The Assassin Condemned

     Leon F. Czolgosz, the Anarchist assassin of President McKinley, has been promptly convicted of murder in the first degree, and condemned to die by electric shock,—the legal death penalty in New York State. The trial, though brief, was dignified, observed all of the orderly forms of law demanded by justice, and the prisoner had the benefit of counsel, who left none of his interests unguarded. Fortunately his guilt was clear, and admitted by himself. There was no wrangling over the cause of death, the medical treatment, or the defendant’s sanity; and on the eighteenth day after he committed the heinous crime, Czolgosz was brought in guilty. Now let the execution of his sentence follow as speedily, as a lesson not only to law-breakers, but to persons of perverted sentiment, who seek to make heroes out of murderers.