St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-22
GARFIELD BETTER 4!
Able to Eat a Hearty Meal.
And Making Rapid Progress
Toward Health.

The latest news from Washington is
very encouraging. The President is
doing finely, and making rapid strides
towards recovery. He had Il Temporal
~ relapse on Monday, which was
brought on by eating too heartily, but
by Tuesday he had begun to recover
from it. The doctors will not yet say
officially that he is out of danger, but
they do say that unless something new
sets in they see no reason why he may
not get well. The President himself is
confident, and the voices and faces at
the White House are full of cheerful
| assurance.
HIS LEGS AND FEET.
The experiment of sitting up in bed,
which the President wished to make,
! has also been tried. He sat up for
twenty minutes, when he requested to
be placed back i'll bed, rs he discovered
/ that he rested more easily in that posi-
/ ton. 1t was found when he was sit
| ting up that the pain in the back had
disappeared, but the curious and some
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| legs and feet. The reason why the
word suspicious is attached to these
pains by some of the physicians, is
that there is Il remote fear that the
| President after his recovery may be
weak in his legs. He seems himself to
| be apprehensive of that, as he has fire.
quently asked his attendants what they
! thought about it, and has expressed an
earnest wish to be able to stand up to
see whether or not his legs would still
remain his servants. The first sensa-
ton when the bullet struck him was
| that his knees gave way. He seems to
have retained that sensation ever since,
and still fears that his knees may give
way.
THE MISSING BULLET DISCOVERED.
A Washington dispatch reports that
on Monday district attorney Corkhill
found the missing bullet which was
| fired ut the President, and for which
! there has been so much search. 1t APP
pears that German glazier, who
| tramps around the streets, repairing
windows, went into the depot to get Il
ten-dollar bill changed on the morning
the President was shot. He was stand
ing i'll the main room some forty feet
| from where the assassin stood, and i'll
southeast direction. He had com
menced to unstrap his box, i'll which
he carried glass, and gotten one strap
off his shoulders when he heard the
noise of the pistol, and Immediately
three panes of glass were shattered.
He at once rushed from the depot,
thinking it was no place for safety.
| On Saturday he was cleaning ont his
box, and found the ball in his putty,
and was narrating the fact to his
| friends, when one of them told him
that was the time the President was
shot, and brought him to the district
attorneys office, where he gave his
statement and gave up the ball.
EXPLICIT STATEMENT OF GUITEAU's
MANEUVERS.
District Attorney Corkhill has made
| the following statement for publica-
ton: The interest felt by the public
in the details of the assassination and
the many stories published justify me
i'll stating that the following is a cor
rect and accurate statement concern
ing the points to which reference is
made: The assassin, Charles Guiteau,
came to Washington city on Sunday
evening, March q, 1881, and stopped at
the Ebbitt House, remaining only one
day. He then secured IA room III
another part of the city, and has
boarded and roOmed at various places,
the full details of which | have. On
| Wednesday, May 3, 1881, the assassin
determined to murder the President.
He had neither money nor pistol at the
time. About the last of May he went
into O'Meara's store, corner Fifteenth
and f streets, this city, and examined
some pistols, asking for the largest
calibre. He was shown two similar in
calibre and only different in the price.
! On Wednesday. June :, he purchased
the pistol which he used, for which he
paid 80, he having in the meantime
borrowed Sl5 of gentleman i'll this
city on the plea that he wanted to pay
his board bill. On the same evening,
about ! o'clock, he took the pistol and
went to the foot of Seventeenth street,
and practiced firing at IA board, firing
ten shots. He then returned to his
boarding place and wiped the pistol
dry and wrapped it i'll his coat, and
waited his opportunity. On Sunday
morning, June -, he was sitting i'll
Lafayette Park, and saw the President
leave for the Christian church on Yer
mont avenue, and he at once returned
to his room. obtained his pistol, put il
in his pocket and followed the Presi-
dent to church. He entered the church.
but found he could not kill him there
without danger of killing some one
else. He noticed that the President
sat near window. After church he
made an examination of the window
and found he could reach it without
any trouble. and from this point he
could shoot the President through the
head without killing any one else.
! The following Wednesday he went to
the church. examined the location and
the window, and became satisfied he
could accomplish his purpose. He de
termined To make the attempt at the
church the following Sunday. Learn
ing from the papers that the President
would leave the city on Saturday, the
18th OF June, with Mrs. Garfield, for
Long Branch. he therefore decided to
meet him ut the depot. He left his
boarding place about ) o'clock Satm-
| day morning, June 10. and went down
to the river at the foot of Seventeenth
street and fired five shots to practice
his aim and he certain his pistol was in
good order. He then went 10 the de
pot. and was in the ladies' waiting
room of the depot with his pistol ready
when the Presidential party entered.
He says Mrs. Garfield looked so weak
and frail that he had not the heart to
shoot the President in her presence.
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opportunity, he left the depot. He
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