Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-04
wHITEIAw REID AND WIFE,


VENTNoR, July $40 Mrs. Garfield: Love,
sympathy and hope.
THE LADIES OF RICHMOND sTMPATHIzE WITH MRS.
sGARFIELD.
RICHMOND, VA, July $40 Mrs. GARFIELD: We
deeply sympathize with you In your sad Attic
ton. We shall to-day send up many earnest
prayers for the speedy recovery of your hus-
band and our beloved President.
lSignedl THE LADIES OF RICHMOND.
THE KING OF ROUMANIA WISHES FOR THE PREsI.
DENTS QUICK RECOvERY.
TIE following telegram has just been received
from the King of Rouman1a:
BUCHAREST, CATRoCINI, July TO President
Garfield, Washington: have learned with the
greatest indignation and deplore most deeply
the horrible attempt against your precious life,
and beg you to accept my warmes wishes for
your quick recovery. (Slgned3 CHARLES
ALABAMA SYMPATHY.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, July ITO the Hon,
James G. Blaine. Secretary OF State, Washing
ton; Profound ar d universal sympathy here
for the President. Telegraph us his condition.
[Signed D. z. X. COBB, Governor.
Further Facts About Guiteau.
TIE MAYNARD SON AS DESCRIBED BY HIS
FATHER IN 1874.
The following is an extract from a letter
dated March 80, 1913, from the father OF the as
sassin to John w. Guiteau, his brother In Bos-
ton, In which he refers TO Charles, as follows:
Il have been ready to believe him capable OF
almost any folly. stupidity or rascaltty. The
one possible excuse can render for him is that
he is insane. Indeed, Ii was called as witness
upon the stand am inclined to think should
testify that he is absolutely insane. and is
hardly responsible for his acts My own
impression Is that unless something shall
stop him. in his folly and mad career
he will become nopelessly insane and
fore finally gave him up had exhausted all
my powers OF reason and persuasion, as we'll
as other resources, In ende avor1ng to control
his actions and thoughts, but without avail. l
found MIN deceitful and could not be depended
upon ia nything; stubborn, willful. conceited
and at all times outrageously wicked, appar-
emily possessed OF the devil. / saw him once
or twice when 1t seemed to me he was willing to
do almost anything wicked he should happen to
take fancy to. You will remember perhaps at
the last conversation we had ABOUT him told
you to keep clear Of him and not have anything
TO do With him. Should anybody ask about him
now / should be compelled to say to them that
l thought he was insane, or at least mono
maniac, and shoule there leave 1t and say no
more about him. His insanity is of such q
character that he Is as likely to become a sly
him might possibly make another and igor
GUS effort TO change the whole channel OF his
thoughts and feelings. II could not do that
should have no hope whatever OF being able to
do him any good. made up my mind long ago
never to give him another dollar in money until
i should be convinced he was thoroughly
BUNDLED and radically changed. / am some
times afraid he would steal, rob or do anything
before his egOtism and self-conceit shall be
knocked out OF him. and perhaps even all that
vii not do IL. So you see regard his case as
hopeless, or nearly 80, and OF course, know no
other way but to dismiss him entirely from my
mind and leave him entirely in the hands OF his
Maker, with very faint hope tnat he an be
changed either In this world or the next