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Source: Evening Mail Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Foote Is Ashamed of Czolgosz’ [sic] Defense” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Stockton, California Date of publication: 25 September 1901 Volume number: 44 Issue number: 40 Pagination: 8 |
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| “Foote Is Ashamed of Czolgosz’ [sic] Defense.” Evening Mail 25 Sept. 1901 v44n40: p. 8. |
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| Leon Czolgosz (trial: criticism); William W. Foote (public statements); Leon Czolgosz (legal defense). |
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| Leon Czolgosz; William W. Foote. |
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Foote Is Ashamed of Czolgosz’ [sic] Defense
OAKLAND, September 25.—W. W. Foote,
when asked to give his opinion of the defense of Czolgosz, said:
There might as well have been no defense at all.
In my opinion, nothing was done in defense of the prisoner. As an American citizen,
of course I wanted to see the man hanged, but as a lawyer I must say that had
I been appointed to defend Czolgosz and acted as did his attorneys I should
be ashamed of myself. It would have been a much better move on the part of the
lawyers had they entered a plea of guilty in behalf of their client. As it was
the man’s defense might as well have been intrusted [sic] to a mob.