New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-15
GUITEAU'S UNLIMITED PRESUMPTION.

OUIIEAU'S UNLIMITED PRESUMPTION.
IBY TELEGRAPH TRInUNeI
WASHINGTON, July 14.-Secretary Blalne's private
secretary, in looking the Secretarys private
correspondence of recent date, found number of
letters from Gulteau. The fellow applicant
for the consulshp at Paris, and professed To have
convinced the President of his fitness and to have
secured the active aid of Senator Logan He seemed
to think that all that required to attain success
was the good offices of the Secretary Of State and
he wrote as if he thought they were not difficult to
get. He based his claim chiefly if not entirely
upon his speech" printed copies of which he in
closed.
After the nomination of Robertson and Senator
Conkling assumptions of warlike attitude Guitcau
wrote Secretary Blaine abusive letter, declaring
that he ought to be put out of the Cabinet. 1t is re-
called that Guiteau anxious to be employed in
Maine during the late political campaign as "a
stuinpspeaker, and wrote several letters on the sub
lect, setting forth his merits He seems not to
efforts to attract Secretary Blane's favorable notice
The Secretary, who will of course he an important
witness In the trial OF Guiteau, declines allow the
letters to be published.
THE ASSASSIN'S CAREER IN NETWORK.
A LAW CASE IN WHICH WAS DEFENDANT AND
APPELLANT-wnAT HIS LAWYER KNOWS AND
SAYS ABOUT HIM.
j. III. Whitccgge, LAWYER of No 1916
Chambersst conversed with TRIBUNE reporter recent
~ regarding his acquaintance with Charles Guteau
"hiie iatlcr was III TINS city In lc73 and 1874
When first met the man." said Mr. Whiteepge he
confined in the Ludlow Jail AT that time he
had desk room in an Office in Broadway. stephen Eng
sh had procured an order of arrest against him
wrongful retention certain moneys which he had col
lected Gulteau sent for This about the middle
of October 1878. had not the slightest idea who he
was He referred me TO a minister uptown, whose name
do not recoect,at the that he himself
was lawyer. He acknowledged that he had collected
tue moneys, but claimed that he had earned them ALL
81 eli for1r hon bo had
been transaeting important matter and the client and
he had concluded to separate His desire was that I
should get him released on ball. but Informed him that
did not engage in that sort OF business told him how
that would write any of his friends and
what they would do / obtained on October 81 All
order to show why the arrest should not be
vacated and served it the plaintiffs attorney Thomas
Darlington, now of Darlington Bowman, of No, 206
Broadway. The argued days afterward
before Judge Robinson who denied motion with $40
costs. Guiteau then insisted that | should take an
appeal saying that his parents were wealthy that he
had an income and could afford 1t without trouble
lie promised TO pay me handsome fee. I
told him that lawyers did not so much
about the fec when their reputation was at all
involved but he insisted that he would nav
me 500 before the decided Thereupon gave
hln note to j. Dickson IL Brother, printers telling him
t. have them print his appeal papers own respon
sibity, and not on mine These papers, when finished
sent to a my Office notified the fact TO chi
teau, and he came to between and O'Clock in the
afternoon with check payable, think, the Nassau
Bank. 1t was for some 1928 lie wanted to give him
my cheek in return deducting amount of Dickson,s
b declined to do this, and gave his check back to
him. advised him to go to Dicksons and SETTLE and he
said he would. He wanted mo to let him
take the papers IN the but OF refused keep
ing them until the next day. afcrward found that
in the meantime he had been in my other and had
asked clerk for the papers then sent the printed
papers back TO Dickson, and possibly he NAV have them
Some days after this an elderly LADY, OF n,easont nm