The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03

guilty. We cite numerous other in
stances Of popular delusion in regard to
the identity of alleged murdercrs.
\ burnt child breads the fire. The
Texas public has learned Il great deal,
hence all these denunciations Of Guteau
are to be deprecated. The public will
hesitate in expressing any opinion what
ever, but we're We called in our capacity
as a public journalist to say anything ON
the subject, We should say that Guiteau
was probably the onl Y man in the Uni
ted States who could not have commit
ted the crime, just as those other sus-
pccted parties, Rothschid, Currie and
Kirby, were the only persons who got an
official certificate that they had not
committed the crimes with which they
had been 50 unjustly charged, Roths-
childs wife or mistress induced the un-
suSpcctIng victim to come to jefferson,
quarrcIed with him, persuaded him to
walk outiuto a secluded wook, and then
shot herself dead, and, being dead, pull
cd her hat over her wound. Not only
all this, but in order to make certain Of
her victim, She secretly stuffed her silk
dresses and diamonds into his trunk.
This being 50, is it not propable that
Garfield forged the letters Guiteau is III
legged to have written, induced him to
come to the railroad depot, and then
shot himself, 50 is to bring about the
ruin Of tho unsuspecting victim? If,
however, it should appear that Guitoaa
did shoot, We have No doubt that when
the trial comes off, it will be proven by
unimpcachahle witnesses that young
howitzcr and bowic-knite were found
concealed on the Presidents person, and
that Garfield had frequently made
threats to shoot Guteau ON sight. 1t
will be also sworn to by crcditablc eye
= witnesses that Garfield made Il sus,
, picous motion, placing his hand behind
him as if to draw pistol, and if all
other strings break, why, Of course,
Guitcau will be proven crazy, and that
all the Guitcau's were crazy, since the
flood. We have studied up these MUIR
der cases very closely, and do not pro-
pose to be fooled again BY taking it for
granted that Guitcau had anything in
the world to do with the tragedy.
Again, if Garfield should die, which
God forbid, and it were conceded that
Gutcau was sane, and actually commit
ted the shooting, we would not for 4
moment suppose that Garfield died from
the shooting mt ALL 4 whole brigade OF
doctors woUd come forward and swear
that it was not the wound, but the med
ical assistance he received that caused
the fatal result Far from it. The
!, wound would not have amounted to
anything if the patient had been given
some beneficial stuff with Latin name
foot long, instead Of some pcrnIclous
stuff with Latin name two feet long,
in consequence Of which Il disease, with
4 Latin appcIIution ten feet long set in
= and carried off the President, who was
e not removed by Guitcau, but by Provi-
: dence and the doctors. Under no cir
cumstancc will Texas Siftings admit, un-
til Guitcau has been vindicatcd or hung,
that he had anything to do with the
business.
A friend at our elbow says that in the
cases Of RothachiId and Curric, the
! murderer was rich or influential and the
victim was poor, while in the Washing
ton tragedy the would-be-murdcrcr Is