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

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to the news stand and asked the young man
/ in charge if / could leaye those papers with
/ him few moments, and he said Certainly
and he took them and placed them up
against the wall on top Of some other papers.
I This was 9;25, and | went into the ladies'
waiting room, and / looked around, saw
there was quite good many people there,
in the depot and carriages outside, but l
did not see the presidents carriage. I ex-
amined my revolver to see that it was all
right, and took of the paper that | had
wrapped around it ta keep the moisture Of
( | waited FIVE or six minutes longer, sat
down on seat in the ladies' room. aud very
soon the president drove up. lie was in
company with a gentleman who, | under
stand, was Mr.. B.aue, although l did not
I recognize him. Thi, gentleman looked very
old, and he had peculiar kind Of head
+ gear on, that / did not recognize as that
/ of Mr. Blaine. ] am satisfied that it was
Mr. Blaine, now that my attention has been
specially called to il, because it was the
same gentleman that ] saw with the presi-
dent the night before, and | know positively
/ that that gentleman was Mr.. Blaine The
president and this gentleman drove up in
J
I this gentleman, / think, was driving. II
was a single carriage single-seated top
/ buggy. The president seemed to be in very
earnest and private conversation with this
gentleman, who evidently was Mr.. Blaine
although, at the time | did not recognize
/ him as Mr.. Blaine. They sat in the carriage
/ | should say some two minutes; they had
not completed their conversation when they
reached the depot, and during the interview
of two inmates they finished their conyer-
sation, as | have said. The president got
oul on the pavement side and Mr.. Blaine
on the other side. They entered the ladies'
room; stood there watching the president,
/ and they passed by me. Before they reached
/ the depot had been promenading up and
/ down the ladies' room between the ticket
office door and the newsstand door, a space
/ OF some 10 or - feet. | walked up and
down there | should say two or three times,
/ working myself up as l knew the hour Was
( at hand. The president and Mr., Blaine
came into the ladies' room aud walked right
by me; they did not notice me as there
were quite number of ladies and children
in the room,
HOW THE PRESIDENT FEEL,
"There was quite large crowd of ticket
purchasers at the gentlemen's ticket office
( in the adjoining room the depot seemed
/ to be quite full of people There was quite
a crowd and comotion around, and the
President was in the act of passing from
the ladies room to the main entrance
through the door, | should say he was about
four or five feet from the door nearest the
ticket ettice, in the act of passing through
the door to get through the depot to the
cars He was about three or four feet from
the door | stood five or six feet behind
him. right in the middle of the, room, and
as he was in the act of walking away from
me pulled out the revolver and fired. lie
Strengthened up and threw his bead back
and seemed to be perfectly bewildered. He
did not seem to know what struck him. |
looked at him; he did not drop, / thereupon
pulled again. He dropped his head, seemed
to reel and fell oyor | do not know where
the first shot hit; | aimed at the hollow Of
of his hack did not aim for any partcu-
lar place, but | knew il got those two bul-
lets in his back he would certainly go. l
was in diagonal direction from the Presi-
dent, to the northwest, and supposed both
shots struck,
THE ARREST,
81 was in the act of putting my revolver
back into my pocket when the depot po-
Iicemau seized ME and said, "Hou shot the
President of the United States' He was
terribly excited; he hardly knew his head
| from his feet, and / said, Keep quiet, my
friend keep quiet my friend. want To
20 to Jail \ moment after the policeman
/ seized me by the left arm; clinched me
with terrible force. Another gentleman an
older man, l should say, and less robust
seized me by the right arm. At this
moment the ticket agent and great crowd
of people rushed around me, and the ticket
agent said. That's him; that's hims
and he pushed out his arm 10 seize me
around the neck, and says, Keep quite,
my friends; ] want to 60 to Jail ; and the
officers one on each side of me, rushed me
right off to the police headquarters, and the
officer who first seized me by the hand says,
/ This man has just shot the president of
the United States and he was terribly ex-
cited And said, "Keep quiet, my friend;
! | have got some papers which will explain
the whole matter They let go of me and
they held my hands up--one policeman on
one side and one on the other-and they
went through me, took away my revolver
and what little change l had, my comb and
my toothpick, all my papers, and | gave
] them my letter to the white house told
them that wished they would send that
letter to the white house at once, and the
officer began TO read my letter 10 the white
house, and in this envelope containing my
letter to the white house was my speech,
/ Garfield against Haneock.' He glaEced his
eye over the letter aud ! was telling him
about reading it at once TO tho white house
to explain the matter, aud be said, we will
put ynG into the white housev So l said
nothing after that, They took me around
little dark place and put me into cell, they
locked the door aud went off, aud did not
see any one for ten minutes, and then one or
two parties came and took "A look at me
they were policemen and detectives, and
said, 4 don't know him; don't know that
man; never saw him before"