ASSASSIN CZOLGOSZ IS EXECUTED AT AUBURN; ... Leon Frans Czolgosz, murderer of President William McKinley, paid the extreme penalty exacted by the law for his crime.

President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was executed in the electric chair at Auburn Prison in New York on this day in 1901. Thomas Edison filmed the execution.

-- Leon F. Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley will be executed at 7 A.M. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at Auburn Prison. Warden Mead of the prison has selected Tuesday so that final arrangements ...

When anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901, ... On Oct. 29, Czolgosz was executed in the electric chair at Auburn State Prison.

President William McKinley was greeting visitors in a reception line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on Sept. 6, 1901, when he was shot twice by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The ...

Leon Frank Czolgosz also used the surname “Nieman” and ... stress on Czolgosz’s anarchist affiliations and called upon the jury to heed the popular demand for a quick trial and execution.

Leon Czolgosz was executed on Oct. 29, 1901, and according to New York's The National Police Gazette, "arrangements were immediately made to bury the body in quicklime in the prison cemetery, ...

In September of 1901, President WIlliam McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo. His killer was an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz. A tunnel beneath Delaware Avenue is credited with keeping him alive ...