The Republican journal., 1881-07-21
who will of course be an important wit
ness in the trial of Guiteau, declines to
allow the letters to be published.


allow the letters to be published.
THE TRIAL.
1t is probable that, unless the President
shall die, it will be long before Guiteau
will be tried. Some of the best criminal
lawyers at the bar think it not unlikely
that his trial will not take place until
after the 4th of July, 1882. As long as
any possibility remains that the wound
may prove mortal, the District Attorney
will not even prepare the case for the
Grand Jury. 1t has been the common
law that, in order to make the killing
murder, it is requisite that the victim die
within year and day after the stroke
is received or cause of death administered
in the computation of which the whole
day upon which the hurt is done shall be
reckOned the first. So that if the Presi-
dent be alive one minute after the stroke
of twelve on the night of July I'd, 1899,
Guiteau will be free of the charge of muir
der. Until the physicians officially de-
clare that all likelihood of death from
the shot has passed away Guiteau will
retain his present quarters. In the face
of his confession of the crime, he will be
entitled by law to be considered innocent
until he is adjudged guilty in court.
Should the cOnvaleScence of the President
extend over considerable period, for
that period, at least, no prosecution
against Guiteau will be begun, and should
the President be restored to vigor before
the year and a day are completed, yet
with the possibility that the wound may
not be fatal within that time the District
Attorney will exercise sound discretion
as to bringing Guiteau before the court
for assault with intent to kill. All this
makes unlikely an early trial Of Guiteau,
unless the President should die. Then
an indictment, trial and plea of insanity
would swiftly follow. In case of such a
trial there could be but two defences:
one, that the President died not of the
pistol shot, but of the treatment of the
physicians: and the other the insanity
of Guiteau. The latter defence would
probably add largely to the text of future
trusts upon medical Jurisprudence. All
the superintendent of insane asylums
be summoned, and possibly some new
light thrown upon veNed questions in
medical jurisprudence. The same plea
will doubtless be entered on trial for
assault with intent to kill, and in such
trial it is not likely the District Attorney
will try the experiment of making two
cases out Of one. If Guiteau is not con-
victed and not declared insane, he will be
sentenced to eight years at hard labor in
the penitentiary at Auburn, \. y. If
found guilty and insane his case will be
certified to the Secretary of the Interior,
who is required by law to make an order
for his incarceration in the | nited States
Insane Asylum on the nights of the East
ern Branch, opposite those he row occu
pies. If, after being sent to the asylum,
Guiteau RECEIVERS his sanity, then by sec
ton 1875, "When any person confined in
the hospital for the insane, charged with
crime or convicted of crime, shall be re-
stored to his sanity the Superintendent
OF the hospital shall give notice thereof to
the Judge Of the criminal court and de
liver him to the court in obedience to the
proper precept"
GOV. PLAISTED'S TELEGRAM. BANGORs
CONGRATULATIONS.
In response to telegram sent by Gov
Foster, of Ohio, relative to appointing
day of public Thanksgiving and prayer in
case the President fully RECEIVERS, Gov
Plaisted promptly sent the following
TO Hon. Charles Foster Gov of Ohio, Columbus
Ohio | heartily concur in your proposal for a
day of public thanksgiving and prayer in view of
the hopeful condition of the President, the day to
be fixed as soon as the public mind shall rest in
the belief that the calamity of his death is avoided
The universal sentiment OF the people of Maine is
one OF profound gadness to Almighty God for his
4. ~ N 6put
against the deep damnatlon of the attempt to take
his life. HARRIS NJ. PLAIsTED
BANGOR, July Is. At meeting of the
City Council this evening, a resolution
was adopted requesting the mayor to
send to the President of the United
States and his family, the sincere con-
gratulations of the citizens of this city on
the apparent recovery from danger of the
President of our nation from the assassin'S
bullet.
THE MEDICAL TREATMENT OF THE PRES
IDENT.
The Boston Journals correspondent
says: DR.. Bliss and his associates give
the Presidents case careful and unremit-
ting attention, and make their prescrip-
tons after due consideration of every
feature OF the case, and thus far are well
satisfied with the result, us are the Pres
ldent, his family, and close friends. His
case-is similar to large class of gunshot
wounds. Physically he is weaker than
SIX or eight days ago, and yet his i'm
provement has been gradual every day. |
They have succeeded in fighting off the |
dangers that have threatened, secondary
hemorrhage for instance, and others IA
mliar to physicians, and no new danger
Gus symptoms have been shown. Not |
all this, the President is a
very sick man. The suppuration alone
is terribly weakening, and the contine-
mcnt would make a we'll man sick, and |
the physicians think that so long as they |
succeed in fighting off dangerous symp- |
toms and keep the wound in a healing |
state that his condition is one of steady |
but very Slow Improvement. They do |
not look and cannot hope for an immedi- |
ate gain in strength. Indeed, he may
grow weaker before he gets better. The
they think, is in Il fair way to |
heal, beginning from within. The nature
Of the suppuration shows this. His re
c"very must be very slow, and it will be |
weeks before much increase of strength
III DC apparent For nlne days Or. Bliss |
did not take off his clothes and was con-
stantly at the Presidents bedside, getting
only occasional snatches of rest on a |
lounge IN an ante-room. Everything
that can be done is done, and taken alto
gether, the condition of the patient,
though yet critical, is such as to Justify a |
strong hope of his ultimate recovery,
which, however, must be very tedious,
covering weeks and months.
HE JENNINGS COOLING APPARATUS.
Mr. Jennings cooling apparatus in use
at the White House consists of cast iron
chamber about 10 feet long and 3 wide |
and 3high, filled with vertical iron frames
covered with cotton terry or Turkish |
towelling. These screens are placed one
half an inch apart, and represent some
1000 feet of cooling surface. Immediately
over these vertical screens is placed a coil
of mol 1fy 10 =