Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-19

cines, salves and things Tie closet looks now
as if somebody had thoroughly mixed the con-
| tents of three apothecary ihops and let them
stay mixed. All kinds OF bottles and boxes,
with some more complex alleged remedies which
require a little mechanism for their use. ara
there.
THE APPARATUS FOR RAISING THE PRESIDENT
from his bed when it is necessary to dress his
wound or change his bedding has been COM
pleted. 1t was tested this afternoon and worked
well, raising a $50 pound man without difficulty
1t will be attached to the Presidents bed and
ready for use tomorrow.
GOODNESS BETWEEN THE REFRIGERATrNG PEOPLE
The doctors had some trouble about who
should and who should not attend the Presi.
dent. The refrigerating men and those con-
nected with the cooling apparatus business for
the Presidents room are now having some
what similar trouble There are various claim
ants for the credit of cooling the room. and from
the different statements made it is hard to tell
for whom the cake should be cut Mr. R. S.
Jennings, of Baltimore, was in Boston when he
heard that it was desired that the Presidents
room should be cooled artifciay He tele-
graphed to DR.. Bliss and got word to bring his
apparatus on. He did SO. and soon got the tenn
perature of the room under entire control. In
the meantime certain government officers had
come to the White House to cool it off They
claim that the Jennings processwasa failure until
they put in drying and cooling box between
the Jennings arrangement for cooling and dry
ing and the delivery pipe. Without this addi-
tiOn. they say, the Jennings apparatus would be
worthless, and that there is no necessity for it.
Mr.. Jennings friends combat this, and say his
machine is the only one that has been used for
the Presidents room, (Which is correct and that
it works admirably, as Drs. Bliss and Woodward
also testify. The larger machine which has been
constructed was put up by the government Off
GERS. 1t is used in the corridor upon which the
Presidents door opens. MI. r.Jennings assistant,
Mr.. Norton. says that this machine is constructed
upon the Jennings principle, with only little
change, so that its constructors can say the ar
rangement is different, and therefore their own.
In short the trouble can best be stated by saying
that the government officers hold that theirs is
the credit, while Mr.. Jennings and his assistants
say that the government officers were entirely at
sea and could do nothing except upon the Jen-
nngs principle.
CRAZY sYMPATHIZER WITH GUITEAU.
The NY. Sun of to-day says Policeman
Clark, of the steamboat squad, brought before
Justice Otterbourg, in the Tombs police court,
yesterday, Alexander Annett, a middle-aged
respectfully dressed man, whom he had found on
pier Al, North river, surrounded by q thrOng of
people, and loudly justifying Guiteau's crime.
Among other things, Annett declared that he
himself had been ruined by the corruptionists of
the republican party, and wOnld himself have
shot the President if Guteau had not done so.
Drs. Hardy and Jackson pronounced Annett
crazy, and he was sent to Blackwell's s Island.
Strange Story Of the Missing Bullet.
FOUND IMBEDDED IN A LUMP OF PUTTY IN
GLAZIER'S KIT"
The whereabouts of the missing bullet the
first fired by the assassin Guiteau at the Presi-
dent remained mystery until yesterday, when
Kristoph Plockechis. a Polish glazier. residing
at 913 Sd street northeast. appeared at the Dis
trict attorneys office and produced it. Il will
be remembered that after it was definitely as
certained that this ball had gone in south
easterly direction (paSsing through one of the
dOOrways of the ladies room at the depot
thorough but unavailing search was made for
it, and it was thought that it might have been
Embedded in piece of baggage in the baggage
room at the southeast corner of the building. 1t
now appears that at the time of the shooting
PlOckechis, the glaZier, went in the main room
OF the depot with his kit-a box containing
some panes of window glass knives and putty
waiting an opportunity to get $40 bill changed.
He had loosened one strap Of his kit and was in
the act of loosening the other when he heard the
reports of the pistol and three panes of his glass
We're shattered in the box. He Immediately ran
away from the building. Last Wednesday,
while cleaning his box, he found the bullet i'm
bedded in lump of putty. and acting under the
advice OF friends he yesterday took it to the Dis
trlct attorney and gave it up. He thinks that
this was the first ball. but says the shots were
so quickly fired that he is not certain. Plocke-
CHS speaks but little English and made his
statement through an interpreter Prev.
The bullet, which is now in the possession Of
the District Attorney, is mate to those taken
from Guiteau's pistol. The point is blunted, and
one side tlattened Col. Corkhill says there is
no reason to doubt the story told by the glazier.
NOT YET.
Col. Corkhill is preparing this afternoon to
escape temporarily from the heat and the re-
pOrters, by trip to Cape May, whittier he will
60 tomorrow morning.
Before you go, Colonel" said STAR re-
porter, s. | suppose you will give the reporters
the papers taken from Guiteau when he was ar
rested?"
'.Well, hardly" replied the Colonel and he
added the three mystical words Il should
smile.''