The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-30
TELEGRAPHIC
THE LAST DAY.
GuiteRu Preparing for the
End-DOIefuI Sounds.
A Fancy ScRffOId-NO Hope
for the FeIIaH.

washington, 70 -PeopIe standing 10
the rotunda of the district jail, this after.
noon, at the head of the corridor leading
to Guiteau's cell, were occasionally star
tied by dull thud, as if heavy piece of
wood was falling slowly against solid
surface. l. was the trap Of the gallows
falling back against the heavy upright
beams OF the scafeld. The machinery
did not work smoothly, and the support
to the trap was well oiled and pulled back
and forth until the gsllows man was sat
lsted 1t would spring easily. Guitelu. in
his cell, could plainly hear the thumpinp
of the trap as it was dropped at short in
terVals, He asked no questions but
paced his cell uneasily, made short, snap
pish replies to questions asked him. and
seemed in a more surly mood than st any
time heretofore. The assassin slept com
fortably last night, and ate a moderate
breakfast with relish. Dr.. Hicks, Gui-
teau's spiritual adviser, passed an hour
with him this afternoon in conversation
on religious subjects. Yesterday the
clergyman left with the prisoner 8 copy
Of Rev. Robert Reid's Blood of JESUS"
He read portions Of the work this morn
ing and discussed them afterwards with
the minister.
j ware
Z alarmed last night at the appearance of
/ threo mysterious persons about the Jail
who seemed anxious to locate theceli OF
Gultesu. They insisted upon being per-
mitted to enter the jail to look at the GAL
lows and what they called the ''fxings."
The officers, OF course, declined permits
sion, and finally one Of the men vas ex-
cluded from the gate by force. The the.
nru 81 ho Tafl =,
were endesVoring to locate Guiteau in
the event that there should be respite,
but there will be no respite, and the
avengers will not be compelled 10 take
the law into their ewn hands.
John Guiteau is busy endeavorinp to
convince the newspapers that he has
lot Of new evidence, An examination of
it shows, however, that the matter he has
printed has already been published, and
is on par with vast amount Of matter
furnished st the trial. Reed does rot in
tend to make any further appeal to the
President, and recognizes the fact that
the case is hopeless. Guiteau has al
ready prepared his gslloWs' speech. It |
is of considerable length. A gentleman
to whom it has been submitted pro-
nounces it an extraordinary production. |
It is Of the same general chars cter as the |
frOthy declsmstions which the prisoner |
has made at various stages of his cas- g.
He expects te deliver it with good cour-
sge before the fatal mo n Mt. and is so .
anxious that it should be given sccu-
rstely to the press that he has had copies /.
made for the press agencies /
John Guiteau, speaking on the conduct |
Of his brother upon the gsHows. said to-
night He will go upon the galloWs with
all the courage of hero ard will deliver
the speech as if all the Wond could hear.
he will not do cowsrdly thing and will
hold up rnanfully 70 the last"
A new complication il the case was
created this afternoon By the unexpected
arrival Of Mrs. Scoville who is reported
by her husband at Chicago as lost. Mrs.
SCoVille stops at remote and obscure
boarding house, and for the first time in
the history of the family, seems to have
taken pains TO keep secret the fact Of her
presence in the city. Her whereabouts,
however, have been discoV cred and to q
person who approached her not in the
capacity of an interviewer she nad only
to tell the old story. She thinks it great
injustice that her brother should be
hanged and hiss brought with ner petit
ton signed, she says, by 500 persons,
which she indsts shall be presented to
the President A large number Of appli-
cations for admission on to the execution
have been received at the jail, many Of
them from q distance. There are thou
sands of people who imagine that
Guitesu's execution will be public one.
The marshal says that none but those
having business at the jail during the
execution will be admitted. Asa Mattice,
Of Cleveland, arrived here last night
with his patent ;eafold, a machine Of
which he is, proud on account of its
elegant workmRnihip, and fine appear
ance. The machine has already been
used in the hanging of man named
Callahan, at Wooster, Ohio, last year.
Mattice has for soae time been writing
to the jail and local authorities here, urg-
ing them to use his machine az ne desires
to present it afterwards to the Western
Reserve Historical Society at Cleveland.
He Jaw Marshil Henry and Warden
Croker, to-day who told him it would
be utterly impossible to secure the use
of his galiows a. the Jail authorities had
already prepared very fine galloWs for
the ceremony.
Washington, 28.-Hicks, spiritual ad-
viser;of Guiteau, turns out TO be political
preacher, and was chairman Of the Flo
rida delegation in the Chicago conYen-
tion-one Of TIE first southern delegates
who came oVG to Arthur, when the vice
presidency w@ being discussed. He is a
very great R1mirer Of Arthur, and his
previous record as a stalWsrt had doubt
less commended him to the prisoner.
Although the behavior of Guiteau for
the past thr,e or four days has been quiet
and eomposd, it has been marked by
outbursts Of the same fierce spirit which
hin during his trial to denounce
by turns Everybody who took any part
acc Monday night he seemed for
8 short timeto be moved By q feeling efI {
volent hatred for all who had
been concerted in his trial or were to be ,
in carrying the sentence
into effect. ARTHUR will 60 to hell" be ,
exclaimed, privately; "the cabinet will
go to hell, Judge Bradley will go to hell, (
the supreme court Of this district Will go
to hell, Gensal Orocker will 60 to hell, 1
and, turning to the death watcher, ''you,
too, will go = hell!" With each repeti- I
ton of the word hell, he brought his fist
down on the table to give it
additional emphasis. This afternoon, as
Deputy Warden Rush passed the door Of
The cell, Guittsu said to him, in snsrl-
ing tone: elf you have anything to do
with my hanging, you will be damned.
will be held responsiblew When
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