The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-03
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
WASHINGTON, July I'd
James Russell LoaCelg, minister, Etc
London.
The President Of the United States
was shot this morning by an aSsas-
sin named Charles Guitteau The
weapon was a large sized revolver.
The President had just reached the
Executive Mansion.
JAMES G. BLAINE
p.m.-An effort just made tp
probe for the ball was Intellectual
pm-The President is some
what restless, but is suffering less
pain. Pulse, Up. Some nausea and
vomiting have recently occurred.
Considerable hemorrhage has TAKEN
place from the wound.
(Signed) D. w. Bliss, NJ. D.
The Presidents symptoms at this
time are more unfavorable. 1t IS,
thought there is an internal hemOr-
rhage.
p.m.-The Presidents symp-
toms continue to grow more unfa-
Yorable.
2.4O p.m.-Dr. Beekwith, an ODD
physician Of the Presidents, says
that President Garfield has but few
chanches Of recovery, and that he
may not live twelve hours.
The general impression at the Elk
ecutiVe Mansion is that the PFesi-
dent is sinking.
2.45 p.m.-No official bulletin hsS
been furnished by DR.. Bliss since
pm. The condition Of the President
has been growing more unfavorabie
since that time. Internal hem0T-
Thage is taking place, and grave
fears are felt as to the result.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
The President had alighted from
his carriage, and was passing
through the ladies' room to the ears
When about five feet inside of thes
room the assassin, who was within
three feet Of him, fired one shot
The President was daZed ana
made no attempt at self-protectioE.
Blaine had turned towards one door
as the President fell. White, who
attends the ladies' waiting roCEE.
rushed to him and raised up his
head. Blaine also rushed to the as
sistance of the President. Tha.
assassin passed out towards CaptaIza
Parkee, ticket agent, who jumpe8
! through the Windaw, and caught
| the assassin who made no resistance
Officer Carney, a depot policeman,
brushed up and took hold of the
assassin, and Immediately afterWara
Officer Scott also took hold OF him.
Parkee let the officers have him and
! turned his attention to the President
Help came and the President was
taken upstairs. He said not word
until he was laid down. He aSksA
that his shoes be taken of, saying
he felt pain in his feet. AS soon as
his shoes were removed he said bE
Secretary Window, "NOw write ami
send a telegram to Mrs, Garfield
saying I feel considerably better,
and if she feels well enough, ten
her to come to Washington IZEl--
mediately." This dispatch was SEM
and a special train was at once seIat
to Long Branch for Mrs. Garfelf-
pm.-Hon. Samuel ShellabargE,
who has just left the bedside Of tbs
President, says that there seems tES
be absolutely no hope Of his Tallyi1g-
His symptoms are growing more
and more alarming, and his death Is
thought to be very near.
SurgeOn-General Barnes says thEEe
is absolutely no hope Of the recovery
of the President. He is probably tbB
best man in the country to knG9B
a case like this.
The following physicians are iB
consultation at the Executive Mar
sion: Drs. Bliss, Ford, Huntington
and Woodward, U. S. A; Townsend,
Lincoln, Reyborn, Norris, PuTylS,
Patterson, Surgeon Barnes and Sur
geOn-General Waith.
A bulletin Of his condition from
the Executive Mansion will here
after be telegraphed every half hOEEE-
THE ASSASSIN.
The district jail in the eastern gx-
tremity of the city was visited By q
reporter after II o'clock, for the pT1-
pose of obtaining an interview with
Charles Guitteau, the would-be Is
sassin of President Garfield. OficsrS
refused admittance to the building.
They stated as a reason therefor that
they were acting under instructions,
received from the encouragement
the purport of which were that no
one should be allowed to see the
prisoner. At first, indeed, the officers
emphatically denied that the HAD
had been conveyed to thes
Jail, fearing, it appears, that,
should the fact be made known that
he was there, the building would be
attacked by mob. Information had
reached them that such a movement
was contemplated. A large guard
composed of regulars from the bar
racks, and the metropolitan police
force are momentarily expected 30
arrive at the Jail to be in readiness
to repil any attack. The statements
that the assassin is Guitteau, was
verified by the officer in charge, IN
the Jail. The prisoner arrived and
was placed in the cell about 1890
o'clock, just one hour after the
shooting occurred. He has a sandy