Middletown transcript., 1881-07-08
PRESERVING PEACE.

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the occasion was early recognized by
the authorities, and two companies of
the United States troops, now in bar
racks at the arsenal, were placed on
active duty at once one at the White
House, to make sure the quiet so
needed by the wounded President, and
another at the jail to insure that the
law should have its course and the
assassin not be wrested from its hands
to be dealt with as fiercely, and as un-
lawfully as he had dealt with the Chief
Magistrate of the people.
Gen. Sherman has been criticised in
in consequence of his ordering troops
on duty, as after the first hour OF two
it was not thought that there was any
danger of a popular outbreak. Gen.
Sherman says, in responce to this, that
his principal object was to save the
limited police force of the city as much
as possible, and in addition too much
precautiOn, he thought could not be
taken.
GUITEAU AND HIS SURROUNDINGS.
Guiteau has boarded for about six
weeks at the house of Mrs. Grant, at
924 Fourteenth street He was not at
all liked by the other boarders, and
had very little to say to them or they
to him. He was looked upon as mo-
rose, and was quite rude at the table,
pulling up the dishes and helping him.
self plentifully without seeing OF caring
whether others were supplied. Upon
one occasion in the course of CONVEX
sation at the table he expressed some
admiration of Senator Conkling. He
had no baggage, and two or three days
ago Mrs. Grant suggested to him that
she would like to have some money, or
at least some reference as to his ca
pacity to pay. He said that he was
very well acquainted with the PreSidet,
with Secretary Blaine and other men,
bers of the cabinet, that they were his
friends, and would be glad to vouch
for him. In short time afterwards
he said to her that he would receive
remittances in a day or two, and he
did not think it would be worth while
to trouble the President and Secretary
Blaine about it. That same day he left
the house without saying word of
his intention, and took quarters at the
Riggs House. His room was next to
that of the Rev. Mr.. Shipper, pastor
of the All Souls Church, and Mr..
Shipper says he has seen him at his
church several times listening intently
to the sermon. He indicated, in the
brief conversations which he may have
had from time to time with the other
boarders, that he was devoted to the
occult sciences, and he made particu-
lar point Of attending the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church on the
occasion of a review of the doctrines
and opinions Of Bob Ingersoll, by the
Rev. DR.. Paxton. His fellOw-bOard-
ers had no idea of whom he was OF
where he came from, but looked upon
him as a somewhat strange and eccen-
tric person. They, however, do not
believe that he was insane, OF, at any
rate, they say he gave no indications of
any ALTERATION Of mind. Mr. Shippen,
OH the night that Guiteau absconded
from his clearinghouse, missed one of
a package of new collars which he had
just purchased, and there is no doubt
that Guiteau took it, as he had on one
of precisely similar pattern when he
shot the President this moring.
Guiteau came to this city several
days before the Inauguration of the
President, and has been here since. He
first obtained rooms in a boarding.
house kept by Mrs. L. Lockwood, at
No. SO Twelfth street northwest. He
was not liked in the house, and so as
to get rid of him as soon as possible he
was put in an upper and small room.
About the middle of March his bill was
presented to him, but he said he had
no money to pay it, but that Senator
Logan would endorse him for any
amout. On being asked about him
Senator Logan said he was crazy, and
that he was not responsible for him in
any manner, and that Guiteau was a
source of constant annoyance to him,
bothering him night and day. Finally
Mrs. Lockwood told him she could not
keep him any longer, and he left, re-
questing that she say nothing of the
little matter of unpaid board bill, as it
might hurt him, and besides that, he
would call as soon as he got a $4,000
per annum pOsition-consul at Mar
seilles, France-for which he was an
applicant. To one of the boarders he
said he was an applicant for the posi-
tion of minister to France, but did not
want it known.
When asked this afternoon if anyone
else was connected with him in the
assassination plot he said, ''Not a soul +;
was enough to plan and execute the
affair, and l alone am responsible for
it. | have had this on my mind for
the past six weeks, and would have
shot him as he was riding out with
Mrs. Garfield just before she left the
city, but she looked so pale and sickly
that did not have the heart to do it ::
I postponed it until to-day"
Guiteau has been roaming about the
city for some days, generally calling
himselfa journalist, but hereare so many
erratie disreputable people constantly
here making the same false pretense
that neither himself nor his talk at
tracted much attention. He now acts
insanely, but most persons, Col. Inger-
soil, who knows him we'll amon0 tho