, 1881-07-03

| lighthouses. and newspaper offices OF Chicago
should be the chief actor In such scene. Chi
| cagu had no reason ut any time to feel proud or
! MIR. Guiteau, and Is gE1eved beyond measure
| now that he should ever have claimed citizen
ship here. Mr.. Guiteau Is a man now 80 years OF
| age. He was born In Freeport, Ill, where his
| father-the cashier Of a bank. for many years,
| but now dead-was respected citizen. he
studied in Ann Arbor, and went from there to
| the Oneida Community 10 New York. HIS His
| peculiar people Ut whom Mr. Noyes was
| the head, and the young man hatl read much In
earlier days of the literature Of the Community.
| His life there. however. was neither very lung
aes xsi{ na ndRP et5 1 tic s ms
| into the common fund when he entered the
| Community there. This was ut FIRST refused
him, and IN 1856 he began suit against the
Community for the
RECOVERY OF THIS MONEY.
Finally, with tho aid of Mr. George Scoyiilc. the
lawyer OF this city, who had married his sister,
he succeeded in getting some OF It back: and
after very nrief ;t: residence @ n r. Now 20 aofk *
1863 9s lawyer, othcing at No. to LII Sale street.
The following year he moved his quarters to No.
yer. At this period he gut into trouble with tho
Young Mems Library, from which be was
charged with stealing some books He was
brought suit against the Association. Towards
the close Of ls7u he married young lady in this
they lived unhappi'y for u few months. and she
finally got q divorce from him on account Of his
cruelty and ill-treatmenr. He renatned III New
residence there he got into difficulty on account
Of his cheating tho hotels out Of their board
bills, was imprisoned In Ludlow Street Jail, and
was rctcaseu only by tho cxertions' OF his
brother-in-nw. In 1875 he was back In tho city,
otIiclng ut No. l76 Fifth avenue, and living for
bill at this hotel, US be had failed to pay It Ut SO
many Others. he was summartly elected. The
following year he. was over ut No. 147
live ut the Gault House, but was put
out OF there for his peculIaritics. During this
year he went to New York and neain resumed
the practice Of tho law there. Owing to his IT.
regularities whom intrustcd with the collection
Of debts,-for he collected bis share first and
then let hts client do the reHt of the collecting
tho New York Herutd, his practices being COM
mented on In very unfavorable terms. After
October Of TINT year returned to Chicago. In
January. 1877. he broke out with his religious
mania. lie had conceived the idea that sns Sec
the destruction OF Jerusalem. and that we were
now living under the new dispensauou.
He tried to enforce these doctrines through
pamphlets and books which he printed. In
July OF that year he was arrested on
money which he had been employed to collect
and was sent to the County Jail, but was re-
leased on the 2sth Of July. the Grand Jury fall
that he again delivered his lectures at various
pr, 1871, was over in Detroit Mich. Here he
bill. Jill was as arrested in the ' interior N> Of
the State; and, while being taken
tie train and escaped: it was at Inst thoaght
that he had been killed. but this, unfortunately.
turned out to be un error In 1873 be was back
in the city, ofcIug ut No. 90 Randolph street.
and employed IS an insurance agent
IuS DISHONESTY, HOWEVER,
drove him out OF the business, and he spent his
time, from that period till the time Of the muir
TO deliver bis lectures, turning up occasionally
at his brother-in-law's house for the purpose OF
getting some clean clothes and decent meal
denly appeared in New York, at the headqunr-
ters Ut the National and State Com
sms a Se .e naS here nsadea sad IL osass e9i
transferred his activity to q broader sphere.
He produced printed speech which he said be
aa poon
After President Garheld's Inauguration, be
wandered to washngton in ausst Of Consul,
had rendered during tho campaign. He also
bore with him y petition sigued BY one or @ two
ss a S5 tbs s sss who sy aad pn olar es
to get rid OF him, and without being
aware Of the rnscally features IN the mans
character He hung around there al through
.Iune, left again for Washington. He purchased
the ticket that day at the office Of the Baltimore
acted quite. nationally at that time and
showed no signs OF insanity. all that
Washington dispatches where mention is made
of his having been observed hanging around
the White House for some days. An idea OF the
mans personal appearance eau be gained By the
cut, published 10 this mornings TRIBUNE, which
was made from photograph taken by E. L.
Brand, Of this city. It will not surprise those
in mi In wit ill.,
formed that Dir. Brand ueyerswas patd for his
photograph.