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_ «• *-^ *-' The San Francisco Call. 17*1 1 V- I VOLUME XC—NO. 151. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1901. PKICE FIVE CENTS. ASSASSIN CZOLGOSZ PAYS DEATH PENALTY IN THE AT AUBURNPRISON AUBURN, N. Y., Oct. 29.— At 7:13 o'clock this morning Leon F. Czolgosz, the anarchist who fatally shot President William McKinley at the Buffalo Exposition on , was electrocuted. The assassin went to the electric chair unrepentant and unconfessed. ELLIOTT IS GLAD THAT HIS BULLET ENDED VENEZUELAN NATIONAL EXPEDITION LANDS BRUTAL HUSBAND'S LIFE AND RESCUED GIRL REFUSES TO A AND BATTLES WITH GOVERNMENT FORCES HE LOVED FROM CAREER OF DEGRADATION RECEIVE ALL ON THECOAST OF THE STATE OF MATURIN Mrs. Bessie Sherman, tire Young Woman Who Was Widowed by the Tragedy of Sunday Night in San Jose, Testifies at the Coroner's Inquest That CONSOLATION Troops on the .Frontier of Rosario de Cucuta Number Fifteen Thousand Condemned y Man Has and Six Prosperous She Had Never Encouraged the Attentions of the Man Who Avenged Her but Insulting Words Colombians .Thousand Venezuelans-Former Inhab- for Priests. itants of Caracas Are Reduced to Beggary and Seek Alms on Streets JOSE, Oct 28.-"I am glad I killedhim. He deserved it. for h© nay ruined the life of first love." Tells Brother ;Not to Have other, continues one of expectancy. The This was about all Harry L.El- SAN country liott, who sjhot and killed J. W. Religious Ceremony \ economic condition of the is re- ported good, though awaiting the in- In a house of ill-repute last • Sherman Over His Body. creased animation that will follow the night, would say to-day, after the excite- ment of last night's tragedy had subsided movement of the coffee crop. YORK, dispatch End left him in frame of mind that NEW Oct. 28.—A cable a Remains of the Electrocuted Man to announcing the election brought realization of enormity of his of President Cas- the Be Buried in the Prison Yard Venezuela, pro- act. That Elliott was In love with Bessie tro of who has been in Order to Dis- year, Bray before she married Sherman and Prevent visional President for one has been that she had played fast and loose with turbances. , received at the Venezuela consulate in his affections was the prime cause of the this city. The official proclamation will be made to-morrow by the Congress of raurder. He maintains an indifference AUBURN, N. ¥., Oct. 2S.— Leon F. concerning his crime, except . that country. " when the Czolgosz will have paid tribute with his flrl's name is mentioned, and then he life to the law, as the murderer, of Presi- GERMA2T CRIES "HANDS OFF!" bursts Into tears. dent William McKinley, Elliott has engaged State Senator Oneal by 7:15 o'clock to- Captain von "Wellheim Makes a Sen- morrow morning^, - as his attorney and willmake a fight for and Tunless he under- sational Speech. goes a great change his life. He does not deny the killing, 'of heart and BERLIN, Oct. 28.—During an address but evidently will plead insanity and self- strength in the few hours of life.left to at a recent meeting of the Fleet Society defense. To some he claimed he had act- him, he will go to the electric chair un- in Hanover, Captain von Wellheim of the ed in self-defense and that Sherman was confessed and unrepentant. He suffered German navy is represented to have said: a slight nervous attack late to-day, but '.'German interests In the five republics of America, in view of American remained sullen and" stoical up to the Central competition, can ,only be maintained time the prison closed at 10 o'clock! He when we have a fleet strong enough to refused the " to heed words of the priests say to the Americans 'Hands off!* urge who came to spiritual preparation The declaration was received with for death, and declined to either re-em- stormy applause. The papers generally brace Catholicism or renounce anarch- Ignore It,and the Freissinige Zeitung ob- ism. Hence, unless he changes his mind, serves: ' there will be no religious ceremony kt "There Is a species of political mischief- the end. \u25a0.,'.. \u25a0 making which, while not punishable un- ' Czolgosz showed no, strength of love der the penal code, is none the less calcu- for kin, nor«3id he turn to any of those lated to cause apprehension." higher- considerations .which '.ordinarily claim ,the thoughts of mehNocc'upylng hisi position. .. He may hav^'.Biiffered .untold tor^aev^but outwanlly^eVteaiWed-isxiSien'- .and indifferent;" TKe State Isrriot*toMBur- render' possession of his. body, and by sundown it willhave been secretly in- terred in ground ,controlled by the of- ficials of Auburn prison. „'; AllRelics to Be Destroyed. Waldeck v^olgosz, brother of .the mur- derer, foreseeing 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 Warden Mead, and formally relinquished all claim to it. He merely stipulated that at the close of the all parts of the body should be buried. Allchance 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. 1 plan burning his clothing- and The of SPAIN, TRINIDAD, city. A large part of the once prosperous papers carried out Immediately OF will be Oct. 28.—The Venezuelan nation- inhabitants are reduced to seeking alms after the execution. • public - practi- .. alist expeditioh,'...-which .left :here in the streets. Business is The electrical, machine is ready for its night of the 15th, effected a cally at a standstill, and merchants ex- ;; prison is carefully, PORTthe work Auburn press, they soon be guarded, the city Is in its normal' calm,' landing on the coast of the state the .belief that will Maturin, Venezuela, and engaged the compelled to close their doors altogether. and .there seem to be.no circumstances of forces, "i under WASHINGTON. Oct. 28.—Mail advices standing in the way of a successful and Government General Maica, near Particulars of > the up to October 15 were received to-day expeditious execution of the law. Canos. t momentarily expected. It-is es- from his country by Senor Pulido, the Last Two Interviews. fight are timated that the forces, on the frontier Venezuelan Charge