McKinley Assassination Ink: A Documentary History of William McKinley's Assassination

Publication information

Source: Chicago Sunday Tribune
Source type: newspaper
Document type: article
Document title: “Will Not See Czolgosz Die”
Author(s): anonymous
City of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Date of publication: 20 October 1901
Volume number: 60
Issue number: 293
Part/Section: 1
Pagination: 2

Citation

“Will Not See Czolgosz Die.” Chicago Sunday Tribune 20 Oct. 1901 v60n293: part 1, p. 2.

Transcription

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Keywords

Leon Czolgosz (execution: witnesses).

Named persons

Cornelius V. Collins; Leon Czolgosz; John Hay; William McKinley.

Document

Will Not See Czolgosz Die

United States Will Not Send a Witness to Execution of President McKinley’s Assassin.

     Albany, N. Y., Oct. 19.—Secretary of State Hay, in a letter to State Superintendent of State Prisons Collins, declines the invitation of the latter to designate an official representative of the government to be present at the electrocution of Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley. The letter of Secretary Hay is as follows:
     “To Cornelius V. Collins, Esq., Superintendent of State Prisons, Albany, N. Y.:
     “My Dear Sir: I have received your letter of Oct. 10, and, while thanking you for your courtesy, it is not considered expedient to have a representative of the government present on the occasion you refer to.

“JOHN HAY.”

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