Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-04-13
GUITEAU'S STATUE.

WHAT A SCULPTOR SAYS or THE ASSASSIN
A HUMAN RATTLEsNAKE.
Washington Cor. Chicago Times.
Upon the fifth floor of the Corcoran
building, on Fifteenth street, across
from the Treasury Department, Curl
Gus group we're gathered about figure
posed in the attitude of Guiteau, the
assassin, Just before he fired the fatal
shot at President Garfield. A photog-
rapher pointed his camera at this
threatening figure, while a tall man in
his shirt sleeves, tall silk hat pushed
back upon his iron-gray hair, danced
about, three-quarters hidden in huge
blue checked apron, as he cast loving
glances upon the figure, betraying the
artist in his looks of approval. The
thermometer stood at S3 degrees. The
warm air from the south and the bud
ding shoots on the trees outside de-
monstrated to the sharp, active.looking
young man in the background that
the tenting season was at hand, and
that it was high time that all his circus
curiosities were ready and upon the
road.
Tomorrow night an exact reproduc-
ton of Charles Guiteau, the assassin,
dressed in the clothes worn by him
when he made the attack at the Sixth
street depot, will be shipped to New
York. The figure was modelled by
Mcdonald, the sculptor, who designed
the statue of General Custer at West
Point. Mcdonald has spent three
weeks at the jailstudying the assassin,
aided by Clark Mills, and his cast of
the prisoner Guiteau will be on star
ring tour with circus within week
or so. Great diplomatic schemes have
been carried on at the Jail to procure
Guiteau's clothes worn at the time of
the assassination. Rival shows have
struggled for the possession of these
rags.
The successful agent gave Guiteau
a check for $3.50 for the suit worn at
the time of the assassination and the
one worn during the trial. Guiteau
intended to pocket the money himself,
but Charley Reed forced him to give
$3.50 to ScoviIle for his services. The
rest of the check contained Reeds fee
and pocket money for the prisoner.
Just how it was divided is not known.
Mcdonald. the soul ptor, is n curl.
Gus man. His high cheek bones, blue
gray eyes, sharp nose, his blue-black,
close cropped side whiskers, and tall,
angular figure stood out rs typical
features in the man who looks like
professor in some country university.
He is many sided and full of theories.
To use his own language, he has been
making ian anatomical, psychological
and mental study" of the assassin. To
the Times correspondent the elderly
sculptor talked easily and huently.
"How did you find Guiteau's
figure" was asked.
"He has the figure of an athlete.
You know stripped him and meas
ured him carefully at all points. He
has very thick, stout neck his chest
is splendid, deep and full his arms
are very long for his body and very
sinewy. Under favorable conditions
he might have been great athlete.
AS it is, he is a very powerful man"
"Do you think him sane?'
Certainly, but he is human ami
NAL in his appetites and his passions.
In order to learn the habits and pecu.
liarities of an animal confined, YOU
must go to his keepers. have been
with his keepers for three weeks, and
| now understand all about him. He
is human rattlesnake."
"a rattlesnakef"
"Yes, sir, there are men in that
prison who have grown gray in watch
ing prisoners made up from all classes
of criminals. In the entire history of
all these men they have never had a
prisoner like this. Never has there
been a criminal under their care be.
fore who has not had some friend or
some attractive trait to win sympathy
from some one about him. This man
has not a single friend. lie knows no
gratitude, and there is not man in
the prison who can coDjure up one
small kind thing to say of the least
incident Of his life in the prison"
II have" added the Professor, Eek
amined his head from a chronological
standpoint. He has absolutely no
love, no gratitude, no sense of decency,
no courage, while selfesteem is en-
larged abnormally. He is cruel, abb
solutely having no heart. In short, he
is q human rattlesnake."
"Was he patient under your exami-
nation ?"
Oh, yes, just because it gratifed his
vanity. He thinks that the American
people are anxious to see him, and he
was proud to get out on exhibition, If
It was only in effigy. He expects to
be out soon himself, and this will pave
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