Attempted Assassination Of The President

Washington, D. C, July 2.- The iresidomt was shot at 9:28 as he was ntering the Baltimore & Potoraac dejot to take the train for Long Branch. (ilit'is of the party had taken seats in ;he train, and the President and Secre:iry Blaine entered arm-in-arm. As ttaey reached the ladies' waiting room a man who stood on the right of the President raised his arm and deliberately tired two shots from a revolver, exclaiming as lic di i so, "XOW WE WILL HAVE ARTITÜR FOr TRESroENTl" The first shot struck the President in the right arm. The President and Secretary Blaine seemod too much bewildered to realize the trutb. Blaine shouted. -'Where is Col. Rockwell?" The assassin immediately fired agai". The shot took effect in the President's side, and the victim sank to the floor. Col. llockwell and several pólice oflicers came at once to his assistance, and he was carried to the superintendent's room on the floor above. The President did not say a word when first shot. Meanwhile the assassin was sei.ed by tliose standing near, and would have been torn to pieces but for the eftorts of the pólice. He was taken across Pennsylvania avenue to the pólice station. THE ASSASSIN's NAME. It was there discovered that his name was Gittean, an attorney at law from Chicago, 111. Doctors Bliss and Reyburn were at the depot at the time.and went at once to the President's side, Doctors Lincoln and Thompson were sent for at once. A hurried cousultation was held and ut 10:20 a. in. an ambulance was called and the wounded executive was lifted in. Col. Rockwell and two pólice oflicers also took seats therein, and the vehicle started for the White House. The aews had spread like wildfire, and Pennsylvania avenue was crowded almost as much as when the President rode to the White House in state on the fourtli of March. A squad of mounted pólice forced a pass age through the throng, and oificers oi toot guarded the entrance to the Whit House grounds. The President wa. carried at once to his chamber and laid upon the bed. THE NATURE OF THE WOUND8. Surgeon-General Barnes was also in attendance by this time, and a cursor} examination showed that the second shot had lodged in the groin, just ove the kidney, and will in all probabilit; prove fatal, but the physicians stil have said there was hope. All th meinbers of the cabmet in Washingtoi are about the President, bul he is un conscious and has not spoken a word The city is in a state of greatest excite ment, and gloom seems to pervad very heart. Washington, July, 2, 11.05a. m. - President Garfield is conscious am does not complain of great suffering He has just dictated a tel gram to hi wife. lt is impossible to say as ye what tho result will be, buc the sur geons are of the opinión that th wounds are not necessarily fatal. Tb following telegram has been sent: Eberon, Long Branch. - Mrs. Gar field: The President wishes me to sa, to you from him that he has bee seriously hurt. How seriously, h cannot yet say. He is himself, an liopes you will come to him soon. H sends his love to you. (Siglied) A. F. ROCKWELL. the assassin's correct najik. The correct name of the assailant i Charles (itteau. He has been arount the department8 for seveial days, act ing in a strange manner, and attaché thought him crazy. He was noticet in the White House grounds at dusk last evening. This inorning he en gaged a carriage at a stable, and sai Be wanted to slop at the depot only minute and then go over to Arling ton. Later accounts say hetried to escap after he fired the shots, and said noth ing until he was captured. Then h said: "I have shot President Gar öeld. AKTIIUR IS NOW PRESIDENT, AND I Al A STALWART." He has been lodged in the district jail, and is allowed to see no one. He is said to be crazy beyond a doubt. A squad of marines and cavalry have been called to keep back the crowd at the white house. Secretary Blaine was not going with the part}', but mie down to the depot to bid the president good-bye. SECKETAKY BLAINE'S STATEMENT. He said: "The president and I were walking trm in arm towards the train I lieard two shots and saw a man run and started after him, but seing he was grabbed just as he got out of the room, I carne back to the president and found him lying on the floor. The Hoor was covered with the pi-psidenfs blood, and a nuniber of people who were around shortly after have some o that blood on their persons. The wea pon he used was a revolver abont 7 inch e3 long. It had an ivoiy handle. The calibre was very large. lt is what is known as a California pistol. It made a Yery loud report. VVhen arrested the prisoner said : TUE ASSASSIN's REMAKKH. "I did it, and I want to be arrested. I am a stal wart, and Arthnr is president now. 1 have a letter here that I want you to give to Gen. Sherman. It will explain everything, Take me to the poliee station." In the prisoner's pocket was found the following letter: July 2, 1881.- To the White House: The president's tragie death was a sad necessity, out will imite the republican party and save the republic. Ldfeis a ilimsy dream, and it niatters little when one goes. A human life is of sinall value. During the war thousands of brave boys went down without a tear. 1 presume the president was a christian and that he will be happier in paradise than here. lt will be no worse for Mrs. Garfield, dear soul, to part with her husbaud this way than by natural death. He is liable to go at any ;ime, anyway. I have no ill will toward the president. His death was a xilitical necessity. I am a lawyer, a lieologian and a politician. I am a stalwart of the stalwarts. I was with uu. (inint and the rest of our men in New York during the can vass. I have some p.ipers for the press which 1 shall eave with Byron Androws and his coournalists at 1420 New York avenue, vhere all the reporteis can seethem. I uu going to the jail. (Signed) Charles Gitteau. INCiEKSOLls OPINIÓN OF GITTEAI'. Col. Itobt. G. Ingersoll states that he iiiciv the assassin well, and had alwavs eg&rded film as a sober and a Bañe man. líe has no special profession, jut has been an oflice-holder and an otlice-seeker. Col. Ingersoll is of opinon that his insanity is feigned. STATEMENT OF THE OFFICER. The statement of the offlcer who arrested hiin is as follows: "About 9:25 this morninsr, President Garfield, accompaniedby Secretary of State Blaine, drove up totheBaltimorfc&Potomac depot on Sixth street, and sat in the cariage near the door. President Garfk-kl asked one of the otlicers how much time ie had before the train started. The ofticer replied: "About 10 minutes, your honor." The president, ai'ter conversing a minute or two longer then {ot out of the carrlage, and with Secreary Blaine walked slowly up the steps uto the depot. Offlcer Kearney states ie was standing close by and saluted the president by raising his hat. The president and Mr. Blaine walked .hrougn the ladies' parlor, and had entered the large reception room in the tnain prtion of the depot when two pistol shots were flred in rapid succession. The crowd screamed: "HE'S SHOT THE PRESIDENT, AUUliST THE MAX." The assassln was making his way as last as possible out of the building, through the ladies' parlor towards the B street door, a carriage being there to take him away, when Kearney threw himself before hiin, seized him by both arms bétween the clbows and shoulders, and h'eld him as with a vice. The pistol was in his hand when he lirst saw him, and he had just put it in his coat pocket when the oflieer seized him. The would-be-assassin said: "Yes, I have flnished Gariield, now Arthur is president I am a stal wart." Kearney secured the pistol and hurried the man to the station house. TJIF ASSASSIN A WELI, KNOWN FIQUKE. Assassin Guitteau is a well-known figure to people at the White House. He has tried on several occasions to pass himself off as a newspaper reporter. He is a Germán, short in stature, his body is solid, his heud bald, except sonie light-colored hair that is still left. He wears a light moustache. He looks neat, and dresses in blue wearing a short biue sack coat. He has no visible means of support. lie gets a living by his wit8. He came to see the President shortly after he was inaugurated, and has since been an almost daily waiter for an audience at the White House. He frequently wrote notes to the President, of which the following is a sample. "I regret the tronóle you are having with Senator Conkling. You are right, and should tnaintain your position. You have niy support and that of all patriotic eitizens. I would like an audience of a few moments." At times he was insolent. He used to seize upou the White House stationery, take some of it off, and write innumerable letters. He would utilize blank caída by writing himself a supply, if he should ever need tliem; and one day Col. Orook, disbursing clerk, said to him: You seem to inake yourself at home here and to be laying in a supply of stationery." Said Guitteau to him in an insulting nianner. "Do you know who I am? I am one of the men who made the President." Last Tuesday he met one of the employees and was very particular in enquiring when the President would leave, and by what train and road. He bas an ediotic grin on his face at times. One day he said that this was a h - ] of a government. ANOTIIER BIOGRAriIY OF GUITTEAU. Washington, July 2. - Charles Jules Guitteau, who shot President Garfield, is a native of Illinois, about 40 vears o) age. He is son of L. W. Guitteau, who for many years, to the time of his ileath, whieh occurred about two years ago, resided at Jíreeport 111. Aliout25 years ago, the father, acccmpanied by his son Charles Jules, then about 1(5 years oíd, left Freeport and ioined the Oneida community in Xew York state. The father remained with the community but a short time and then returned to Freeport. The son remained in the community severa! years, and next turned up in Chicago as a lawyer. When a boy and np to tlie time of his arrival in Chicago, he was known as Charles Jules Guitteau, but chaiiged his name, dropping the '-Jules" soon .after reaching that city. He visited Washington a' out two years ago, and lectured in Lincoln hall as second adventist in which doctrine at the time he professed to be a firm believer. A gentleman in this city, who met him then, pronounced him a lunatic on the subject of religión. TIIEORIES OF THE CAUSE OF THE ASSA SSINATION. There is a theory which has many adherents that the assassinafcion was not tlie work of a lunatic, but the result of a plot rauch deeper and darker than has been suspected. It is cited in support of this theory that Gitteau arranged beforehaml witli a hackman to be ready to drive him swiftly in thedirection of the Congressional Cemelery, as he made his appearanceonreUmiing from the depot. In the meantimi! he had a bundie of papers in the hands of a boy, with a view, it is maintained, of cieating a belief in his insanity in the event of his capture. Gitteau said on his.way to the jail that the Pxesidenfa assassination was premeditated, and he went to Long I5ranch for the parpóse ol shooting him there and wasdeterred by the enfeebled and saddened condition of Mrs. Garfield, which appealed so strongly to his sense of hunianity that he carne back without carrying out his intention. Those by whom Gitteau lias been examined since the shooting say he shows 110 symptoms of insanity and it is understood that the letter which has already been telcgraphed, addressed to the AVliite House, is the only document in the collection which supports the theory of insanity. It is reported that Gitteau had au aecoinpliee, whose description is in the hands of the pólice, and further dovelopments are anxiously looked for. Guitteau said he accorapanied Grant and Conkling on their canvassing tour last lall, and was a stalwart of the stalwarU. In his application he gave his name as Charles J. Guitteau of Freejort, 111., and his age as 30 years. He laya that Director of the Mint Burcliard cnows all his family. Many think that the fellow was naturally light-beaded, nul be brooded over his disappointnient it not getting a foreign ippointnient mtil lie wiis wild and crazy. He hád evidently planned the assassination loorehand, bat does not seem to have nedituted escape, and his chief desire eenied to be to get to Gen. Sherman, vith the idea that he could oonvince barman that he had done right. (lITTEAr'.S l'AFEKS AN1I MOTIVK. Guitteau st .ted to a reporter that paers describing the motives leading to he crime, himself, his fiuqlly, his oririfl, his ideas, everytliing concerning 11 concerned could be found in a bunIe addressed to Hyron Andrews, and eft with the newsdcalcr in the J3altinore and Potomac depot. He further tated that these papera were for the iformation of the public of Wasliingoii and Cliicago, and that trom t hem o desired the accounts to beobtained. Vt the news Ktand In the depot it was iscertained that such were deposited ;here for a few minutes and not cailed 1 'or again. The papers and pareéis were aken to Major Hrock, and subsequenty to Col. Corkhill, district attorney, who ref uses to make them public. Washington, July 2, 6:40 p. m. - The President is imder the inlluence of inorphine, and is consequently sufïerng much less pain than lie was earlier in the day, but that his coiidition is critical in the extreme cannotbedoubted. He will scarcely survive an hour, unless somt almost miraculous change .akes place in his eondition very BOOD. About 7 o'clock a dispatch was sent to the principal cities announeing the death of tlie President. Bells were :olled and ftags placed at half mast. The report was soon after coiTected. ARRIVAL OF MRS. GARFIEL. At 7:40 Mrs. Garfleld, attended by lier son Harry and Mrs. James, anived f rom the depot at the White House, tnd was met at the south portal by her son James, Mrs. Rockwell, and Attorney-General McVeagh; the latter assisted her from the carriage. She embraced her son James, and attended by the latter ascended the steps hastily. AN AFFECTING SCÈNE. Nb words were spoken. Mrs. Garlield at once went to the bedside of the President, who was still conscious. She was prepared for the worst. The crowd at the depot and on the streets, the throng of people gathered about the entrances to the White House grounds, the files of soldiers near at hand, all told her of the terrible event. T)urmg the consultation of the surgeons this afternoon the President was quite cheerful. He said to Dr. Walis: "8KIRMISII AROUND There and see if you can 6nd it," referring to the bullet. At about 7 o'clock he asked Dr. Hliss to teil him frankly what his eondition was as between man and man. The doctor said to him: "Unies there is a reaction soon YOU CANNOT LIVE I.ONG." The President was not discomposed at this announcement, but expreased belief in his recovery. At 8 o'clock his naind was still clear as a bell. He was cheerful even to jocularity, but at that hour Dr. Bliss and Dr. Purvis and others announced tq their friends that the President was dying, and beyond hope. A FAVORABLE TURN IN THE PRESlDENT'S CONDITION. Washington, July 2.- A sudden turn has shown in the President's condition much in his favor. When he seemed to be the lowest, and the doctors had all given him up, he suddenly raUiéd and asked Dr. Bliss: "Doctor, what do you think of my case?" The doctor replied: "Mr. President, you have a chance!" "Well, replied the President, iirmly and with much determination, "111 take the chance and make the most of it." During the night and Sunday the reports were of a more cheering character. The President slept quietly at intervals and no dangerous symptoms appeared. His pulse was f rom 114 to 104 and temperature normal. Washington, July 3, 6 a. m.- Executive Mansión. - The following bulletin has JHst been issiifsd by the President's attending physicians: 6 a. m. - The President's rest has been refreshing during the niglit, and onlj broken at intervals of about half an hour by occasional pain in the feet, and by taking his nourishnaent of milk and lime water, and bits of cracked ice to relieve his thirst, which has been constant. He is hopeful and cheerful and has from the first manifested the most remarkable courage. Washington, D. C. July 3. 8 a. m. - The advisability of probing the President's wound for the bullet was carel'ully eonsidered at a eonsultation of his attending physicans at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and then it was determined not to make any attempt to extract the ball, owing to the fact that the reaction that shou!d follow the shock of the injury nad not taken place, and besides, great fears wereentertained at that hour that the President would not rally. Oareful and delicate exaininations made later in the evening revealed the fact that the location of the ball as determined was such as to make any effort last night for its removal unwise. This morning the physicians decide that no effort will be made at present to extract the ball, as its presence in the location deterrained does not necessarily interfere with the ultímate recovery of the President. MRS. OARFIEI.D AT THE BEDSIDE. Mrs. Garfield is an uuwearied attendant at her husband's bedside, aiding physicians and nurses as necessity requires, and maintaining her strength, self control and cheerfulness whh the firm conviction that the President will recover. riïOBABILITIES AS TO THE PRESIDKNT's SUKVIVAL. There is a great difference of opinión among medical men about the probabilitj of the President' surviving his injuries, but there is au unmistakable air of hopef ulness on the faces of the attending physicians, whic!i was wanting up to a late last night. Despite his extremely critical condition, the country can reasonably cherish some hope that the President niay yet recover. The lapse of time since the bullet did its work, without a large loss of bloo3, renders it probable that no large artery or vein has been seveied. Had this occurred, there would doubtless have been a fatal hemorrage before this time. To the hopeful side of the case may also be added the important point that the irritable condition of the stomach has been souiewhat overeóme, and healthy reaction in that direction ma now be expected. To the ordinary chancesof life under such circumstances shuuld also be idded tlie President's naturally strong constitution, his regular habita, bis cheerful spirits, his unelouded inhul his great fortitude, liis hopef ui reliance on I'rovidenee, and his determination to recover if possible. These are al important factors in his favor, an: while they by no means offset the fací that his condition is one which entails the gravest apprehension, they serve to reuieve the couviction which obtuined o generally last night that his casa is ibsolutely hopeless. WIIAT liAKFIKLD SAID IN REPLY TO A WAKXIXIi. Bofore President Garfleld left for Washington in March, Mr. Larrabee warned hiiu to take care oí himself. Ir. Garfleld'a reply was "I am no oward, and I oan't have a body guard bout me all the time." The dispatches Monday morning au ounced that the President held his wn during Sunday night, and that no nfuvorable syniptonis had appeared. The bulletin at 9 a. in. Monday anounced his condiüoii unchanged. 2 p. m. Syniptonis are encouraging nd signilicant of favorable results. 2:30 p. ni. l'hysicians hopef ui. Xo indications of peritonitis. 5:15 p. m. The president partook of chicken broth and retained it. Condition about the same as at 2:30 p. m. 7 :30 p. m. The President less coratortable. He has less pain but more symptoms of tympanites. At 9:20 p. m. The Presidenfs condition was more unfavorable than during the day. But his fevered condition was expected, and ereated no special alarm. Tuesday morning, the despatches contain favorable news.