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Guiteau's Skeleton

Guiteau's Skeleton image
Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
March
Year
1884
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Uuiteau's skeleton lias at last Deen articulated and hulden in a private room of the Army Medical Museum at Washington, the scène of the assassination of the late President Lincoln, but it has been deemed best to deny the public admission to the room for the present. An improved Frenen niethod was adopted for placin the bones in position, the vertebra; being held in position by three large brass screws attached to a perpendicular brass rod about an inch in diameter. One of the most skillful auatomlsts lu tilla country superintended the operation, and great care was taken to see that noue of the bones were oarried off by relic-seekers. When Guiteau's body was tirst brought to the museum, a daring cmplo}-e succeeded in eluding the watchman and cut off a small piece of flesh, which he has since exhibited in alcohol. Kepeated polishing and bleaching has given the articulated skeleton the appearancc of an ivory figure, and the few who have been allowed access to the room in which it is stored pronounce it a most creditable piece of anatomical work. Upon the occasion of Sergeant Mason's recent visit to Washington, he was invited to cali at the museum and inspect the bones of the assassin who had caused him so niuch trouble. The visitor eyed the skeleton curiouslv and could "not refrain from shaking nis fist and muttering: "Your bones caused a heap of trouble in this land." Other relies of the assassin which were preserved in the museum were shown the Sergeant, and he expressed himself as much gratified at finding his intended victim had been so safely secured. It will be useless, however, for visitors to attempt to see the skeleton, as the museum authorities have been compelled to adopt stringent rules against allowing strangers in the private room where it is kept. One of the first inquiries of the tourist, after climbing the three tiers of iron steps leading into the museum proper, is for Guiteau's skeleton, or anything that belonged to the assassin, and hundreda are daily disappoinced by the watchman's stereoUped answer: "Therc is nothing of the sort on exhibition, sir." It is probable, however, that in the course of a few ycars the skeletou will be exposed to the pub}n oftat u nmniirl 17 sii'fitrpH pnp h:L-l