Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-06
| ASSASSINATION.
History Repeats IT.
| self.
THE PRESIDENT GRIEV-
OUSLY WOUNDED.
WHILE WALKING WITH
SEC. BLAINE.
THE ASSASSIN'S EXCLAMA-
TION
NOW WE'LL HAVE ARTHUR
FOR PRESIDENT.
An Ex-United Sta
tes Consul.
ROR VNGERSOLL SAYS HE
Is SOBER AND SANE.
SEC. BLAINE'S STATEMENT.
The Presidents Blood Spaater-
ed About.
WHAT THE PRISONER SAYs-liIs IN
COHERENT LETTER bull
ETINs FROM THE PHY-
sICIANS.
The Presidents Blood Spaiter
ed About.
WHAT THE PRISONER SAYs-HIs IN
COHERENT LETTER bull
ETINs FROM THE PHY-
SICIANS.

Garfield, the hrst taking effect near the
shoulder the second striking him in
the back as he fell. The assassin was
arrested Immediately.
The President was taken to the White
House in an ambulance under q guard
of mounted police. The excitement
throughout the entire city Is most in
tense. and the streets and avenues are
thronged with people. The crowds
about the newspaper and telegraph Of
fees increases every msment. Men and
women are hurryiug TO pd fro 10
search OF the latest news. The gates
to the White House groun ds have been
closed and strong force Of police have
been placed on guard. Nothing like il
has been seen here since the l4th +
Aprll. 1865, when Lincoln was assassi-
mated.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The President was shot at 1928 A. N.
as he was entering the Baltimore and
Petemac depot to take train for Long
Branch. Others of the party had taken
seats in The train. and the President
and Secretary Blain entered arm and
arm. As they reached the ladies'
waiting room, a man who stood on the
right of the President raised his arm
deliberately and two shots from a
revolver. exclalming as he did so: Now
we will have Arthur for President
The President and Secretary Blaln
seemed too much beAildered to
realize the truth. Blaine shouted,
Where Is Colonel Rockwell" The
assassin Immediately fred another
shot, which tesk osect in the Presidents
side. and the victim sank to the floor
Colonel Rockwell and several police
officers came at once to his assistance,
and be ~ as carried to the superinten-
dante's room OF the floor above. The
President did not say word when first
shot. Meanwhile the assassin was
seized by those near and would have
been torn TO pieces but for the efforts OF
the police. He was taken across
Pennsylvania avenue to the police-sta"
ton, and it was there discovered that
bis name was Alonzo Gitteau, an at.
torney- at law from Chicago.
Urs. Bliss and Reyburn wero at the
depot at the time, and went at once to
the Presidents side. Drs. Lincoln and
Thompson were sent for at once. A
hurried consultation was held at 1920
AN. ambulance was called and
the wounded Executive was lifted in.
Col. Rockwell and two police officers
took seats therein, and tho vehicle
started for the White House. The news
spread like wild fire. aud Pennsylvania
avenue was cro, ded almost as much as
VIXEN the President rode 10 the White
House ia state Oh the fourth Of March.
A squad oil mounted police forced a
passage through the throng, and officers
on foot guarded the entrance 10 the
" bite House grounds. The President
was carried at once to his chamber and
laid on bed. SurgeOn-General Barnes
was also IN attendance BY this time and
a cursory examination showed that the
second shot had legged IN the groin jus
over the kidney, and will, ia all pro-
bility prove fatal, but the physicians
still have hope. All the members OF
the Cabinet are about the President, but
he is unconscious, and has not a word
for them. The city is IN a state Of the
greatest excitement. The gloon seems
to pervads every heart. The prisoner
IS young man, five feet six inches high
and weight about 100 pounds.
LATER.
Physicians have probed the wounds
and decided that they are not mortal
DR.. Bliss, who is 10 attendance. re-
ports the wounds as severe, bnt pro-
badly not mortal.
CAN'T LIVE TWO HOURS.
Atll.l5 DR.. Lincola said the Prcsi
dent could not live two hours.
When the President reached the
White Hsuse House his pulse was fifty,
aud hs appeared TO be almost uncon-
sciOus.
The pulse at Ills A. N. had in
creased 10 80, aud the patient has
rallied. After one attempt to extract
the ball the physicians determined t."
probe no more at present.
Mrs. Blaine is with thu President
DR.. Bliss has charge Of the case. The
c orrect name Of the assassin is Charlie
Gitteau. He was formerly U. s. Consul
to Aarsailles.
A later account shows that he trled
TO escap after he ir.i - ,hols and
said nothing unti he "as arrested.
Thsn be said, 81 haze Shat Prcsilent
Garfield. ArIl.ur is now President. !
am a sIalwart.'