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with a hackman so as to be ready for the
president when he arrived At the depot

With b,ckman 90 as to be ready for the
nr..;aent when he arrived At the depot
Cstiseass Defsnse.
CHICAGO. July 3-Emory storrs says
there is DO way Of Furnishing the assassin;
who is surely lunatic TO his peIsoh.i
knowledge. The only thing possible i
to shut him up in the asylum l0r '"e
dangerous and insane
The Msrdrr Of Blaine so.ss''
Benson ey-chief OF secret service, VINO
bannened 10 be sanding az, heard Inc
shot. rushed 10 the assassin ana iu,' -
he was about to raise the pistol w,,n 'hf.e
chambers still loaded, to shoot Blame, IL
is Thought. throttled him and threw MN
TO the ground
whe sh~ wrcseh u.-
W,ss,scrox.-Chsrles Guitteau, the
,r,d he assassin. is foreigner by birth,
and has been a very persistent applicant
for consular position. He has haunted
the executive mansion for several WEEKS
and his Disappointment at not getting
wh,t he wanted has caused temporary
alteration of mind.
The Dastard's Boast.
After the shooting and after Scott ana
Carney got hold Of the assassin and were
taking him to the police headquarters ne
.,;a voluntarily to them, Il did 1t ana
will go to jail for it; / am stalwart ana
Arthur will be president. de had a
letter in his hands and wanted the Officers
IN take II to Gen. Sherman. saying twould
be all right The prisoner male no re
sistance. saying he had contemplated the
killing OF the president and it was tor the
GOOD of the country About 3 O'Clock
this morning the assassin went to mack
stand adjoining the station and engaged d
hack. He told the driver he wanted 10
90 70 Greenwood cemetery in short
time and santed to be driven very last
when he should get into the hack, and
agreed to pay two dollars for the hack on
condition that the backman would drive
fast When stopped the ASSASSIN was
coing to the hack he had engaged and ne
insisted that i, was important for him to
90 and deliver message 10 Gen sher-
man, and when the officers refused to let
him 90 he begged them to take the letter
he had to Gen. Sherman, of which the
following is copy;
WHITE House, July 2
The presidents death was sad neces-
sitv but it will unite the republican party
and save the republic. Life IS filmsy
dream and it r.stters little when he goes.
4 human life is of small value. During
tbe war thousands of brave boys went
down without a tear. l presume the
nres;dent was a Christian and that he VIII
he happier IN paradise than here. 1t Will
be no worse for Mrs. GARFIELD, dear soul,
10 part with her husband this way than
hy natural death He is liable to 90 at
any time. -,.-.,..s
The papers referred to IN Gulttean
letter TO Gen. Sherman have not yet been
given out for publication. Byron An
drews. who is the Washington correspon-
dent Of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, says that
while it is true that apackage Of papers
are in the hands of the police, accom-
panied by a note addressed to him An
drews) he was no personal acquaintance
with Guitteau and never heard of his ex-
isteaee until this morning The follow
ING letter was found on the streets sh ortly
after Guitteaus arrest in an envelope un-
sealed and addressed, 'Please deliver at
once to Gen. Sherman OF his first assist
ant in charge Of the war department:
GENERAL SHERMAN i have Just shot
the president | shot him several times
as | wished him to 90 as easily as possible.
am a lawyer, theologan and politician,
and am a. staluart of the stalwarts- 1
was with Gen Grant and the rest OF our
men in New York during the canvass. l
am going to jail.
Yours respectfully,
CHARLES GUITTEAU.
On receiving the above Gen. Sherman
gave it the following endorsement:
HRAnerAsTERs OF THE ARMY,
Washington, July =, lSSl-ll:S5 A NJ
This letter was handed to ME this min
ute by Maj. William B. Twiring, T. S.
engineers, commissioner of District OF
Columbia, and Ma jor Wu. G.-Breck and
chief of police don't know the writer;
never heard of or saw him to my knowl-
edge, and hereby return to The keeping
Df the above named parties as testimony
in the case. W. T. SHERMAN,
General.