The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-03
nErINIrE INFORMATION
COnceFaIng the nativity Of the ASsAHsin
HIS Career In WHNhIIgIOu.

DEFINITE IMPORTATION
COnCeraIng the Nativity OF the Assassin
HIS Career In WHShIbgIOn'
WASHINGTON, July 2,-Charles Gettesu
the assassin OF the Presidsnt,is CANADIAN
FreRchman by birth, and he is from Chi
cago. He came here in the month o
February with recommendations from va
rious parties in Illinois to secure th'
United States COnsulship to Marseilles
France. He went in March to the vel
known boarding house OF Mrs. Lockwood
formerly Mrs. Hines, $40 Twelfth street
and tried to secure board. Mrs, Lock
wood did not like his appearance and
gave him an ont Of the way room in
the house in hope ot getting rid oI
him. He pretended to know Gen
eral Logan and others who were
boarding there. Mrs. Lockwood states
that he acted strangely at times, and al
about the middle Of the mouth, when she
presented his bill he could not pay, lie
afterwards left the house and sent Mrs
Lockwood note stating that he was ex
pecting g 81, 900 position, and would soon
pay his bill. Mrs, Lockwood showed this
note to General Logan, who said the man
was crazy. Three weeks ego he met Mrs.
RicEstord, OF Mrs, LoCkwood's boarding
house, on the street, and requested her
not to say anything about the board bill
he owed, as II would hurt him in his Rt'
forts to secure a position, Mrs, Lock
wood said that Getteau was q
great bother to General Logan, go
persistent was he In his efforts TO secure
that gentleman's efforts In his behalf,
Since leaving Mrs. LoCkwoOd's house he
has been stopping at various places, but
never at great length of time, for the
reason that he appeared 10 have no funds,
He told one OF the boarders at Mrs. LoCk.
wood 3 that he expected to be appointed
Minister to France, but did not desire 1t
to be known, Up to day before yesterday,
when he registered ut the Riggs House,
Getteau has been stopping for the last
six weeks, with no baggage but a paper
box, al O20 Fourteenth street.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT PRoN WASHINGTON.
The assassin has been hanging about
here for nearly two months, and was sew
era days ago turned out Of boarding
house, No. 022 Fourteenth street, because
he did not pay his board, Ho owed $50
for board, and kept saying he would get
big foreign mission in few days, when
he would pay up. lie dressed shsbbily and
acted strangely, so the landlady and
boardera say, and some OF them formed
the opinion that he was crazy. He made
his appearance at the State Department
In few weeks after Garfield was insugu.
rated and made application for ap.
pointment as United States Minister
10 Austria. Afterwards he applied
Tor Consul. General ut Paris, without
having Withdrawn his first appliCa'
tion. lie had no recommendations
or er dorsements whatever. lie filed no
paper with his application, except the
copy ot speech which he claimed he
made In the Presidential canvass last
year. lie said he accompanied Grant and
Oonkling on their Canvassing tour last
fall, and was Stalwart Of Stalwarts. In
his application he gave his name as Chas.
]. Guiteau, OF Freeport, Ills, and his age
thirty years. He says the director
Of the mint, Burchard, knows
oil bis family. Many think that the iel.
low was naturally light headed, and he
brooded over bis disappointment OF not
gettinga foreign appointment till he be.
came wild and crazy. He had evidently
planned the assassination beforehand, but
does not seem to have meditated escape.
His chief desire seemed 10 get To General
Sherman with the idea that he could con-
vince Sherman that he had done
right.
The act was so unexpected and Get.
teau was rushed of to the jail 80 promptly
that the crowd had not time to think OF
lynChing him. After he had been put IN
jail many were heard say they we're sorry
they had not "strurg him up"
The populaCe was very much ex'
cited, and had Getteau been where
mob could have reached him when
the character OF his crime became gener.
ally known he would probably have been
mobbed. A company Of United States
troops have been put on guard at the
White House, as there are not police
enough here to properly guard the place.
Secretary Lincoln denies the report tele.
L
dent would net live two hours.
Secretary Lincoln said just now that
the surgeons could not yet tell whether
the wound Is fatal or not. He said the
ball was very large one; that II entered
about three inches from the spinal column
and at the lower edge oi the ribs; that 1t
nay.ha struck the vital organs, and may
have entered the cavity OF the abdomen.
lie is afraid 1t entered the cavity, but
but says the bali may have taken such
course as not to injure any vital organ (;
that the President complained Of pains ia
the abdomen, which indicated that the
ball had entered the cavity Il the stom.
aCh, but the pains have Bubsided and 1t is
hoped for good. The pains he complain.
ed OF in his feet indicated injury to the
spinal column.
CRooKEDNEss AS A NEW YoRK LAWYER.
New YoRK, July IA lawyer in this
city who has had some indirect legal
dealings with the Chicago lawyer, Charles
]. Getteau, says that some few years ago
he was praCtiCiDg in this city, and was In
the habit Of taking claims TO collect on
shares. Namely, 10 receive for ser.
VICES One'nhu VI pTUCeeub' ItL'
teau used TO make sufficient ColleC.
tions 10 secure bis half, but tho client
never obtained anything The Herald ex.
posed the whole proceeding, and the re.
suit vas that Gitteau found New YORK
too hot to hold him and went west,
finally settling in Chicago, ss lawyer
from this place. lie wrote to James Cor.
don Bennett, demanding SIC, 600 for libel,
but failed to get tae money. He however
wrote again to Bennett, ihtimating that II
he would engage In certain news.
paper enterprise in Ohicfgo with
him, Gettean, the claim for 100000
could be wiped out. While in this city he
took charge Of case for lady In llth
street aud secured judgment for 5000.
The Judgment was attached on the grou1d
OF fraud and although the fraud could
not be proven the curt set aside the