New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-13
Total July r. 4
GUITEAUS POISONED BOUQUET.

WHY MRS sCovrLLE THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE
NO ExECUToS-THE ASSASSIN NOT SHARP
ENOUGH TO CHEAT THE GALLONS.
tBY TELEGRAPH To THE rRIBUSEi
u,eu1xcroS. JuIy I2-The bouquet which Mrs.
Seville took 70 Guiteau the day before he was
hanged was injected TO a chemical analysis to-day
oDd traces Of enough arsenic were found to have
killed several men,
The HISTORY of this bouquet has never been fully
told On the day before the execution HE L RIB
,NE correspondent went TO the jail with Mrs.
scovile and ner little daughter Bertha John
" Gui.eau and Miss Chevallner, OF
the Society for the Protection of the Insane Almost
the first words which Mrs. scovile uttered after
the drive began showed strange confidence tina
there wonld be no execution She repeated tle Idea
n number of times in various ways. 1t was ascrDed
At the time to Guiteau confidence that the Presl-
dent would interfere. On the way something was
SAID about getting flowers for Guiteau, and Mrs. SEQ
vile sroke of his fondness for them The carriage
,vas ston,ed AT Christian Schicklerss greenhouse,
No 355 Est. : T.. and John W. Guitcau went
inside 10 order some flowers The bouquet was
long time IN making and Mrs. Scoyle became very
impatient Finally John w. Guiteau went IN ana
brought II oui. covered with hOrls.'s ordinary
thin brown paper. The bouquet was sent INTO the
cell shortly after the arrival at the jail, and some
time before Mrs Scovile was allowed TO go TO the
cell.
The stormy scene that followed when Guiteau
was thrust INTO his cell and compelled TO talk to his
SISTER through the gateway. was described at the
time IN HE tribune dispatches. 1t was alterward
intmated that Mrs. scovilles appearance OF sup
pressed excitement and lack of emotion led the OIL
clals 20 fear that she medItated soa1e attempt 10
conway noson or other means Of suicide TO Guieau,
e hair ~
showed a peculiar anxiety to be adm ted to the
cell 10 talk 18th him, it only for moment, but was
not permitted. She finally gave up the attempt.
One of her last remarks to GuIteau some
thing about smelling the sweet rose IN the
,ent o. of the bouquet The remark seems TO have
attracted no attention the time, but was recalled
later In the evening when Gulteau was seen bur
rowing with his nose in the bOu4uet IN singular
manner The flowers we're then taken away from
him and 10 The dismay OF the officials white pow
Ger was found in the central uower-a holiYhock-
which chafed the hnger when applied to 1t. 1t is
inferred that Mrs. ScOvile wanted To tell her bro
ther TO eat this flower. in which case tho ga lows
would have been cheated. Guiteau, who with all
his superficial smsrtness was never anything bot
fool had not the wit TO act upon the hlrt be got
and fully investigate the flower for himself. He
seemed to have a notion that there was something
for him IN bouquet. he kept smelling at 1t III
the way described until It was taken away from
him He aiterward demanded that IL be brought
back the first thing in the morning. saying that
these mscreauts " had taken II away just because
il gave hiu pleasure. He also seemed 1t Is said, to
become suddenly hopeful that he would not be
hanged.
schcklers, the florist. seems 90 be an honest Ger
man. HIS description OF the way in which his vile
made the bouquet talted exactly with the descrlp-
tion OF those VINO took 1t to pieces at the jail and he
positively asserted That the bouquet left his place
without being tampeTcd with. lie explained some
circumstances that had excited suspicious OF his
completely. The bouquet could lot have been
touched the wav 10 lhe Jail of course. Mrs SEQ
vile carried q small black hand bag quite tightly
packed am If she emptied powCeT of arsenic into
the dover. Il was probably done when she was sit
ting IN the wariens private Otnce before the
flowers taken in.
There nothing 10 indicate that John W .Gui-
teau had any knowledge of any such device.