The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-01
(cosrINurp pnoM FInsr PACE. )

Uudcts tdLttiIies WAS Thai TICKS WOuIu taiAs
possession of the packages of photograph
and several of his AUTOGRAPHS. Several o.
his autographs bare the date of to-day
There probably never was man who hae
less sympathy from those who saw hin
hanged. Many people who supposed that
even the sight of the scaffold would effect
him stood by and saw the entire programme
carried out without the slightest sympa
thetic or unpleasant feeling His fellow
sinners hated Guiteau. for he never as
much as spoke to any o.
them in Jail during the year of confinement
He always claimed to be kind of super
munication with them. but it was a sur
prise to many who knew this 10 hear the APP
pianse that went up in all parts of thi
iali as soon as the trap was sprung thu
parts of the building. A great majority o
the prisoners in the north wing of the jai
are colored, and those who We're in cell
facing the scene were moved to cells or
plause was so loud that ii drowned every
other sound. Cries such as
s'GooD- BYE, OLD INSPIRATION,
Goodbye. Gods man" your high toned
manners and style did not save you, and
you have gone to the devil at last, just as
harJ John Guiteau was one central
figure OF attraction. lie stood about in
the roiunda and eonversed friendly with
those who he knew He said, III may
not be exactlp what is called good taste
for me 10 be here, but with all his faults he
was my brather. He will be better of
dead than living. His entire record ahows
that he was truthful, and stuck to his
theoly until life was choked out Of him.
He claimed that he was inspired, and did
what he did as Gods agent, who is it that
can doubt now he thought he was really
Inspired. and that he was telling
the truth, or thought he was.
have had a year of trouble such as no man
ever had, and I intend if possible TO get
away from here, never to return TO the
city again, but [ don't intend, as a news
paper said, to change my name. There
was a foolish supposition among some of
the jail people to-day that intended doing
something desperate, such as shooting
Charles to keep them from hanging him,
but they found that / was peaceable
enough, but tlidn't know of their suspi
cions until after the execution and of
course l had no such intention"
OF the twelve men of the jury who GER
titled that they had seen sentence of death
craried out the foreman was w. s. Roose,
the well known cigar dealer, who is chair
man of the building committee of Garfield
Memorial church and a leading member of
the Christian church which Garfield at
tended He was an intimate personal
friend of the late president and in a man.
ner represented Memorial church congre,
CATION at the execution.
Dr. Beard, of New York, led those who
believed that the brain of Guitean, after
death, would prove beyond doubt the
question of his sanity. He gave up this
idea last night and left the city, having
been convinced after an investigation of
the subject thoroughly that the mind de
ponds entirely on the condition of the brain
in life, and that it would not be reflected
with certainty by the brain after DEATH
Should this be fact much of what was
by autopsy will fail. Full invcs
dgation can net be concluded for several
days, for some portions will have to be
made by science of microscope. The brain
was found to be healty, but beyond that
no final result has been reached by autop-
sy. The whole thing raises an interesting
question which can not he settled for some
time, even with the knowledge that
is now had of the deli cate composition of
brain and operation of mind. The ordi-
nary man seemed to be satisfied by the ex
hibition made by Guiteau to-day, though
il does not convince those that regarded
him insane that he was insane. The same
is in the way of those who con-
tended that he was sane. This branch of
The case is almost the entire subject of dis
eussion and contention tonight. Guiteau
told Hicks this a. m. that he had a very
pleasant dream last night He has often
ikeRed himself to John Brown Guiteau
said he dreamed that he had got into an
extensive law practice and had been called
INTO Abe defense of John Brown, who was
on trial at IIarper's Ferry. His defense
was thai he was inspired to free negroes,
md that moi being aa independent agent
1e couldn't be held legally responsible for
.Ile uprising of slaves or the consequences
IF his. crime. Guiteau said his speech IN
lefense of Brown was "a great effort and
hal he occupied two days in his speech, |
With a verdict of moi guilty, he having
convinced the jury that he was inspired
There is
CONSIDERABLE MYSTERY
bout the disposition of the body of Gni
eau. 1t is given out at the Jail that it |
vas buried within the iuclosurc of the jail |
hough some incline to the theory that i'll
S not. His heart. brain, lungs and other |
portions of the body are kaown To be in |
he U. s. Medical Museum, where are also |
he heart, liver and other portions of Gar