Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-04


ROBERT RAYBURN,
WASHINGTON, July 4, 1890 A. M.-The
following bulletin has just been issued:
1890 A. M.-The Presidents condition has
changed very little since the last bulletin.
Pulse 112, temperature 99.S. respiration 20.
Some tympanites Is recognized. He does
not complain so much of pain in his feet.
[5ignedl D. w. BLISS.
J. X. BARNES.
J.J. WOODWARD.
RoBT. REYBURN.
In view of the fact that it is deemed best
to keep the President perfectly quiet during
the remainder of the night, the attending
physicians announce at l q. m. that no
examinations will be made and no further
bulletins will be issued until 7:30 a. m.
MORE OF eUITEAU's RECORD.
CHICAGO, July 2.-The Board of Trade
having adjourned over until Tuesday, the
news had no effect on business. As soon as
| 1t became known that the WOuld-be assassin
was Chicago man. inquiries at once began
as to his antecedents and business. There
are many recollections of Chas. A. Guiteau
| (Which Ia his correct name1, who lived here
several years and acquired an unenvi-
able reputation. He was at one time on
the point OF marriage with an estimable
young lady on the South Side, but his
| character became known Just In time
to prevent such a calamity to the lady and
her family. Guitesu left town Immediately
! after this for some months One gentleman
remarked, 81 remember Charles Guiteau
well. He was here two or three years ago
and seemed to have no visible means Of
support. He preached or lectured on re-
llgious or social subjects, upon which he
| was an enthusiast. He started here as
lawyer, but failed utterly, and then
tried again to lift himself into
notoriety by lecturing on religion one even
| ing In each week." His card In the news
papers is produced to day, and is a literary
curiosity. He bored the newspapers by
trying to have his manuscript printed. He
as tramp OF more respectable order.
He was branded by the Hotel Keep
ers' Association as a dead-beat. His
last appearance was that Of dandifed
man of small mental calibre. He was
unusually fond of notoTisty, and would go
almost any length to get his name in the
papers. He was arrested here once for en-
bezzlement: He got the idea in his head
that he was fit for official position, and has
been trying with all his power to get the
| Consulate at Marseilles. Another charac-
teristic of him was his proclivity to follow
| and persecute with his attentions respecta
bic young ladies to whom he had obtained
| casual introduction or on whom he
forced his attentions. At one time he
AOuuu AAAoOAA III al ugly
| with the attorney OF a young lady, whom
! he had thus pestered beyond endurance.
The attorney threatened him In his Office
| one day, and promised him a sound horse
whipping II he did not promise to desist,
and Guiteau desisted. He has not been
| heard of for some time in this region. 1t is
said that his father is President of the
| Second National Bank Of Freeport. His
family is of Italian descent, but Guiteau has
always claimed to be American born. He
was finally compelled to quit the city on
| account of the accumulation of financial
difficulties. In other words, Chicago had
become "too hot" for him.
| WHAT GUITEAU's FATHER THOUGHT OF HIM.
BOSTON, July 3.-The following is an ex-
tract from a letter, dated March 30th, 1873,
from the father OF the assassin to John w.
| Guiteau, his brother in this city, In which
be refers to his son Charles as follows: 'I
have been ready to believe him capable of
almost any folly, stupidity or rascality. The
one possible excuse | can render for him
! is that he is insane. Indeed, If I was
called as a witness upon the stand, am
| inclined to think / should upon the stand
| testify that he is absolutely insane and hard
| ly responsible for his acts. My own i'm
| preston is that unless something shall stop
| him In his folly ard mad career he will be-
| come a fit subject for the lunatic asylum.
| Before finally gave him up had exhaust
| ed all my power of reason and persuasiOn,a as
| well as other resources, in endeavoring
to control his actions and thoughts, but
! without avail. | found he was dec1itful;
not to be depended uponi n anything, stub
born, willful, conceited, and, at all times,
outrageouslY wicked, apparently possessed
| of the devil | saw him once or twice,
when, it seemed to me, ne 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, l told you
to keep clear OF him and not have anything
to do with him. Should anybody ask any
thing about him, l should be compelled
to say to them that thought he was
In sane, or at least a monomsniac,
and should 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 cunning desperate as anybody.
Could see him | might possibly make
another and vigorous effort to change the
channel of his thoughts and feelings. II
| could not do that l should
have no hopes whatever of being able to do
him any good. l made up my mind long
ago never to give him another dollar in
money until / should be convinced he was
thoroughly humbled and radically changed.
l am sometimes 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 will not do 1t. SO, you see, | regard
his case as hopeless or nearly so, 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 the
very faint hope that he can be changed,
either in this world or the next"
THE STORY OF HIS LIFE.
Guiteau's brother, in this city, John W.
Guiteau, In giving the account of the assSs-
sims early history, says: Charles Julius was
born in Freeport, Ills, in 1841 or AZ. He
was one OF the children of l.. W. Guiteau,
late Cashier of the Second National Bank,
of Freeport, Ills. Mr.. Guiteau, Sr,, died
recently, aged 20 years, and was one of the |
oldest and most esteemed citizens of the
place. AS youth Charles Julius is report |
ed to have been good, tractable boy, with |
nothing to mark him as either better or |
worse than the average Of his associates. |
Several years before he became of age, and |
while preparing for college at the University |
of Michigan, he conceived the idea of joining |
the Oneida community, and did so. He |
dwelt there for some years, and finally left |
because he could not live up to the restric-
tions OF the order. Full of anger, he threat |
ened to issue a publication exposing the |
peculiarities OF that community, but was |
prevented from doing that by an article
written by John H. NoYes, the recognized |
terwards he entered upon the study of /
law In the Office Of Geo. Seovell, his
brother-in-law, in Chicago. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in that city about eighteen
years ago, but is said never to have had
other than a small Office practice, in the way
of bill colectiog, etc. 1t Is reported that
he was prosecuted and fell In bad repute in
that city on account of collecting sums OF
money, which he failed to turn over to
the owners. He eventually had to leave
town. TIE assassin has been travelling
throughout New England, more or less,
for year past, as lecturer,
and assuming the title Of reverend.
He advertised himself as a lawyer and
theologian. Once he claimed to be an
honorable" and his brother telling him
that he had no claim to such title, having
never borne political honors, he replied that
any lawyer was an honorable, and he knew
a lawyer In Chicago who had been In State
prison who advertised himself as an honora-
BILE. This and the matter OF numerous unpaid
board bills In Boston led to wordy contro-
versy, which resulted in Charles being ex-
PEELED from his brothers. house, and subse-
Quently violently elected from his Office, as
he would neither take advice nor mend his
evil ways and fraudulent practices.
HE APPLIES FOR A PENSION.
DR.. Hood, Medical Examiner Of the Pen
sion Office, recalls that Guitesu made ap
plication for pension some months ago
upon the representation that he was sol
dier during the civil war. DIR. Hood inves-
tigated the claim, and the papers were filed
away with the endorsement "lnsane."