Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — WANTED TO EXECUTE CZOLGOSZ [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WANTED TO EXECUTE CZOLGOSZ

Capt. Christian Rath Desired That Gruesome V.'ork, There is a man in Jackson, Mich., who desired to be the official executioner of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President

McKinley. He is Captain Christian Rath and he puts forth ns his claim to this distinction the fact that it was he who officiated at the death of the conspirators who were condemned for the murder of President Lincoln. It was Capt. Rath who supervised the

execution of Mrs. Surratt, Paine, Herrold and Atzeroth, the persons who were found to be guilty, with John Wilkes Booth, in the plot to take the life of the great liberator. The captain is an old soldier of the Union. At tho time of the trial of the conspirators he was provost marshal of the Washington prison. He assisted in the erection of the scaffold on which the assassins died. He placed the ropes about their necks and in other ways facilitated the work of execution of the law’s mandate.

CAPT. RATH.