- quishment of the family claim to the re- mains when the executioner shall have finished his work: “AUBURN, N. Y., Oct. 35, 1901—J. War- ren Meade, Agent and Warden Auburn Prison; I hereby authorize you, as War- den of Auburn Prison, to dispose. of the body of my brother, Leon Czolgosz, bury- ing it in the cemetery attached to the prison, as provided by the law of the State of New York. " “This request is made upon the express understanding that no part of the remains will be given to any person or society, but that the entire body will be buried in accordance with the law in the cemetery attached to the prison. “WALDECK CZOLGOSZ. John A. Sleycher, George “Witnesses: A. Graham.” The resolution of Superintendent Collins to prevent sensation in the transportation or burial of Czolgosz took new zest from two. offers that were submitted to-day by VENEZUELA'S PRESENT CHIEF AND THE FOE WHO WOULD DISPLACE HIM. g +* @ bt e O men of questionable enterprise. A keeper of a museum in one of the larger Eastera citles telegraphed him an offer of $5%00 spot cash for either the body or the gar- ments of the murderer, and the owner of a kinetoscope wired Warden Meade that he would pay $2000 for permission to take a moving pictire of Czolgosz entering the death chamber. The superintendent aiso bad his suspicions aroused as to the mo- tives of some of the relatives of Czolgoss in seeking the body in view of their pov= erty and the trouble and dangér possible In connection with its removal and dis- posal. The superintendent chanced to meet Waldeck Czolgosz, brother of the murderer, as he was being escorted to the death cell shortly after his arrival, and at once took the matter up with him. He asked Waldeck Czolgosz if hé wanted the body. He said he did. Collins then told him that he did not believe it could be removed without serious trouble, and strongly advised him against the attempt. The plan to take it to Buffalo, where Czolgosz had assassinted the President, he regarded as particularly dangerous, Collins discussed the matter from the standpoint of Czolgosz's family and said they would surely avoid ‘serious annoy- ance and possible violence by consenting to burial here. He assured Waldeck Czolgosz that he and the family could at~ Continued on Page Twa |