Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-07-01

the Lordy.
expect to see most splendid thing
beyond all earthly conception.
When I am with the Lordy,
Glory, Halleluiah.
(Raisipg his voice to the highes
pitch that he could command.) Glory
Halleluian. am with the Lord.
His effort to sing the foregoing line
was pitiable. In the third stanza hi
broke down completely, and the con
cluding one was finished only by he
roic effort, his utterances between sobs
and hysterical cries beingunintelligible
This concluded the prearranged exer
cises and the culprit took his place or
the death trap.
One of the the Jail guards now step
ped forward and bound the criminals
legs, while another adjusted the noost
and pulled the black cap over his face
Guiteau during these preparation
standing motionless and with closed
eyes. Everything being now in readi
ness for fulfilling the sentence of tn,
law, Mr.. Hicks knelt on the platform
in silent prayer. "Glory, glory, glory
glory!" General Crocker raised white
handkerchief as signal to the execu
toner who was concealed from the view
in one of the cells of tie Jail adjoining
the scaffold. The trap swung oper
with dull thud, and Guiteau wal
launched into eternity.
The noise made by the falling traI
informed the inmates of the cells con
tiguous 10 the scafFold that the execu
tion had taken place, and prolonged
cheer was given by the prisoners, which
was taken up with increased volume b!
the thousands who had assembled OF
the outside of the Jail. Beyond a sligh
muscular twitching, there was nj
movement of the asssssin's body afte
the fatal fall, and ceath was undoubted
ly instantaneous.
After hanging forty minutes, tn
body WAS lowered into q coffin, removes
to the jail chapel, ,aud delivered to thos
who ave been engaged to make tn
autopsy. Before removal to the Chape
those present were permitted to pas
arc and the scaftold and view the body
John Guiteau, who was present at tn,
execution, stood by the remains, an(
Mrs. Scoville was admitted to view
them.
THE AUTOPSY.
DR.. Bliss and his son arrived at tn,
Jail at kalfpast three o'clock, and join
ed the physicians engaged in making
the autopsy. A reporter of the Asso
ciated Press was the only newspaper
man admitted to the chapel where thu
body was being dissected.
The chapel is spacious dep partm ent
devoid of furnishing, save few
benches and tables.
The coffin was placed upon a bench,
and the body was removed and, after
having been stripped, was laid upon a
table. Scales and other apparatu for
examining the different parts of the
body were placed about on the tables
The operations of the three surgeons
engaged in the autopsy were watched
with the greatest interest by the others
who crowded about the table. After
the examination Of the eyes, the brain
was removed and inspected. Then the
body was cut open and a thorough and
complete examination made, with the
view of determining all the physiologi.
cal facts that could be Of interest III
connection with the case.
The results of the autopsy upon the
body of Guiteau, so far as they can
learn tonight from the surgeons who
were present, may be briefly stated as
follows:
After surveying the body externally
the surgeons proceeded to lay open the
brain cavity and the thorax and to
examine the organs therein contained.
The brain was found to weigh 4915
ounces, which is little more than the
weight of the average human brain.
II was well formed, and presented no
external evidence Of disease or lesion.
The lungs and heart were in their nor.
NAL condition, but there was slight
ruffling of the aorta in the vicinity OF
the heart. The neck was not dislocated
or fractured, as the surgeons at first
supposed, but there was rupture of the
sterno. cleido. mastoid muscle on both
sides, as we'll as of the thyrohyoid
membrane. 1t follows, therefore, that
death resulted from suffocation, and
not from dislocation of the spinal YER
tebra. A partial examination was
made of the abdominal viscera, but it
had not been completed at the time the
autopsy was suspended. The spleen
was found to be considerably enlarged,
its weight being fifteen ounces, or more
than twice that of the normal spleen.
The other abdominal organs, so far az
they were examined, presented no un-
usual features.
The report of the surgeons who are
engaged in making the autopsy will
probably not be ready for publication
before next Wednesday.