The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-06
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a Professional OsadbBai RpdR DisFepu
sable Lharaeter GeuGMUy,

rHB FREslNEN - ASSASSIN.
a Professional nesdbSat Npdta Disrspa
Sable t%haraeter GeuerGDy,
hicazo Thbnnot d (.
II CheNipg and "boatipsp every body
with whomhe has had any business 70
%lations from boarding houoe keepers tc
book publishers, is evidence Of insanity
Guiteau Is mad as a march hare. But the
evidence OF the would.bO assaasin's luna
cy is confined to this class Of. practices
The fact Of Gulteau'a Il ting from place Ia
place and from occupation to occupation
Is not only not evidence Of insanity In q
lrgal point OF view, but it Is evldeuCe OF q
steady purpose to ''beAL" his way through
The world, When q person deliberately
determines to live without work, to rob
other persons Of the fruits of their labor,
frequent changes Of the base oil operations
become q prime necessity. When one
boaIdiIg'hou keeper has been cheated
10 the last limit VI endurance another
boardlng.housO keeper is laid seige to;
when In a certain occupation the dead
beat has become thoroughly known an.
other occupation Is promptly adopted
which brings the tramp into relations
with a new cIsos Of victims.
6ulteRu has furnished Conppicuously In
Chicago, 10 Milwaukee, In Boston aud in
New York. He has protested law, and
literature, ard religion, and politics. But
II every profession and IN every place he
has shown the cunning, the audacity and
the unsCrupulolsuess OF an iInpndent,
lazy, worthless villain aud low dead.beat,
People who have bean brought In contact
with him, and who'll have been hoodwinked
deceived, cheated and robbed by him, now
gO%od.natursdly call him "Cfszy,'' "hslt.
crpzy," "tanaticAl." But 1t has never oc.
Cured to any one one Of these hundreds
may, thousands-of sufferers by his pee.
ulatlons and impositious, 10 have the al.
legged nhalt Crtzy" scamp locked up In an
Insane asylum.
He has been In several jAils but never
IN u mad'hOuse. II GuiteAu is mad there
Is much method In his madness. Ills
'methCd" has bsen to cheat poor women
out Ol board bills, to embezzle tho money
he collected for clients, 10 impose upon
Christian men and women by pretended
piety and devotion to the theories and
practice OF religion. When these iraudu.
lent pfetenCes became exposed and no
longer served TO keep him from rags and
want, 1t has been Gutteau's custom to
quarter himself upon his relatives, 10
cover bis back and fill his belly at their
expense, and in return for tho bounty In.
suit them!
He has tried to levy blackmail, threat.
ened to thoot, intrigued desperately for
place" bored people nearly to death,
lied like the father OF lies, but always
with q definite purpose-the purpose Of
extortiDg, without any equivalent what.
ever, a tupport from q reluctant and pro.
testing community. He has repeatedly
profassed 10 be desperately in love, and
80 peSlered wealthy women with offers OF
marriage, that II became necessary to kick
him out OF their presence. lie 10 called
a "iahatiC" and q "monomaniaC' on the
subject oil religion, but there is no more
evidence OF his true discipleship than
there 10 that Judas was IN honest man.
There la no more evidence that Guiteau
ever had any honest views or conviC ions on
the subjeCt OF religion than there Is that he
had u genuine ambition TO pursue honest.
~ the profession Of the law and no man
can become a fanatic or h monomauiac on
any sui ct without fret cherishinR al
honest conviction In re'ation to that sub.
ject.
Fanatics otlen exhibit noble traits Of
character. Indeed uuseltlshness lie a dis.
tinguishing feature OF faua'iCiFm. But
what act Of uuseltsh devotion can be
pointed out in Gulteau's career? Mt
onel The motive Of eve'y act has been
bodily apps rent, aud II has always bten
personal gain, and a living without labor,
aud at the immediate expense Of others.
Every moment OF h Bl lie Gultoai haR
been HChemiug-to cheat somebody, AID
every moment he has succeeded, for II
does not appear that he yer honestly
earned a penny In the whole course OF bis
lie. During nearly the whole Of his ca.
faer he has been impeCIniOIs, because be
succeeded only In cheating people ous oil
small Bums, whereas he desired 10 secure
large sums. He has demanded the pub /.
cation OF his literary ventures, threatened
pditois with vengeance as the alternative
Of their refnpsl, and sued them fjr libeI
when they laughed at him. His adulteries
and illtfeatmebtoi bis wife compelled hei
10 resort 10 to the courts 10 De tld OF MIN,
There Ia not a redeeming feature In the
Villains career. There is not an episode
III II which tends to elevate the wretch
above the grade Of an educated tramp,
The lat act Is the act OF o b, I'll led eCamp,
an act Of rage and Of revenge upon the
last man of whose bounty he Intellectually
sought 10 sub,ist. Nor is II presumed that
GuiiCAu lie a lnnatic on the ground that nc
sane man could fjf a moment expect ID
escape the penalty Of 30 awful a deed a.
lie omen, public assassination oil The
President oil the United States.
For q dtzsn years GuiteAu has lived the
lie Of a thievlBg BWindler. During all
that time he has been an open violator &
the law, and el hAs escaped ell punish
ment beyond an occasional briei inCatce
ration III Jail. Two things are very plair
in 63rneCtion with the act Of assassination
and they both indicate presence oil mint
and iuli possession Ollhe logical faculty OF
the bart Of the assassin ll) He vas deter
mined 10 kill the President, for he did no
deslNt from shooting until he saw his vic,
tim lall, 10y he bad secured o "iastteem'
Tor escape, and The moment the PIeBiden
Ieli be turned inStantly sAd ran fapidl