Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-08
GuITEAU In JAIL.
How the Presidents Assassin Passes Ills
Time-Eatins and Sleeping Well.

How the Presidents Assassin Passes Ills
Itme-Eatins and Sleeping Well.
Guiteau has now become perfectly re-
conciled to his lot. For the past days lie
| has manifested little concern rs to his fate.
In fact, General Crockcr, the Jail warden,
| says he is much less concerned regarding
himself than some of the prisoners who
have been confined for petty larceny. He
eats with good appetite the food given
him, which is the same as that furnished
other prisOners-cotfee. potatoes, white
bread and fish for breakfast !; boiled beef
and cabbage and corn bread for dinner lie
expresses no more desires for hot dinners
He spends most of his time during the day
reading some periodicals which have been
lying round the wardcn's Office. No ncws-
papers arc allowed him, although he re-
peatedly asks to sec them. lie rctircS
early, sleeps quite soundly and rises about
O'Clock, looking tolcrably bright makes
his toilet carefully, and reads until his
breakfact is served. Nothing has been
said to him regarding the president S
condition. He frequently makes inquiry,
however, how he is getting along, still ell
tertaining 4 hope that he will die. lie is
anxious to see the photographs taken OF
him, but Us yet none have been shown
NV ouC hsto CstilCtl Hill CSCCpJ
the district attorney aud Chief Brooks, of
the detective service, accOmp lnied OccaS-
ionally by u friend, nor has he expressed Il
desire to see any one except the district
| attorney. No baskets Of food or flowers
have been sent him by any one, or would
they DO given him if they were. A watch
| man has been stationed ut tho prisoners
cell to prevent any of the prisoners who
arc allowed to pace the corridors to con-
verse with him. He himself is strictly
confined to his cell.
Description of tho Jail.
The Jail in which Guiteau has been con
fined is 4 brown stone structure, built in
the form of rectangle, with transverse
wings. the main building running nOrtl,
and south, about 300 feet in length the
wings, running east and west, arc about
200 feet from end to end. Large windows,
we'll barred, extend from about 10 feet
from the ground nearly halfway up tho
| structure. Tho height is about 60 feet.
The cells are built in such Il manner as to
form another building inside the main
building. IL will hold 900 prisoners.
There are at present 1S0 confined. The
wings are for the women and those the
other way for men. It is considered one
Of the strongest buildings of the sort in the
country and one of the best ventilated.
A Lost Pearl.
1t is now said that the man who was
seen talking with Guiteau at the Baltimore
& Potomac depot by Mir. Cutter is named
Pearl, and that he is not now in Washing
ton. The police of New York have been
active in search Of 4 man who corresponds
with his description, and it is reported
that Pearl is new in that city. District
Attorney COrkhills office has been flooded
with letters ever since last Saturday night
from all parts of the country and from all
kinds of people, giving all sorts of theories
regarding the attempted assassination and
possible connections that Guiteau might
have had. and purporting to give valuable
information. It is said 1t the Office, how.
ever, that thus far everything Guiteau has
stated has been verified, and that every
act of Guiteau's would be accounted for
where he bought the pistol and whom he
had been with down to the time of the at
tempted assassination.
John Griscom completed his fOrtieth day