Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-07-06
The Last Of the Assassin
rs5 Of Garfield. - !
auiteau is Hung on the soth.
Full Particulars.

llQLuAuks anu Aol6E thluCuf AOk tiG nkHt
time, that DR.. Beard, who had taken
charge OF the autopsy, had invited only
professed believers in Guiteau's insanity
to be present. Corkhill protested that
he desired the most skilled men in the
medical profession to perform the work,
and said the government would inter-
fere rather than have bungling autop-
sy., DR.. Hicks said the Guiteaus knew
their rights and he only demanded them.
Hicks proposed that DR.. Mcdonald
take charge Of the autopsy. This Mr..
Mcdonald declined to do, in = much as
he had been witness for the govern
ment on the insanity question. Finally
a proposition was agreed to as follows;
that the brain OF Guiteau be removed by
DIR. Lamb, DR.. Sayers and DIR. Hartigan,
in the presence of the invited persons,
and placed by them in the necessary
preparations for preservation, for micro
scopical examination and kept in the
national museum, where, at the proper
time, such examination shall be made
by parties selected by DIR. Hicks and
District Attorney Corkhill. This settled.
Col. Corkhill and his companions with
drew. GsB3 4f f38
At an early hour the roads leading to
the prison swarmed with men, women
and children, who congregated in front
of the refreshment stands. Numerous
guards admitted only those having pass
es, and many of these experienced diff.
Guilty in getting entrance. BY some
means number, not entitled. gained ad-
mission and awaited in the Office in the
hope ofseeing the execution.
The startling discovery was made last
night that an attempt had been made
to cheat the gallows of its victim. The
| facts were kept secret for some time, un.
| til the possibility Of doubts should be re-
moved, but are here made public. Ref
the boquet of flowers sent Guiteau by
Mrs. Scoville, and of its removal from
his cell. 1t seems that the guards inno-
Gently allowed it to be handled during
the afternoon, and neither Warden
Crocker nor Deputy Sheriff Russ knew
of it till after dark. Russ first saw it
when he went to the door after supper
and asked Guiteau who sent it. "My
sister, said he. The warden watched
his opportunity and spirited it away.
His suspicious were aroused by its hav-
ing been sent by Mrs. Scoville, and it
was carefully dissected. 1t was found to
contain no hidden instrument or vial,
but the examination did not stop there.
Closer Examination showed that some
of the flowers had been saturated with
a deadly fluid, and DR.. N. G. Williams
/ undertook to arrange for its analysis.
Meanwhile DR.. Hicks recalled the per-
sistence with which Mrs. Scoville had
endeavored TO get into the cell Ia the af-
ternoon, the desire she had to speak pri-
vately with her brother, and her disap-
pointed look when she found she could
not. All this made it seem as il there
could be no mistake. Yet no publicity
was given the affair until McWilliams
should have made the analysis. He
drove up town for the purpose this morn
ing at o O'Clock, and at this hour d. M
has not returned.
| Bulletin-12.53 p. m.-Dr. Reyburn
thinks the neck not broken. The doc
tors say the heart beat ceased in IS min-
utes.
Bulletin. Mrs. ScoviIle has been re.
fused admittance to the Jail.
4 Bulletin--(ireat excitement over fears
that Guiteau may be tco Frustrated to as.
cend the scaffold. He could not at 1916,
stand up to hear the reading of the death
warrant, Three hundred spectators and
officers, including the executioner, are
waiting his recovery.
Il Bulletin--After being restored by Sur.
h geon Williams, Guiteau was terribly ex
4 Cited.
n Bulletin. Processicn started at 1925
Guiteau read the Scripture at 1890. Rea6
his death prayer himself at 1888. Cult
eau shook hands with Hicks at 1894
said not word, and then sat down.
Bulletin--The drop fell at 12;40 p. m.
Bulletin-12sA p. m.-Guiteau strug
gled very little. The doctors are nov
feeling his pulse, which is growing
weaker. S
Bulletin. Guiteau was pronounced
/ dead at 1858 p. m. 4.
Bulletin. :15 D. m. The body is still
hanging. No pulsations of the hear
have been perceptible for some minutes
The doctors say the neck was broken
Il Bulletin.--At LIT the coffin wa
, brought out and placed beside the body
Marshal Henry, the Warden, doctors ant
! others stood about the hanging body
At 1:10 it was cut down and placed il
the coffin.
The following is the prayer Of Guiteau
. read on the scaffold:
"My dying prayer on the gailows: Father, now
go to Thee and the Savior. have finished the wor
Thou gavest me to do. ! am too happy to go
Thee The world does not yet appreciate my missio
| but Thou knowest it. Thou knoweet Thou didstir
: spire GarHeld's removal, and only good has com
from 1t. This ID the best evidence that the inspirl
tion came from Thee, and have set 1t fourth in m
book that oil men may read and know that Thor
: Father, didst inspire the act for which am mo-
murdered. Father, tremble for the fate Of m
! murdercrs, this government, and this nation; b
this act know they will incur Thy eternal enmity
did the Jews; they killed Thy Son, my Savior. Th
retrbuton in that case came quick and sharp, and
know Thy divine law Of retrbuton will strike this nj
ton, and my murderers in the same way. The dii
bolical spirit Of this nation, its government and \
newspapers, towards me will justify me in cursin
them, md know that the divine law Of retributic
10 inexorable. therefore predict that this natc
will 60 down in blood and that my murderers, frol
the executive TO the hangman, will 60 TO hell. II
|. laws are inexorable. oh, thou Supreme Judge, We
unto the men that violate thy laws, only weeping an
gnashing Of teeth awaits them. The American pre-
has large bill to settle with Thee, righteous Fathe
for their vindictiveness in this natter Nothing b
blood be on them, and this nation and Its official
: Arthur, the president, is coward and an ingrat
His ingrattude TO the man that msde him and save
his party and land from overthrow hssno parallel
history. But Thou, righteous Father, viii judi
q him. Father, Thou knovest, but tho world hath NJ
known me, but now Cd 10 Thee and the Savior witt
ont the slightest iIwill toward human being. Far
y well We az tbe earth " III lH