New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-07
GUITEAU'S OWN STORY.


THE PRESIDENT WAS FoRMED-TnE VIGIL OF
MURDERER WATCHING AN ofPokIoNiii
PIENDisH DEILBERATION-THE TRAGEDY
Charles Inlius Guteau, the murderer OF freSiuoiio
Garfield. has made public, through Correspondent
of The Mar York Herald the AUTOBIOGRAPHY va
which according to rurnor. he has Deth enhPi"S -
during his imprisonment in the Washington Jam
IIo bagius tho record OF his career WIN au l"IIo-
duction protesting against the use OF the terms
"ossoss,ration" and &" assassin which &c Goes not
,.oIf ,,sa IN the work as they CRATE on the mind
.,A ,,roduca a lad feeling" lie gives an outline
of his family history and the early years Of his own
Ufe Atrinctoer wears Of age he started TO eater
COLLEGE. but Joined the Oneida Community instead
md the general tenor of his course was thence
steadily downward. The principal events oil BIS
career as a woud-he lecturer, lawyer ]outhallS''
etc are already familiar 10 the public lie recooh'S
them in detail with a vanity and evident desire
for notoriety that naUseatins. Alter ieilhU %
his Intellectual attempts 10 secure me recog'illh "
President Garfield and his Cabinet, he relates WIN
6endsh aeliberatipn the story of bis crime OF July
q Els own language, as taken GOWN ny ''io "'0's
rapher is as follows:
CONCEPTION OF THE CRIME
,r had y persoua interview with the Precedent on
Che subject Of the Paris consushp eSeept once snu VIVA
was when banded him my speech ana t"d hun tuut :
xoulc like the Paris consusep, which was abont the W
NJ March. He lBdugufateH On tiiu"' "ii'
was about the middle of the following week aer hS IL
anpurat,cr The time pressing the Pans con
eulship began about the first week In March and terh
mated should say about the last OF April during tnose
weeks was pressing it and expected to Gst It; have
from Mr. Blaine reference TO my having me bIis Con
suship. II did not have me ss,e nav T.noStoc the
way the other IN reereuce n nS q The Pre- a.
president / conceived the idea OF removing inc ~
SaPs ps eonsshi S5' Sad any nSe
mind at all. 1T would have cclerrsd s ne tb hI'
I apfefnS "A
woud get the Paris consalshiP Ny concepon G; , tne
Idea Of EeGoya the t MSS si on the following
Nednesday / was 10 led. think retired eo0u' I;
OoIiticai situation, ard nuch earlier than
usual feli wearied in mind ana body an" war IN S
sSIason ana the idea flashed through ny brain nat II
the presaeF was out T 81 sns Ts It startled
me- but the morning came TO ie Mitn re M %
nstility thai the President woud have TO CO. and the
more read the saw the complication Oh baog NC
remoying him This thing continued for about two
weeks kent reading the papers saS oa ns and bear
nc down upon that the only way to unto the tMo
factions OF The ReBnSc. esf rebes and democrats
Was 10 quietly remove the President
PREPARING To Do MURpER
Two weeks after l conceived the idea my mind was
thoroughly settled the intention tn remove the fres
dent I then prepared myself. sent to Boston for a
,onv of my hoos "The Truth" and spent week IN
preparing that cut out paragraph ana hhe ana d
word here and there AID added one or two ne" chapters
put ess in il ard Gay d ErS ave ON ac
rount OF the notOriety tat the act o removing e
5ent wOuG give we, AID wished the BOOK 10 go OUT 20
The nnhje hi proper shape. That was one preparation
for t. Another PREPARATION was 10 tHlh 'ne
mt in detail and to bay revolver, aud % prepare my
seIf for executing the idea This required some two OF
three weeks, and my entire un'e sfu nnu ~ po
Prea,denf never mentioned tie conception 20 iIVihg
soul did q my tAi1Rng II the PARK rd sa TH ts
street and used to go TO the Arlington ana tAo lsos
House daily t. read the papers
TIE wATCEFULNEss OF A FIzND.
After had made mp nly raind to remove him the idea
when should remove him pressed me, ana was some
what confused on that knew that 1t would not 90 10
IN the White House and attempt it, because there
we're too many OF his employees about, and lookeu
around for several days and get good chance al
h and sunday one sandal before oT me wef is
frame building and stood t1eoe o.. ,,e us
about onethrd nOtieed the President sitting near AN
open window ABOUT three reel Ifoia wv "a Get
him.5 / intended tc shoot Inn tar2Lgh 81, the
back o. the head and ei the BAL paas s os
sonId nor possibiy e better place 10 remove man
1an AZ his .9Vt!ons bad Iay revolver in my posses
nn n w ~ rs ssnt to the church having purchased
ahont tea days before tine Presidents gong TO Long
Branch Rr l' o was a SIi BuFifs Gs Whole
read the papers carefully. thought y az over :.
thought just what people would tax sac tho4gh Ea,
stremendous Excitement it would creste, ana Kepi
nm aT Ibs p aDSu sunday woud cersy HIN II
be was in charch and got 200 Sh a.; E a. ara,
That he Was going Long Brancf, and Ga the ioo"
satnrday be did 20 the Branch Tor Mrs CARR ga h9aii
The revolver with had all ny pep.Ie nicely pre-
pared Ispoke 70 nan aP2U 20 H5
eid that he would for 81 ana seemed tc bt
e Met abont oclook and waited until the Presi
eenys White H9use carriage drove u AoS i %eat ,;q
seryants and friends came up de eol odt VI M car
riage stood IN TIC ladies' roou abceI tne tu1g ~
walked thrS1Sh the ladies room, ana me fesefeS OF nj
Garfield deferred ne froIa firing gu nun Vas al
with me; Rad ali the arrangements made 10 sho9t M
areid lOcs,d so thin and she chung 50 tendeiy 70 t'
PRESIDENTS that did not have tue hearl 10 nfe ol
him lie ,asse6 right through tie lsdiee receptlOi
room through lain entrance, AID took the cars.
waited fe@ moments went oq1su@ 1I pd osIHr
and the park think that weni 10 the PARK anu ga
nnch as usual and after my lunch went TO the lorarl
Of the Treasury Department ana tea9 sJe on sat
nTdsy and then went out do MT IeiIam et wheT
Arlington or park That alter eit the library
AN ASSASSIN IN AMBusH
Inotiosa IN the papers he would bo back the frs
4, the week watched the papers very carefully TO Be
when he would return but he did not come back ina
,oeh hpt he dia come back On the following Monday
The following Monday a terribly hot, sultry day
remember suffered greatly from the heat but notwth
andng that prepared myself again, and went 10 IN
depot again Ca Monday with revolver and my papers
but did not feel like firing on him SIMPLY went nj =
ths denot satin ladies' waitlDg-roOm got tneT
en or nfteen minutes before the train ue ana white
aad thou gi Is al over, and made M my nina mat
would not fire Oh him that day. did not feel IKE IL
The train came and he came, ana hf. jams Me-
the POstna-ter-General, was there ana M, MT
Hunt the Secretary o. the Navy anu t1e G
ladies room together. and the Presidents son and
tiicSset gentleman from the White House Z
,neet me President there They went right 10 t
te and got the President aud they all walked togetne
e. the Presidents carriage ana they al got N ana aroy
oT stood On the entrance OF the ladies WHlinlgr0O
door anG noticed James ana Hunt there with thei
fanics and he President and MS friends drove up IL
his White y lnse carriage, and then James ana nun
Xent. end lhen went got INTO a car anu went ul