Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-02

excited at all but deliberate In pressing his
claims. He ss,d he was an applicant for
consular Position at Paris, and that Blaine and
the President had disappointed him. oaiy day
before yesterday Guiteau had an interview
with the Attorney General in which he said be
had been badly treated and that had he hsd
yet to be taken care OF.
What They Know of Guiteau at
the Navy Department.
STATEMENT OF THE ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN.
on the Soth OF June last Guiteau registered
al tie Riggs House and was assigned to room
122. bis daily haunt then was the Navy de-
fartmeLt MI. Trudeau, the assistant librarian,
said to day to STAR reporter: "Soon after
The inaugural Guiteau came TO the library OF
the Navy department regularly every day. He
said &c was an applicant for the U. s. consul
generalship at Paris. He said he was certain
ne could get the place because he was q mem
Ter OF the executive committee OF the repupl.
can party. He did lot say In what state he
selvtd as such officer" Mr.. Tru leau saws: Il
asked him IL he was acquainted with the
said 1t was not necessary that he should SPEAK
the language. He found In the library BOOK
giving full information about consulshfps. This
lie Kept iour Gays and 81 bsequently returned
II When he came 10 the library he spoke but
little. BE would come IL aud say good morn
ing anG that was about all. He came In some
weeks ego and borrowed from the library
BsGeaC's history OF Gen. Grant. When he
brought II back he said: That is a good book
IL siyts GRAFT due credit The last time he
came TO tie Library he said Blaine was fraud
said Nh. Tudeau LIT dropped CT aud did not
make his fSiy call. We in the office usei &c
say, Il wonder where CCr consul Is today III
the literary We Always called him our consul"
Boarding HOusc.
Learning that Guiteau had recently been
boarding at the residence Of Mrs. Grant, No.
922 l4tb street northwest, STAR reporter was
at Gree dispatched to the premises He found
the family disposed to be extremely reticent on
the subject OF their late boarder and 1t was only
by dInt OF close questioning that our repre-
sentative was enabled to get the following par
tiCularS:
Guiteau engaged board about six weeks ago
He is described as shabby, seedy looking man,
OF medium height, well along In the thirties In
age, and anything but progressing in ap-
pearance. he wore thin mustacbe and goatee.
rather dark In color, and had q1eer, Wild Look
&c his eSes, The general opinion among his
fellow boarders was that he vas a little on;''
others thought him half crazy, but sane enough
TO know what he was about. He referred fire.
quently to his prospects for foreign mission.
II.
ment. The day before yesterday he was In.
formed by Mrs. Grant that she would no longer
DC put of with promises; that he then Owed
her $50. and unless he paid at once he must
leave TIE house. Gufteau declared himself IN
able to pay, and said that he would receive his
appointment In few days and settle up. but
this story having worn Itself threadblre. was
not accepted as satisfactory, and Mr.. Gulteau
had TO GO. Since then they had not seen
or heard OF him until the tragedy OF this morn.
ing.
What the Clerk Of the Ariingtoa Knows
of Guiteau.
MI. F. o. Bennett, the clerk at the Arlington
Hotel, says. "Guiteau, the assassin used to come
around here every day. He was semi seedy
character; that is. he was respectable and be
OF course wanted to know who he was; he
seemed to be harmless; he would coma
In and read the newspapers for an hour
a furti0e look. He acted strangely, but
without method. One day he came TO the
hotel and said: Can you tell me when the
iTaa Is coming back from Long Branch?"
morrow on the O'Clock train" "will the Post
master General be with him. said the assas.
sic? Yes; | think he WILL" said the
leave Long Branch which Will bring the Presi.
dent here" asked the assassin. 'AbouS 5
O'CLOCK. think" said the clerk.
Mr.. Bennett says Giteau was not one whom
ne could say was beat. he behaved himself
well, but strangely. He would pore over the
newspapers, and often take three hours to read
them.
Guiteau's Chicago Career.
Ii is said that Guiteau is third-rate lawyer
OF Chicago and formerly rracticed in the west
SIDE police court OF that city. A strange man,
a restaurant keeper from that city, called at
Police Headquarters today. stating that he
knew slm well. and that Guiteau owed him a
Dill OF 81 He said that he met him In this CITY
March 4th-inaugurat1on day; that he was
thought to be sort OF third.rate lawyer and
political lunatic. Guiteau was STAYING at the
ST. James hotel at that time.
Guiteau's Hackman,
Aquilla Barton, the colored hackman with
whom the assassin barga,ned for a hack said
to STAR man: "He said he wanted me to take
him to de berryin' groun'; to de grave yard. /
wish to God Id ha knowd what his object was
and I'd ha tuck him to de berry Ia grown afore
now. Indeed he'd done been dar TO- dis time,
How Mrs. Garfield Saved the Presf.
dents Life.
or one OF the papers found In the assassIn's
bundle was a memorandum to the effect that
he was at the Baltimore and Potomac depot
on the occasion when the President went away
with MIS- Garfield to Long Branch, some two
weeks ago; that his purpose then was to shoot
the President at that time, but when Re saw
the sick Wife Of the President leaning on him as
they naSsad fhr0uph the denot no fhau1bt