Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-03

PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, July 1.-THE
assassin of the President, Charles Gui-
teau, was in this city in July last, and
advertised lecture on the political stu
alton on the evening of July I'd, one
year ago to-day. An admission was
charged, and as people would not pay,
to go to political meeting the lecture
was not delivered. He afterwards
wanted to be engaged as speaker by the
Republican committee and leading Re-
publicans then thought his mind I'M
sound and would have nothing to do with
him. He was afterwards announced to
speak at other places in this State.
Sh;etcI. of the assassin by one of the Globe
Staff, Who KneW Him.
Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin OF the
President, is a man of aboutl40 years of
age, of small stature and slender build.
He was we'll. known to the writer during
his residence in Chicago. He appeared
in Chicago about year before the great
fire, and rented an Office in the Honore
block, on Dearborn street, hanging out
his sign as an attorney at law and coun
sellor His Office was luXuriously fitted
up, and he made quite display OF wealth.
He claimed to be connected with prom
inent family in France, though he had
very imperfect knowledge of the French
language, and when questioned regard
ing his family he could give but an unin-
telligible account of their location, estates
or family connections. Some were in
clined to call him an imposter, but as
he appeared to have a good practice,
and was in almost constant attendance
at the courts he was received in society.
He boarded with a woman whom he
called his wife, at the Nevada Hotel, To-
Gated at the corner of Washington and
Franklin streets. The proprietor, Mr..
Thos. Kendrick, waited long and anxious
ly for the pay for the board of the pair,
end at the end of three months gave
them notice to quit without their bag
gage Guiteau departed for the Sherman
House, and by means of bribing the porter
at the Nevada Hotel secured hls.baggage.
At the Sherman House he carried things
with high hand, and was in fair way
of beating the proprietor of that hotel
out of few weeks subsistence when his
"wife" becoming indignant at his con-
duct towards her, brought suit against
him for seduction. This secured his dis
missal from the hotel, and he was com
PEELED to leave his trunks behind him.
When inventoried they were found to
contain a few WORKOUT garments
and number of bricks to give the trunks
the proper weight About the same
time the custodian of the Honore estate
Honore being bankrupt-turned him out
of his office for non payment of rent. lie
secured the carpets and book -shelves for
what was DUE When the attempt to
make sale of the library was made, it
was found that the books were nearly all
dummies, - the revised statutes being
almost the only genuine book upon the
shelves.
For several years Guiteau disappeared
from Chicago. He returned in 1874. He
had in the meantime 'got religion, and
felt called upon to preach the gospel
The Young Mems Christian Association
took him up He led the exercises at
the noon day prayer-meetings for few
weeks, and "worked the religious rack
et'' to perfection, for he soon blossomed
forth in an elegant coach and pair,
and sported new wife. HIS
conduct became so cratic, however, that
the association dropped him. He then
began to poster the newspapers with
communications, and after the lapse OF
six months or so turned up as man who
had inherited fortune from his relations
in France, and conceived it to be his
mission to expend it in the PRONUNCIATION
of a new religious doctrine. This doc
trine was that of prophesy. He held that
all men were endowed with the gift of
propbesy, but that it was not properly
developed. In course of papers that
w ere published in the liner Ocean lat adj
vertising rates) he tried to show how
this gift could be developed, quoting lib
orally from scripture to sustain his posi-
ton. His last paper was a prediction
that the world was shortly to come to an
end There was but little novel in the
production. His arguments were sub.
stantially the same as those of
the Millerites, that are familiar to every
one His scriptuIal references were also
similar, DuC Hc apparently Luou0 ~ NoA-
verts.
When he began his career in Chicago
he was, without doubt, dead beat.
This characteristic he retained through
out his residence in that city. When he
ended his career he was generally re-
garded as religious lunatic of a harm
less description. His eccentricities may
have been assumed for the purpose of
extortlng support from the credulous.
His playing upon the credulity of the
Young Mems Christian association seems
to support this view, but the fact that,
after he had worked that Institution for
all it was worth, he continued his re-
ligious vagaries, and apparently at great
cost to himself, sustains the presumption
that his mental faculties had given way.
The Nescs i,a st. Pdstl.
The first announcement of the shooting of
President Garfield was received in this city
about $50 A. NJ. 1t was received with incre-
dulity at first, but when the GLOBE hung out
a bulletin announcing the fact there was no
longer a doubt of its truth. Crowds gathered