Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-10-19

to be q very clevor fellow and glad to
get the job. got TO the depot about
8 o'clock and waited there until the
Presidents White House carriage
drove up, About 9.25 the President
and his carriage and servants and
friends came up, He got out of his
carriage. stood in the ladies' room
about the middle of the room, watch
ing him Mrs. Garfield got ont and
they walked through the ladies room
and the presence of Mrs. Garfield do
TERED me from firing on him. / was
all ready; my mind was all made up
| had all my papers with me / had
all the arrangements mado to shoot
him and to jump into a carriage and
drive over to tho jail. Mrs. Garfield
r looked so thin and she clung so ten.
derby to the Presidents arm that did
not have the heart to fire on him. He
passed right through the ladies' re-
ception room, through the main en-.
f trance, and took the cars, waited a
few moments, | went outside the
depot and walked up toward the Riggs
House.
AN ASSASSIN IN AMBUSH
81 noticed in the papers," Guteau
continues, "that he would be back the
first Of the week | watched the pa.
pers very carefully to see when he
would return, but he did not come
back that week, but he did como back
on the following Monday. The fol-.
lowing Monday was a terribly hot,
sultry day. ! remember | suffered
greatly from the heat, but notwith.
standing that prepared myself again
and went to the depot again on Mon.
day with my revolver and papers, but
| did not feel like firing on him.
simply went to the depot. sat in
the ladies waiting room, | got there
ten or fifteen 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, aud Mr., James, the
Postmaster General was there, and
Mr.. Hunt, the Secretary Of the Navy,
and their lady friends. They all came
through the ladies room together, and
the Presidents son and a 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 they all got in and drove
off. | stood on tho entrance of the
ladies waiting room door, and noticed
James and Hunt there with their fam
lilies, and the President and his friends
drove up in his White House carriage
and then James and Hunt went, and /
went. | got into q car and went up
toward the Riggs House
VIGIL OF A MURDERER
DWELL, | was watching for the Pres.
ident all that week. got up one
morning at $50, thinking that might
get the President when he was out
horseback riding, but ho did not go
out that morning. | sat there in the
Park for two hours watching for him
with my papers and revolver, thinking
that ! might get chance at him, but
he did not 90 out that morning, 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 . o'clock,
| went up to my room and got my
revolver out and carried IL in my pock-
ct. This was olthor Wednesday or
Thursday, | do not remember which,
but | think il was Thursday night
He went out riding that night, | was
in Lafayette Park, opposite the White
House, watching for him, and about
$50 the White House carriage drove
up to tho White House and waited q
few moments, and the President and
some gentlemen and young man IS
or 90 years old, whom | presumed
was the Presidents son, got INTO tho
carriage. The young man sat with
his back to the driver and the Presi.
dent and his gentleman friend (who-
ever he was1 sat on the back seat.
They drove out the entrance nearest
the Treasury building and passed
right along the cast side of Lafayette
Square toward the Arlington. They
drove down by the Arlington and out
on Vermont avenue. walked ont Of
the Park pretty rapidly and ! saw
them from the corner Of the Park. /
went out on the street on east side of
the square and looked and saw they
were gong down Vermont avenue, |
hung around the Park about haitian
heur or so, and they did not return
and it was very warm, and conclud-
cd to let the matter drop for that night,
so that, after sitting in the Park for
some time, went as usual to my
home aud went to bed. / went to the
Riggs House aud took q room on the
afternoon of Thursday, and the event
mentioned in this preceding talk hap
pened. am quito certain, on Thurs.
day night; it was either on Wednes-
day or on Thursday, ! am not positive
which, but my impression ia that it
happened on Thursday night On
Friday night after got my dinner at
the RiggE House [ went up to my
room and l took out my revolver and
put il in my hip pocket and had
my papers with me, and thought |
possibly might get a chance at him
Friday night. / went into Lafayette
Square and sat there, opposite the
White House.
IN THE SHADOW or DEATH.
had not been there q minute before
saw the President walk out of the
White House. Now thought to
myself 4 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. He went
TO Mr.. Blaine's house on Fifteenth
street lie walked along and when he
got on the sidewalk opposite MIR.
Baine's house he looked up, as If be
did not know the place exactly, and
then he saw the correct number and
walked in. followed him along and
| was about halfway between II street
and Mr.. Blaine's house, on the opposite
side of the street, when he entered the
house, went into the alley in the rear
of Mr. Morton's house and got out my
revolver and looked at it and wiped IL
of and put it back into my pocket. ]
went over to the IL street stoop, at
Warmley's, and | waited there half an
hour, should say, for the President to
como out. lie came out and Mr.. Blaine
with him and waited at Warmlcy's