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Source: Los Angeles Herald Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Petition for Czolgosz” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Los Angeles, California Date of publication: 4 October 1901 Volume number: 29 Issue number: 3 Pagination: 10 |
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| “Petition for Czolgosz.” Los Angeles Herald 4 Oct. 1901 v29n3: p. 10. |
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| Leon Czolgosz (commutation of death sentence); Social Alliance. |
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| Theodore W. Curtis; Leon Czolgosz; Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. |
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Petition for Czolgosz
Movement to Obtain Commutation of His Sentence
BOSTON, Oct. 3.—Although Governor Odell of New
York has stated emphatically that he will not consider any petition for a commutation
of Czolgosz’s death to life imprisonment, the Social Alliance of this city is
circulating a petition of this nature for signatures in Boston. Its secretary
is Theodore W. Curtis. The petition is a long one and includes this sentence:
“The motive of the petition is not sentimental
sympathy with a condemned man, much less the upholding of any form of anarchism
of which he is said to have been a disciple, but the belief that the ends of
justice, the vindication of the law and the higher interests of civilization
will be better served by this change in the form of the penalty.”