Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-12
ORIGINAL DEFECTNE

to another cell. While Brown was in the
! cell be ornamented the wall with pictures cut
| from the illustrated papers. Above the door
is motto card, with the inscription, "Be
faithful On the upper part of the wall
alongside OF the bed is a woodcut represent
ing General Washington and his wife below
| it is good-sized woodcut of Garfield and
cartoon from Puck representing the
President and Cabinet getting into a
Tally-ho coach. All these pictures were
In the cell when Guitteau enteredit. Guitteau
| receives the same treatment as the rest of the
prisoners. His prison cot is furnished with
straw mattress, two blankets and a pillow.
Every person is required to keep his cell in
order. He leads very humdrum life, but
probably gets better meals than he averaged
on the outside, and certainly he has to make
less shifts to get them. At 9 P. NJ. the gas is
turned off and the lights in the cells go out,
when there is nothing for him to do but 90
to bed. He eats and sleeps well. There
could be no severer punishment to per-
son of his depraved mind and per
verted feelings than the seclusion and
ignorance in which he is kept. His egotism
and vanity are immense, and nothing troubles
him save that he is not allowed to revel in the
details Of his crime. General J. S. Crocker.
the Warden of the jail, said to yeur CORE
spendent to-day: Since he came here he
has never manifested any sign of regret or
remorse on account of his act. He takes
it, and would like to talk about i. coutinu.
ally, if allowed. He was very inquisitive
at first in regard to events, but NO
one was allowed to talk to him or give him
any attention, and be has stopped asking
questions, because he finds it of no use. He
lounges on his bed good deal of his time.
Sometimes he walks up and down his cell for
exercise, and he reads about half his time
After he found that he could not get hold of
any newspapers, he asked for some reading
matter. mentioned several books we had here,
but he did not care for them, and said be would
rather have Bible. He was given one. and
said he would read it through by sections.
l suppose he meant that he would start at
Genesis and 20 straight through, as that is
the way it seems he is doing. Although he
receives no information, he surmises that the
President is still alive, from the fact of his
not being arraigned. During the warm
weather this week he wore only shirt
and pair of pantaloons, and went
about his cell barefooted. Once he com.
planned of feeling i'll, and the Jail physician
found that he was somewhat bilious, and pre-
scribed for him." When General Crocker
approaches his cell, Guitteau always endeav.
ors to get into conversation, with the hope of
getting some information but the Warden
will tell him nothing, and he retires sulkily to
his bed and goes on with his biblical studies.
The officer who locked up Guitteau Saturday
in cell at the police headquarters, few
minutes after the shooting, said to-day, 1.-THE
man looked frightened when he was brought
in. He was very nervous and his eyes were
swapping and wild. put him into cell as
quickly as possible, when he at once became
cool and deliberate, and when l asked him
univ ha had foI
he calmly and firmly said, 1t will be of no
use to ask me questions, for 1 am lawyer
He refused to say anything whatever regard
ing the affair at the depot. One of the police
officers who helped to take Guitteau from the
police headquarters to the Jail says, 81 don't
think the wretch is so far gone with insanity
that he is not afraid to die. He was in alb.
ject terror on his way to the JAIL"
Pacific Coast Postal Changes.
WASHINGTON, July 11th. - Postoffices
tablished-Arlington, San Bernardino coun:
ty, Agnes H. Galloway, Postmistress; Corn
wall Station, Contra Costa county, Charles
P. Lyndall, Postmaster Gilbert, Inyo coun-
ty. Colonel Nathan Gilbert, Postmaster
lEcno., Umatilla county, Or. NJ. G.
agDb1s aaaDE ss,tns hrassui Apache aSn
son, Postmaster. Pcstofices discontin-
ued-Beale, Kern county; La Graciosa,
Santa Barbara county; Wakefield, San Joa-
quin county; Metallic, Esmeralda county,
New; Silver Wells, Wasco county, Or Sius-
law, Lane county, Or. Postmasters appoint.
ed-John Care, Green Valley, Ell Dorado
county; Thomas Jones, Henley, Siskiyou
county; E. S. Wilcox, Julian, San Diego
county; Isaac NIyer, Pancheo county Fran
els e. Patrick. Table Bluff, Humboldt
county; John Poe, Zezem, Lake county;
Ebert B. Lewis, Granite, Grant county, Or;
James A. Shaw, Fulda, Klickitat county,
w. T.; John Diminick, Pioneer, Clarke
county, W. T.; w. f. Harvey, Wasatch
Summit county, Utah; William Koshland,
Signal, Malone county, A. T.