Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-01-15
4coDDLu.s MURDERER.

The New York Graphic publishes a
 picture of Gmtesu's New Years recep-
 ton at the jail in Washington, which
 women and children attended, shaking
 hands and exchanging courtesies with
 the miserable murderer as if he had title of nobility or was some public ben factor, and undsr the caption of God ding a Murderer" makes some well deserved strictu -es upon Guiteau's prison discipline, which We reproduce:
 Guiteau enjoyed himself in the Wash ington iail qui as well as President Arthur did in Il e White House. Owing to the kindness of the Warden of the iail the assassin was permitted to hold a New
 Years reccptICi and levee, which was attended bg 5O persous. Guiteau con
 trasred bis condition yesterday in the
 jail at Washington with his condition one year ago, wh he spent his holidays in New York, anC came to the very just conclusion that his present condition showed marked improvement over that of a year ago. Washington seems to have a much hrher appreciation of Guiteau's abilitit ss.iter he had become a criminal than -s.it Yorl had when be
 was-s'oou-n e- qr 'cs-a.ntrih hr Euinbie citizen. The Wardenof the Jail of t:ie District of Columbia, or those who con- trol his actions in regard to GuIteau, seem unable to treat him properly. Last summer-befOre the Presidents death Guiteau, who was then only guilty of assault with intent to kill, was sentenced to solitary imprisonment without tnal or
 examination by any court or magistrate. In anticipation that he would one day be a murderer no one-nOt even member of his family or cOunsel-was to be per mitted to see him. Now, when he IS on trial for life as a murderer, he IS per mitted to receive visitors as fl he was as great n man as he lmaglnes that he lS. Persons charged with crime should be treated properly and without Un- necessary cruelty or restraint until they are acquitted or found guilty thereof But they should not be cCddled. Criminals should not be made an object of fashionable adoratiOn, and iailers should not become masters of ceremo- nies at mawkish exhibitions of such persons. Nothing has a greater tendency to destroy the feeling of detestatlon which murder should provoke in right minded persons than coddhng murder CTS. sending them flowers. permitting them to hold levees, and begging for their autographs. It may be true that m the courtroom it is difficult to prevent tuft hunters from making a lion of Git eau, but in the jail it is very different, and the Warden or whoever k respon-I- ble for yesterdays exhibition of the aS- sassin should be made to understand that such exhibitions are offensive and demoralizing in the extreme. There is no use in saying anything to the persons who were Guiteau's honored guests and who went yesterday to do him honor . Like to like Men are known by the company they keep, and the heroes who are the object of mems emulation afford an excellent standard by which to judge the men themselves. But if persons are desirous of showing how low their aspi- rations are and how anxious they are tO pay court to a lunatic or a murderer, that does not show that the officers of ! the law should gratify them in that de- sire