The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-04-15
GUIrEAU'S STATUTE.
what u sculptor Says Of the Assn sin
A Human Ratslcsnnke.

tWashington Cor. Chicago Timcs.l
Tomorrow night an exact repro
duction of Charles Guiteau, the assas-
ain, 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 nodded by
Mcdonald, the sculptor who designed
the statute of General Custer at West
Point. Mcdonald has spent three
weeks at the Jail studying the assassin,
aided by Clark Mills, and his cast of
the prisoner Guiteau will be on star
ring tour with Il circus within a week
or 80. 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 ard the one
worn during the trial. Gutteau in.
tended to pocket the money himself,
but Charley Reed forced him to give
$50 to Scoville for his services. The
rest of the check contained Reeds fee
aud pocket money for the prisoner.
Just how 1t was divided is not known.
Mcdonald, the sculptor, is a curious
man. His high cheek bones, blue-gray
eyes, sharp nose, his blue-black, close
cropped side whiskers, and a tall, an
gular figure stood out as typical fea-
lures In the man who looks like a pro-
fessor In some country university. He
is many.sfded and full of theories. To
use his own language, he has been
making can anatomical, psychol oglcal
and mental study' of the assassin. To
the Times correspondent the elderly
sculptor talked easily and fuently.
elbow did you find Gufteau's fig.
ure?' was asked.
s'He has the figure of an athlete.
You know I stripped him and measur-
ed 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 sin
ewy. Under favorable conditions he
might have been great athlete. AS
1t is he Is very powerful man."
"Do you think him sane?"
"Certafnly, but he is human ami
NAL in his appetites and his passions.
In order TO laern the habits and pecu.
liarities of an animal confined, you
must 60 to his keepers. have been
with his keepers for three weeks, and
I now understand all about him. He
is human rattlesnakc.''
ga rattlesnake ?'
ayes, sir, there are men in that
prison who have grown gray In watch
ing prisoners made UP from all classes
of criminals. In tho entire history Of
all these men they have never lad n
prisoner like this. Never has there
been q criminal under their care before
who has not had some friend or some
attractive trait to win sympathy from
some ono about him. This man has
not a single friend. He knows no
gratitude, and there is not a man in
the prison who can conjure up one small
AAuu SuAu8 " S"y OA tHc Ics'SI 1uCtuShs
Of his life in the prison."
"I have" added the Professor, "ex-
amined his head from a chronological
standpoint. He has absolutely no
love, no gratitude, no sense Of decency,
no courage, while self-esteem is enlarged
abnormally. He is cruel, absolutely
having no heart. In short, he is a
human rattlesnake."
"Was he patient under your examin-
alton?
"On, yes, just because 1t gratified his
vanity. He thinks that the American
people are anxious to see him, and he
was proud to get out on exhibition, II
it was only in effigy. He expects to be
out soon himself, and this will pave
the way for his lecture tour"
A lady who recently went to Rugby,
Tenn, to look after the effects of a ty
phoid killed brother, found the key o
his cottage on a nail at the
door, and within all his things In
tact and within order. Hotels ano