Ask Leniency for Czolgosz

Governor Odell Receives Letters Asking Him to Commute Sentence to Life Imprisonment.

     Albany, N. Y., Oct. 2.—Governor Odell arrived in this city today from Newburg, and when he reached the executive chamber he found on his desk two letters requesting him to commute to life imprisonment the sentence of Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley. One letter was sent by a man in Illinois and the other by a man in Maine. They were evidently written by cranks, and no attention will be paid to them.
     “You may be assured that nothing will be done by me,” said Governor Odell, “to prevent the execution of Czolgosz on the day fixed by law.”
     The Governor also received a petition that the body of the murderer after the electrocution be buried at sea. The Governor understands that the body must be surrendered to the condemned man’s relatives if they claim it after death, and that they have charge of its disposition.