Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-24
RARE ENTERPRISE.
SOME HIGH ART IN THE WEST.
AN Advance Pictorial Description Of Gul
teau's Execution.

An Advance Pictorial Description Of Gui
teau's Execution.
n. Y. Times.
On the day after the execution of Gui.
teau there will be magnificent display OF
Western newspaper enterprise and western
art. A Chicago firm has prepared an elec.
trotype picture of the /" Execution of Gui.
teau from drawings made on the spot by
special artist. The electotype block is
to be furnished at the low price of $40 to
any Western newspaper desiring to earn a
reputation for enterprise, and no intelli-
gent critic can look at the proof" which
has been extensively circulated in news.
paper offices as an advertisement, without
perceiving that S1Ois a ridiculous price
for SO beautiful and valuable work.
The gallows on which Guiteau was
hanged was apparently erected in small
room, and access was gained to it through
a window, to which the condemed man
and the other criminals probably ascended
by ladder. The special artist, who must
be a person of simply gigantic intellect,
since his head seems to be nearly as large
as his body, stood on the scaffold and
sketched the scene with q skill that is
almost miraculous when we remember
that from the position in which he stood
most of it must have been entirely out OF
the range of his vision.
The moment chosen by this able artist
was Immediately after the falling of the
drop. Guiteau was theu hanging in an
easy and comfortable position, with his
feet few inches from the floor of the
room. On the scaffold were nine rufians,
including the artist. One Of these, who
was evidently an Irish laborer much the
worse for drink, was the clergyman and
persons who study the picture and
believe in physiOgnOmy will regret
that he was not hanged instead of
Guiteau. Two horse thieves, one Of whom
prudently concealed half of his face be-
hind beam, stood at the left of tho assas-
sin. These, as the explanation attached
to the picture informs us, were "scien-
lists, a joke which is certainly amusing,
but which the scientific men Of the coun-
try will hardly relish. The sheriff, who
must have been ut some time in his life a
sneak thief, stood close to Guitcau with
the evident intention of stealing his clothes
at the first available opportunity ; and
three assistant eIecutiOners and the war
den, all of whom were professional pick
pockets, stood at the right of the sheriff.
1t is to be hoped that the latter arrested
them very soon after the execution was
over.
On the floor Of the room, with their eye
brows nearly on !. level with the scaffold,
were grouped number of eminent scoun-
drels. Two of these were dressed in mill
tary uniform and are said to have been
guards. but that they were really members
of the James gang is reasonably certain.
Two professional gamblers and a burglar,
with most brutal expression of face, who
had placed themselves in \ position where
they could steal Guiteau's boots, are de-
scribed as physicians" but this is clearly
4 mistake. 1t is possible that they may
have been " body. .snatchers," but to sup.
pose that three such repulsive wretches
were ever allowed to practice medicine in
4 civilized community is quite incredible.
Any one of them would have poisoned his
patients out of sheer wickedness, and
would have frightened to death any mod
erately weak woman by simply looking at
her.
The most ferociOus Of the wretches pres
ent at this remarkable scene were eight
murderers, who pretended that tho repre-
scented the press. One of them had evil
IDENTIFY reduced himself to state of tenn
porary or possibly permanent imbecility
by drink, but the rest of them would un-
doubtcdly have murdered any man living
for from fifty to seventy-five cents. Their
note books were slowed safely in their
pockets, and they occupied themselves
while Guiteau was hanging by preparing
to assault tho three physicians, one of
whom had incautiOusly displayed q watch.
1t is to be hoped that they killed the ply
sician and were afterward massacred by
the guards, for they were beyond any
doubt outlaws of the very worst character.
On the wall of the room in which the exc
cutiOn took place hung u portrait of Gui-
teau, which, OF course, was q perfectly
truthful one, and which indicated that he
was much better man than any one of
the wretched outcasts VINO were present
at his execution.
We cannot congratulate ourselves too
highly upon the fact that this wonderful
picture will furnish the people of the West
with truthful representation Of the ex-
ecution of Guiteau. In all probability the
pictures which will appear in our own
illustrated papers will be greatly inferior
to it in every respect. We may be sure
that the Eastern press generally will sup
press the fact-as shown by this Western
picture-that nobody was present at the
execution except the choicest felons of
America. We shall be told by those
unenterprising sheets that the gal.
lows was erected in 4 prison yard and not
in room; that real clergyman was
present, and that the spectators were rep
utable citizens, whether connected with
the press or not. People who want to
know the truth about the execution will
buy Western newspaper containing this
faithful and beautiful picture. The artist
has had time to work on it, and, as the
advertisers remark, it must be "superiOr
to the hastily prepared ones printed
week afterward. when interest has waned.'
Whether we regard it as an illustration of
of Western enterprise or q specimen of
Western art, it demands our most enthus-
iatic approval and admiration.
HIGH AND LOW CaURCH.
rluttor Among Philadelphia Episcopulians.
Record.
The Rev. Richard Newton, d. D., who
has won world wide celebrity for his
talks to children, and who until a short
period was rector of tho Church of tho
Epiphany, at Fifteenth and Chestnut
streets, has created quite flutter among
bis friends at that church by his recent
with the Rev. DR.. Jefferson,
Of the Church of tho Annunciation. The
Epiphany is considered the exponent
Of Low church order and life, while
The AununciatiOn is considered quite
high, some calling it by the technical
term ritualistic. 1t appears that DR..
Newton recently Of6ciated at the Annun-