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WARDEN MEAD FILES A CERTIFICATE HERE.

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THREE BUFFALONIANS SIGNED IT—.
PHYSICIANS CERTIFICATE OF AUTOPSY.

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   Warden Mead's certificate of the electrocution of Czolgosz, assassin of President McKinley, was received by County Clerk John H. Price by mail from Auburn yesterday morning and placed in the archives of the Clerk of Erie County as a matter of record for all time. It reads as follows:

I, J. Warren Mead, the agent and warden of the State prison at Auburn, N.Y., and the other public officers, citizens and ministers of the Gospel, whose names are hereto subscribed, do certify that Leon F. Czolgosz, alias Fred Nieman, who was sentenced by the Supreme Court, held in and for the County of Erie on the 26th day of September, 1901, was on the 29th day of October, 1901, at 7.12 o'clock a. m., in pursuance of the said sentence executed by causing to pass through his body a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death, and continuing the application of such current until he was dead, in the State prison at Auburn, N.Y.; and we, the undersigned, do certify that we witnessed the said execution and that the same was conducted in conformity in the sentence of the court and the provisions of the criminal code.
In witness thereof we have at the said prison subscribed our names hereto this 29th day of October, 1901.

Accompanying the warden's certificate was a certificate made by Dr. Carlos F. MacDonald of New York and Prison Physician John Gerin, who made the autopsy, which also was entered in the record of the County Clerk. It is as follows:

To J. Warren Mead, agent and warden of the State prison at Auburn, N. Y.
   The undersigned physicians, designated by you to attend the execution of Leon F. Czolgosz, alias Fred Nieman, hereby certify as follows:
   That we attended the execution of Leon F. Czolgosz, alias Fred Nieman, and immediately thereafter performed an autopsy upon the body of the same and find that the cause of death was due to a current of electricity passed through his body in accordance with the statute in such case made and provided.