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Source: Deseret Evening News Source type: newspaper Document type: photograph Document title: “Czolgosz’s Death” Image size (in source, approx. h x w): unknown Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Salt Lake City, Utah Date of publication: 26 October 1901 Volume number: 52 Issue number: 291 Part/Section: 2 Pagination: 10 |
| Citation |
| “Czolgosz’s Death.” Deseret Evening News 26 Oct. 1901 v52n291: part 2, p. 10. |
| Transcription |
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| Keywords |
| Auburn State Prison (death row cells: photographs). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz [in notes]; William McKinley [in notes]. |
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Descriptive text accompanying the photograph reads as follows: “In
this gloomy cell Leon Czolgosz, the wretched assassin of President McKinley
sits today. Monday next he dies a murderer’s death. Silently the grim
death watch gazes upon the doomed wretch, observing his every act for
fear he should strive to cheat justice by suicide.”
Title herein taken from caption.
Image courtesy of Chronicling America. |
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Czolgosz’s Death