Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-08
THE ASSASSIN GUITEAU.
AN ACCOUNT or HIS DREADFUL
DEED FROM HIS OWN LIPS.
His 0elibsra'e Preparatioas-ssaring the
ERd-HOs the President Fsll-Ihs
Arrest-6uilsaufs sspirations-
Expects to be President 81
Wants to Marry. ...-,
A CHANCE FOR SOME WHEELING GIRL.

cupying over page in fine type, The
assassin gives his genealogy, and de-
tailed history OF his whole liie-his
connection with the Oneida community,
his experience as lawyer, his adyen-
lures As theological lecturer, his SER
vices as a campaign speaker, his hopes
and disappointments as an office-seeker,
etc. We give the concluding portion OF
his story referring to the shooting, the
very language being his own, aud taken
as it fell from his lips by a shorthand
writer:
My mind was perfectly clear in re-
gard to removing the PRESIDENT / had
not the slightest doubt about my duty
TO the Lord and to the American peo-
pie 10 irving TO remove the President,
and want to say here, as smphsicaliy
as words caa nlske it, that, from the
moment when fully decided to remove
the President, | have never had the
slightest shadow on my mind; thy
propose has been Just as clear and Just
as determined. as anything could be. j
believed that ! Was acting under
and this Divine pressure was upon ms
fr-m lhe time when / fully resolved to
remove him until | actually shot him.
Ii was only bv nerring myself to the
utmost that did it at all, and | never
had the slightest doubt as to the Divine
inspiration OF the sct, and that il was for
the hest interests OF the American peo-
pie -
Having heard on Friday from the
papers, aud also 10y my inquiries Ot the
tioorkeeper at the White House, Friday
evening, that the President was going
10 Long Branch Saturday morning,
resolved 10 remove him at the depot
took my breakfast ~ the Riggs House
about eight O'Clock. | ate well and felt
well in body aud mind. ! went into
I.aiaveIte square and sat there some
little time after breakfast, waiting Tor
nine O'Clock TO come, and then went
IN the depot and [ got there about ten
IN nutes alter nine. | rode there from
the park in bob tailed car. lleft the
car, walk .d up TO bOOtblack, got my
boots blacked, and inquired for man
named John Taylor, whom, two weeks
before, | had spoken to about taking me
out toward the Congressional Cemetery.
They told me that Taylor's carriage was
not there, and there were three or
Jour haekmen there who were veryaDX'
ious to serve me, and finally | noticed q
cslored man, and said TO him. What
will YOU take me out to the COugreS
sional Cemetery for% He says, We'll, l
will take you out there for - 'All
right said |, 'if | want TO use YOU |
will let YOU know At that moment
these other hackmen were pressing me
70 get my business, and / said TO them,
Keep quiet: You are too fast on this,
and [ told this colOred man privately
that il ] wanted his services would
let him know in a few minutes. then
went into the depot and took my private
papers which intended for the press
iiucluding a revised edition Of my book,
sThe Truth, Companion to the Bib'e),
and stepped up to the news stand and
asked the young man in charge If
could leave those papers with him lev
moments, and he said Certainly and
he took them and Place1 them up
against the wall on the top
oi some other papers. This
was about twenty minutes after mae,
and
1 Went into tie Ladies Waiting Rom
Hud | looked around, saw there
we're quite a good many people there IN
the depot and carriages outside, but
did not see the Presidents carriagS. |
examined my revolver 10 see that It was
aIl right. and took off the paper that /
had wrapped arOaud 1t to keeplhe s
tur. ,f. / waited FIVE or SIX minutes
lorysr sat down on a seat in the ladies'
rooTn and very soon the President drove
nm He was in company with gentlt-
man who. understand, was Mr.. Blaine,
cp1 | am satisfied that it was Mr..
Rrsine although / did not reCO2-
Dizs him. This gentleman looked very
nd. and he had peculiar kind OF head
lar ON. that | did not recognize as that
ri Mr. Blaine. | am satisfied that IL was
Air Blame, now that nv attention has
l,..n speci4llv called 10 it, b baca1selt vas
the sauce gentleman that ! saw with the
Pre,ident the night before, and know
posi,iyely that that gentleman was Mr.
Blaine. The President and this gentle
man drove up in a plain single seated
carriage with one horse; this gentleman,
I think. was driving. 1t Was q singIe
csrrisSe-s single seated top buggy. The
Prea,dant seemed to be in very Garnet
and private conversation with this gen
tIamsn who evidently was Mr.. Blame,
oftnouyh AZ the time did not recognlzs
Iin, "a Mr.. Blaine. They sat in the
,.,rriaye | should say some two min
nrps. they had rot completed their
,rnuyersation when they reached the
aannt and during the interval OF two
minntas they finished their converse
lion During this time they were
engaged in very earnest and private
conversation, as | have said. The
President got out on the pavement $'e
and Mr.. Blame ON the other side. Ghey
entered the ladies' room; l stood thers
watching the President and they passed
by me. Before they reached the depot
Ihsd been promensding up and down
the ladies' room between the ticket
cpf,s door and the news stand door,
sn,ce of some ten or tEelve iees 4
walked M and down there should say
two ar three times HorSIng myset up,
81 kney the hour WAS at hand. The
Pcs4,ient and MI. Blaine came into the
Is5,as' room and walked hight by me;
thav aid not notice me, as there we're
onits a number of ladies' and chill iren
IN the room.
How the President Fell.
There was quite a large crowd Of
,;cket purchasers at the gentieneu's
t;cSst Office IN the adjoining room; the
Jsnot seemed to be quite full OF people.
Tbs,a was unite a crowd and commouon
arnnnd and the President was In the
act oI passinV from the ladies' room to
shs main entrance ttsrouyh the door. 1
should say be was about iour OF nEs
feet from the door nearest the uches
Office, in the act OF passing through ne
a or to get through the uePot " Lne
cars. He Vas about three. OF Iouf ises
from the door. stood i've or sT Iees
behind him, right in the miaaie OF