The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1881-12-03
Gath's Picture Of Gulteau.

- Nhuf hCitN man. WIN a WI
tain bravery of character, such as
Booth, might excite the animal in
terest by his wildness, but this daS-
tard, who killed without of1enSe,
and for no purpose beyond the
tilthiest thirst for notoriety, meri-
ted neither curiosity nor rage.
detected him in an instant after |
entered the room, though he sat
among many other people in the
same kind of a chair, and without
any railing, officers or anything 10
hedge him in. | observed a sort I
of stubbid head of hair, such as is
seen in the criminal pictures of
England, with hair Iather lristly, |
set low toward the front, and rath- !
er fiat back in the corners, un-
cleanly looking hair-boorish. I'm
der this hair was nasty skin, a
little like a corpse, with some red
dishness oyerspreading its gener-
ally yellowish dampncss. The face
was rather long and pear-shaped.
Around the chin was considera-
BILE quantity of brownish beard,
yet without any warmth in its san
dy hair. The hair, the skin and
the beard all seemed to be dusty
and dampened, as though out of
some graveyard. The perspiration
of this man appeared to be ut fault.
There was nothing woeful in his
face, though it was wolflsh. In
the middle of his forehead wasa
deep, varying wrinkle, the prinoi.
pal sign to me of probable decay
ing mental faculties. 1t is gener.
ally saidthat q depression between
the eyes shows q memory well
gone. In this case il was a deep
depression, with a sort of wrinkle
attachment to it, which was agira-
ted right and left, like his fitting
eyes, which had a sharpness about
them, but not much rest except at
the times when something oe-
cured to excite his vanity. You
were to meet this man, small as he
looks to be in the body, in a lane
somewhere, or in the woods, you
would go past very quickly, and
would wonder as you passed him
whether he was q little crazy or
very wicked. Asa friend describ-
ed him to me, he was one of those
men who always wanted to de
something that was not the thing
to be done. | judge that he be-
longs in the number of that large
tribe of ill.balanced Americans
who think that to publish book
of any kind is a lofty pursuit, even
if nobody reads the book but the
author, while to be on q salary OF
q newspaper, aud serve ones day
and generation, is rather beneath
human intelligence.
| ! looked at this man again aud
again, but never with any increas.
ing interest, merely wondering
how to set before my mind and
the public q little of the wonder.
ing which was in his countenance.
BY this | do not mean more than
that something seemed to drive
the man on aud on, from point to
point, from thought to thought,
and let him rest nowhere, as If d
voice was always crying out,
"Move only whenever he halted,
If you were to take your eye of
him a few minutes, and would
bring it back, he seems to have
gone a hundred miles since you
looked at him before. That rapid
nervous head had drawn him
through great periods of space and
of agitating suggestions. lie could
not any more pause than mad
dog, ever wanting to drink, ever
frightened at the pool, ever snap.
ping, ever dashing on. ! asked
myself the question if he was era.
zy, and it looked to me very prob.
able. The observation ofpersons
|, know, who have seen him since
the killing, is to the effect that he
is not cognizant in mind.