Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-14
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES
GsPEoIAL TO THE REcoRD.uNIoNl
PACIFIC COAST POSTAL CHANGES.
Preparations for the Trial Of the Assassin
Gutteau
A DISASTROUS ROLLER EXPLOSION.
Ceremony at Brooklyn in Eonor of the
Late President.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF F:RsIGN NEWS.
Further Items in Regard to the Situation
in Ireland.
DOMESTIC NEWS.

NEW YORK, November 13th.-October 18th
an anonymous letter was sent to gentleman
on Wait street, asking the inclosure to be
forwarded to Jay Gould, the well known
fnancier. The letter addressed to Gould was
also anonymous, and read as follows:
WINDSOR HOTEL, October Is, 1881.
Jay Gould, Esq.-Sir: /. is my painful duty to in
form you that within six days from the date of this
letter your body will have returned to the dust from
whence it came. l therefore entreat you to
make your peace with God, apd prepare for
the fate which awaits you. This is no
Inspired and requested by the All Living God to do
so public necessity, and for the benefit of the
community at large. You must undoubtedly be
aware that you have been rogue Of the first water
all your life; that through your artful cunning and
deceit yeu have robbed thousands Of people OF their
birthright. You have had no mercy. You have
robbed rich and poor, father and fatberless widow
and orphan, indiscrmDately, of the last dollar, and
through your yillainy have brought ruin and de.
strlIction on thousands Of families. All this
you have done under cloak, by circulating
false reports, by buying newspapers, making
false statements, committing perjury and by
artful cunning and deception. In fact, you
have robbed both great and small, and now the
Lord Gays you must pay Tor it all that your death
is public necessity, in order to save thousands of
others from pain and destruction. Your death will
be an easy one, for purpose shooting you through
the heart il possible and if my fret Shot is not in
slant death will give the coup de grace with a
second shot, 50 that your death shall be quick and
easy Don't hold out any hope that this is a threat
ening letter, nor for stock jobbing purposes for do
not own single share Of cks of any kind Neither
am l intereste1 in any. This is simply the win of
God, and He has chosen me to carry this out He
has applied to me IN a dream, and requested me to
say you public necessity, and in doing God has
assured me it is by Divine Providence that am
chosen to do this act and that by doing so l shall
become public benefactor, and have sworn and
taken a solemn oath before the All Living God that
/ will put you to death l intended to have shot
you last Friday yesterday, when | saw you with
Dillon and Sage. had my pistol ready snd cooked,
but voice from the Lord sounded in
my ear, saying, Hold on; give him time
to repent, lest he descend into everlasting
punishment" Now make your peace with God and
prepare for the fate that awaits you, and may the
Lord have mercy on your soul. l am only an agent
of the Lord. The Lord appeared to me again last
night, and said, "Jay Gould must surely die" and
when reasoned with the Lord in my dream / told
Him my life would also be required, and would be
hanged. The Lord assured me that no harm would
become OF me; that the rope was not made. neither
was the hemp grown to make the rope, to hang me
with, and that He would deliver me out of the
and command of God that 1 am chosen
to put you to death, and l have
sworn before the All Living Cod the
Great Jehovah and redeemer uf the world, and
taken solemn oath and kissed the Holy Bible that
VII carry it out within six days from date if op-
portunty should occur. Therefore be prepared to
meet your fate at any moment, and may God have
mercy on your soul. remain, sir,
n B.-Should l not have an opportunity within
six days, viii surely do SO the first opportunity
that occurs.
Gould gave the letter to his broker, Wash.
ing.on G. Conner, ard directed every effort
to be maae tc find the writer ard punish him
Conner gave the letter to Inspector Byrnes
of Che detective force, ard they began davis.
ing means to capture the rogue. Personal:
were inserted in the newspapers which drew
from the unknown writer a number of other
letters, in which he by turns threatened
Gould and implored him to help him win
back some hundreds Of thousands which he
claimed be had lost in stock epeculations.
He sent Gould a key by which the personals
could be published, using cipher words in
place Of names CT stocks, and by which
Gould could give bin information on which
he could speculate safely. Following this
key, the Inspector and MIR. Conner kept up a
correspondence with the blaclmaier until
to-day. Meanwhile It was discovered that ell
the letters sent by the blackmailer passed
through Station E, Thisty-fourth street
and Eighth avenue. and a plan was formed
to capture him. The Postmaster aud Post
lnaster-General were consulted, and fifty car
riers in citizens dress were placed at the dis
posal of Inspector Byrues to-day. The
carriers assembled at Station E at an early
hour this morning, and were met there by an
equal number of detectives. Soon afterwards
each Of the fifty letter-boxes in the district
were watched by detective and carrier
Whenever person dropped letter in the
box detective kept watch on the person un-
til the carrier had gone to the box, opened it
and read the address on the envelope 1t
was agreed that If the carrier found
a letter addressed to Gould he was
to raise his hat, ard the detective
was to arrest person who had dropped il.
The secret was closely kept, and at p NJ
tall, well-dressed man of sixty years
dropped letter addressed to Gould into the
box at Thirty-Fourth-str and Seventh
avenue. He was arrested ct onca and taken
to police headquarters. where he admitted
his guilt. He gave his address as Col. J..
would not give any further information about
himself, and it was ascertained afterwards
that the address in Fifth avenue was not his
present place of residence, though he had at
one time boarded thsre. He was so much
distressed by his arrest that be was watched
closely tonight for fear he would commit
suicide. Il was said tonight that Gould
would prosecute Welles.
The Trial OF the Presidents Murderer.
WASHINGTON, November 15sh.-The trial
of Guiteau will be begun tomorrow in the
Criminal Court A host Of witnesses have
been summoned on both sides, and arrange
ments are perfected to seat all the spectators
allowed In the Courtroom. No loupging will
he permitted in the aisle5 or corridors. John
Guiteau, of Boston, and his sister, Mrs.
Scoyille, visited their brother at the jail this
afternoon. The interview lasted nearly two
hours. The prisoner betrayed no unusual
emotion at the meeting, and after eXchang-
ing salutations, began the cid story of tho
causes which prompted him to commit
the crime. He expressed no regret fer the
action, but reiterated his previous story
about ''being inspired by God" George
Scoviile, Guiteau's counsel, stated this even
ing that his client had insisted that it should
be his prerogatiye to make statement in
Court to morrow, and that Gaiteau had been
engaged the past ten days in preparing doc
ument setting forth his views. which he will
probably produce as soon IS the Court opens
tomorrow, unless prevented by Judge Cox.
Scoville said tonight that it was not the in-
tention of counsel to introduce technical OBJ
jections in selecting q jury. They will
endeavor TO obtain jury composed Of men
capable of rendering a fair verdict after hear
ing the evidence, and who will not be carried
away W pSAoiiS NioAoi IS &4uos tuSir COHfiC-
tion.
In Honor OF the Late President.
NEW YoRK, November 13Eh.-The James
A. Garfield Oak Society, formed almost en-
tirely Of Germans residing ia the eastern dis
tricts of Brooklyn. met to-day az Cypress
Hill Cemetery to plant an oak in memory Of
the martyred President. A procession Of
], 200 men, including members Of the Grand
Army OF the Republic, the Sixteenth Ward
Battery, Gerrnauia Schuetzsnbund, the John
Bloum Association, the Nineteenth Ward
Battery, Veteran Cadets, and Soldiers and
Sailors Union. started at IL o'clock for the
cemetery. Arriving at the spot set apart for
the ok, the exercises began by an air By the
military band, followed by war song by the
Schwaebischer Saengerbund. an English ora.
ton by Colonel Lewis r. Stegmap, the
newly-elected Sheriff. The solemn planting
of the oak was accompanied BY salute of
twenty-one guns. Then followed q German
Grafton by Herr Jhona4p, and the cere.
monies ended with dirge. The throng Of
spectators sc the cemetery was immense. and
the deepest intarest was manifested in TIE
proceedings The members OF the various
societies wore badges bearing the words. "Re