The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-10-07

MONROE. La, OCTOBER z, 1881.
GUIIEAU-MIS MOTIVE.
"Gath," correspondent of tho Gin
cinnati Enquirer, reports to that paper
what he learned from Mr.. Corkhill,
district attorney for the District of
Columbia, concerning the murderer of
President Garfield. From Gatf's re-
port we quote as follows:
ssWas Guitcau taken to the Police
Station?'' I asked.
t'No. He was Immediately taken to
the jail. He asked to be driven to Jail.
He had about 20 cents in his pocket
when he reached there. asked him
how he was going to pay the cabman,
whom he had particularly retained
and fixed upon for the affair, with
only 20 cents. lie said he was going
to tell the cabman to call next day.
Here" said the District Attorney,
care some photographs OF him just as
they can be taken. If you go down to
the Jail and sec him, you can have 10
better idea Of him than you can &C;
from these pictures. lie may look a
little dirticr and more insignificant,
for these arc not full length pictures"
APPEARANCE OF THE assassin.
took a series of these pictures in
my hand and observed al once that the
type of the assassin was French. His
hair was cropped and his beard, VIII icl
extended around the chops and jaw,
and also assumed the likeness of a
moustache, was very thin, as if the
natural soil of the mans skin was poor,
and yet his mouth had that arch in.li-
cative of obstinacy of purpose. His
Perceptivc bumps above his eyebrows
were pretty good, but the limo between
them, coming down the middle of the
forehead, was deeply cut, as if mental
worry and the loss of memory had
wrinkled him there. The eyes were
large, unsatisfied, introspective, as if
they turned within himself and found
nothing there that did not throw them
out again with tho world, yet think
ing of the wreck he was. The forehead
was rather low, but broad, and the
cars stood out stubby and belligerent.
lie is such looking man as you might
expect to find some night fumbling in
your bureau for valuables, who would
first stop to explain that it was a mis-
take about his being there, and would |
next try to thrust knife into you iff
he found you had him in corner.
The face was blasted, with all its hopes
deferred, until the world seemed to
have closed around him and left no.
thing there but the resources Of q thief
THE QUESTION OF INSANITY.
els this man crazy, Colonel Cork
hill?"
"No he is neither crazy nor dcs.i- |
tute of Intelligence and rcQuircmcuts |
He Is no moro crazy than any of the |
people we have seen who have told us |
that on II certain day or night God had
pardOned all their sins that they felt
them slide off. I remember an old
kinsman of mine who was Il clergy
man of the Methodist Church, who re-
lated to mo how, ut 4 single moment
of time, all his sins had escaped from
his back and made him II new crca-
ture. I couldn't say no was Il crazy
man, nor could say that he lied
That is all tho assumption Guitcau
makes of craziness-that he received by
inspiration tho idea that he must kill
Garfield in order to unite the broken
columns of the Republican party. Ito
says it took hold Of him as nothing
ever did before, and he felt that he
was going to do Il great decd which no
ono cise In the country would dare un~
dertake."
ooAoIASi, tutlS uittSt NC some
thing peculiar about the man to drive
him to assume such Il commission,
even il it had been Il good ouc.'
"Therc comes in" said the District
Attorney, "the mans vanity. lie is
4 man who thinks a good
deal OF himself. He docs not consider
his life failure by any mctns lie
thinks if il has not been apprcciatc
1t is the fault OF tho world which had |
not brightness enough 70 appreciate |
him. He thinks his speeches., his
looks, his arguments at the bar, his
general views as to politics aud OF
party management are the views. Of a
great man."
MOTIVE rOt; TtIE CRIME
"What do you think, Coluci, about
his being rcvcngcful ?''
Gle says he never was iusultcL in
his life either by Mr.. Blaine or MIR.
Garfield; that he never INDUCED in an
lnstant's feeling of spite against them.
lie wanted to he Consul to Paris, and