The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-09
HOW GUITEAu LOOKS.
"oath's" Graphic Pen Picture Of the Assassin
in Court.

Avid, fierce man, with certain bravery
of character. such Is Booth, might excite the
animal interest with his wildness; but this
bastard, who killed without offense, and for
no purpose beyond the flthiest thirst for no
toriety, merited neither curiosity nor rage.
detected him in an instant after entered
the room, though he sat among many other
people in the same kind Of chair,and with
out any railing, officers or anything to hedge
him in. observed q sort Of stubbed head
of hair, such as is seen in criminal pictures
of the English, with hair rather bristIy, set
low toward the front, and rather fiat back in
the corners, uncleaniy looking hair-boorish.
Under this hair was nasty skin,a little like
. corpse, with some reddishness overspread-
ing Its generally yellowish dampness.
The face was rather long and pear-shaped.
Around the chin was = considerable quanti-
ty of brownish beard, yet without any
warmth in its sandy hair. The hair, the
skin and the beard all seemed to be dusty
snl dampened, as though out of some grave
yard. The perspiration of this man appeared
to be At fault. There was nothing woeful in
his face, though it was wolfish. In the mid
die of his forehead was deep, varying wrin-
kle, the principal sign to me Of probable de-
caying mental faculties. 1t is generally said
that depression between the eyes shows .
memory we'll gene. In this case II was =
deep depression, with sort of wrinkle at
tachment to 1t, which was asitated right and
left, like his fitting eyes, which had sharp
ness about then, but net much rest except
at the times when something occurred to ex-
cite his vanity.
II you were to meet this man, small IS he
looks to be in the body,in lane somewhere,
or in the woods, you would 60 past very
quickly, and might wsnder As you passed
him whether he was little crazy or very
wicked. As friend described him to me,
he was one Of those men who always wanted
to do something that was not the thing to be
done. Ijudge that he belongs in the num-
Der of that large tribe Of Unbalanced Ameri-
cans who think that to publish book of any
kind is lofty pursuit, even If nobody reads
the book but the author, while to be on q
salary Of a newspaper, and serve ones day
and generation, is rather beneath human in
telligence.
looked at this man again and again, but
never with any increasing interest, merely
wondering how to set before my mind and
the public little Of the wondering which
was in his countenance. BY this do not
mean more than that something seemed to
drive the man on and on from point to point,
from thought to thought, and let him rest
nowhere, as If voice was always crying out
"Move onw whenever he halted. Ifyou
were to take your eye of him few minutes
and would bring it back, he seems to have
gone hundred miles since you looked al
him before. That rapid, nervons head had
drawn him through great periods Of space
and of agitating suggestions. He could not
any more pause than mad dog, ever want
ing to drink, ever frightened at the poo, ,evel
swapping, ever dashing on. asked nysel
the question, if he was crazy, and it looked
to me very probable. The observation o
persons know who have seen much Of Gun
teau since the killing Is to the effect that HI
| Is not cognzant in mind.