The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-07-27
GUITEAU TO BE KEPT IN SECLU-
SION

WASHINGTON, July 19-Tho Dis
trict attorney left tonight for a
short trip to Cape May His office
has been for the past two weeks
quite Of newspaper establishment,
Col. Corkhill, who conducted the
Chronicle newspaper in this city,
has been fully alive to the needs of
the press, and has found paragraphs
for the scores of correspondents who
visited him daily to an extent that
would have been impossible to any
one who had not become familiarized
with nespaper life To-day there
was somewhat of a parting recep-
ton. Half dozen gentlemen rep
resenting the city dailies and the
Baltimore Sun met together at his
office. "What is to be done with
Guiteau in your absence?" was
asked. "I'll see that he is kept safe
ly and quietly, and is isolated SO
that he can t exhibit himself" elbow
are you going to do that?" 81 shall
make an order. I'll make it now.
Write while | dictate" And half a
dozen sets of monographs went
flowing over half a dozen sheets of
papere. And this letterw was dictated,
copied and sent to Warden Crocker,
who holds Guiteau in custody:
"WAsHNGTON, July 10. 1851
Gen. J. S. Croker, warden U. S.
Jail.-Sir The grand jury having
adjourned until the 18th of Septem-
Der, and it being impossible to ascer-
tain the final result of the attack
upon the President by the assassin,
it will be necessary to retain the as
sassin, Charles Guiteau, in custody
for future action by the authorities.
[ desire that you place him on one
side of the jail, where there are no
other prisoners whatever that no
conversation be held with him by
any of the guards, and that he be
vigorously excluded from receiving
any communication, or sending any,
except those delivered or received
by my authority. / desire these di-
rections rigidly executed. Yours,
respectful y, GEO. B. CoRKHILL,
" q. S. District Attorney"
During a conversation with Dis
trict Attorney Corkhill to-day Gui-
teau said, in response to an inquiry,
that he was in no hurry to be tried,
but was perfectly content to remain
in his present quarters. He realizes
the state of the public mind, and
does not even suggest that he would
like to be free In fact, the officials
say they do not believe he would
walk out if the doors were opened
to him, SO fearful is he of summary
Justice for the crime he has commit
ted He gave Col. Corkhill to-day
an order on Postmaster Angler for
all his mail, and told the former to
make such use of it as he might
deem proper.
BULLET.
Mr. J H. G. Watts, Of the firm of
Davis & Watts, electricians, Balti-
more, was summoned here to-day to
assist Prof Bell in his explorations
for the bullet in the Presidents
wound The instrument used is
the induction balance, the invention
of Prof Bell 1t consists of coils in
insulated wire, so arranged that a
currentof electricity passing through
the primary coils induces a current
of greater intensity In the secondary
coils When the coils are reversed
and the point of balance or neutrali-
cation is reached, upon approaching
the coils with a piece of lead or other
metal the balance is destroyed and a
buzzing sound is detected in tele-
phone placed in circuit with the
secondary coils As soon as the
metallic substance is withdrawn the
balance is again restored. In this
way the instrument detects or points
out the location of a piece of metal,
and it is hoped thus to locate the
bullet in the Presidents body. Prof
Bell and Mr.. Watts experimental in !
many ways, DIR. Woodward and
Private Secretary Brown being pres
emit A bullet placed in a moistened |
cqttqH waste, wrapped in handker-
chief, wQa p9inted 9Ht by the instru-
ment, and those placed in 2 p}qH'9
hand and in the mouth were also To-
Gated. The instrument located the
metal when hidden at a depth oftWo
inches from the surface ofthe cotton,
and DIR. Woodward expressed him
self as satisfied that the instrument |
would be able to locate the spot