Fifty-two days after he fired the fatal shot, the Slayer of the President paid the death penalty. 'The event is thus graphieally portrayed in a dispatch from the place of execation:—Auburn, Riy ¥., Oct. 29.—At daylight this morning' Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President McKinley, was pacing the condemned' cell awaiting his e ming doom. Barely five hours afterward his body was lying in the prison burying ground with acid and quicklime heaped about it to hasten its disintegration. By evening the de~- troying agencies had done their work and nothing but a memory, execrated and abhorred, remained to the world of the man whose act sent it into mourning.
The electric chair, the'quicklime, a little spot of turned earth, and oblivion—thus have the people who mourn their murdered leader answered the hiss of anarchy and the teaching of its disciples. ful atom of mortality that shivered and tightened its muscles in the throbbings of the electric current has been wiped out for ever, but, beyond and above that small sop of satisfaction given to millions of men and women who prayed for his speedy ending, he higher phase of the act. Rising supreme, stretches the strong arm of the law, merciless and relentless, hurling to his doom the avowed instrument of a murderous organisation, beginning to root self on Ams_ican soil.
The treatment of the perpetrator of this critne was befitting the dignity of the great nation which he had wronged. The ease is thus reviewed by the New York "Times" of the 30th of October As we have heretofore remarked, in whatever the Anarchist assassins may differ, they have. this in common, that they "have a morbid and exaggerated appetite for, notoriety. "Consequently behoves society to see that their fate, when they are caught and punished, shall not minister to this perverted and diseased ambition.
Kither reason or a wise instinct has induced the Superintendent of State Prisons to refuse to the latest. product of anarchistical teachings and leanings the satisfaction of this desire. The trial was a model. Two very eminent lawyers, who made no secret of their dislike of the duty that was imposed upon them, nevertheless undertook to-do that. duty, which was in effect to see that the accused man had all his legal rights. The accused was condemned simply because he had to be, because, after everything that could legally be pleaded in his favour had been pleaded, jury found that it was insufficient to relieve him from the consequences of his crime.... To he clapped into a cell, thence to be taken to a perfectly fair but short and cold trial, thence to be locked ina death cell, without knowing what may be said about you outside, whether you have hosts of sympathisers, or whether you have no sympathise, and then to be taken out in the cold gray of the morning to be put to instant death, with only a score of unfriendly witnesses curiously and mntifically watching your demeanour, and to be killed in four minutes after you leave your cell, that has been the experience of this assassin since his crime.
Such an experience is not calculated to "encourage the others." Guiteau was permitted to exhibit himself, and the exhibition may have excited some envy among like-minded persons. But nobody can possibly envy Czolyosz.. Upon which account his treatment, since his apprehension, has been highly exemplary.
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