Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-07-09
THE SHOOTING Of PRESIDENT
GARFIELD.


GAKElEkD.
Full Particulars OF the DastardIy
Deed.
No event since the assassination of the
lamented Lincoln, the martyr President,
has 80 startled the country or the world
at large as did the announcement last
Saturday of the attempted assassination
of President Garfield. Everywhere,
everybody was horifed and astounded.
The assassination of the Gar of Russia,
it is true, startled the world, but Mill
ism had been rampant and threatening,
SO that that atrocity was not wholly un-
looked for, and for that deed there was
at least imaginary wrongs, if not real,
of an oppressed people as motive, but
for the horrible deed of Saturday it is
hard to conceive of any motive, and the
only charitable construction that can be
placed upon the act is that it was per-
petrated by man devoid Of reason, and
vet from the mans actions and CONVEX
sation at the time, and since the perpe-
tration of the dastardy deed, this can be
hardly claimed for him. 1t would seem
to be more the result of communistic
theories, imbibed by the assassin, for it
is said he has been an advocate of that
doctrine.
The effect Of the news was the same
all over the country. Business was in a
measure suspended, and every one was
anxious to hear the latest news as to the
condition of the wounded President, the
hopes and opinions of the attending
physicians. At first the news grew more
unfavorable, and deep gloom Of sadness
and sorrow pervaded all classes, and the
deed was heartily condemned by all.
Sunday, in mostof the churches through
out the land reference was made to the
great crime and many a prayer assembled,
asking that the President might be spar
ed.
The following particulars we take from
the Detroit Post and Tribune of Monday:
WASHINGTON, July AT $50 o'clock
this morning. when the President was
at the Baltimore and Potomac depot with
his party, waiting to take the train, he
was shot twice bya man within two feet
of him. The Presidents friends rushed
20 him as he fell, and Mr.. Blaine called
for Rockwell. Station Agent Carney ar
rested the assassin, who said: 81 did it..
am stalwart, and Arthur is now Pres
dent Take letter have here to Gen.
SHERMAN, and ihe]wiH tell you aH-abcut
It,"
a gentleman who was an eye witness
Of the attempted assassination gives the
following statement Of the occurrence:
"I was coming down down Pennsylvania
avenue, when l saw carriage coming
ND the avenue, the horses running so
fast that thought they were running
away. Just as the carriage arrived in
front of me, a man put his head out of
the window and said Faster, faster, fast
er. damn it, After hearing this remark,
/ thought there was something wrong,
and ran after the carriage. When 1T
reached the depot man jumped out and
entered the ladies' room. He had not
been there more than three minutes
when the President arrived, stepped out
of his carriage, and entered the ladies'
room. The President. after passing
through the door, was just turning the
corner of seat, when the assassin, who
was standing at the left OF the door, tired.
The ball struck the President in the
back, and he fell forward. Il ran into
the depot and just then the man hred
again, while the President was falling.
the moment the President fell police
man. who had been standing at the depot
door keeping the way clear for the Pres
ident and his party, grabbed the assassin
by the neck, and as he pulled him out OF
the depot another policeman came to his
assistance. Just after firing the shot
the assassin exclaimed, II have killed
Garfield. Arthur is President. am a
stalwart."o While the President was ly.
inc on the floor in the ladies' room, he
was surrounded by secretaries Window
James and Blaine. Mrs. Hunt, Miss
Window and Mrs. James were also stand
ING near the President. In three or five
minutes after the shooting, DR.. Bliss ar.
rived. The President was then put on 9
bed and carried up stairs, where an ex
animation was made by the doctor. Gen
Sherman then came and called an am
!, bulance to convey, the President to thu
who fHE wouLD-BE ASSASSIN is.
The name of the assassin, as writer
bv, himself, is Charles Giteau and hi
saws he is an attorney at law at Chicago
The. librarian of the navy department
has been before the attorney general
He states that Guiteau was one OF thu
supporters of those who made an effOr1
to- break the unit rule in the Chicago
"a convention, and says that Giteau was II
the habit Of calling at the librarian''
rooms and telling how he had been treat
eddy Secretary Blaine.
A DISREPUTABLE LAWYER.
CHICAGO, July 2.-Charles Giteau, thu
man who attempted to assassinate thu