Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-01
GUITEAU.

UNITED STATES JAIL, WASHINGTON, D. G.
June 30.-Guitesu was very restless during
the most of the latter part of the night, moi
sleeping more than twenty minutes at time
Towards morning he fell into a sounder sleep
from sheer exhaustion. He rose few minutes
after S, and breakfasted heartily at $50. Wher
the cook took his breakfast into the eel
Guiteau told him TO bring his dinner at II
o'clock promptly. DR.. Hicks. who remained
er's cell as soon as he rose, and held converse
ton on religious subjects with him.
AT O'CLOCK
Or. Hicks saw the prisoner again when he
made the request to have bath and asked
Hicks to go out and see the scaffold. Guiteau
desired him to arrange with the warden to
have the trap sprung as soon after u O'Clock
as possible. He aleo expressed considerable
anxiety lest some accident should occur, and
insisted that Hicks should see that the scat
fold and its appurtepances were all in proper
condition. After Guiteau had disposed OF
these matters he read poem composed by
himself which he calls simplicity, or Reh-
gious Baby Talk" After!reading it aloud
HE ATTEMPTED TO SING 1T,
but broke down in The effort. Guteau then
talked for some time about the future. He
remarked his heart was tender. 81 don't
Think" he said, 81 can go through this
ordeal without weeping; not because of any
great weakness, for the principle in me is
strong, but because I am nearer the other
world. l hold to the idea that God inspired
me-
Guiteau subsequently asked that in his
books all complimentary remarks about Pres
ident Arthur and his administration
be eliminated. Then he presented to
Hicks the books that have been companions
of his lonely hours. He told Hicks that he
wanted him to offer, first,
PRAYER ON THE sCAFFoLD,
saying that he (Guitean). would then read his
favorite scriptural passage, the tenth chap
ter of John and offer prayer on his own &C
count. Then he intended, he said, to read his
poem, Simplicity" He desired to have the
execution so arranged that just as he uttered
the last word the drop should be sprung.
John W. Guiteau arrived at the Jail at 9
O'Clock, and was followed in few minutes
by Warden Crocker.
These two gentlemen with Hicks had con.
sultation as to the disposition of the body,
At 9:15 the prisoner came out in the corridor
very brlskly, making it rather difficult for his
guards to keep pace with him. The scene
about the jail this morning is
UNIQUE.
The office of the Jail has been given com.
pletely up to large corps of newspaper re-
porters, and squad of them are scribbllne
away on every table, window sill and every
projection that offers rest for paper. Many
newspaper reporters remained all night. The
private office OF the warden has been trans
ferred temporarily into a telegraph office. Al
Q o'clock there was constant stream of per
sons coming into the Jail. The scene outside
was like that of
SOME GREAT GALA OCCASION.
Some enterprising colored men hsd erected
booths from which they dispensed lemonade
cakes and other refreshments to the weary
and thirsty people who began before 9o'clocl
to assemble in the road in front of the Jail
Mounted messengers speeding to and from
the city, aud carriages bringing visitors Il
the jail kept continual cloud of dust hover
UNCOVER the road that winds through the wild.
common that lies between the ia;
and city. AT 10 o'clock Guiteau expressed
a desire 10 take "a bath, and a Iarg,
tub was taken into his CELL At this hour nc
one but the Death watch was with hlm, Cult
eau nervously dierobed and bathed. 1t wa.
quite apparent to the guard, who was watch
ing his every movement, that his object il
asking for e bath was simply to obtain some
employment which might distract his thoughts
from the dread contemplation OF his approach
ing death. He evinced increased nervousness,
and his uncertain movements, distract manne,
and the marked tremor of his tones when b.
attempted TO speak, impressed the guard witt
the belief that he is
RAPIDLY WEAKENING.
The rotunda was thrown open at 10 O'Clock
Inc newspaper men at ouce flocked in. There
were ,sw other people there except the Jail
GUARDS ana asquad of artillerymen, who
looked Gown upon the scene from the high
steps Leading to the scaffold.
Early this morning the prisoners in the par
OF the jail overlooking the court where tn,