Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-10

him for a few minutes, and he said, Ger
tainly,' and he took them and placed them
up against the wall on top Of some other
papers. This was about twenty minutes
after nine, and I went into the ladies' watt
ing room and looked around; saw there
were quite a good manypeople there, in the
depot and carriages outside, but did not
see the Presidents carriage. / examined
my revolver to see that it was all right,
and took off the paper that | had
wrapped around it to keep the
moisture off. | waited five or six min
utes longer, sat down on q seat In the
ladies' room, and very soon the President
drove up. He was in company with gem
tleman who, l understand, was Mr.. Blaine,
and l am satisfied that he was Mr.. Blaine.
although l did not recognize him. This
gentleman looked very old, and he had q
peculiar kind oI headgear on, that did not
recognize as that OF Mr.. Blaine. am satisfied
that it was Mr.. Blaine, now that nv atten-
tion has been especially called to 1t, because
1t was the same gentleman that saw with
the President the night before, and know
positively that that gentleman was Mr..
Blaine. The President and this gentleman
drove up in plain single-seated carriage,
with one horse. This gentleman, think.
was driving. 1t was a single carriages
single-seated top,buggY. The President
seemed to be in very earnest and private
conversation with this gentleman, who
evidently was Mr.. Blaine, although at
the time L did not recognize him as
Mr.. Blaine. They sat In the carriage
| should say some two minutes; they
had not completed their conversation when
they reached the depot, and during the In
terval OF two minutes they finished their
conversation. During this time they were
engaged in very earnest and private conyer-
sation, as have said. The President got
out on the pavement side and MIR. Blaine on
the other side. They entered the ladies'
room; stood there watching the President
and they passed by me. Before they reach
ed the depot | had been promenading up
and down the ladies' room between the
ticket Office door and the news stand door.
space of some ten or twelve feet. | walk
ed up and down there | should say two or
three times working myself up, as knew
the hour was at hand. The President and
Mr.. Blaine came into the ladies' room and
walked right by me; they did not notice me,
as there were quite number Of ladies and
children in the room.
"There was quite a large crowd OF ticket
purchasers at the gentlemen's ticket office
In the adjoining room; the depot seemed to
be quite full of people. There was quite a
crowd and commotiOn around, and the
President was in the act of passing from the
ladies' room to the main entrance through
five feet from the door nearest the ticket
office, in the act of passing through the door
to get through the depot to the cars. He was
about three or four feet from the door. l
stood five or six feet behind him, right In
the middle of the room, and as he was
in the act of walking away from me pulled
out the revolver and fred. He Strengthened
up and threw his head back and seemed to
be perfectly bewildered. He did not seem
to know what struck him. Hooked at him:
be did not drop; l thereupon pulled again.
He dropped his head, seemed to reel, and
fell over. do not know where the first
shot hit; l aimed at the hollow of his
back; did not aim for any particular
place, but knew If got those two bullets
In his back he would certainly go. was in
diagonal direction from the President, to
the northwest, and supposed both shots
struck"
What followed after this has been so often
told that 1t is not necessary to repeat it.