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CZOLfiOSZ PLACED ON TRIAL
Slayer of President McKinley Faces
Jury In Buffalo Court.
ASSASSIN GRIMLY
Plea of “Guilty” Entered, But Chang
ed By Order of the Court to
“Not Guilty”—Jury Quickly
Secured.
Leon F. Czolgosz was placed on trial
at Buffalo, N. Y., Monday morning,
charged with the murder of President
McKinley. He entered a plea of “guil
ty,” which was subsequently changed
to “not guilty," by direction of the
court.
All the events of the day indicated
that the trial would be short. Court
convened at 10 o’clock and within two
hours eight jurors had been secured.
Justice Truman C. White, one of the
oldest and most experienced supreme
court judges, was on the bench. Im
mediately after the opening of the
court, and after the prisoner had plead
ed guilty, Justice Loran L. Lewis, se
nior counsel for the defendant, an
nounced that together with his col
league, former Justice Robert C. Titus,
and Mr. Canton E. Ladd, they were
ready to act in behalf of the prisoner,
“I thought it best," he said, “for
my colleagues and myself that I should
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here as attorneys for the defendant.
At the time my name was suggested 1
was out of the city and knew nothing
of what was transpiring here with
reference to the selection of counsel
for the defendant. When the circum
stances of my selection were told me
I was extremely reluctant to accept.
But the duty had been imposed and I
considered it my duty, in all the cir
cumstauces, to defend this man.
“1 ask that no evidence be presented
here that the court will not permit
the acceptance of any evidence unless
it would be accepted at the trial of the
most meager criminal in the land."
1 am familiar with these circum
stances,” said Justice White, in reply,
“and I wish to say I will give you ev
ery assurance that the prisoner will
have a fair and impartial trial, and
that during the progress of the trial
he will receive such treatment as the
law demands in any criminal case."
The work of securing the jurors was
then undertaken with a celerity that
was amazing. , ,,
The jury was as follows; Fred V.
Lauer, plumber; Richard J. Garwood,
afreet railway foreman; Henry W.
Wendt, manufacturer; Silas Carmer,
farmer; James S. Stygall, plumber;
William Loton. farmer; Walter S. Ev
orett, blacksmith; Benjamin J. Ralph,
bank cashier; Samuel P. Waldo, farm
er: Andrew J. Smith, dealer in butter
and eggs; Joachim H. Mertens. shoe
dealer, and Robert J. Adams, contrac
tor.
Before the day was over the jurors
had listened to a description of the
Temple of Music, where the crime oc
curred, had seen photographs of the
Interior of that structure and had been
told by three surgeons what caused
the death of the president and the ef
fect of the assassin’s shot upon the va
rious organs of the body. They had
also learned why the fatal bullet had
not been located. The presentation of
the government’s case began shortly
before 3 o’clock, when Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Haller began, with
much deliberation, to address the jury.
He spoke very briefly:
"We shall show,” said he, “that for
some days prior to the shooting this
defendant had premeditated the shoot
ing of the president. He knew that on
the 6th of September the president
would receive the populace In the Tem
pie of Music;that on that day he went
to the exposition, got into line with
the people and approached the presi
dent; that he had a weapon concealed
In his hand and as the president ex
tended his hand in kindly greeting he
fired the fatal shot. He fired two shots,
in fact. One of them took effect in
the abdomen and caused that mortal
wound which resulted In the presi
dent’s death. That, in brief, is the
story we shall show you. Witnesses
will tell you this story, and I am sure
that when you have heard the evidence
you will have no difficulty in reaching
a verdict of murder in the first de
gree.”
The first witness, Samuel J. Fields,
chief engineer of the Pan-American
exposition, described the ground floor
plan of the Temple of Music, and was
followed by Perry A. Bliss, a photo
grapher, who presented views of the
interior of the building. The remain
der of tho afternoon was taken up with
the testimony of three physicians, two
of whom had attended the president
during his last days, while the other
performed the autopsy.
The testimony of Dr. „ __ Herman M. ,, n
ter was of importance inasmuch as
brought out the fact that the reason
why the fatal bullet had not been lo*
cated at the autopsy was because of
the unwillingness of the president’s
relatives to have the body further mu
tilated by their Instruments. Dr. Myn
ter and Dr. Mann, who followed him,
both testified that the primary cause
o f death was the gunshot wound in the
stomach. One effect of this wound
'vas. they said, to cause the gangrene
lo form in the pancreas, and the spot
of poisoned tissue was as large as a
silver dollar.
The prisoner Cuoigosz during the
morning evinced no interest whatever
in the proceedings, but as the testi
mony was introduced he paid more at
tention to what was said and looked
a t the various* witnesses closely.
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JUDGE RELEASES ANARCHISTS.
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No Legal Evidence Found Against the
Minn Nine Men Held u.u I In „ rui.___ Chicago.
The nine anarchists who have been
under arrest in Chicago since the as
sasslnation of President McKinley
were given their freedom Monday
morning. Judge Chetlain so ordering
after the prosecution had admitted
that there was no legal evidence
against them. Emma Goldman was
not a party to the proceedings. Her
ease was set for a hearing Tuesday be
fore Magistrate Prindiville, where she,
as well as the nine men freed, is charg
ed with conspiracy to murder Presi
dent McKinley. The cases in the low
er court with reference to the men are
of course, nullified by the action of
Judge Chetlain. Miss Goldman will
also be set at liberty, as Justice Prin
diville has agreed to take such action
• . her the upper court f took •
in case % as in
the cases of the men.
When the hearing on the writ of ha
beas corpus began before Judge Chet
land, the city prosecutor declared that
he could no longer ask that the prison
„„ eis h(5 e j,.]. ueiu.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Dis
course.
Subject: The TMTethnrts Needed tn the Mod
ern Obuvc.t—A Practical Gospel is Help*
ful—Ministerial fanzines* Henouiicefl—
Tho Church Needs No Apologies.
tCopyriylit, ISot.j
TV.'sutxoto.v, D. C.—Most encouraging
to all Christian workers is this discourse
of Dr. Tr.lmncre while denying tho Sunday accur
acy of statistics which •represent
audiences as ilimmishma; text. Hebrews
x, 2.". “Nor forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together.” have been merle in
Startling statements religious
many of the pulpits and in some
newspaners. Tt is hear.l over and over
again that church attendance in America
is in decadence. I donv the statement hv
presenting son-e hard facts. No one will
dispute the fact that there are more
churches in America than ever before,
one denomination averaging two new
churches every day nf the year. The law
of demand and snpifiv is as inexorable in
the kingdom of God as it is in the world.
More churches supplied armies banka, more
church privileges demanded. More
more bankers More factories, more m-.n
nfacturers. More shins, more importers.
More churches, more attendants.
In ail our cities within a few years
churches have heen built large enough to
swallow up two or three of the old-time
churches. T cannot understand with what
kind of arithmetic and slate pencil a man
calculates when he comes- to the conclusion
that church nttend.mee in America is in
decadence Take the aggregate of the
number of people who enter Die house of
God now and compare it with the aygre
pate of the peop’o who entered the house
of God twenty-five years ago, and the
present attendance is four to one. The
facts ere most rxhilerating instead of
being depressing. T'-at man who presents
the opposite statistics must have bepp
most unfortunate ’n his church acquaint
ance.
You arc not to argue adversely because
here and there a church is Sometimes depleted.
Churches have their entirely day. neigh
merchandise will occupy a
borhood and crowd out the churches and
families ordinarily attendant upon them;
cnrripfnnpq Vji-'
terneeino strife. But there are no facts
to overthrow the statement that I have
made in regard to the increasing attend
ance upon the house of God. Now. I am
ready to admit, as every intelligent which man
will admit, that there are churches
have been depleted, and it is high time
that a sermon be preached for the benefit
of young men who are just entering the
gospel ministry and for the warning of
nrosnerous c hurches as to what are the
o{ "Jf&ffftliP-tR
ehandise crowd out a church, that cannot
be helped, but under all other circum
stances decadence in church attendance
is the fault either of the church or of the
pastor.
Churches are often cleared of their au
diences by the attempt to transplant the
modes of the past into the present. The
modes and methods of fifty to-day years than ago the are
no more appropriate for
modes propriate and for methods fifty of to-day hence. will Dr. be_ Kirk, ap
years Mason. Dr. De Witt,
Dr. McElroy, Dr.
Dr. Vermiiyea and hundreds of other
men iust as good as because they were they never
lacked audiences, which they lived. were
ahreast of the time in
People will not be interested in what we
say unless we unu.Lbthe spirit of the
day in which we live. All the woebegon- who
ish statistics are given bv those are
trying in our time to work with the worn
out machinery of the past times. Such
men might just as well throw the furnaces
out of our church basements and substi
tute the foot stoves with which them our grand
mothers used to carry to meet
ing, and throw out our organs and our
cornets and take the old fashioned tuning
fork, striking it on the knee and then lift
ing it to the car to catch the pitch of the
hymn, and might as well throw out our
modern platforms and modern pulpits
and substitute the wineglass climb pulpit the up
which the minister used to to
dizzy height of Mont Blanc solitariness, the
and then go in out of sight and shut
(] oor after him. the
The trouble begins away back in
^TroUionTnot foresters
0 f religion, for the sick and the aged and
the infirm who have worn themselves out
in the service o’f God. We have naval
fough^on" , lan°d "for o°ur™country
and sea aged
when these men have become or
crippled, and it is a shame that larger
E’ 81 "” Jesus* Christ who have° the Lord. wm
themselves out in battling for
But lack of provision in that respect
^^e^t^hospit^ °for ricWnd
apP ci and infirm ministers,
When a man begins to ro down they
Xtat?on. he iftha? fails? taSE
encv j 3 t 0 elect him to a professorate in
some theological seminary. There are
grand exceptions to the rule, but it U of
theological seminary is occupied being by some able
minister of the gospel who, not teach others
to preach himself, is set to
^ ow t0 ™ lch elocution ’ , In mor 1 " * ® ca . s ” “. f " °Z
We want more wideawake, more able
bodied, able-minded men more enthusias
tic men, in our theological seminaries like Addison ana
j n the professorates—men who could during the week
Alexander, the theory of wrenching
foach young men
tL t"hunL 8 °and lightning P of
Christian eloquence show them how. What
would you think of a faculty of unsuccess
“ ."foouRy^of 0 uZIITm
train young lawyers? the' that theological
It is often case sem
{S£ i “^ f ,in S d bo^himTnd
0 d h «d
twist him imt q a q t h e individual is gone of
out of him, and he elects is only a poor professorate copy
a n,an who to a
^Wewa^tiew d«d £oodin the evangels, theolori
cal seminaries and more flaming preach
T declare that a man who cannot
cannot tefloh othera how t0
P General Assembly
At a raeeting o{ the the United
of the Presbyterian Church of
States, a clergyman accustomed on the
Sabbath to preach to an audience of two
or three hundred people in an audience
room that could hold 1.TO0 how was appointed reach tho
to preach a sermon on to
Cmuch forThe^isIbihrieroTmany Now, of The
clergy in the audience. a yonng
man coming out from such bedwarfing In
fluences, how can he enter info the wants
an J the woes and the svmuathie* of oeo-
r>le wbo want on the Tzord’s day a ni raoti
cal gospel that will help them all the
week and help them forever?
Young ministers are told they must
preach Christ and Him crucified. Yes, but
not as an abstraction. Many a minister
lias preached Christ and Him crucified in
such a wav that he preached 200 and from to an 200 nu- to
dience of 500 down to fifty
100 nnd from 100 to fifty and from to
twenty and on down until there was but
little loft save the sexton, who was paid and
to stay until the service was over
lock up! There is a great deal of cant
about Christ and Him crucified. It is not
Christ and Him crucified as an abstrac
plied tion, but all as an the omnipotent wants and sympathy of ap
to woes our
immortal nature, a Christ who will heln
us in every domestic, social, financial,
political, national struggle, a Christ for the
parlor, a Christ for the nursery, a Christ
for the kitchen, a Christ for the barn, a
Christ for the street. n Christ for the’
store, a Christ for the banking house, a
Christ for the factorv. a Christ for the
Congressional assembly, a Christ for the
court room, a Christ for everv frin 1 and’
evenr Oh, emerprpepy brethren and in ever'' the Christian oorturbatiqn. mmis*
my somehow cet shoulder
try. we must mm the
under the burden of the people good on
Tyord’s day and (rive them a efont
lift, and we 'vm do it. We hay® it nb eur
own wav. It ’s a great nib*, if. with the'
floor clear and no intemmt'on. we can
not during the course of an hour get our
hvmn and our prayer or our sermon by the un
der such momentum as we can,
he’o of Co d. lift the daoVc. body, vri'nrf
and souk c’ea v out of their sins, tempta
tions end troubles. often
I think that rrunistem 1 Jazincs^
empties the 'dmrch of auditors. Headers
who are infeHictent through reading news
papers ami bv *>ctive asso'nat’on in hrm*
ners circles wdl rot on 4 he Sabbath sit
and listen to platitude. T-Toar^rs will not
come to sermons wh ? eh have in them
important facts, no information, no sto
ring power, en adantation. ro fire The
new will not listen to the puinit dav under unless d ; at
least on the subiec.t that s
cussion. th*» pulpit knows more fhar ffap
pew. Ministerial laziness has- cleared out
many churches. Such ministers saunter
around from parlor to narlor under the
name of pastoral visitation: and ro gad
ding about through the village or the city
cri errands of complete abound nothingness ciga^ ami and
wran their brains a
smoke them up and then on Saturday af
ternoon nut a few crude thoughts together
nnd on momiu* wonder tint the
theme of Christ and Him crucified docs
not hrin r ' a large audierme. and on Mou
dnv sit down and write jeremiads fo* the
religious newspapers about the decadence
of church attendance. merely
People will not go f o church as
a matter of duty. There will not next
Sabbath be a thousand peonfa in anv citv
who will get up in the morninr and sav:
“The BiWe says T must go to church. Tt
-_lst my dutr to ^o to nburch: thorpfnre T
will co to b
people who co to church <m to church r
cause thev like it, and the multitude of
people who sfcav away from church stay
away because thev do not like it. I am
not speaking about the wav the world
ought to b®: lam speaking about *he way
the world is. Taking things are they are. the
we must make the centripetal force of
church mightier than the centrifugal. We
must make our churches magnets to draw
the people thereunto, so that a man will
feel uneasy if h<* docs not go to church,
saying: “X wish T had gone thi c morning.
I wonder if I oan’t dress vet and get there
in time. It is 11 o’clock; now they are
singing. It is half-past II; now they will aye
nrea chine. I wonder when tho folks
be home to tell us what was said, what has
been going on.” that
When the impression is confirmed
our churches, bv architecture, bv musm.
bv sociality and by sermon, shall be made
the most attractive places on earth, then
we will veant twice as many churches as
we have now. twice as large, and then
they will not half accommodate the peo
ple.
Therefore, mv brother Oirlstian worker,
if you and T find two illustrations for a
religious subject, and the one is a Bible
illustration and the other is outside th®
Bible, I will take the latter because I
want to be like my Master. Looking
across to a hill, Christ saw the city of
Jerusalem. about the
Talking to the people example. He said; c un
soieuity of Christian be careful.
“The world is looking hill at you; be hid.”
“A city that is set on a cannot
While He was sneaking or the divine care
of God’s children a bird flew past. He
said, “Behold the ravens.” Then, look
ing down into the valley, all covered at
that season with flowers, He said, “Con
sider the lilies.” workers,
Oh, my brother Christian
what is the use of our going away off in
some obscure nart of history or op tha
other side of the earth to get an illustra
tion when the earth and the heavens are
full of illustrations? to
Oh, Christian workers, we have got
freshen up. What is the use of our going
back in the Christian classics to find an
illustration of the victorious Christian
deethbed when my personal friend. Al
fred Cookman. a few years ago went away
in as imperial grandeur as did Edward
Pay son?
Is it anv less an illustration to me and
to you because I met him a few weeks be
fore in front of Trinity Church, Broad
way, and I said: “Cookman, you look as
if you were working too hard?” Where
in all the classics is there such a story as
that of Cookman, when in hisz last moment
he cried: “I am sweeping through tb®
gates washed in the blood of the Lamb?’’
Oh, fellow Christian workers, what is
the use of our being stale and obsolete
and ancient when all around us are these
evidences of God’s grace, God’s deliver
ance, God’s mercy and God’s wisdom?
We have got to freshen up in our sermons,
freshen up in our songs, freshen up in our
sieal, freshen up in our consecration, and
if we do it. my brethren and sisters, we
will no more have to coax people throw to
come to church than if you
corn on the ground you have to coax
pigeons to come nnd eat it, no more than
you would have to coax a tired horse to
eat the oats you throw in his maneer.
Yes, we muRt freshen up in our Sunday
schools and in our prayer meetings and ii
our pulpits.
It is high time that the church of Go'
stopped writing apologies for the church.
Let the men who are on the outside, wh<
despise religion, do write the the apologies. church, they L.
any people have ft. not It want is free country. If
need not a
any man does not want the gospel, he
peed not have it. It is a free country.
But you gospel go out, oh, the people millions of of God. America and
give the to
who do want it.
bring it is high time general we stop skirmishing I and
on a Armageddon, engagement. want
to live to see the all the ar
mies of heaven and hell in battle array,
for I know our Conqueror on the white
horse will gain the day. Let the church of
God be devoted to nothing else, but go
right on to thrs conquest.
When- Moses 1 with his ttrmy was trytmj
tb oonquer tHc Ethiopians profane history in
says it wats expected that he would go
a roundabout way and come by the banks
of the river,, as other armies had done.
because 1 the straight route was infested
with snakes, and bo army and no man
had'dared to go across this serpent infest
ed region. But Moses surprised them.
He sent his men out to gather up ibises.
T.ie ibis, is a bird celebrated for gathered serpent
slaying, and 1 these ibises were they
into crates and into, baskets, and
were carried at the head of the army of
Moses, and coming up to the serpent in
fested region the crates were opened and
the ibises flew forth, and the way was
cleared, and the army of Moses inarched
right on and came so unexpectedly on the
Ethiopians that they flew in wild dismay.
0 church of God, you arc not to march
to a roundabout way, but to go straight
forward, depending upon winged influ
ences to clear the way. Hosts of the liv
ing God, inarch on. march on! Church
attendance,, large now, is going to bo
larger yet. The sky is glad brightening for the boy in
every direction. I am
and girl five years old • I think they may
see the millennium. The wheel of Chris
tian progress has never made one revolu
tion backward. The world moves, tha
kingdom advances. All nations will yet
salute the standards of Prince Immanuel.
To Him be glory in the church throughout
all ages. Ament
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The Sultan of Turkey is something
of a theoretical soldier.
It is said that M. C. D. Borden has
in his New York library probably the
only complete set of Stevenson in ex
istence..
Austin Dobson, the poet, who has
been an employe of the London Board
of Trade for forty-five years, has re
signed. upon a pension.
Former President Grover Cleveland
has consented to deliver the oration on
Founder’s Day of the Carnegie Insti
tute, in Fittsburg, on November 7.
Senator Clark's Parisian home is
one of the handsomest in that city
and generally regarded as only second
to that of the former Queen Isabella
of Spain.
M. de Bloch is acquiring a museum
In Lucerne, whose special object is to
illustrate by diagrams, maps and oth
er objects the wastefulness of modern
scientific war.
General Miles was asked the other
day what It was that, in his opinion,
most made for popularity in an army
officer. Ills reply was. “Never to
omit to return a salute.”
—JAhiv W. Gatpji, the steel wirejnag
nate, is something of a uiusicKiii;
amuses himself a great deal by play
ing the violin, and has composed a
number of little songs without words
for that instrument.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has agreed to
pay all the expenses of a department
of anthropology at the University of
California, which will be devote^ es
pecially to the study of Indians on
the Pacific Coast. The cost will ho
about $50,000 a year.
Cecil Rhodes has a hobby apart from
politics. He has a wonderfully com
prehensive collection of dook books,
many of them being copies of ancient
manuscripts owned by the British Mu
seum, while others are originals of
great value because they cannot ho
duplicate"
SPORTING BREVITIES,
The $20,000 trot between the Abbot
and Cresceus has been declared off.
A. Featherstone will race in Cali
fornia the coming season, and O'Con
nor will ride for him.
■Competitors in the automobile en
durance run to Rochester want anoth
er similar trip to Buffalo.
The Rancocas yearlings, the proper
ly of Mrs. Lillian Barnes Allen, have
been sold at Coney Island.
John A. McKerron has won the Bos
ton Challenge Cup race for trotters
at Glenvllle, Ohio; best time, 2.11.
The international cricket match,
which was to have been played at
Philadelphia, has been declared off.
“Jimmie” Michaels has defeated
“Harry” Elites iu a fifteen mile motor
paced cycle race at New York City.
The Automobile Club of America
abandoned its endurance run from
Buffalo to New York City at Roches
ter.
Dissatisfaction is growing among
the professional racing cyclists at the
treatment they are receiving at the
hands of the race meet promoters.
Frank L. Kramer w'on the five
mile professional championship race
on the Velodrome track at Hartford,
Conn., and becomes the champion,
having eighty points to his credit,
against sixty-six for Major Taylor.
Maurice Vlgnea ix, the French bil
liard champion, is still in good form
despite Ids age, and he has recently
expressed his willingness to play
George Slossou for $10,000 a side it
the American champion will go t«
Paris to play.
John A. Kennedy, who has been
coach for the Yale crews for the past
two years, has returned from a tom
of several weeks in England, studying
the styles of oarsmanship there foi
the benefit of the Yale men. Kenne
dy was sent to England by the boat
ing officials at Yale.
DONS TO ROOSEVELT.
Spaniards Designate Our Country as
"Defender of Oppressed People.”
The nationalists of the Basque prov
inces in (Spain have sent a message ,o
President Roosevelt congratulating
him upon his accession and expressing
their best wishes for the welfare of
the United States as the “defender of
oppressed people."