Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1882, Page 2

GUITEAU'S CRIME. MURDER OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD. TRIAL OF THE ASSASSIN, HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER. EVENTS OF A MEMORABLE YEAR. —_—._—_ THE MURDER OF GARFIELD, PRESIDENT A Memorabic Summer in Washington. THE SCENE AT THE BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC DEPOT—THE LONG ILLNESS OF THE PRESIDENT— HOPES AND PRARS OF THE PROPLE—SCENES ABOUT THE CITY—THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT AT ELBERON—MANIFESTATIONS O¥ A NATION'S GRIEF. Less than a year ago, one bright July morning, the world was startled by the report of an assas- sin’s pistoL The train of events, of which the dis- charge of that pistol was the beginning, has passed into history. To all who were within the reach of ‘the telegraph that daily pictured to the world the Mngering agontes of death, and especially to those ‘Who were present In the capital during that Menjorable summer, the 21 of July, 1831, seems to have some undefined relation to the distant past, though it stands out among its fellow days {llu- Mined by a fearful light The same thought passing through the mind a thousand times a day, Dr. Holmes sys, wears a groove as deep as if ft passed through the mind twice a week for twenty Years, and we get a notion of time that has not Teally elapsed. Who is there whose mind was not ‘haunted every hour durimy all that long summer by @ fearful image of a noble man stricken by an assassia’s bullet, wasted by weary days of agony, struggling bravely but vulaly in an unequal con- test with death—an image which would have turned even Parrhasius’ heart to pity? We look Dack to that day throuzsh a deep per spective of events, of fears, of hopes, of griefs that makes It seem far away in the past. To-day, what were Fealities yesterday and the day before, and a year ago come trooping forta In phantom form—pale ghosts of memory—a long array ending with that Whieh was a ullty a Moment ago—the gibvet burden sw.ying in the air. To e cttw attending the wound- ing, the long suffering and the deatu of the Presi @eut is the purpose of this chapter. ‘THE PRESIDENT'S PROJECTED PLEASURE TRIP. Wearied with the excitement of a long campaign and the arduous duties which bis exalted station had imposed upon him, President Gartield looked forward joyfully to a vacation, to be spent among the inviting places of New England. As an- noueed in the city papers on the ist of July, the President and party tatended to leave on the lim- ited express on the following morning for an ex- fended tour through New Eugiand. The party, it ‘Was announced, would be composed of the Prest- dent and Mrs Garfeld, who having recovered from a severe fllness, under the Influence of the Bracing breezes of Elberon, was to join him im ew York, their two elder sons, Harry and James; their daughter, Miss Mollie; Colonel and Mrs. Rockwell, with Don Rockwell, their son, and Miss. Lulu xockwell, their dauzhter; Dr. W. H. Hawkes, the classical tutor of the three young gentiemen mamed; the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs Windom; the Postmaster General and Mrs. James; the Secretory of the Navy and Mrs, Hunt; the Sec- retary of War; Judge Advocate General Swaim, and lionel Jamison of the Post Office de ‘part ment. The program tncluied a trip from New York to Irvingtor on the Hudson; ten on Monday, the 4th, the party was to go t Willlamsbure 10 attend the commencement exercises of Will! us college, of which the President was a graduate; thence’ they would go to Vermont, then make & tip along the Maine coast, and return to Wasb- ine President looked tofward vo Ie with altsost ‘Beyish gies. On the Morning Of war ad bo stopped into a carriage at the White House, and rode With Seertary Risine to the Riltimore and ‘The ame resistiess fate that was Rim, as he supposed, on an errand of health Was directing the steps of a crafty, un- wretch who lurked in the shadows of the Gepost, now watching the carriages as they drove Bp to the portal, now examining a terrible weapon he had concealed tn his pocket to make sure that it was in order. Their sieps which had been 80 wide apart were now brought together. THE SCENE AT THE DEPOT. ‘When the carriage in which the President rode tothe depot arrived at the B street entrance of the depot he alighted with Secretary Blaine. Having paused a moment on the steps to answer the salutation of a police officer the two gentle- men passed in. They had advanced but a few paces from the doorway when a pistol was fired, ‘This was followed by another report before the few bystanders could realize what the fring meant. ‘Then the Preskient was seen to be prostrate on the Boor, mortally wounded. A small impisi looking man, flourishing a pistol and a paper, was seen Jeaving the room. He was setzed by several per- urried away to the police office, Wis borne away that he was “: * stalwarts,” and begying hi Et stalwart of t tors to take a letter, which he held fa his hi Gen. Sherman. The news that t Deen shot traveled with amazin Defore those Int ; to pidity. Almost jepot who had heard the shots d the enormity of the crime united an excited erowd stormed at the doors of the building, and every moment Swelled its numbers. PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Seemed suldeniy alive with breathless throngs, all hurrying to the spot where the President had deen shot down. From every quarter of the city they came—some coatless, some hatless,—the bire- armed smith from his forge, tle aproned shoe- Maker from bis bench—all came, as if the report Of that pistol had been some dread summons which Rone dared disobey. Such 2 day, coming in a sea- fon of pexce, happiness and prosperity, ke a thunder-clsp {n a clear sky, can never be effaced from the memory. The merchant, the clerk, the laborer, was in no mood for his toll that day, ’ For hours the streets were thronged with *xctted men. ‘The newsp:p'r presses, hele by Tue STAR, the city with “Exiras,” whieh were eagerly Not until aearly tmtinight, when Taz Sraz’s last “Extra” announced that there “= 4 GLEAM OF HOFER, @id the throngs begin to disperse from the streets, After it was found that the President was seriously Bust, by the advice of the physicians, who had ar- Fived, he was taken to a room in the upper story of ‘the depot. A more careful examination made here showed that one of the bullets fired by the amassin had entered the Mower part of the Prest- dent's back. The President, when he recovered Sonsciousness, at once gave signs of the heroism ‘Which, during the weeks of untold suffering that followed, guve « glorious finish to a grand charac- tw. wi at the depot, by his direction, was sent'to Mrs Garfleld, by Col. Rockwell: Prexi/lont wishes me to «ay toyou for him that’ pig ae ert a aioe A = wends his love to oe — ‘Toa clergyman friend, who reached hi¢; fore he left tue depot, the President said: “I be- Weve in God, and myself 1p his hands.” With- man hour after the shooting the President was taken Duck to the White House Im an ambulance, ent ‘side be- Which retraced the Journey which the Presi: Bad only « short time be‘ore made so full of hope and rable expectation. All day long the Citizens besieged the gatesof the White House. ‘Teicgrams of anxious airy from distant lands Degan to arrive almost before he was placed upon Ris bed. That pistol shot had echoed from pole to pele, and from sea to sea. inthe afternoon a Bloom settied down upon the city, for it was now aanou: that death was near, Men Eadertones, but stil! remained in the strects, and Shronzed about the gates of the White House. Everywhere, it seemed, by common consent out of Fespect for tie dying ALL NOSES WERE RUSHED. renieant¥ ears Of BAG “I WILL TAKE THAT CHANCE!” The welcome news of Saturday night was fol- lowed Sunday by-encouraging reports. In every hurch that day, without respect to creed or color, prayers were offered for the recovery of the stricken President, and with prayer came conf- leace that he would live, Monday mornings’ reports were hopeful in tone. Then appeared the rst of the long series of “official bulletina” Announcements or bulletins were constantly sent orth from the sick-room, Saturday and Sunday, but not till Monday morning did they take any oMictal form, attested by signature. Then the composition of the medical corps, that was to begin a long vigil with the President, was deter- mined upon. The bulletin that was issued wa: signed by Drs. Bliss, Barnes, Woodward, Reyburn, Hamilton and Agnew. The two latter gentlemen. iad been selected as consulting physicians, ani summoned,—Dr. Hamilton trom New York ani Dr. Acuew from Philadeiphia. Atver vnat bulletin were issued regularly twice or thrice a day. How the people used to read “and read again these bit of paper tacked up on a tree In front of the Whit: House grounds! In busy offices or business hot yuses messengers would be deputed to get coples of the bulletins wher issued. ng “Have you read the noon bulletin?” was the common inquiry on thestreet. By telephone, or by messenger, the contents of the builetin were carried toevery quarter of the city, and in every public place, and at every corner drug store, duplicates of the bulle- tins were displayed almost as soon as they were signed by the physicians. In distant cities, whither these bulletins were sent instantly, if all other telegraphic business had to be delayed, the scenes witnessed. here were repeated. How familiar the words of the bulletin bécame! “Pulse,” “temperature,” and “respiration,” were adopted as words of every day use. Meanwhile messages of sympathy had come from every quar- ter of the world, from throned monarchs, as_ well as those in humble station. Secretary Blaine, having replied to many of those on Monday, when the gloom seemed to be passing away, gave out the following for publication: EXECUTIVE Mansion, Wasninatox, July 4, 11 p.m. To the Presa: oy On bebalf of the President find Mrs. Garfield, I de- sire to make public acknow' ¢ of the very nomer- ous messes of condolence aud affection which bave been reo-ived since Saturday morning. From almost every state in the Union, from the south as bountifully 48 from the north, have come messages of anxious in- quiry snd tender words cf sympathy in such numbers tuat it has been found impossible to answer them in de- tail. I therefore ask the newspapers to express for the President and Mes. Gerfi i deep gratitude which they fel tor the de and friends ends ab:oad Ja of their fellow-countrymen in this hour of heavy sfitiction: 13 G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. On that day, also, Vice Prestdent Arthur, who hacome from New York, called at the White House and gave expression to Mrs. Garfield of his sincere sympathy. B There was an unfavorable change in the Prest- dent's condition that evening, but the next morn- ing’s bulletins were reassuring. From that time unul the 17th the reports from the sick room were allof an encouraging character. On the 17th, there having been some discussion as to what 1 be done with the President's assaflant,who Was confined tn jail, the physicians united in a letter to the district ‘attorney, in which they said: “"We would say that up tothe present time he has done exceedingly well for one who has received so dan- serous 3 wound, but, while in anticipated recovery, it is hot yet possible to assert with conidence that his in- Juries inay not terminate fatally.” In consequenes of this letter the grand jury, which had been held nsession with the view of taking some action in the case, was discharged. Then followed days in which the hopeiul indica- tions seemed to predominate in the bulletins, though there were relapses noted in the evenings, which were watched with many forebodings. On the 251 the pubilc was first made famittar with ie ‘WORD “pigor” IN THE BULLETINS, and ft created much uneasiness. On the follow- Ing day (Sunday) the rigor was traced to impris- oned pus, and the President was relieved by a sxillful operation by Dr. Agnew, who made an inetsion into the track of the wound and freed the Pus, that was the immediate cause of the bad symptoms. Then the reports were invariably favorable watil August 8th, when another rigor Was reported and another operation followed. The President then seemed to rally again, but on the 15th hada relapse, which caused great anx- lety. His condition was pronounced critical. On the 18th the swelling of the parotid gland was bulletined as an alarming symptom. The reports Varied tn their character until the 24th, when an operation was performed on the gland, without apparently, any sattstactory results. For several weeks the public had been almost confident that the President would recover, but now hope seemed to have fied. The flagging interest in the bul- Ictino revived. Rvary ward wee out uUllloU witht Mon Sunday eh 38th, the bulletins and mn Suni e and the un official re} from the sick room brought cheer- ing news, and the old hope/ul state of mind re- Part, at least, tothe public. Still, after the pubitc got'a knowledge of the havoc that pain ing had played with the President's strength—as{t did when the reports concer: the parotid swelling were put out—nono asset with any degree of confidence any hope of re- covery. THE JOURNEY TO ELBERON. A proposition, made some days before, to re- Move the President to Elberon, was carried into execution on the 6th of September. The scenes attending the journey gave evidence of the deep sympathy of the nation with the stricken sufferer. In order that the journey might be accomplished with as little discomfort to the patient as pos- sible a temporary track was Jald on 6th street, so that the President's car could be brought up to Pennsylvania avenue. At street crossings, where the wagon in which the sick man was to be carried had to pass over car tracks, thick layers of sawdust were spread so as to make the passage as easy as possible. The departure from the White House was made at half-past five in the morning. The President was placed upon a mattress, Wich was litted into a lange ex- press Wigon. Attended by faithful watchers the Ww szon proceeded slowly to the depot. Thouzh the hour was one when people are nov u ually stirring a large number ople witnessed this sud sceue. The people, by one accord, kept at a stance from the wagon lest "their pres- ence might be annoying to the sufferer. At the depot the Presid-nt was transferrel to a car, wherein a bed had been specially arranged for hin. | ‘The only other car on the train was one in which the Presidenv’s attendants and the mem- bers of his family rode. The train left the city at 6:30 o'clock. Every mile of its prozress was Watched anxiously by the nation. Xt every sta: tion it was met by crowds of anxious people, and such reports as could b« obtained from the ‘train were telegraphed over the continent. The train reached its destination a few minutes after one o’clock. At Elberon a temporary track had been lata for a long distance, so that the train was drawn almost to the door of Francklyn cottage, which had been placed atthe disposal of the Preai- dent. Thatday had been set a , by common. agreement throughout the co} a8 a day of prayer, and the tetezraphic reports fron the train. were read In the churches of the land Detween the prayers that were fervently offered, ‘THE FIRST NEWS FROM ELBERON ‘wes of a most cheering character, and it secmed as though the prayers of the people had been answered. The President’s strength seemed to mend under the invigorating influence oi the sea breezes, and on the 18th the public took much en- couragement from the announcement that the President that day sat up for a short time in an tmvalid’s chair. On the 16th, however, it was shown that such hopes were groundless The President then appeared to be sinking fast. On the 17th rigors appeared, and the physicians be- gam to show the anxicty which they had long studied to conceal. The news of the 18th w:s sull more alarming. The 19h was a day of feverish excitement. The very absence of news of a reliable or satisfactory nature from the sick chamber stre1 the conviction that the Still, in the early evenins, came news of so encouraging a nature that many. bulit hopes upon it and believed the President had safely passed. another crisis and would recover, ‘people went to bed with son for hope. ‘THE PRESIDENTS DEATH. * Just before midnight, the mournful toliing of the be'ls of the city startled the dreams of the slumberers, The President died a few minutes before eleven o'clock. The announcement made, according to an arrangement made long before, upon the belis of the city, filled the night with mournful music. The streets were soon thronged with those who, an hour before, had retirea not expecting such a summons. Every man talked as though death had entered his own household. The President had, when all bis great strength was exhat succumbed to the pitiless foe, and his death was as herolc as the struggle which it now surely ‘THE LAST SAD RITES, Little remains to be said to close this narrative. GUITEAU’S FOUL CRIME. Hew It Was Conceived and Executed. THE SCENE AT THE DEPOT AS DESCRIBED BY SECRE- TARY BLAINE—OUITRAU'S ACCOUNT OF IT—WHEN AND HOW HE CONORIVED THE IDEA—HIS DELIBER- ATH FEEFARATION FOR MURDER—DOGGING THE FRESIDENT FOR DAYS. There ts probably no man in any part of the civilized world who reads the public journals who 1s not somewhat famillar with the details of @ul- teau’s crime. Sellom in murier cases has there been such a coiapiete exposition of all tac minute circumstances attending the crime. This is due mainly to the assassin’s own desire, prompted to some extent, doubtiess by his inordinate and un- natural vanity, to have all the facts made public. According to Guiteau’s own declarations, he con- ceived the idea of “removing” the President about the middie of May. Having received no satlsfac- Uon from the President or Mr. Blaine, then Secretary of State, regarding an application he had made for the Paris consulship, Guiteau, on the 231of May, wrote the President a letter, in which, after denouncing Mr. Blaine as “a vindictive politician and an evil genius,” he ad- the President “to demand his immediate eg ei Hemet you and the republican party will come to grief.” On the 8th of June Guiteau from Mr. Geo. C. Maynard $15, representing that he was out of money, and desired to pay his board bill. After pose this Ioan, he went at once to the store of ir. O'Meara, and purchased an English “Bull-d Subsequently, in order to aim and accustom himself to the wea he Practiced with it on the river bank at the foot of 7th street. For twenty-four days he carried that pistol around, on several occasions di ing the Stepsof the President, but not fading the oppor tunity he desired,or cise not having become firmly fixed in purpose until the 2d of July. THE SCENK AT THE DEPOT. ‘What occurred at the Baltimore & Potomac de- pot on the morning of July 2d is thus described by: ex-Secretary Blaine: “On the nightot July 1,1 was engaged until nearly midnight with the President on public business. On parting with him he sug- gested that I had better call and see him in the morning before he left, because there might be some matters to which he desired to direct my attention. I went to the White House on the. morning of Saturday, July 2, in response to this su; ion of the President, reaching there at 9 o'clock, or not later than three minutes past nine. I was detained some Little time in conference with the President in the Cabinet room, and in the Ubrary a very few minutes, and then'started with him for the depot. He rode in the carriage in which I went to the White House. Jt was the State department carriage, In daily use by myself. Ils own carriage, in watch were his sons, under the conduct of Col. Rockwell, followed ours out of the White House grounds. We rode down the avenue with no particular incident and at a moderate 5] On reaching the depot, at the B stree side—the Jadies’ entrance, I think it is called—we sat a moment and finished the subject we were then conversing upon. After this the President turned around (0 say goo bye to and I said: “No, I will escort you to the cat I said some pleasant little thing to him to the effect that I did not think it was proper fora President to go entirely unattended—something of that sort. “I wiilescort you to the car; and besi Wish to see the gentlemen of the Cabinet who are going to leave with you.” With that he alighted. He got in at the White House first, of course, and that brought him on the side which was next to the pavement. On arriving at the depot, and as the carrlage Was a small coupe, he necessarily got Out frst, as a matter of convenience, and J imine- diately foliowed him. He took my aru. As we ASCENDED THE STEPS he turned to the left. He was on my left and turned to speak to some one, I think a police Officer, the same officer who had a moment before told us that we had ten or twelve minutes of time remaining. When he turned to speak to this man our arms became disengaged, according to my impression and recollection, and as we walked through the ladies’ waiting-room we were not arm in arm, but side by side. We had got about two- thirds of the way across the room, when suddenly, without any premonition whatever, there was a very loud report of a pistol discharge, followed in a very brief interval by a second shot. At the in- stant when I first heard the report it occurred to me that it was occasioned by some trouble between rsons with whom we were in DO way relite hat some sudden deed of violence was Deng coin: mitted, and J touched the President as though to hurry him on to get out of it I thougit there might be some dancer to his person and to my own by belug there if there were stray bullets flying about. Just as I did that the Presiient rather threw up his hands, and sald, ‘My God! What is this?” According to my impression, It seemed to have been almost between the shots that he sald that. Of course, in so exciting and horrible a Sir hot ant Aboluls Blacomene them coe eS A BUSH PAST ME of aman wno, accuruiny to my recollection, passed on my right, though I am aware that that state- ment must be taken merely as my impression. I immediately followed after the man; whether it was on the left or right I cannot ve sure. I fol- lowed after him instinctively, and went, I sup- pose, a distance of eight feet, judging by the point at witch I remember I Stopped, just outside of the door that leads from the ladies’ waiting-room into the main room, and the shout came up immedi- ately: “We have got him; we have caught him!” Ithen turned, and the President had sank. He was sinking as I left him, and had quite sank down, and as Igot nearer to him (I think I wa the first or the second person that got back to him) he was vomiting profusely, and I think at that moment was unconscious. Of course, immediately a very large crowd surrounded him and mattresses were brousht irom a sleeping-car in the depot; he was removed to an upper room in the depot, and medical oid Was at hand tn as brief a time as pos- sible. The examinations were made, and he was RETURNED TO THE WHITR HOUSR, Teaching there, I should say, about fifty minutes or possibly an hour after he was snot. I know that I returne«l t>.ny own house and wrote a dis- Pp: -ch for the pubile, especially for the European public, but which was given to the American pub- Me, addressed to he minister of the United States at London, Mr. vowell, and in that dispatch I stated, ‘At this hour, 10:20, the President being jot about 9: 20. That enables me to identify the time that the President got back te the White House. He cot there xbout the time I got to my house, sIbly a littie before. ‘Those are the facts in rief connected with my observation. When in the upper rooin of the depot there was a gathering the Cabin: chy rot t ministers, wio immediately, 2 cars in’ walch they wei ho report at all made of who but I gave the information running, whom I went after he police take, was Charles uthe man, and 4 made that members of the Cxbtuet, to the surgcous and to Gen. Sherman,’ before ¢ police ‘had even discovered his name.” ‘GUITEAU’S OWN ACCOUNT of the crime, dictated to Mr, Bailey, the stenozra- her, within a few days after the assassination Was full and complete, and was substantially sus- tained by the testimony, af the trial, excepting perhaps, the parts relating to the motive that led to the act. After recounting bricf interviews with ‘Secretary Blaine in reference to the Paris consul- ship, and unsuccessful attempts to see the Presi- dent, Guiteau said: “During these weeks I was eyed it and expected to it, I have never er (o final answer, either the President or from Mr. Blaine in reference to my having the Paris consulship, It did not have the slightest in- fluence on me one way or the other in reference to my removing the President, 1 CONCRIVED THE IDEA of removing the President pending the answer, ond as far as the Paris consulship had any influ- ence on my mind at all {t would have deterred me from the act, because I expected, as a matter of Tact, that I would get the Paris consulship. After I conceived the idea of removing the Presid-nt I did not go near Mr. Blaine or near the Presti!:.t to press my application. About two or three weeks intervened from the tlie that I called at the Presi. dent’s when the Coca et sald, ‘Mr. Guiteau, the President says it will be im) ible for him to see you to-day,’ to the time that I conceived the idea of removing him, during which time I was walting patiently for my answer, which, as a mat- never yet received. I had been pressing President and Mr. Blaine for an an- Swer, and I thought that it would be better for me wo eway from them. They had my address, ought if concluded to give me the Paris consulship they would notify me or I should see an announcement of the gre the ve had fired the shy thit the man I sa and whom 1 si Guiteau. Lrecog: statement fo th attendin id tnink, paper, and, as I have stated, after I conceit the ides of removing the President I did not nei th dent or Mr. Blaine. MM. Btion of ot ra ‘Mr. Conkling ie fe On the pits} edn Tretired about Tknew that it Would probably have a large sale, om account of the notoriety that the act of remov ing the Presidept would give me, and I wished th ‘book to go out to the gmblic in proper shape. That Was One preparation fér it, Another preparation Was to think the matter all out in detail, and t buy @ revolver, And to prepare myself for executin- ihe idea. This'tequired some two or three week , and I gavemy entire time and min? in preparir: myselt to exectite theonception of removing th iwving sou” T did taost of my thinsing tC ving so id of my thinki park’and on sentir sun Traced te go to the Arlington and the Riggs house dally to read the papers, After!l nad thade up my mind to remov~ dim, the idea when Ishould remove him presse) me, and I oh Somewhat confused oa that. J knew that It would pot do to go to the White House and xttcmpt Tt, because there were too many of his etaployes about, and I looked aroun’ tor several days to try and ‘get a good chance at him, and one Sunday (the Sunday before he went to Long Branch) I went to his church in the morn- ing. It 1s a small frame building, and I stood there at the door a moment. Iwasa little late; the “vices had progressed about one-third. Ino- ticea the President sitting near an open window, about three feet from the ground, and I thought to snyself, ‘That would be a chance to get him.’ Tintended to shoot him through the back of the head and let the ball pass through the ceiling, in order that noone else should be injured; and there could not possibly be a better place to remove a man than AT HIS DEVOTIONS ; Thad my revolver tn my possession when I first Went to the church, having purchased it about ten days before the President's going to Long Branch. ‘This was the Sunday prior to his leaving for Long Branch on Saturday. During that whole week I Tead the papers carefully. I thought 1t all over in detail. I thought just how people would talk, and thought what a tremendous excitement it would create, and I kept thinking about it all the week. Imade up my mind that the next Sunday I would certainly shoot him if he was in church and I got a good chance at him. Thursday of the same week I noticed in the papers that he was going to Long Branch, and on the following Saturday he did go to. the Branch for Mrs. Garfield's health. I went to the depot all prepared toremove him. I had the revolver with me. I lad all my papers nicely prepared. I spoke to aman abouta car- Tlage to take me, as I told him, over near the Con- gressional cemetery. He sald that he would take Te over for $2, and seemed to be a very clever fel- low, ard glad to get the job. Igot tothe depot about 9 o'clock and waited there until the President’s White-House carriage drove up. About twenty- five minutes after nine the President and his car- rage and servants and friends came up. Hegot out of his carriage. I stood in the ladies’ room, about the middle of the room, watching for him. Mrs. Garfield got out, and they walked through the ladies’ room and THE PRESENCE OF MRS. GARFIELD deterred me from firing on him. I was all ready; my mind was all made up; Ihadall my papers with me; Ihad all the arrangements made to shoot him and to jump into a carriage and drive Over to the fall. Mrs. Garfield looked so thin and she clung so tenderly to the President’s arm that I did not have the heart to fire on him. He passed right through the ladies’ reception room, through the main entrance, and took the cars. I waited a few moments. I went outside the depot and walked up tawn towards the Riggs house and Ar- lington and the park, I think that I went to the park and sav there an hour or two thinking about it, and T went to my lunch as usual, and after my lunch I went to the library of the Treasury de- partment and read the papers as usual, and I think Istayed there until 3 o'clock on Saturda} and then I'went out. Ido not remember where went particularly; | I went to the Riggs, the " Arlington or .the park. That was’ a left the library. er 1 noticed In the papers that ne would’ be back thé first of the week. 1: I watthed the papers very care- fully to see when-. he wauld return, but hs did not come back that week, byt he did come back on the following Monde. ‘rnp following Monday was a terribly hot, suttry I remember I suffered greatly from the heat, but notwithstanding that I Prepared myself again, and 1 went to the depot again on ona ‘with my revolver and my papers, but I did not fee? like firin: simply’ went to the depot, I sat in the ladies watt- ingroom. I got there or fifteen minutes before the train time, ;and I waited and thought tt all over and I made yp my mind that I would not fire on him omthat day. I did not feel like it. ‘The train came and hé came, and Mr. James, the Post- master General, was there, and Mr. Hunt, the Seo- retary of the Navy, andithelr lady friends. ‘They ail came through’ the ladies’ room together, and the Pr lent’s. son and a thickset gentleman that Came m the White Houses to Meet the President were there. They went right to the gate and,got the President, and they all walked togetherito the:President’s carriage, and they all gotin ‘dnd drove off. I stood in the en- trance of the ladies’ wafting room door, and I no- ticed James and Hunt there with their families; and the President and his friends drove up in his White House carriage, and then James and Hunt went, andI went. I got intoacar and went up toward the Riggs House. Well, I was WATCHING JoR THE PRESIDENT allthat week. I one morning at half-past five thinking that I 1 gov the Prosident. while he was out horseback riding, but he did not go out that morning. I sat there in the park for two hours watching for him with my papers and re- volver thinking that I might get a chance at him, but he did not go out that morning, so I went back to niy room, took breakfast, put up my pap- ers and my revolver, and let the matter drop until night. In the evening after dinner, at 5 o’clock, I went up to my room and got my revolver and carried it in my pocket. This was either Wednesday or Thursday, I donot remember which, but I think it was Thursday night. He went out riding that night I was in Lafayette park, opposite the White House, watching for him, and about half-past six the White House fe drove up to the White Hoi alted a few moments and the President an ‘ntleman, and a young man 18 or 20 years , Whom, I presume, waz the President’s son, got into the carriage. The young man sat with his back to the driver, and the President and his gentleman friend (whoever he was) sat on the back Seat. They drove out the entrance nearest the Treasury bui!ding and passed right along the east side of Lafayette square toward the Arlington. They drove down by the Auvii mn and outon } Vermont avenue. I walked out of the park pretty rapidly, and I saw them from the corner.of the park. I went out on the street on the east side of the square, and I looked and saw they were going down Vermont avenue. 1 HUNG AROUND THE PARK avout half an hour or so, and they did not ret and it was very warm, and I concluded to let the matter drop for that night; so that, after sitting in the park for some time, I went as usual to my home and went t¢ bed. I went to the Riggs House and took a room in the afternoon of Thursday, and the event mentioned in this preceding talk hap- pened, Iam quite certain, on Thursday night. It was either on Wednesday or on Thursday, I am not positive which, but my impression is that it happenet on Thursday night. On Friday nigh after Igot my dinner atthe Riggs House, 1 went up to my room and I took out my revolver and I put it In my hip pocket, and I had my papers with me and I thought I ib) ht get a chance at him Friday night. I went into Lafayette Square and Sat there opposite the White House. I hi not been there a minute before I saw the President walk out of the White House. ‘Now,’ I thought to myself, ‘I got asplendid chance at him; he is all alone; there isn’t any one around him.’ He w: along the east side of the square and down H street. 1 FOLLOWED HIM. He went to Mr. Blaine’s house, on 15th street. He walked along, and when be got on the side- walk, opposite Mr. Blaine’s house, he looked up as. if he did not know the place exactly, and then he saw the correct number and walked in. I fol- towed him along and I was about half way be- tween H street Bat , Blaine’s house, on the opposite side of the ot, when he entered the house. I went into;the alley in the rear of Mr. Morton’s house 4hd out my revolver and off and put it back into the H street stoop at there half an hour, I nt to come out. He came with gh the Ra and into the White He President seemed fo be | earnestness, M: 2 ir. the President as ‘they Biaine’s right arm'was left arm, and were’ est conversation; their Blaine Hind and in perfect accord. im} ua on me; it confirmed what in pal ae what I had felt for a long time, to wit: that the President was entirely under Mr. Blaine’s ene aa that et ee: in perfect may Temained a halt or ‘an hour, nod thee Teac ioral tint Wet RS ahd Beat Lows Seem onary ON SATURDAY MORNING, - ] and felt well in mind and body. My mind perfectly clear in regard to rem my purpose has been just as clear, an’ determined as®uything coult De Tbe. Wine = ‘TO REMOVE HIM AT THR DEFOT. {took my breakfast at the Riggs House about § “clock. I ate well and felt well in body and min¢. (went into Lafayette square and sat there som iittle time after breakfasi waiting for 9 o'clock t some, and then I went to the depot, and I got here about ten minutes after ® I rode there from ‘he park In a ‘bob-tafled’ car. I left thecar, walke= up to a bootblack, got my boots blacked, and {aquired for a man nxmed John Taylor, whom, two weeks before, I had spoken to about taking ue out toward the Congressional cemetery. They told me that Taylor’s carriage was. not there, an: tere were three or four hackmen there who Wer very anxious to serve me, and finaliv I noticed colored man, and I sald to him, ‘What will you take me out to the Congressional cemetery ort? He says, ‘Well, will take yoi out there for $2’ ‘All right, sald’ 1, “if T want to use you I will let you know.’ At that noment these otuer hackmen were pressing mé to get my business, and I said to them ‘keep quiet; you are too fast on this,’ and I told this colore! man privately that if I wanted his services I would let him knowin a few minutes, I then went into the depot and took MY PRIVATE PAPERS, which I intended for the press (including a re- vised edition of my book, (‘The Truth, a compan- ion to the Bible),and stepped up to the news stand and asked the young man in charge if I could leave those papers with him a few moments, and be said ‘certainly,’ and he took them and placed them up against the wallon top of some other papers. This was about twenty minutes after nine, and I went into the ladies’ wait- ing Toom and I jooked around, saw ry here were quite a many people there in the Gepot Ae eS outside, but I did not see the President’s carriage. Texamined my revolver to see that it was all righ' and took off the paper that I had wrapped aroun it to keep the moisture off. I waited five or six minutes longer, sat down on a seat in the ladles’ room, and very soon the President drove up. He was in company with a gentleman who I under- stand was Mr. Blaine, and I am satisfied that he Was Mr. Blaine, although I did not nize bin. ‘This gentleman looked very old, and he had a pe- cullar kind of head gear on that I did not 2 nize as that of Mr. Blaine. I am satisfied that it was Mr. Blaine now that my attention has been Specially called to It, because it was the same gen~ Ueman that [saw with the President the night be- fore, and I know positively that that entleman was Mr. Biaine. The President and this gentle- man drove up in a plain, single-seated carl: with one horse; this gentleman, I think, ‘was driving. It ‘was a single car- Tiage—a single seated top buggy. he = Presi- dent seemed to be in very earnest and private con- yersation with this fentieman, who evidently was Mr. Blaine. although at the time I did not recog- nize him as Mr. Blaine, They sat in the carriage, I should say,some two minutes; they had not completed their conversation when. THEY REACHED THE DEPOT, and during the interview of two minutes they finished their conversation. During this time they were engaged in very earnest and private conver- sation, as Ihave said. The President got out on the pavement side and Mr. Blaine on the other side. They entered the ladies’ room. I stood there Watching the President, and they passed by me. Betore they reached the depot I had been prom- enading upand down the ladies’ room between the ticket office door and the news stand door, a Space of some ten or twelve feet. I walked up and down there, I should say, two or three times work~ ing myself ‘up, as I knew THE HOUR WAS AT HAND. The President and Mr. Blaine came into the ladies’ room and walked right by me; they did not notice me, as there were quite a number of ladles and children in the room. There was quite a large crowd of ticket purchasers at the gentle- men's ticket office in the adjoining roem; the de- pot seemed to be quite full of people. There was quite a crowd and commotion around, and the President was in the act of passing from the ladies’ room to the main entrance through the door. I should say he was about four or five feet from the door nearest to the ticket Office, in the act of passing through to get to the cars He was about three or four feet from the joor to the cars, He Was about three or four feet from the door. stood five or six feet behind him, right in the mid- dle of the room, and as he was in the act of walk- ing away from mei pulled out the revolver and fired. He straightened up and threw his head back and seemed to be perfectly bewildered. He did not seem to know what struck him. I looked at him; he did not drop. 1 THEREUPON PULLED AGAIN. He dropped his head, seemed to reel, and fell over. I do not know where the first shot hit. I aimed at the hollow of his back. I did not aim for any par- ticular place, but I knew if I got those two bullets in his back he would certainly go. I was in a di- agonal direction from the President, to the north- West, and supposed both shots struck. I was in the act of putting my revolver back intomy pocket when the depot policeman seized me and said: ‘You shot the President of the United States’ He was terribly excited; he hardly knew his head from his feet, and Isaid ‘Keep quiet, my friend; keep quiet, my friend. I want to go to Jull’ A mo- ment after the policeman selzed me by the left arm; clinched me with terrible force. Another gentieman—an older man, I should say, and less Tobust—seized me by the right arm. At this mo- ment the ticket agent and a great crowd of people Tushed around me, and the ticket agent said ‘That's him; that’s him.’ And he pushed out his arm to seize me around the neck, and I sald ‘Keep quiet, my friends; I want to go to jail’ And the officers, one on edch side of me, rushed me right TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS, and the officer who first seized me by the hand said, ‘This man has just shot the President of the United States,’ and he was terribly excited. And Isaid ‘Keep quiet, my friend; keep quiet. I have got some papers which will explain the whole matter.’ They let go of me, and they held my hands up—one policeman on one side and one on the other—and they went through me, took away my revolver and ‘what little change I hal, my comb and my toothpick, all my papers, and I gave them my letters to the’ White House; told them that I wisbed they would send that letter to the White House “at once, and the officer began to read my letter to the White House and in the envelope, containing my letter to the White House, was my speech ‘Garfield against Hancock.’ He glanced his eye over the ' stter and I was telling him about sending it at once to the ‘White House to explain the matter, and he said, *We will puvyou into the White House.’ So Isald nothing atter that. They took me around a little dark place and put me Into a cell; they locked the door and went off and I did not see anyone for ten minutes, and then one or two parties came and toox a look at me; they were policemen and detectives,and said, ‘I don’t know him ;Idon’tknow that man; never saw hin before.’ "I waited a few moments longer and a gentleman came—a detective, Who proved to be Mr. McElfresh—and he was very polite and attentive, I tolt nim in brief who I was and why I did it; thit I had some papers at the newstand; that I wished iim to get hose papers and take them up to Byron Andrews and his cojournalists; that the papers would ex- ae all about the matter. I also told him hat I wished : 70 GO TO THE JAIL at once, and he came in and put the handcuffs on tome, There were five or six policemen and de- tectives with him when he came in to see me, and he went away andcame back ina few minutes and Sald that they had decided to take me right to the Jail, and I sald, ‘that is just what I want,’ and he and his brother officers took me right out imto the room and down the stairs and into a carriage, and ‘he and three other policemen got in and drove me rapidly to.the jail I met Mr. Russ, the warden, McElfresh told him that I had shot the President of the United States, and he assigned me to cell No. 2, and I have there ever ———————~-—___ ‘THE CABEER OF GUITEAU. A Sketch of the Assassin’s Life. SOME EXTRACTS FROM HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY—WHERE THE GUITEAU FAMILY CAMB FROM—HIS EARLY TRAINING AND EXPERIENCES 1N THE ONEIDA COM- MUNITY—THE RECORD OF AN AIMLESS AND UBE- LESS LIFE. “ My full name,” said Guiteau in his autobiog- raphy, prepared just after bis commitment to jail for the assassination of President Gariisid, “is Charles Julius Guiteau. I have dropped the Ju- ltus; I prefer to be known as Charles Guiteau. My sirname ts spelt G-u-/-t-e-a-u; It is pronounced Get-o. It 1s a French name. My father’s ances- tor, two hundred years or more bask, was a physi- clan connected with the royal family of France, Ido not know much about my mat Ann Arbor, Mich. He lived at F in his ear! Aad he went to Daven- ore TON Sot and ved there some 15 years He was a lawyer by profession and practived in Davenport, In 1869 he Went to New York city and the employ of the United States Life In- surance company, He was with them two year and was one of their principal men, He has a great deal of imsurance brain. * * * I have a ister Who is married to George Scoville, attorney at Chicago. They were married’ in 1853 and have several children. My mother ied at Freeport when I was seven years old, and ny father was a widower for five years. He'then narried a lady at Freeport, named Maria Blood, {n 1853. ‘They have two children iving—a dauzh- ter (my halfsister) abouts years old, and a sonny halt brother) about 23 years old, and I think that she lost one ciifld tn infancy.” The particulars of Guiteau’s Ife have been gleaned from many sources, but no ac- count has been given which is ‘more clear and clrcumstintial than that which he gave himself. His career Turatshed the field on which the prose- cution and defence met in combat at the great trial, a combat which resulted rather ingloriously for the defence. The contest resulted in iliumina- ting all the DARK CORNERS OF HIB LIFE. It ts unnecessary here, however, to trace out more than the main features of his Ife. He wus born at Freeport, IiL, September 8 1841. His mother died when he was about seven years old. The only recoliection he had of her was that she was an invalid, After her death his boyhood steps were guided by his sisier Frances, who afterwards became the wife of George Scoville. Asa boy he sayshe knew Mr. & B, Washburne and Gen. John M. Schofield, whom he remembered As a cadet at West Point. A year or two after his mother’s death he removed with his father to Ulaa, a place in Wisconsin, about 20 miles north mo a on ——— there ayo oar father and grandfather being Jo! m= terested in a pier they had there. EARLY LIFE IN FREEPORT. He then returned to Freeport with his father, who, having falled in mercantile pursults, was engaged in writing in the county clerk’s office. At that time Guiteau and his father boarded with a lady who kept a private boarding-house, and he Went for a few months to the district school taught by Mr. Burchard, the present director of the mint. His father, having become agent at Freeport of the Galena and Chicago raflroad, was married in September, 1853, to a lady from Casse- novia, N.Y. His sister Frances was married some months before to Mr. Scoville, and was living in Chicago. Guiteau had been boarding with’ his sister In Chicago and attending a private school there. When examined at the trial he sald of his, father’s second marriage: “I remember I was very indignant to think that he should go off and get married as he did, without consultxtion with me. T think I was so indignant about It that I got on the cars the very night he left on the afternoon train—and went back to Scoville’s house in a great state of wrath.” GUITEAU’S FATHER, according to the statements of many 014 residents of Freeport, was man of loveable disposition, of singular earnestness of manner and conviction, and alover of truth. Guiteau sald, in his account of his life that hts father took the Trivune, and he had a great reverence for Horace Greely and Henry Ward Beecher, from whom he declared he got most of his political and social views, His father, he sald, was a whig and a republican, of moderate means; in religion a sort of fanatic, who Delieved in what were called the new Ideas of the me, Guiteau, it appears, after his mother’s death, attended ‘school pretty regularly until he was twelve. Then for several years his attendance Was not so regular. During part of that time he Was employed at writing in the office of his father, who had become county clerk. When he was about sixteen he went to Chi and attended Bell’s Commercial college one winter and became in that time, according to his own account, thor- oughly competent to manage a set of books. Gul- teau’s letters, written at that time, show that HE W48 QUITE ILLITERATE, compared with the average school boy of sixteen. His spelling, grammar and chirography were all deieotive. Then he returned to Freeport and Worked awhile in his father’s office, when he de- termined to go to Ann Arbor tocollege. His father, he said, was opposed to this, or to hisseek- ing education in another way. Noyes, of the Oneida Community, he said, had made a great im- pression on his father, who endeavored to incul- cate the doctrines of that peculiar establishment on hisfamily. #9 an illustration of his pecultar belief Guiteau m tioned in his testimony that, in stead 0: prayirg 1M Ue usuat way the old gentle— man, wien tue family sat down to a meal, would ay: “I confess Christ in this food, and I thank the Lord tor Jonn H. Noyes and the Oneida Commun- ity, and I confess my union with the community.” Guiteau traced ali his misforuunes and f: in life to his early training, and he was especially severe on his father, to whom he attributed most of his calamities and 11 In 1859 he de- sired to goto coll His father, as has been stated, Ws op; to this, “He thought the t thing was to save my soul,” sald Guiteau, Speaking Of this matter, “and ‘the only way to Save my soul was to run me into that stinking Oneida Community. He could not see any other Way. It makes me mad every time I think of it. ‘That ts the only way my ‘ather could see to save my soul—to put me under Noyes. That was the greatest outrage ever perpetrated on a boy, and I ave never been able tc forgive him froin that tme to this. I would have gone to college, to a Law school, and all thas sort Of thing, if my father had not opposed me.” AT ANN ARBOR. Finally, his father permitted him to goto Ann Arbor, and he went in September, 1858, when he was eighteen years of age. As he was not ready to enter college he became a pupil in one of the preparatory schools. He intended to remain at college two years, but his thoughts were directed toward the Oneida Community, and he changed his plans. “As soon as I got there,” sald Guiteau, “he (his father) began to pile up letters upon me, to write me long foolscap letters, several pages, twice or three times a week, exalting Noyes and the Community, and telling me an education would not be of any use to meif I did get it because I did not know the Saviour. Tam naturally of a reli- gious turn of mind, and the first religious impres- Sion I had I got from my father in that way—irom. the letters at Ann Arbor and previous consuita- Uons at Freeport.” His father kept him supplied with the publications of the Oneida Community, and the result was that in June, 1860, he left Ann Arbor and joined the Community. + aT ONEIDA, Guiteau had some money, the remnant of a legacy of $1,000 left him by his maternal grandfather, a Major John Howe, who fervidly declared that he (Guiteau) “had more brains than all the rest of the Guiteau fami and thus he contributed to the common fund of the Community. After Guiteau’s conversion to the Oneida Community doctrines, his zeal and fervor in the cause must have even gone beyond his father’s mark. The few letters extant written by him at that time show how en- 9 George into His heavenly i om on earth.” Guiteau re- mained at the Onefda Community till April, 1865, ‘The picture gon bad = oa ee “a agloomy one. Noyes, was harsh, Gruel nd exacted the most wp pent He worked there as a common laborer; did service In nanion the farm. There WHY HE LEFT THE COMMUNTTY. “ ThediMculty was,” said Guiteau, “that I grad- ually became dissatisfied with their whole bust- St rent Tmember nil November, 18, parture from the Oneida Community, complished by stealth, Guiteau had a complete revulsion of fedting? circular denouncing the Williams, will put you through.’ I went over and saw Mr, Heed one morning. I think I took a note from Gen. Reynolds; I don’t know whether it was a note ora verbal message. At all events, I went \o Mr. Reed and told him I had been studying for been examined by qualified to practice u court Guiteau has us, a we consider him law under the laws of e supreme of the state of Tilinois’ He put there, ‘Charies H. Reed, district attorney. 2 he says, ‘you go and take thisto Judge Williams, of the district court, and he will sign ft, and you will be admitted upon giving a certificate of good moral character.’ Twent to Judge Williams and he Signed it, a8 a matter of course, upon Mr, Keed’s examination of me. ‘Thatts the way I was admitted to the bar, Immediately upon that I went to work and did well in Chicago. I made $2,000 the Orst year.” This gry Seng t by Mr. Reed in his tes Umony, he having no recollection of such an 00 currence. Guiteau remained tm Chicago until 1871, engaged in such law business as he was able to attend to. 4 CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCE. Inthe summer of 1871 Guiteau paid a visit to San Francisco, intending to practice law there, ‘but he was not successful. He omits reference to his Callfornia trip from his autobiography. The only record extant or his experience there is @ letter written bya gentleman named Eaton to John W. Gut stating that @ man represent- ing himself ss his (Guiteau’s) brother had bor- froma him on a representation that he a telegram that bia wife had been taken suddenly {ll and he needed money to get home. He promised to send a draft in ent of the amount, but did not do so, John Guiteau brought the matter to his brother's attention, and in return received a letter 7 “I got that money on my responsii as a Chicago lawyer.” ‘HIS MARRIAGE. While in Chicago he married a lady, from whom he was afterwards divorced and who appeared as @ witness against himat the trial Subsequentiy he drifted back into New York and opened an office as a lawyer. He was doing well,he said, until unfortunately he and ore of his cases got into the Herald's law reports. This wasacase in which he wascharged with having retained collections he had made fora clientin order to defray his expenses. He sued the Herald for $100,000 dam- ages for libel, but could not obtain a verdict. “In December, 1874,” Guiteau said, “I became very "much’ reduced in Stances; I was out of business, and out of money, and out of friends. Thad not been in New York a sufficient length of time to get thor- Gughiy established in business. Prior to the Her~ 0 years. After the Herald __ publication imy clients got demoralized, and the newspay talked about it a good deal at the time and it demoralized me, and, to make it brief, I got all run down and run out. I lived a precarious existence ‘there during the summer and fall. I tried to get on to my feet again tn the law business. Igot an Office, but could not cet enough business to pay my ofice rent. I could not pay my board bill, and got thoroughiy discouraged and demoralized, and Suffered a good deal on account of the Heraid pub- lication.” HIS TOMBS EXPERIENCE * * * “Tstayed at the St. Nicholes hotel,” he Continued, “for a week, at the end of which they presented the bill. I told them that I did not have any money; and I told them that I would see them about it In a day or two, and I started togo. Just at that moment their detective came out He was a burly fellow, and he was very impudent. I had & good sult of clothes on, and he looked at my clothes and said: ‘Well, that is a good coat, sup- pose we take that; suppose we put him out under the hydrant and open the hydranton him? sup- Pose we take him around to the other hotels an@ exhibit him?’ The detective was abusing me in that way, and finally I lost my temper and T told him not to treat mein that way; that I wasa gentleman, and I would certainly pay them in a very few bay a Uhat I was ex ing some money. Thereupon he got angry, and he seized me by the throat and marched me Uhrough the back way to the Prince-street station-house. He and Mr. King, one of the junior proprietors, went with me to the station-house, and they put me into a cell and locked me up ‘ail night.” The next morning the de- tective came to my cell and said: ‘How are you, a Said ‘I am about so-so.’ Thad never and very indigna: im ty He was bluff and liftariousin hts style, and and talked to me and wanted to know how much I had sued the Herald for,” &. The end of this of the biography ts that Guiteau finally the tombs on the charge of false pretcacen, and that. he was released through the agency of his relative, Mr. wi fio bein the Felative, Mr. Scoville, happened THEE “HERALD” EPISODE 18 closed up in his autobiography with the expres» sion of the opinion that be would consider it a handsome thing if the proprietor would send him & check for $10,000 and call the thing “square.” After his tombs experience, Guiteau in January, 1875, returned to Chicago and opened a law office there. In the fall of that year Guiteau conceived he idea of purchasing the “hicago Inter-Ooean. He worked on that idea for cwo or three months, trying to borrow money with which to purchase the . His notion was to duplicate the New York Herara despatches in Chicago. He even went so far as to write to Mr. James Gordon Ben- nett about it, and offered, in consideration of Mr. Bennett's co-operation, t6 drop his suit against the Herald. It is neediess to say his alled. In 1876, while in Chicago,lis thoughts were turned to theology by. the dy and Sankey revival meetings, ang he prepared an article on the Sec- ond Coming of Christ, which forms one of the cay ners et Bs After writing this article he le his first, ATTEMPT TO LECTURE in a Methodist church, in Chicago in January,1877, and his effort was ridiculed by one of the Chicago Papers. Guiteau, in his auti-biography, next de- scribed bis experiences asa lecturer in different parts of the country, Its a long record of failures and disappointments, After rambling over thecoun- try and after trying life insurance business in Boston, after the nomination of Gen. Garfield, he decided to enter politics, and he went to New York in June, 1880, for that purpose. He remained there until March 5th, 1881. He had conceived himself to be a great politician; had written a campaign speech, and ‘hung around the head. quarters of We mational republican com mittee rooms, and Guiteau, it seems, tried press his services as a stump spe: Rational committeemen, but they the same estimate upon bis abilities he himself. He only delivered his speech that was at a colored meeting on 25th street. Tead a part of his speech. and then gave the the reporters to print. W election was known tn Gen. Garfield as follows: “ We u. all out; just asT expected. Thank spect , Charles Gulteau.” GUITEAU 48 AN OFFICE SEEKER. Immediately after the Indiana election he had written to Gen. Garfield, suggesting that he might bea candidate forthe Austrian mission. Barly in March, 1881,he came to Washington to present. bis claims for office. “I addressed a letter,” bo sald, “to President Garfield and Secretary Blaine sometime in March, I should say, calling their at- several mes di in the Senate, and Mr. Blaine said not got to t | | i i E E A ' ee