The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-05
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Grassy w the Detectives.
WARRINGTON, July 4.-Gstteau is still
kept closely confined, Nobody is allowed
to see HIN except officials, All stories
about aCoomplicss and about men having
been seen with him have been proved to
be false. All have been traced to ire.
Bponaible parties seeking notoriety. II
plain, and can be accepted as a final fact,
that the assassin acted alone and never
communicated by even hint his purpose
to any one. The detertiYes Vha have
visited him 10 prison say that be is crazy,
but people generally will not accept this
theory, and there 10 general demand
that ne shall be held responsible for bis
act. Should the plea OF insanity be set 10
It would cause great indignation here,
especially II there should lie any sipn Of
Getteau ESCAPING punishment, There Ia
talk oi lynChlng should the Insanity dodge
be played. ~
Secretary Blaine thinks GeLteau Ia crazy.
He says Getteau called often at the State
Department and insisted upon having a
foreign mission or a consulate that no
evidently regarded himself as 4 man Of
very superior abilities competent to all
any high position. Secretary nlaino says
he told Getteau finally that Il was utterly
useless Tor him TO press bis application, ga
his appointment 10 any position was an
impOsslbllity. Mr.. Blaine says further that
Getteau considered the Republican party
az under great obligations 10 him. lie
talked OF having elected Garfield and he
thought the party owed him q debt Il
ought 10 pay with biz appointment
BLAZING denias Moet emphalld ldslly that he
ever said tue shooting was The result o! .
plot. Such an .idVS, he aays, never entered
his head. He ls Satisfied, aud has been
from the first, that the crsZy, disappointed
man kept his fell purpose a profound
secret 10 himself. Heaven knows the Bit.
uation ls bad enough az 1t is without add,
log to iLs horror" says RlSine.
The Eyeninq Star editoriAlly takes a posl.
ton this inotning that Getteau is CiaSy,
and that his act was tho result Of insanity,
and that II was NO plot. The Star Gays
that GetteAu was not identified with that
portion Of the Republican party not exact.
ly in harmony with the President on mat.
ters affecting partisan and personal inter.
eBLs; that be did not Bympathise with II,
and that his declaration that be was
stalwAtt, was an after thought or the
OF an egotiBtic desire 10 attach
10 himself, is clearly shown by
the letter which he wrote to the President
some time ago. The note Getteau wrote
ssautIng the PRESIDENT oil his support,
and asking for an audience is referred ID.
fNBXPLiCARLE STORY tF A SEEMINGLY CRED.
iBLE WITNESS,
Mr. Cutter, 4 volunteer witness who
says he was at the railroad station AZ tho
time Of the shooting and saw Two suspiC.
ious looking men who we're in earnest
Convets yilon just before the occurrence,
was yesterday taken 10 the Jail for the
putpose oil identifying GetleAu. He
states that when he got there the prisoner
was laying on hia. bed With the bed cloth.
Ing upon hin and he saw him al a great
advantsgs. He did not think that he
Was the same man until he put his hand
up 10 stroke bis beard In peculiar and
nervous manner which he recognized
al once. He has not the slightest doubt
about their Identity, but Rays from the
movements oil the two men he saw he is
positive that the other man who escaped
after the shot was fted was the leading
spirit, and was giving Gelteau directions
how TO proceed. His movements we're
very auiCk and nervous He was . tail
man, quite six feet high, daik complexion
and diik hair and eyes, the latter being
very sharp and restless. This man, as