Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-06-30
GUITEAU Us GRIM E.
MURDER OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
TRIAL OF THE ASSASSIN.
HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER,
EVENTS OF A MEMORABLE YEAR.
TRIAL OF THE ASSASSIN.
HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER.
VENTS OF A MEMORABLE YEAR.
TIE MURDEls OF PRESIDENT
GARFIELD.

TIE MURDER OF PRESIDENT
GARFIELD.
A Memorable Summer i'm yyaShi ngtOn.
THE SCENE AT THE BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC
pEPoT-THg LONG ILLNESS OF THE PRESIDENT
HOPES AND FEARS OF THE PEoPLE-sCENEs ABOUT
THE CITY-THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT AT
Observation-Disclosures OF NATIONS GRIEF
Less than year ago, one bright July morning,
the world was startled by the report OF an assas-
sins pistol The train OF events OF which the dis
charge OF that pistol was the beginning has passed
into history. To all who were within the reach OF
the telegraph that daily pictured to the world the
lingering agonfes OF death, and especially to those
who were present in the capital during that
memorable summer, the 81 OF July, 1881. seems to
have some underlined relation to the distant past,
though 1t stands out among its fellow days illu-
mined by fearful light The same thought
passing through the mind thousand times day,
Dr. Holmes says, wears groove as deep as II 1t
passed through the mind twice week for twenty
years, and we get a notion OF time that has not
really elapsed. Who is there whose mind was not
haunted every hour during I'll that long summer
by fearful image OF a noble man stricken by an
assas5ia'S bullet, wasted by weary days OF agony,
struggling braveIy but vainly In an unequal con-
test with death-an image which would have
turned even ParrhasiuS' heart TO pity? We look
back to that day through deep per sDectfve of
events OF fears, OF hopes OF griefs that makes It
Seem far away in the past To-day, what were
realities yesterday and the day before, and year
ago come trOoping forth in phantom form-pale
ghosts OF memoTy-a long array ending with that
with It's CHASTITY burden swaying in the air. To
narrate the circumstances attending the wound
ing, the long suffering ami the death of the PreSi
dent Is the purpose OF this chapter.
THE PRESIDENTS PROJECTED PLEASURE TRIP.
Wearied with the excitement OF a long campaign
and the arduOuS duties which his exalted station
had imposed upon him, President Garfield looked
forward jOyfully to a vacation, to be spent among
the inviting places OF New England. As an
nout eed In the city papers on the 1St of July, the
President and party intended to leave on the linn
tied express On the following morning for an ex-
tended tour through New England. The party it
was announced, would be composed OF the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Garfield, who having recovered
from severe illness, under the influence of the
bracing breeZeS of Elberon, was to join him in
New York, their two elder sons, Harry and James;
their daughter, Miss Molle; Colonel and Mrs.
Rockwell, with Don Rockwell, their son, and Miss
Lulu Rockwell, their daughter; DR.. W. H. Hawkes.,
the classical tutor of the three young gentlemen
named; the Secretary OF the Treasury and Mrs.
Window; the Postmaster General ard Mrs James;
The Secretary OF the Navy and Mrs. Hunt; the Sec
rotary OF War; Judge Advocate General Swain,
and Colonei Jamison Of the Post Office depart,
ment The program included trip from New
York to Iryington on the Hudson; then on Monday,
the 4th, the party was TO go to Williamsburg to
attend the commencement exercises OF Will inns
college, OF which the President was graduate:
trip along the Maine coast. and return 10 Wash.
1ngton and the toll OF Office the 18th or 18th OF
july The trip as planned promised great denght,
GEE un rne rnns o. , 10 u WIN almost
into carriage at the White House. and rode with
Seers4ary blaine Tn the RlltimOre and Potomac
depot The same resistless fate that was guiding
MIN, as he supposed, on an errand Of health and
eanny wretch who lurked in the shadows of the
depot now watching the carriages as they drove
up 70 the portal, now examining a terrible weapon
that he had concealed In his pocket to make sure
that Ii was In order Their steps which had been
30 wide apart were now brought together.
THE SCENE AT THE DEPOT.
When the carriage in which the President rode
70 the depot arrived at the street entrance of
the depot he alighted with Secretary Blaine
Having paused moment on the steps to answer
the salutatioE OF police officer the two gentle
men passed in. They had advanced but a few
PAGES from the doorway when a pistol was fired.
This was followed by another report before the
few bystanders could realize what the firing meant
Then the President seen to be PROSTATE on the
noor, MORALLY wounded A small impish looking
man, nourishing pistol and a paper, was seen
leaving the room He was seized by several per-
sons and quickly hurried away to the police ONCE
announcing as he was borne away that he was "a
begging a
tors TO take letter, which he held in his hand to
Gen Sherman The news that the President had
been shot Travelled with amazing raDidity Almost
before those in the depot who had heard the shots
nred had FULLY realized the enormity OF the crime
Chat had been committed an excited crowd storIned
at the doors OF the building, and every moment
sWelled Its numbers
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
seemed suddenly alive with breathless throngs
all hurrying TO the spot where the President had
oeen shot down. From every quarter OF the city
they came-sOme coatleSS, some hatless-the b re-
armed smith from his forge, the aproned shoe
maker from his bench-all came, as II the report
OF that pistol had been some dread summons which
none dared disobey. Such day, coming in a sea-
son or peace, happiness and prosperity, Ike a
thunder-clap IN a clear sky, can never be eraced
from the memory The merchant the clerk the
laborer, was in no mood for his toll that day For
hours the streets were thronged with excited men
The newspaper presses, headed by THE STAR
Hooded the city with Extras, W hch were EAGERLY
SIAkS last Extra" announced that there
CLEAN OF HOPE
I'D the throngs begin TO dispense from the strpets
Aer II was found that the President was seriously
hurt by the advice OF the physicians, who had ar
rved, he was taken 70 a room In the upper story of
TIE depot more careful examination made
here showed that one Of the bullets fired BY the
Assassin hao entered the lower part OF the Presi-
dents back. The President, when he recovered
consciousness. at once gave signs OF the heroism
which. during the weeks Of untold suffering that
followed, gave = glorious finish to grand charac-
s er. Will lying at the depot by hts direction
ehe following dispatch was sent to Mrs Garfield
~ Eibefon, Nj, BY Col. Rockwell:
The ffesi lent wishes say you for him that he
been seriously hurt How seriously cannot yet say
sends his love to YOU" 49,
To clergyman friend, who reached his side be-
lore ne LEFT the depot the President said AZ be-
ueve In God and trust myself In his hands, With
IE an hour after the shooting the President was
taken Duck 10 the White House In an ambula nee
which retraced the journey which the President
AAd only short time before made so fun OF hope
and pleasurable expectation. All day long the
citizens besieged the gates OF the White House
Ielegrams OF anxious inquiry from distant antis
began 70 arrive almost before he was placed upon
Ms bel That pistol shot had echoed from pole TO
pole, and from sea TO sea. In the afternoon a
gloon settled down upon the city, for IL was now
announced that death was near. Men spoke In
cndertones. but still remained In the streets and
fhronzed about the gates OF the White House
yerywhere, 1t seemed, by common consent out OF
respect for the dying
ALL NOISES WERE HUSHED
The following Monday would be Independence Day.
but preparations for celebrating the patriotic fcs
avalweTe Il once stopped The District authorities
ISSUED an address TO the citizens to assist them In