The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-10-20

saturday, and then | went out. I do rot
/ remember where | went particularly; I
u thInk went to the Riggs, the Arlington or
Tue PARK. That Was after left the library.
AN ASSASSIN IN AMBUSH.
Il noticed in the papers" Guitesu con-
tnues, that he would De back the first Of
the week watched the papers verv care
Iniiy to see when he would return. but be
ala not come back that week but he did
come backon the following Monday. The
following Monday was terribly hot, sultry
uay. l remember | suffered greatly from
the heat, but notwithstanding that l pre-
4 pared myself again, and | went 10 the depot
/ again on Monday with nv revolver and nv
papers, but did not feel like firing on him
l simply went to the depot, / sat i'm the
iaoies. waiting room got there ten or fiE
teen minutes before the train time and
waited and thought it all over and made
/ up my mind that | would not fire on him
! that day did not feel like it. The train
came and he came, and Mr.. James, the
/ T9S'master-General, was there and Mr.
hunt, the Secretary of the Navy, and their
iady friends. They all came through the
/ iauleS room together, and the Presidents
son and thick-set gentleman that came
from the white house to meet the President
were there. They went right to the gate
and got the President, and they all walked
| together to the Presidents carriage. and thew
all got in and drove off, | stood on the en-
trance of the ladies waiting-room door. and
/ noticed James and Hunt there. with their
families, and the President and his friends
/ drove up in his white house carriage, and
then james and Hunt went, and then |
went. got into a car and went up toward
the Riggs house.
VIGIL OF MURDERER.
| "Well, / was watching for the President
all that week. | got up one morning at
hait-past five, thinking that might get the
president when he was out horseback riding,
but he did not go out that morning. | sat
there III the dark for two hours watching for
hIm with my papers and revolver, thinking
that might get chance at him, but he
did not 20 out that mo ming, so | went back
to my room, took breakfast, put up my
papers and revolver and let the matter drop
until night In the evening, after dinner,
at 5 O'clock, | went up to my room and got
my revolver out and carried it in my pocket.
This either Wednesday or Thursday. | do
not remember which, but | think it was
Thursday night He went ont riding that
night l was in Lafayette park, opposite
the white house, watching for him, aud
about $50 the white house carriage drove
up to the white house aud waited few mo-
ments, and the presidenO and some gentle
men and young man eighteen or twenty
years old, whome presume was the presi-
dents son, got into the carriage. The young
man sat with his back to the driver and the
president and his gentleman friend (whoso-
ever he was) sat on the back seat They
drove out the entrance nearest the treasury
building and passed right along the east
side of Lafayette square toward the Arling-
ton. They drove down by the Arlington
and out on Vermont avenue. walked out
of the park pretty rapidly, and | saw them
from the corner OF the park. | went out
on the street on the east side of the square
and looked and saw they were going down
Vermont avenue. ! hung around the park
about half an hour or so and they did not
return, and it was very warm, and | conclu-
ded to let the matter drop for that night, so
that, after sitting in the park for some time,
| went, as usual, to my home, and went to
bed. went to the Riggs house and took a
room in the afternoon of Thursday, and the
event mentioned in the preceding talk hssp-
pened, am quite certain, on Thursday
night, it was either on Wednesday or
on Thursday, | am not positive which, but
my impression Is that it happened on Thurs
day night. On Friday night, after got my
dinner at 5he Riggs house, went up TO my
room ard took out my revolver and put it
in my hip pocket, and had my papers with
me, and thought | possibly might get n
chance at him Friday night. | went into
Lafayette square and sat there, opposite the
white house,
IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
81 had rot been there minute before |
saw the President walk out OF the white
l'house. Now | thought to myself, 1 have
got splendid chance at him; he is all
alone; there isn't any one around him. He
walked along the east side of the square
and down Ii street. | followed him. lie
went to Mr. Blaine's house, on Fifteenth
street. He walked along and when he got
| on the sidewalk opposite Mr.. Blaine's house
| he looked up, as if he did not know the
| place exactly, and then he saw the correct
number and walked in. | followed him
along. and was about half way between II
street and Mr.. Blaine's house, on the oppos-
| ite side of the street, when he entered the
|
! Mr.. Morton's house and got out my revol-
yer and looked at it and wiped it off and
nut it back into my pocket. Iwent over to
! the II street stoop, at Wormley's, and l
waited there half an hour, | should say, for
the President to come out. He came out
| and Mr.. Blaine with him and | waited at
| WormleyIs until they passed by me on the
Lopposite side They walked down Ii street,
Fand ON the east side of Lafayette square
and through the gate nearest the Treasury
bnildinr and into the White House. Mr..
Blaine and the President seemed to talking
with the greatest earnestness. Mr. Blaine
was on the left side of the President as they
walked along the street. Mr. Blaine's right
arm was looped in the Presidents left arm,
and they were engaged in the most earnest
conversation: their heads were very close
| together Blaine was striking the air every
few moments, and the President was drink
| inc it all in; and occasionally the Presiden
would strike out his hand, thereby giving
assent to what Mr. Blaine was saying. They
seemed to be in a very hilarious state o
mind and delightful fellowship and in per
feet accord. The scene made a striking i'm
preston on me; it confirmed what hat
read in the papers, and what | had felt 70
| e IOuS tlHt-tO-NlL thaN NhS L tC9AuCub " q
entirely under Mr. Blaine's influence, anc
that they were in perfect accord. ma.
have remained in the park perhaps half
three-quarters Of an nour, and then wen
down to ;:ny room at the Riggs house.
t-,oK a towel bath il nay room and went
bed and went TO sleep. L woke up about
O'Clock Saturday morning and felt weil !
hodv ard mind. Ny mind was periec.l
clear in regard TO removing the President
| had not the slightest DOUBT about nay dut
to the Lord and to the American people !
trving to remove the President, and war
tn say here, as emphatically as words ca
make IL. that. from the moment when full
decided to remove the President, hav
never had the slightest shadow on my mind
nv purpose has been just as clear and Ju'
as determined as anything could be. l b.
lieyed that / was acting under specl'
divine authority to remove him, and tn
divine pressure was upon me from the tim
when | fully resolved to remove him unit
I actually shot him. 1t was only by ner'
ing myself to the utmost that | did it at al
and / never had the slightest doubt as
the divine inspiration of the act, aud thi
it was for the hest interests Of the America
people,
NEARING THE END.
Having heard on Friday from the paper
and also by my inquiries of the doorkeep
! at the white house Friday evening, that Il
, president was going to Long Branch oatu
day morning, / resolved to remove him
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