St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-08
GUIrEAU, THE ASSASSIN.
A FANATIC AND DEAD BEAT.


The assassin was quickly seized at
ter firing his second shot, and but for
the intervention of il strong police force
he would have been torn to pieces by
the Infatuated crowd. He was hurried
at once to the Jail and strong guard
was placed around the building. His
name is Charles j. Guiteau. He Is of
French extraction, but was born ut
Frecport, H., and is about 40 years old.
He has brother i'll business at Boston,
il man of good repute. Before he was
of age he got his first crook by joining
the Oneida community III New York.
He apparently lived there ten years or
more, and was turned out about ten
wears ago and denounced by N0yes in
a pamphlet for not conforming to the
restrictions of the community. He
studied law ut Chicago enough to get
admitted to the bar, but distinguished
himself principally by cheating his eli
ents and keeping funds he had col
lected for them. He was at times
driven out of Chicago, and then began
| to lecture and impose on the country
as 1.-the eloquent Chicago lawyer
Everywhere he had difficulty iii paying
| board bills and his name soon went on
| to the black list of the hotels and board
ng-houscs. He INDUCED also i'll howl
inc religious pamphlets. He was mar
ried once, but his wife, Il sister of Geo.
Scoville, with whom he studied law,
could not abide his eccentricitics and
| left him He has projected various
grand schemes for buying or starting
newspapers and other enterprises, liv-
ing from hand to mouth, acting rather
cracked, and brushing up his hair like
Il wild man. He could make IL very
pathetic prayer and was i'll the revival
business with Moody and Sankey, one
of the hangers on probably. He Is Il
regular dcad-bcat, and being so de
scribed in the Chicago Tribune, sued
that paper for libel i'll an immense sum,
never coming to trial. Last fall he
wrote Il political speech, and in some
way got it printed. He hung around
the rooms of the national republican
committee in New York until they had
to get rid of him. Then he hung
around the state committee rooms il
y. y. until they had to dispense with
him there. Shortly after the inaugu-
ration of President Garfield he went tt
Washington seeking il foreign appoint
mcnt. He was tolerated simply De
cause he was pitied. He annoyed peo.
pie, and was continually seeking audi
cnces with the secretary of state. He
claimed that.hc was entitled to the Eng
i fish OF the French mission on account
of what he had done for Garfield
through his speech, which was eXactl,
two brief pages in length and had nev
er been delivered, and Yet he claimed
had converted the whole country.
At Washington he has been beating
the clearinghouse mistresses out o
t their money since the Inauguration, re
| ferring them to President Garfield an'
! Secretary Blaine, as his friends wh'
were about to give him an office, hu
| protesting that any allusion to his ii
| nancial straits would endanger his pros
| poets. His last landlady was about L
: advertise for him Sunday morning, no
: knowing that he was already i'll jail 70
/ shooting the president. His baggag
t was a copy of the official regulation
T. for our consuls in foreign countries am
; an empty paper-collar box. He ha
] infested the White House and state dc
e partment, and usually introduced him
: self thus: - am one of the men VIII
made Garfield PRESIDENT