Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1882, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. #RYDAY, JUNE 30, 1882-DOUBLE SHEET. the R , but for me in taking wy Relay House, and T passed on te Washiagton. Another very strange cir ‘bout tis bast as tit T did not have € money, and my clothes looked pretty dilapte 1 for cio! long in October and I LOUIS, EX? 1 wore In Jw about the sha’ E Tnever was 30 re Tt was T looked pretty blest experience 1 t rhaa 1e for some nd he id not not fim or he to me. AN ACT OF PROVIDENCE. But the Provicence was right here: that Just as 1 was taking a new Seat a man came along to me are you going ty Washing- Says he, ‘Would you lke “Yes, says 8 I did not want e prayer out ‘vould give me *o gotoahotel. I had not got pefore that man came right tranger, and wa a he had known tr ae right to his boar entlema in. . He was an elderly atom of fo04, except and I was hungey, hh expertences with ms RIENCE IN THIS CITY. Tgot to Washington about 8 or 9 o'clock. It was ia October, 1877, and I stayed in Washington bout six weeks, I cot out my lecture on the Sec- md Coming, and I got it printed, and I used to run wound the departments and the strects selling ay lecture on Christ's Second Coming, for twenty-five cents. I presume I sold two or three sundred copies of that lecture,or more. I would so right into a department and say: ‘Allow me to call your attention to this, my friend.’ He would 00k at the fly-teaf—‘Chirtst’s Second Coming. Je~ ‘usalem, A. D. ‘70. By Charles J. Gulteau, lawyers sheologian and lecturer.’ That was the announee- gent on the fly-leaf, He would say: ‘How much Sthat?’ “Twenty-five cents;’ and would give me he money, and I would go to the next man. SoT vorked around the departments. and up and down Pennsylvania avenue about four years ago—about this time or a little earlier. I lectured in the CONGREGATIONAL LECTURE ROOM nere—Dr. Rankin’s—about a week before I left, on Shrist’s Second Coming, at the Destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 70. Tshould say I had seventy oresent perhaps, and charged twenty-five cents sdmission. It was well advertised In the papers and by large posters up and down around the Capitol and all around the hotels. I guess the itence sneered and a*ted rather strange as usual I left Washington in about a week and went to Baltimore, and had the same result. The noli¢ays were coming on, ani f went there and talked with some hall proprietors, and they hought ‘twas rithera bad tine totry and | cure, and 3 New York, and stayed there st of January, 1878, ] took the I wen xight bear for B I went there’ and went around the street and sold some of my lec here in Washingt that Thad pri a ures I could always get money, at kind of business tha nit Was rather small busi er tobe ens: fin that But I was happ! a lecture I thought, 4 that man’s soul; I can’ tied me along. Iwentto Boston and Tleetured in Wesleyan hall. ‘das usual At that time Mr. ng around the country lecturing if Sersolt Was gull a gains a ing the religious elements it I would answer him int, and T went there and all, y hice little hall. owned t Corporation, and got it well ad- Itrained and Thad’avout a dozen p20 ‘The Boston Post and the Boston Globe save me about lif a column more of ar = Very fair report, and they advertised the lecture omething lke this ‘SOME NEW IDEAS.” + first and the best newspaper re- mg the time of lecturh rhey a fleas It at nT went to Provi- to furnish the hall and ad take It out of the receipts. No y. Well, we had about firty, and he kept all he got for his disbursements, and I got nothing. Then I went to Newport and tried to it would not N ts A o1 oon. We were We cust tobave toon thare af 6 oelack. got there at two. That was the time f ity and tin ‘ a system of Meult fora man nts, I got on ed more than uctor and his aid came hatespose the fare. Itoid him I was are and DO SOMETHING FOR THE LonD. Said he, ‘I don’t take any stock in that kind of Puslness; I wart your money or Tl turn you over tothe policeman.’ He was dead in earnest and seared me terri Toffered him collateral. He gays, ‘No coliateral; I want your twenty cents or “wil have you arrested.” Then he says to the wakeman, ‘Take this man and hand him over to officer at Newark.’ ‘The brakeman he spoke to iS poking at the fire, and I went outside quick ‘Sa flash and let myself drop. I got down within bout a footof the ground. It was the Pennsyl- vanta ball. , Focky, st that, (iilustratin ind” got a sear carry. I had a tf iar Overcoat Ol snd that was all cut and wasted, and my clothes were all solled, and Iwas all in gre flexed myself , au up the best I could, ud thanked God for that es- ape. I went to the hotel and stayed there a litue vhile, and the next morning took board ina private gouse. It was jast an bupuise to jump off the Stain, that was ail, to get away from this arrest. T thought if be arrested me In wus trouble to get out of it, 2s Twas out of inoney sat out of friends, and the thcwzht flashed through tay head that they might run me into the work- Se AS & Vagrant or something of that kind, and O escape that I rushed off the trvin. I woul ‘of again fora milion dlars. They we ing about th 'rty-tive miles an hour, I guess—tne SuInZtOn EXprSs, ing Jersey City at 4 lock tn the afternoon, going lke lightning when 1 jumped cif. Iwas preity well jammed up. 1 “tated that I hada ftiy dollar overcost on, and I propose to say it the OVercoat actually eost me ONLY SIX DOLLARS, Twent toasecond-hand establishment In Boston, sad toid the gentieinay I didn’t have much money, sad he said: “I have got a very fine overcoat here hat I just got from a cambler. Itts worta $0, but, ‘ow can have it for $6" So I took it.” Afterwards jaiteau, about the ist of February, returned to oston, then to Worcester, Springfield, Hartford, -few Haven, New York, Newark, Briigeport, and “hiladelphia, lea having bis usual success vcturiag and selling his pamphlet, and then traveled West, Stopping by tae way and reachiug Fond du Lae in July; ven he made an attempt to do law business in tlwaukee. but soon started “on. theology” azain, nd started out again on his rambles; then ta the ul of 1878 went i Chicago. tried law business sad insurance soliciting, and tn AUZUSt, 1879, left vhicago for the last Ume, and traveled eastward sgain. In Boston he had h's book published, and remalned there (rom October, 1879, ULL June, 1 vhen he went to New York, ha exchang theolozy for politics, —————-e-—___ GUITEAU'S JAIL EXPERIENCE. Incidents of His Privon Life. PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO GUARD HIS LIFE—THE VA- RIOUS MOODS OF THE PRISONER—RELIGIOUS BOOKS WHICH HZ READ—EARLY INTERVIEWS WITH HIM— HOW HE RECEIVED THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT'3 DEATH—MINISTEKS WHO HAVE CALLED trox mit, ac. It was about 10:20 o'clock on the morning of July 21, when Capt. Vernon, of the Metropolitan pol'ce, snd other officers, landed Gutteau at the Jail door rom a carriage. As the door was opened Capt. Vernon astonished the officers on duty by exclaim- fag, “This man shot the President.” Guiteau, who appeared excited, answered, “Yes, I shot ‘im. Gen. Sherman will be here with the military ‘@afew minutes. I have sent for him.” Capt. Russ, the deputy warden, asked the par- ‘culars of the shooting, and Capt. Vernon gave what particulars he could. Capt Russ, having ‘ized the prisoner’s face tered the door, said he brad seen lave his boots or shocs waleh he wears on arrival atthe jail with the officers,{s found in the fact that in many boots and shoes are steel or tron suanks,which prisoners sharpen when they can get them, and make what sre 1a prison slang known as “cheesers,” with which they might do damage, Guitean, on coming out of the bath, was assizned to the fest ceil, west corridor of te first floor of the south wing, but the location of the prisoner in the building was streauously conce iled from out- siders. Here Gulteau soon made himself at home, and in jess than two hours after the deed was committed he was sitting on his couch reading a Paper borrowed from a prisoner, THE MILITARY GUARD. In the afternoon of the same diy the troops from the Arsenal QI U. artillery) ordered “to protect the government property”—after a Cabl- net meeting or consultation—appeared; Major Mc- Gilvray’s battery (as Infantry) reporting at the jail building, and Major Graves’ battery, with Gatling guns, taking stitton at Lincoin Park, about five vest of tho jail. Sentry posts were e3~ tablished about 290 yards from the Jal ‘The fell pieces rematned at the park for about three ¥ the men betng relieved every 24 hours. The force at the jail has been maintained ever since, being quartered in the east wing fa the apartment built for the chapel Ibis Mkeiy that Nad not this pre- caution been taken an attack would have been sade on the building, in watch cas> more DI than that of the prisoner would 1 “RARLY INTERVIEWS WITH GUITEAU. The afternoon and eventng of the diy of com- Initment various detective oMcers, locat and na- Uonal, Including Chief Brooks, of the Treasury secret service, had foterviews with Guiteau, in which he asserted that he alone did the nd not a living soul knew of it; that he had sed the pistol and made his preparations to get to the jail, and that he alone was responsible- For a few days after Guiteau’s commitment there were twelve or fourteen persons tn the same tier of cells, but he dtd not have much to say to ther With the exception of oneor two of the more gen- Uemaniy looking he had nothing to do with them. To one who been convicted of manslaughter he had some talk, telling the same story a3 he gave to the detectives, and also describing the shootmg and how Mr. Garfeld acted. To the warden, Gen. Crocker, he made on the 4th of July alike statement, and gave him als) a sketch of his Itfe. In none of the interviews—including those of the District attorney, (Col. Corkhiil,) taken in short hand by Mr. Balley—b2fore July 16th did Guiteau put forward in any distinct form his in- splration theory, or intimate that the Deity im- Pelled hin to commit the act. On that date Gen, Srocker had a talk with him at his cell door, Which the prisoner close by remarking, “ You must not laugh when I tetl you, but I guess you Will, for you Will hardly belleve it, (atthe stme Ume siniling;) I got the conception from God;” and this fs belleved to have been the first time ia which he madesuch aclaim. Some few days after Gen. Reynolds called in the interest of the govern- inent, and Guiteau spoke of the inspiration theory and enlarged upon it. HIS PHYSICAL CONDITION. When committed he appeared to be an ex- eeedingly slight buflt man and apparently would not have weighed more than 125 pounds, but when stripped for the bath it was noticed that he was a well built man, especially in his lower ex- tremities, When exercising in the corridor, he made some spurts in p2destrianism which would have done credit to a professional. He, however, ‘took no exercise out of his cell for some time after hfs first commitment and was exceedingly fearful that some one would avenge the death of the President by shooting him. AFRAID OF VIOLENCE. For weeks he would shudder and eringe at the sight or sound of a stranger. Indeed, so fearful Was he that a shot m'ght come into his window from the outside, that he removed his cot from under the window of his cell to the door, and then to make himself sttll more secure, he had his cot lowered so that at no time would his head be above the level of the sill of the window. He would criuge and quake with fear at the least sound, and it was only after he had made several | ips to court that he seemed to gain courage and confidence. When taken to his bath, in crossing he rotunda from the south to the west wing. diers were standing around, he would so Sto shield himself behind the persons of uards. SO abject was his fear of violence, thatat times wnen going to the bath he could 1s some time before he ofizers of the prison. tearful, even fiously Was the feeling that, some of the guards—both t regular attichces of the prison and the military- were for a time fearful of being lett alone with the erable length of Uh “ting the upper hand of him that he m t to be transferred to the opposite wing for but the request was not complied with. FLUID avamor aia arm It is now pretty well known that there was more than one plot made against the life of Guiteau.and had the trial resuited in a disagreementof the jury there probably would have been no need of a second trial. Perhaps the most ingentous plan | Was one which was arranged just beiore the trial | closed. It was preposed that a small bomb should be quietly slipped Into the cell. through the gra door, and it should be explo a long fuse frou the rotunda. - Of course this plan wouid need the connivance of some of the regular oficers, but had there been a_miss-trial there might Rave been found among the guards some oae who would not have been unwilling to e in or wink at such an undertak! 7 ers who were fa the afjoining talked of a way of getting away"#ith Guiteau. Even the most depraved of the prisoners had no kindly feeling for him, and were sincere in the Wish that when he went to the court that a mob would prevent his return. THE MAGILL AFFATR. About a month after his commitment one of the guards, Mr. Magill, seeing Guiteau standing at an unseasonable hour at his window bars, went in to examine them, when he found the prisoner with a knife (a “cheeser,” such as is referred to above) in his hand and asked for it. Then they got into a scuffle, in which Mr. Magill’s pistol Went off, and Guiteau cla!med that Magtil had come into the cell to murder him, and demanded that he should be prosecuted. The fact that he was not killed by Magill he claimed was evidence that he was God’s nan, and that Providence was protecting him and would not let him be harmed. MASON'S ATTEMPT. Guiteau was confined in the cell to which he was first assigned until after he had been shot at by Sergeant Mason, Sept. 11th last, when, as will be remembered, the ball missing Guiteau imbedded itself in the wall tn the form of a fair profite of Guiteau. Guiteau, as soon as the officers entered the cell to see what damage had been done, was found terribly excited, in fact almost unable to speak. When asked where he was at the time, he replied, pointing to his cot, “Lying here with my. head turned to see the soldiers leave thelr wagon.” Subsequently he asserted that he was standing. at the Window at the time that the ball grazed “his ear. In a few days he had this incident fixed oh. hfs mind ja as ‘gg fs suometading ae Tey Yemriied “hima that as soon as iio saw Gem Crvckee he demanied removal and protection: “He was thereupon placed in the correspo: cellon the Opposite side of the wing, and as a further safe- gnard, at_his request the window was bricked up. At the entrance to this corridor wooden doors were placed for the purpose of Isolating him as Inuch as possible. Here he was visited by many before his trial, and so clamorous was the public to see him that he felt nimselt A POPULAR HERO. ‘The demand made upon him for autographs finally induced him tosell them. From this corri- dor all the other prisoners were removed, and he Saw none of them save those allowed out to run errands and work about thecells. At times he Was even afraid of these. He was also allowed the use of the double cell at the south end of the tier, Dut this was not so assigned for his accommoda- ton, as has been claimed, but for the convenience of the officers; for from the first it was.feared that he might potson bimself if he procured the ma- tertal, or use a knife. By removing him from the be thoroughly single,cell in the morning it coi searched. DEPRIVED OF NEWSPAPERS. From a few days after his commitment to the time he was taken to court all papers were studi- ously kept away from him, and all the information he could obtain was what he could get by over- hearing the remarks of the guards and other pris- cell he has since occupied sleeping apartment. Subsequently, the adjoining cell to the one used for sleeping Was assigned him for use by day and the other was left vacant. From the first it was deemed necessary that extra precautions shouli be taken. It was feared that he might attempt to take his own life by using a “‘cheeser,” which might by some means be smuggied fn to him. Having two cells, each couk thoroughly searched without his knowledge. The demand to see him was, too, very t,and if kept in his sleeping cell there was but liitie room for parties visiting him to stand. ‘These extra cells Were furnished with a chair and table,on which he did his writing and on Which he revised his book, “The Truth,” with the added appendix, “The Removal.” Subsequently there were to be found always on his table a Bible (Qvhich he leaves to Rev, Dr. Hicks) za book loaned him by Mr. Grimith, of the Prison Aid association of Baltimore; a book loaned by Dr. Hicks, “The Sayings of Jesus,” anda little volume tire “Blood oO is," (Hammond's condensation), all of which, Judging from some marked passages, he read carefuily. GUITEAU AND THE MINISTERS. For a long time, until after the trial, the Christian people, as a class, seemed to keep aloof from him, and ministers who went to see him.did So, as others, from morbid curiosity. Some would call and perhaps ask a few questions and leave without proposing prayer or asking if he desired a minister to visit him, taking it for granted that what he sald, “I am a Christian” was true,and an- swering, “I hove s0.”” About the first minister to call on him was a colored Baptist preacher from Freedmen’s Village, who talked aud prayed with him about two Inonths ago. He repeated his visit a couple of Weeks afterward. ‘Then the evangelists, Bentley j and Jones, with Rev. Dr. France, called on lim twice and sang and prayed. Next Mr. Griffith, of the Baltimore Prison Ald Socicty,calied on him dnd afterwards paid himanumber of visits, which he freatly enjoyed. As Gulteau's time was approach- Ing an end Gen. Crocker, in the early part of this month, had some conversation with him as to the necessity of selecting a minister. This suggestion he would not entertain at first, saying there was no hecessity for making any preparation, for he was a Christian, At that time he did not believe he would be hung, as he had hope in the efforts then being made vy ‘his counsel, Mr. Reed. On the sth inst. Gen. Crocker again made the suggestion, and asked of what particular faith he was. Guiteau Feplied that he was a Conj name of Rey. Dr. Hicks, of the Tabernacle church, Delng mentioned, Guitezu said he would like to see him.” Dr. Tilcks was thereupon gent for, and on the following day, June 9th, he called, held a conver- sation with Gulteau, and offered prayer. During the following week Dr, Hicks visited the prisoner every other day, and since Friday of last week he has made dally visits. THE DEAT} WATCH. As soon as the Supro;,y Court of the District acted finally on the case ,},; death watch was set, Messrs. Thos. T. Johnson, John Davis and F. C, Lingenbach being the officers assigned to this duty. Recently Messrs. James Woodward and George Winters, with Mr. Johnson, have consti- tuted, the death watch, These gentlemen have taken turns of 12 hours each in noting every action greeable duty, especially at night, and when the risoner 1s inched to be ugly, which, however, a8 not heen the case recently. When the prisoner Was in his cot at nigit the death watch, seated in his chatr, like the prisoner, counted the hours, A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. Efforts Made Since the Trial to Save Guiteau from the Gallows. THE PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COURIS—APPLICA- TIONS TO THE PRESIDENT—THE DEATH WARRANT. The efforts on the part of Gulteau’s counsel to have the verdict of the jury set aside began at once after it was announced, and were continued with great pertinacity. When every legal resource had been exhausted, an attempt was made to indu-e the President to grant, at least, a short respite, in order that Guiteau’s mental condition might be igated by a commission. On Saturday, Janu- th, before sentence was passed, Mr. Scoville motion for a new trial, alleging that the ct Was uncertain, as itdid not specify which count or counts of the indictment tt was founded upon; that the trial was extended from one term into another terin of the court without authority of law; that the court had no jurisdiction, as_the Presid'nt died in New Jersey; that the court erred in overruling certain prayers of the defence, excluding proper evidence, hat the jury inis- bebaved in reading, or having read to them, news Papers calcul ted to prejudice their minds, and that new and material facts had been discovered. ‘The maim question raised was alleged MISCONDUCT OF THE JURY, and the averment was made on the authority of an aMdavit made by Frederick H. Snyder, who Cialuuca Ww Dave foUNd In one of the rooms usea by the jury, at the National hotel, a newspaper on the borders of which were written the names ot several of the jurymen, Snyder was contradicted flatly by the affidavits of the jurymen and the officers in charge of the jury, ead Several affida- vits were filed assailing Nis réputation. Mr. ville claimed to have found two men who saw Gut. teau at different times during the month of June in La Fayette square acting Ina manner that caus them to think he was insane. This was met by an affidavit from one of the men named by Mr. Scoville disclatming any knowledge whatever Of the occurrences set forth by Mr. Scoville. The motion having been denied Mr. Scoville began the Preparation of an elaborate BILL OF EXCEPTIONS, which was signed by Judge Cox on the 30th of March. This bill of exceptions made a pamphlet of 39 pages, and comprehended 82 distinct excep- tions to testimony, and 43 exceptions to passages in Judge Cox’s charge, besides general exceptions to the action of the court in overruling the motion in arrest of juagment. When the April term of the Court in General Term was convened, on April 25th, it at once gave its attention to the case, Mr. Reed appearing ta court for the prisoner, ‘That day Chief Justice Cartter received a letter from Mr, Scoville announcing his withdrawal from the case, ME. SCOVILLE'S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CASE. In this letter Mr. Scoville said With my con- viction as to the mental infirmities of the pris oner, and his consequent irresponsibility, I have endured and would suffer yet longer his ingrati- tude and abuse were I able to give further time aud service to his defence. The imperative cause of withdrawal is my Inability, without absolute ruin to my family and myself, to give further time to this cause away from home. * * * Ido not wish to obtrule my personal affairs upon the court, but cannot refrain from saying that my un- fortunate and reluctant connection With this case has been the source of untold trouble to me. Guiteau says that he regrets that his relatives had not, all died twenty-five years ago, It cer- tainly Would have been better for himself and for the world, ‘at least for the late’ Garfield and Sco- vitie portion of mankind, it he had never been born.’ ‘The arguments on the bill of exceptions began on Monday, May 9th,.before Chief Justice Cartter and Judges: MacArthur, er, and James, and closed én the Mr, Redd“appearing for the prsomer” fe Dace ae | Corkhilt ena rn for the nment. .Mr. Reed confin hs anguiment ‘citeniy to thre question of Jurisdic- tion and the exception to the admission of the testimony of Mrs. Dunmire, Guiteau’s divorced wife. On Monday, May 22, Judge James an- nouned the decision of the’ court, affirming the judgment of the court below. Judze James de- ivered an exhaustive opinion, sustaining the ju- risdiction of the court not only by autuority of common law, but on high federal ground. OTHER LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. Mr. Reed appeared in the Court in General Term againon the 24 of June with a motion for a re- hearing on the ground that the verdict did not specify which count of the indictment it was founded upon. This motion was dented on Mon- day, June 5. A few days later Mr. Reed appeared in the Criminal Court, before Judge Wylie, and made a motion to correct the record in the case, so as to specify the counts on which tue indictment was founded. This motion, it was understood, @vas intended to be preliminary to an attempt to brin: the question of jurisdiction before United Stat ‘ourt.' Judge Wylte dented the ir. subsequently consulted with justices of the United States Supreme Court without, ‘! is understood, getting much en- couragement. Having made a formal application to Mr. Justice Bradley for a writ of habeas cor us, based on the ind of non-jurisdiction, That jus: rn eral ce, on the 19th of June, denied the aj And'oustained the: decision of the Court i Gen APPLICATIONS TO THE PRESIDENT. ‘There velng no further legal steps to be taken, efforts were then made in other quarters to save Guiteau, On the 20th instant, Miss Chevaillier, of Her, called uy ite fn reaplee unt a Gy a commission mitted President ose Guiteau tipere tM s'gned and transinitted to'ttle warden of the jail. The following 1s a copy,of the document: In the Supreme Court of the District of Colum- bia, May 224,192: + Unived States agt, Charles J. Guiteau, No. 14,056—murder. The Prestaent of the United States. To the warden of thé United States jail of the District of Columbia, Greet! : Whereas, Charles J. Guitcau has been tndicted bf felony and murder by him done and committed, and has been there- upon arraigned, and upon such arraignment has pleaded not guilty, and has! been lawfully con- victed thereof; and whereas judgment of sald court has been given phat thie sald Charles J, Gul- teau shall be hanged By the Peck until he be dead, therefore you are héfeby cmmanded that upon Friday, the thirtieth 0th) day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and elghty-two (A. D, 1882), between the hours of twelve (12) o'clock “meridian and two (2) o'clock post meridian of the same day, him, the said Charles J. Guiteau, now being In your custody in the common jail of the District ot Columbia, you convey to the place prepared for his execution, within the walls of the J jail of the District of Columbia, and that you cause execution to be done upou the said Charles J. Guiteau, in your custody, so being In ali taings according to sald juigment, amlthis you are by no means to omit, at your peril; and do you return this writ unto the clerk’s Office of said court, so endorsed as to show how you have obeyed’ the sime. Witness: D. K. Cartter, Chief Justice of said court. ——$—_+es WORD PICTURES OF GUITEAU. . rationalist, and theg made by the prisoner. ‘This is an extremely disa-* His Own Description of His Personal Appearance, HOW HE LOOKED TEN YEARS AGO—SKETCHES OF HIS CHARACTER MADE BY VARIOUS HANDS—A GRAPHIC PICTURE OF A MORAL MONSTER THAT WAS PRE- SENTED TO THE JURY. “As I have been terribly villifi2d by certain disreputable newspapers,” says Guiteau in the ap- pendix to his book, “and have had diabolical looking pictures printed in some illustrated news- papers, pretending to represent my profile, I herewith give my personal appearance: Age, 40— 4m often taken for 30; helght 5 feet 5% inches; Weight 140 pounds. Body compact and well built. Head round and plump. Brains, let the public pass on that, Complexion, clear, light and bright, Eyes the same. Hair, brown; worn short. Facey clean, with a slight moustache. Manners, those of a high-toned, Christian gentleman. Habits, do not dissipate in any way. Health excellent. My ume is pleasantly spent in reading, writing and entertaining company. I have no anxiety about myself for this world or the next. The Lord always takes care of His man.” That is a flatter- ing sketch of the personal appearance of the man. He was quite as VAIN OF HIS LOOKS 88 of his mental powers. When his photograph was taken in the rotunda of the jail, two days after the assassination, he was very particular to have a good likeness. When he fired the shot he wore a beard and was dressed In a dark suit, with @ sack coat and a black slouch hat. During the trial, when Mr. Clarke Millis took a cast of his henc _dheprisoner had his beard and moustache Shaved off, and since then appgared almost alto- gether without any hirsute ornament unon his face, save a moustache,which he haskept trimmed very short. Hils hair he has worn generally closely cropped, and it has had a tendency to bristle up. His most conspicuous feature was his eyes. They: had a strange, indescribable, diabolical look. AL together there was something uncanning and imp- ish in the appearanceof the man. HOW GUITEAY USED TO 109K. According toa statement made by Mr. Scoville toa Stax reporter, som¢ years ago Guiteau was of a very different appearance. 13 hair and beard were luxuriant arid kept in good order, and his address was so persuasive and insinuating that heeasily found credit at the best city hotels, Whose experienced clerks are generally apt to de- tect a dead-beat ata glince. Rey, R.S. McArthur, Wo was Gutteau’s pastor {a New York in 1872, says that Gutteau was then gentlemanly in his manners. “He was neatly, I may say elegantly dressed, and his deportment, it not specially pre- possessing, was certaldly not noticeably unpre- possessing.” - TWO OLD EHOTOGRAPHS. There are two photographs df Gulteau extant, taken while he was UV¥ing ia Chicago with his wife. The first represetts him as a young man ot thirty or thereabouts, with long halr, inclined to curl, anda beardiess face. His appearance was not unprepossessing. #fhe second, taken three or four years later, has abous the same character- isties, With the addition of a thin beard covering the lower part of his face. In neither of the pletures can be foun’ any trace of that restless, uneasy expr the man in later years. I was a good looking feliow, then,” said Guiteau, “f have hada hard time elnee.” SKETCHES OF HIS CHARACTER. Guiteau’s character was not many sided, but the story of his life affords many different manitesta- tlons of a one-sided character. His consuming esotism can be seen through all. His character giving, as it does, a clear fllustration of a certain type of niind, will always be studied with some interest. He was not even ortginal in thought, but had a certain originality of expression and a Positive egotism that vitalized everything he sald. Morally, perhaps Dr. Spitzka’s description of him as a “monstrosity” was correct. While intellectu- ally he appeared to have a complete conception of religious ideas, moraliy he was without a monitor. He appeared to have no moral perception of the obligations that are binding upon most men. Various views of him have been expressed in various quarters, WHAT HIS FATHER THOUGHT OF HIM. It 1s prover, perhaps, to begin with that of the father of the assassin, who, in October, 1975, wrote as follows regarding his wayward and ill-starred, son: “To my mind he {s a fit subject for a lunatic asylum, and if I had the means to keep him.would send him to one for a time at least. His condition,in myjudgment,has been caused by anunsudtued wilt, the very spirit of disobedience to authority and rate toward me, disobedience to God and the Spirit of truth which culminated 1n a quarrel with Mr. Noyes and the 0. C., and he never will be any better unicss he shall’ retrace his steps in every particular. Ihave thought and still fear he made @ fatal mistake, in bis Wicked and unjustifiable fight upon Mr. N— and the 0. C. J do know he has in all that matter, as well as his other acts of diso- bedience, been instigated by Satan and Satanic forces, and I warn whomsoever it may concern. to eee how they yield themselves to the wicked be A PICTURE DRAWN BY RIS BROTHER, Letters written by John Wilson Guiteau, a bro- ther of the assassin, to Mr. Scoville, in October last, will ald the reader considerably in forming an estimate of the character of the assassin. In the first letter he said: “I nave believed that Juilus was morally responstble for the asgassina- Uon of President Garfield, and that he had sufi- cient mental capacity and will power to have con- trolled hts foolish and wicked purpose if he had so chosen, and that the crime was the legitimate ending of his former vicious life. I have always credited him with enough natural ability and a sound mind, except as tt has become perverted by excessive egotism, wiltulness, lust and laziness. + * * still, it all the circumstances of his life could be got together before the jury and the pub- Uc, {t would be suen a mess of unreasoning and Sengeless work and effort as to almost force the conclusion of his actual insanity.” Afterwards: John became convinced, he says, that his brother Was actually insane, bt seul ot agree to attri- buting bis condition 48 father’s influence, “Jullus,” he said, “went to the O. C. with both his moral and physical hekith sidiy impaired from vious excesses and Wrongs, and he left because Was unable to aod aoa beagton ey ‘Was required to wo! e Test did. He had for years before been disobedient, wilful, egotistical, gross, und I have no dnubt was on the verge of in- Sanity long before father suspectod it, for he be- Heved that insanity wap 3 THE RESULT OF SI AXD SATAN’S FO" and this idea ts unquestionably the teaching of the Bible, in both old atid new ‘Testament. * * * I respectfully submit that the theory of his in- ‘ME. PORTER'S SKETCH, Ex-Jndge Porter in His. Ing address to the Jury gave a word picture of :Guiteau which was most graphic. He sai: itlemen, this is the man of whom we are to speak, and in whose pe- halt his counsel, with such touching pathos, in- Yokes merciful and tender consideration at your hands. The evidence shows him to have been cun- i AE E i ; | lon which was so characteristic of pice mg + - pon gs he heen ehtemg with whom he for and whom acknowl to have peen?a trae and faithful wife; capable of PALMING HIMSELF UPON THE PUBLIC, upon christian associations, upon christian churches from city to city, as a pure and upright man, though he had spent years in shameless for- nication; a man who, afterward, when he wished to get rid of his wife, consulted the command- ments of God, and reading “Thou shalt not com- mit adultery,” went out and committed it with a Prostitute. “He thought 1t needful that his wite should be *removed.” Fortunately for her it did not come to the necessity of the sorm of “re- moval” which he applied to President Garfield. He was content with that which he could procure for himself by a safer crime, and afterward ap- peared before the judicial referee as a witness to establish the marriage, and, as the record shows, Produced the prostitute to prove adultery. He 1s proved by his own witness to have been $0 void of all honor, so possessed of the spirit of diabolism, that hewas capable at the age of eighteen of stealing up behind his own father, giving him a cowardly blow when seated at his own tabie, and Telying upon the fact that he was then a larger and stronger man than the fatier, as the latter roses changed blow after blow with im, and when the old gentleman by a fortunate stroke drew blood on his face, the son at once surren- dered like a coward, then as now. ‘The spirit in which at forty he fired at Garfield, was the ae in senten atelghteen he struck his father from ind.” ee GUITEAU’S BOOK, The Legacy He Leaves to the World- SOMETHING ABOUT “THR TRUTH AND THE REMOVAL” —PLAGIARISMS FROM JOUN H. NOYES’ “BEREAN?— THE PART WRITTEN SINCE GUITEAU WAS CON- ‘VICTED. Guiteau, in his detailed narrative of his crime, stated that part of his preparation was the revision of his book, “The Truth; A Companion to the Bible.” He spent a week going over the work, and wrote a chapter entitled “The Two Seeds,” to be added to it. After his conviction he spent some tme in his cell, writing, or rather compiling, an appendix to the work, and during last spring the work was printed. In its revised and enlarged form It Is entitled “The Truth and the Removal,” anda line on the fly-leaf informs the reader that itis “Published and Sold Only by the Author.” It is published with a paper cover, and contains 237 Pages. The table of contents shows that the mate terin the book is presented under the following heads: Part L—Pretace, Paul, the Apostle. Christ’s Second Coming at the Destruction of Jerusilem, - D. 70. Christianity Reviewed Since A.D. 70. Hades and the Final Judgment. A Re} ly to At- tacks on the Bible. Some Reasons Why Many Persons Are Going Down to Perdition. The Two Seeds. The Predicted Fate of the Earth. Part I.—Synopsis of my trial for removing James A. Garfield, with letters of commendation and other papers. Appendix—The greater part, if not all the first part of the book, Was read to the jury during the Uial and became part of the evidence in the case. AN ARRANT PLAGIARIST, It was shown during Guiteau’s cross-examina- tion that the principal portions of the work were stolen almost word for word from the “Berean,” & DOOK published by John H. Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community. The second: part of the Work {3 that which he prepared in jail, after his conviction, In lis preface to this part, he says: “On February 4 I was sentenced to be hanged June 30, 1882, tor removing James A. Garfield, and Therewith Publish a synopsis ot my trial. ’Seo- Ville’s fool theory and Spitzka’s moral monstrosity ie, with the mean, diabolical spirit of the prozecu- Uon, convicted me, The only: 1 be tried Was: who fired that shot—I personally or I as the agent of the velty? Isay the Deity faspired the and forced me to it, and that He wilitake care ofit. | Tsay Garfield deserved to ve shot, I say any President that will go back on the men who made him and wreck the organization that elected ium, and imperil the republic, as Garfield did, DESERVES TO BE SHOT, and I was God’s man to do {t—Garileld gushers to the contrary. Posterity will say so, too, whatever this generation may say about it. I frequently get letters from school children, and they show a better understanding of the necessity for Garficld’s Temoval than some old heads. The Lord takes no fancy stock in Garfield or eny other man. I judge the world is divided tnto three classes on this Guiteau-Garfleld business—tools, devils and ra- Honal people. The fools and devils seem to pre- dominate. | Posterity will represent the rational people, There has been a deal of lying in this case. The latest ts that, if Iom hung, f want a crowd tosce it. The factis, I want no one present clals, and they had better resign than Wsman. Itremble for them and for this nation if a hair of my head is harmed. Some peo- ple think hanging a horrible death. Asa matter Of fact, it 1s am easy death. I had rather be hanged than killed on a railroad or go by fire, or flood, or painful illness. Mere physical death 1s nothing. It the Lord wants me to go to glory that way, Iam willing, but Tam bound to make the best ight I can to vindicate my inspiration, anl to that end I shall press my appeal to the Court In Bane by securing the best lawyers Ican forepresent me in bane. It all other remedies fail I shall_ boldly appeal to the President for Tellef under my own hands. Andrew Johnson pardoned Jefferson Davis. Davis sought to destroy the Nation; I sought to save it. Horace Greeley, Commodore Vanderbilt and other liberal and far. seeing men signed Davis’ batl-bond, and thereby brought upon themselves the wrath of certain: disreputable newspapers and crank politicians. The Union League club of New Yor assumed to crittcise Mr. Greeley for signing Davis’ bail-bond, and thereupon Horace opened or. the ulockheads of sald club in his usual vigorous style, which is somewhat like mine. Should it become necessary ae Arthur to pardon me, I presume he wil follow his own wishes, without reference blockhead newspaper devils'or ag CRANKS OF HIGH OR LOW DEGREE. If the politicians and newspapers who were cursing Garfield last spring had any honor they would stand by me, especially the men who hold fat ofMices, Which they obtained from my ins} ration, Editors, not newspaper devils, may review this book. Newspaper devils are prohibited from reading it, as they are supposed to have no brains or disposition to appreciate it. I sell this book for two dollars, bound in paper. Purchasers can bind it to sult themselves. To the trade, $18 per dozen, Sold only by me. Mailed to any address on re- ceipt of price. Photographs, with autographs. $9 ies dozen, or $leach. (Send money by tered etter only.) “T spit on adverse opinion on this subject, I say I amright. Garfleld ought to have been eredeal and T was God’s man to do it. If Iam murde; on the gallows, this nation and the official that do 1t, will pay well for it. It will be a long time be- fore the Almighty lets up on them. I had rather go to glory in June than to Auburn prison for lite, as some people suggest. I want an unconditional pardon.or nothing. Tam a patriot, not a criminal, and that will be iy character in listory. This 18 the only view I press on President Arthur for a eae should it become necessary. In law, this insanity.” ‘Then follows long extracts from newspaper re- 18 OWN closing address to the rts of the trial, jury, Set out at length, addresses to the public Which he tssued after his conviction, a verbatim Teport of the proceedings in court when he was sentenced, extracts from newspapers relating to the case, and a large number of letters, more or Jess “cranky,” in tone, which he has reccived. At the close of the volume he testified to HIS OWN SATISFACTION With the book in the following conclusion: ‘My name will be remembered as the author of this book. Whatever this generation may think ot future generations will see my work and read from this boox. It was sown in dishonor, but the Almighty will see that it is raised in power. “Ye are honorable, but I am despised’ by fools and devils. But the Almighty will reckon with these fellows. Its a small thing that I should be Jud; of man’s Judgment. For men curse you to-day and bless you to-morrow. It matters little to me whether I'iive three months or twenty 2 Christ he stole from John H. Noyes and his of the Oneida Community; the purchase of the Inter-Ocean and making it agreat daily, it is sald, was suggested to him by talk he beard about the newspaper offices of Chicago. In “ Re- se President there is testimony to show that he emulated the example of Wiikes Booth. Whenever he got the ideas, as he says himself, he Just “exhausted ” himself upon them. THE INTER-OCEAN IDEA he followed up with great pertinacity, never seem- Ing to realize that it was no easy matter for a man without credit and without reputation to borrow & hundred thousand dollars orso. The following letter, written by him in furtherance of the Scheme, Shows the sanguine spirit that animated him; “Curcaco, Nov. 5, 1875. “Hon. Jomy H. Appaws, “My dear sir:—My newspaper enterprise is pro- gressing finely, but I shall not need your presnce ere until about the 15th inst. T shall go into this Rewspaper Dusiness with my entire life, and am bound to succeed. $75,000 wiil_ be all the x1 heed, aud I expect you and Charlie Farwell and Potter Palmer to loan {t to me, secured py my note and a mortgage on the Rewnpapa, together with & paid-up policy on my Life. If 1 live, the paper Is bound to succeed; if I die, the Insurance will am- ply secure the advance. I shall not need the money until about Dec. 15th. T press this business on your attention solely as a matter of flnance. Shail aim to bring the circulation of the paper, on each edition, up to the following figures, by July 1, "76, and 1t can be done, on account of the Presi- dential election: Daily—30,000, a $13... .. 890,000 ‘Tri-weekly—15,000, a $6. 97.500 Weekly—100,000, a $1.50. 150,000 Sunday—a5,000, a $3... 105,000, Total income from circulation. $742,000 Income trom advertising. . Total income... Daily expenses... Expenses for yeat Income for year. Expet a Yearly proft ....... 2 $495,000 It we cut down the circutation one-half there 1s still a margin of over $200,000. Newspaper men tell me that runntog the paper on a high-pressure, first-class principle 1 am bound to make over $250,- 000 next year. The New York Herald makes over regularly. There is a splendid chance for a‘live man to make a great success financially snd politically of the paper, as_no one Ukes the Times or Tritune. Please give this matter some attention, and I will notity you when I desire you to meet my friends at the Palmer house. Yours, very truly, Cuakves J. Guireac.” GUITEAU’S PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS. Gutteau had another idea, aspiration, or inspira- tion, whatever term may be applied toit. “For twenty years,” he sald, “I have had an idea that I should be President. Thad the idea when I lived In the Oneida Community, and {thas never left me. When [left Boston for New York in June, 1880, I remember distinctly I felt that I was on my way to the White House. I had this fecling all through the canvass last fall in New York, although I mentioneajit to only two persons. My idea 1s that I shall be nominated and elected as Lincoln and Garfleld were—that 1s, by the act of God. Ic T were President I should seek to give the nation ‘a first-class administration. In every re- spect; I want nothing sectional or crooked around me. My object would be to unite the entire Ameri- can people and make them happy, prosperous and God-fearing.” distracted by the events of the trial, solemnly de- clared her faith in her brother's “idea” that he was to become President. SSS Se THE MOTTO OF HIS LIFE, Where Guiteau Got the Word “Re- moval,” HIS LOVE FOR IGNOMINIOUS NOTORIETY—MIS STUDY OF POPULAR LITERATURE—A PERTINENT QUOTA- TION FROM “OUIDA.” Where Guiteau got his idea of “removing” the President, the motive and conception of the crime, are Matters not entirely of speculation. Out of the mass of testimony the public has concerning his Mfe comes one fact firmly established. That 4s, that he had a love of notoriety strong enough to have induced a man, unrestrained of moral'con- viction, to have committed the murder, even If there had been no other motive. He wanted to be conspicxous. In 1872, according to the testimony of B. McLane Shaw, a lawyer of New York, Gul- teau declared that he was bound to be notorious before he died, and that tie would fmitate Wilkes Booth. His notion of a “removal,” instead of an assassination—the Idea of smoothing over murder and giving It a softer name—was, it 1s believed, borrowed from Shakspeare’s Othello, of which, 1b the fourth act, the following lines dceur in a dia- logue between Roderigoand Iago. Rod.—Is that true?’ Why, then, Othello and Desdemona return to Venice. Tago.—Oh, n0; he goes into Mauritanla, and takes away with him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be lUngered here by some accident, wherein none can So determinate as the removing of Cassio. Ro..—How do you mean remoring of him? Jago.—Why, by making him uncapable of Othel- lo’s place—knocking out his brains, THE MOTTO OF HIS LIFE Guiteau took, according to Mr. Porter, from Oulda’s “Chandos” In speaking of the crime and its conception, Mr. Porter—and the only apology offered for citing Mr. Porter so much is that that gentleman made a most exhaustive very clear way—used the following words, which are taken from the verbatim report of the trial: “Gentlemen,this man has told = of the prep: ations he made for the murder. He had been mak- ing them for years. It was a contingency he had in view, while he was in New York practicing law, in desperate circumstances, as a jail vagabond and attorney. He was, in a narrow sense, a stu- dent. He read Ae ge? Uterature of the time. He mused in himself that strange LOVE OF I1GNOMINIOUS NOTORIETY, which he admired so m in Wilkes Booth. Though warned by his landlord, Mr. Shaw, that this was the kind ofa noteriety which was asso- ciated with danger and infamy, he does not seem to have profited by the admonition. Now, when he isin peril of the penalty of death, he deliber- ately contemplates the well-contrived pretense of inspiration or insanity, as one of the many Dril- Mant conceptions, or morbid projects, as Dr. Spitzka would have called them, which opened indefinitely before him. Of course, he did not believe that. It illustrates the peculiarity of the man’s mind, his wickedness, his recklessness, his cepravity, that he should even think of such wild and puerile absurdities, I have had my at- tention called toa passaze in a Popular novel, which was published 1n 1566, in the city of Phila~ delphia, by the celebrated and brilliant authoress, Ouida, which Illustrates just the topics I am deal- ing with. In the course of a dialogue between two of her characters we get a graphic Mustration of this order of man. _A reference had been made to a remark of Wilkes, the celebrated English- man, who said that he was THE UGLIEST MAN IN ENGLAND, but only fiftecn minutes behind the handsomest man, as we learn from another authority. In ref- erence to this casual remark, one of the characters in the book I have cited, which has been since 1866, on every book-stall where popular novels are sold, gated oie There ta fa nol a hairs diference between notori-:y and Jame. Be celebrated for something, and if you can't Sa I a 0, I 8 aa wcll as @ heroiem: the world tales af” yous that ta wi you The Prisoner.—I don’t want any one to talk about me. They talk about me too much. Mr. Porter, (continuing to read.}—The prisoner evidently anticipates the next sentence, “It Icould not be Alexander, I'd be Di 5 aT weren't a great hero, I'd be the mncat ingenious measrder, ert ‘This morbid and thit love His sister, Mrs. Scoville, after her mind had been | study of Guiteau, and expressed the result in a P During all Guitean’s confinement he harped on the subject of getting married. Perhaps he was pere petrating A GRIM JORR, and secretly enjoyed the side-looks and tncreculous ‘Siniles of his hearera During his trial he publicly announced himself a8 a candidate for matrimonial Diessings, Before he came to Washington, and while President-elect Garfield was still at Mentor, he wrote to him suggesting that he should be ap- potnted to the Austrian mission, and saying thathe Was about to marry a lady worth a million dollars, Whose wealth would enable him to support the office in proper style, While he was in jail he recelved a number of mock offers of marriage, from persons representing themselves to be ladies of family and fortune, HIS JERSEY CITY INamoRATA. Towards the close of the trial, some woman ff Jersey City began writing to him a series of letters, in a highly affected style, and Gulteau treasured the epistles very much. ‘This persom represented herself Co be the daughter of a wealthy lawyer. Gutteau seemed to be thoroughly Dent on eying her. At the close of the trial, Mr. Jonm -"Guiteau went to Jersey Clty, and, partly ta gratify his own peculiarity and partly, perhaps, to pu! an end to a correspondence that would do no good, made a search for the assassin’s unknown Inamor: He got a trace of her ina poor quarter: of the city, where she had lived with some laun- dresses, but dd not find her, as she had gone from the city. Gulteau frequently became greatly exasperated with Scoville because he intercepted the letters written to him, osieasiviy by admirers, GUITEAUS MARRIED LIFE. Guiteau’s briet married life was thoroughly vens tilated at the triai, and afforded the most. positive evidence of his depravity or utter independence of moral obligations, that men generally recognize, He was married in Chicago, on the 34 of July, 1868, to the present Mrs Annie Dunmire. The marriage took place at Rev. Dr. Bartlett's house, &nd the only persons present beside the minister and the bride and groom were Mr. and Mrs. Sco« Ville, He resided in Chteago with his wife until the fall of 1871, and then went to New Yorks where they lived together unUl 1873, when they became estranged. In the fotlowtng year they Were divorced.” Mrs. Duntmire came here from. Leadville, TIL, to testity alast her husband, the purport of her testimony Ing Uhat she did not coustder him insane. Her life with Guiteau was & specially wretched one. While in New York, they moved some twenty times in two years, THE DIVORCE. The record of the divorce, which was decreed April 4, 1874, shows that the charge preferred against Guiteau was that of adultery with a Woman named Clara Jennings. The suit was in Progress from December 29, 1873, to the date of de~ cree. There was no defence interposed. Guiteau, according to his own admission, furnished the tes- mony on which the divorce was granted. He Justified ton the ground that he was fll-mated and had to take some means of frecing himself. “I was not going to Ive with a woman all m life,” he said, “that I did not love. Ihad no bi ness to have married the woman, to start with. I only married the woman on ten hours’ notice.” Rev. KR. 8. McArthur, of the Calvary Baptst church in New York, of which Guiteau Was for @ short time a member, threw much light upom Guiteau’s married life at the trial. The reverend fenUleman, when Guiteau pretended to be in dis- tress, helped him by lending him money, Subse- quently the eyes of Rev. Mr. McArthur and his lock became Opened to the real character of the | black sheep Whom they had received Into theif old. GUTTBAU AS A BACKSLIDING CHURCH MEMBER. He was tried by acommitiee of the church, om an Indictment for gross Immorality containing the following counts:—First, that he took money Which his wife had earned by working tna hotel in the country, and which she remitted to him to assist In supporting him, and spent it in improper relations with other women; second that he had been guilty by frequent acts of violation of his marriage vows; and third, that as the result of these repeated acts of infidelity he was suffering with a vile and loathsomedisease. These changes Were admitted by the accused, and he Was exe pelied from the church. MES. DUNMIRE, the woman who was thus unfortunately united with Guiteau, ts a woman of a very plain but honest face, She ts stall, has rather sharp feat ures, and an appearance of having suffered much, While married to Guiteau, belng forced to support herself, she worked, for sometime, as a chambere Tald at acountry hotel. hen she came here last winter as a witness, the most conspicuous thing about her was the rather vulgar, bizarre appears ance of her dress. Her Colorado husband had loaded her with cheap Jewelry, After Guiteau was divorced, it appears-he devoted himself to any Woman Who would receive Lis attenuons. A ONE-SIDED LOVE APFAIR. While in Chicago, in 1877, he was forbidden to visit the house of his cousin, Mrs. Augusta Parker, on account of hs persistent and annoying attens Uons to her daughter, a girl of fourteen. He used to follow her in the strees He sald he wanted to send her to school, educate her and then matty her. In all of these sentimental episodes of his life—if they can be given so honorable a name—his excessive vanity is apparent. —_—_—_+. ____ CRANKS AND CRANK LETTERS, A Curious Chapter in the History of the “Assassination” Vear. INDICATIONS OF PUBLIC EXCITEMENT—THE INPLUE OF ECCENTRIC PEOPLE, A writer in describing the scenes in Parts during: the Reign of Terror, marks as a special feature of that saturnalla of passion the appearance in the Streets and among the mob of strange faces, hid- ous in their ugliness. The evil spirit of the time Seemed to transform the features of men into the semblance of beasts. This change was so great that neighbors and friends could hardly recognize in the passlon-marred faces of their associates the ineaments once so familiar. A somewhat similar effect was observed in this country when, on the 24 of July last, an adventurer and tramp sprang upon the stage and posed before the nation as am inspired assassin. That act seemed to influence a certain class of minds with irresistible power. From all parts of the country came indications of the contagion of this example. Minds that were not well bijanced at once exhibited the eccentrici~ Ues which, perhaps, had lain dormant, or had nob been asserted sufficiently to attract attention, Washinzton was the focal point, and these charac- ters began to arrive here in great numbers. Their grotesqueness Of ideas and dress in the excited, — of the public mind gave rise to the feele AN ERA OF IXSANITY hud setin. So numerous and self-assertive was his new soclal phenomenon, that a word wa’ coined, or at least then received currency, and the term “cranks” became almost in an tastant a par’ of the vocabulary of the country. There was a feeling of dread prevalent in the expression of public opinion that the act of the master crank might lead to the perpetration of similar acts, and tue authoriles were called upon to treat with the greatest promptitude and rigor thisnew social malady. The authorities were not content with halfway measures, and at once begen to send away from the city anumber of whose eccentricities had made them marked characters about the city for years. The long-haired Greek doctor was the first to go, and others of his tlk fol- lowed. The feeling of dread of this classof peo~ le Was so gener! that any strange remark a crowd Was sure to attract clon towards the ike “Don’t be in such @ hurry, my friend,” said the used; “I wag going thatI haa @ dream tan years com ar ‘This reply quieted the suspicions of the crowd. ‘THE INPLUX OF CRANKS. Itseemed Yor the first few weeks that every train brought to the city one of these strange pass engers and as they atonce made their way to the White House, their character was soon discovered, Afew days after the assassination a shabbily * dressed man, about 41 years of age, arrived im ‘the city and stated that he had come from Phila- delphia an