New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-05


he had suddenly the conclusion that Democratic
GUITEAU'S CAREER IN NETWORK.
TRYING THE PATIENCE OF REPUBLICAN MANAGERS
LEGAL COMPLICATIONS.
"reminiscences of the dOings of Charles j.
Guiteau. the assailant Of President Garfield, told
freely by those who knew him In this city. He to
be possessed Of few redeemng features He simply
shallow fraud, and swinded small scale. When he
made his appearance here in the political campaign last
summer, LIE carried roll Of manuscript, which he
deavored to read to anyone at the various Republican
| headquarters who would give him audience. This
proved to be disoined political harangne principally
devoted tolaudaon OF General Grant and the obligations
which the Republican party was under to him. He had
with him. alsO various notices OF his lectures clipped
from western country papers He proessed to be able
TO cope in debate with OF the Democratic orators
the questions of the day. few minutes tak with him,
however, sufficient to convince any experienced
politician that he utterly untitled to speak before
any audience.
AS he solicited loans of from all connected with
the political headquarers from the charnen to the
mailing clerks, he soon began to be considered q nuis
ance and was given the cold shoulder by all Ncverthe
less, he haunted the headquarters until the
held On the night OF election he engaged
| room at the Coleman House, in which the
headquarters Of the Republican Central Cam
paign Club He unable to pay for
his room and left as security with the clerk small
Said Mr.. HASTE. OF the Executive Committee of
| the Republican Central Cam align Club
"Guitcau possessed OF the Of any
one ever He claimed to be of the finest
tors the State OF Illinois produced. few minutes
conversation with him. however, sufficient to
vince any one that his prcensions based
| foundation whatever He simply regarded
of the queer fishes that every Presidential canvass
| brings to the surface, and he merely tolerated
around the headquarters
Mr.. Mancrre, the chairman OF the Republican Central
Campaign Club. said yesterday:
era He wan ed to- be- given clSncs to show what he
could do! For this he desired that Chickcrng
Han should be- engaged and he had doubt Of his abil
n1iecr speakers the probability is that we might have
M h WoS two nm hts n n we found h" "
lofty for that and so TIE result was that we refused to
Republican rooms bnt he annoyed see-ctary Johnson
Committee in the Fifth Avcnne Hotel not little.
nuisance, and would 60 for the time. but nvara.
bly, he returned 10 ncstcr General Arthur and scere-
II he could get chance to deliver it, to work ruin in
One thing noticeable about him was that he always
neatly dressed. al housh toward the close of the cam
pumps" or low thin-soed shoes
HIS LEGAL CAREER.
Gnitcaus legal this city shows him to have
been utterly without prime pie perception OF
the old adagc that Honesty is the best policy"
desk room a No. 40 Broadway, and once employed
n
$50. He collected Sl75 and retained The firm
learned that he had collected this amount
and wrote him to forward 1t Gin
cinnati In reply he wrote that all respectable lawyers
F",nyn one mar .' h OF pie placed |ith them
nothing. The matter was brought before judge Dono-
ton to compel Guiteam to make resttuton OF tho
money; A Judgment was entered against him for the
Apparently Gutcau paid any bill when he could
avoid II. He wond stay at II hotel or hoardins house
miil the proprietor would allow HIM to remain 10
M%er y%"% "a then w"nd 60 elsa
st. N iS end o"i and WIZ wnS n nsp m, room
Jug 81 30 was presented. He promised to pay it.
nnt WAS deteeted -o"n teward oy t1r niSn wacli
travelling bag iiawls lckei into the street few days
tan k"cly then rnnoycd at the hotc for VIOLATING
SS' w nfs% c p a DS
Market Police aonrt me lar of the arrest was made
crs calue forward and made complaint against him It
WA; ascerianed thu ne had boarded ~ tIc Grand
With Mr- 81" at No. 70 hasi a
with John =. warstell, No tfthavc ali Of these
places he mad lett while owing lof board TO Mira
Eliza G. sn"n-on VINO then kept boarding house nj
for 81 on the Leather Manufacturers Bank in pay
was 80 c'mlftc that ne was committed for trial az the
Court OF special Sessions hy some unexplained
A ter, n,s g, h apparently .nongh that NewYork
Herbert r. Ke1ch"n, a lawyer in 1874 clerk for
Granville r. H.wcs VINO Is nov a judge Of thc Marine
nssh. Of me h'S"mce i"'ts was ocNedup in Ludlow
I % hay
iihclod President Winston, OF the Mutual Lie Insur-
ance Company, Guicau employed by Eugli.h
succeed furnished tnc sIrr,i, - and rccoInd
the amount promised Wncn the surrtics we e xnminI
leSr, but ''ncan reiuscdto refund the money saying
hat ne mad iulned ma part of the agreement. Mr..
English sued GuiIeau and recovered Judgment for the
amount.
Mr. kc,chnm's present business partner, Mr. Brown,
wa enlo, ed by Mrs Guiteau to procure divorce from
h'r husband on the ground OF mhIciiy. on lcarn,,,
same bnidni WIN nm. Ir 81 r ,u " an oce IN ne
srut t,tlf.
nm hdl 'hat ne hau 4ech rrl,ned by his wife
he would not dcicnd the suit, but asked Mr. Brown 10
make out the decree papers so thai me dccndant mirt
marry again. 1hs was done. tAc jude briorc
wloi tne WAS tried inserted the PROV slon against
Gu'c,u. soon after he 'mc to this city in 1873 fire.,
qnened ne rooms Of The Young Meas Christian Asso-
ity, aud solicited aid from tho association To-
H En, 1se,oe n to- publish it, Tho book was
lie had the freedom of the library, and spent much Of MI.
tlnr there lie was not member OF the Associations but
was allowed TIE privilege OF visiting the and lsI,
itc library being entered ON the visitors lie dis,
turned amy advances toward acuuantnncr nv ofi'rs
who ircqnented the library. He looked 1pon IA
A few weeks Gutcau clne to this city AGAIN o,,
although he did not nave at the windsor I"tri
| mail for hiIn ~
| sWINDfING HIS PRINTERS,
! AIkiBuNE reporter called stsrday John c. Ran
kin, ir, OF the firm of T. Wells sackc,t Rankin of Nos
90 and 80 Wiliainst. to make so!ne injuries nhout
Guitea'i MI Rankin said that Guitcau came to his
oce last November after the election gave an order
for printing several hundred copies speech emf
Carried against Hancock" which was published in
THE TRIBUNE aat Sunday AS Guitcau had prey iouslv
had some business cards printed by the firm and had
paid Tor these, and as the fellow pretended TO have bcu
an active and influential speaker In the campaign Mr.
Rankin took the order without requiring pay in advn"a'
the COPIES the speech ON ham, nov ,, III mas
nderwmf IN MI haikin1 absence, Guitcau the