The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-01
Is Now Fitting ON the Other shore
Hanged Between the Hours Of IL
and l O'clock Yesterday
at the Jail in WASH
ingtOn City.
He Meets His Fate With More Com.
pOsure Than was Anticipated,
Breakfasts and Dimes with
Relish and Plunges
Into Bath Tub Before so Doing Into
Eternity-A Parting Shot at
President Arthur.
COmpOses Poem Entitled "Simplicity'
Attempts to Sing the Same
Fails Dismally.
He Makes a "Dying Prayer" on the
Gallows, In Which lie
PrOphesies the Vengeance of the Lord
Upon this Country.
ReaSserts That He was Inspired by
the Deity.
The Trap Falls, His Neck is Broken
aud lie
Dies Almost Instantly and Pain.
lessly.
Some Minor Incidents of the Day.
The Finale.
BEGINNING OF THE END.

WASHINGTON, June 30-(United States
Jail, 945 a. III. .l-Guiteau was very restless
during most of the latter part of the night,
not sleeping more than twenty minutes at
time. Towards morning he fell into Il
sounder sleep from sheer exhaustion, He
rose few minutes after O. clock and
BREAKFAsTED HEARTILY.
AT $3.50, when the cook took his breakfast
into the cell, Guiteau told him to bring
him in dinner at II o'clock promptly. Rev.
DR.. Hicks, who remained at the Jail all
night, was called into the prisoners cell
Soon after he rose and held q conversation
on religious subjects with him. AT O'Clock
DR.. Hicks saw the prisoner again, when he
made request to have
AgATH.
and asked the reverend gentleman to 60 out
and see the scatlold Guiteau asked him to
arrange with the warden to have the trap
sprung as soon after II O'Clock MS possible
He also expressed considerable anxiety
lest some accident should occur and insist
ed that Doctor Hicks should
SEE THE sCAFF0LD
and It's appurtenanCeS were all III proper
and safe condition. After Guiteau had dis
posed of the matters he read poem COM
posed by himself which he calls "Simpici.
ing it aloud he attempted to sing it but
broke down i'll the effort, which would have
appeared
QUITE RIDICULOUS
If the OCCASION had been less solemn. Gu,
teau then talked for sometime about Nv
future. He remarked that his heart Is
tender. IL don't think" he said, 81 cs-A
20 through this ordeal without weepin I,
not that the principle in me is not stron {,
but because | am near the other world. !
hold to the idea that q
GOD INSPIRED Me-"
Guiteau subsequently asked that in his
books all complimentary remarks about
President Arthur and his administration
be eliminated. Then he presented to DIR.
Hicks the books which have been the COM
panions of his lonely hours. He told DIR.
Hicks that he wanted him to offer
THE FIRST PRAYER
on the scaifold, saying that he (Guiteau)
would then read his fayorite scriptural
passage, the 10th chapter of John, and offer
prayer on his own account. Then he in
tended, he said, to read his poem, "Sim-
plicity." He desired to have the execution
so arranged that just as he uttered the last
word the drop should be sprung. John w.
Guiteau arrived at the Jail at o clock and
was followed in few moments by Warden
Crocker. These two gentlemen conferred
with DIR. Hicks as to the
DISPOSITION OF THE BODY.
At 9l5 q. m. the prisoner came out in tha
corridor and exercised for fifteen minutes.
He walked very briskly, making it very
ia,lt do IN l-an, xx-,tI 4,
him. Guiteau generally has taken exercise
in his shirt and drawers, This morning,
however, he wore dark pair
of pants and had a handkerchief
tied loosely about his neck.
THE SCENE ABOUT THE JAIL
this morning is unique. The office of the
jail has been given up completely to large
corps of newspaper reporters and squads OF
them are scribbling away on every table,
window sills, and every projection that Of
fers rest for paper. Newspaper reporters
remained all night. The private office OF
the warden has been transformed tempo
rariIy into telegraph office and before 8
o'clock eight instruments were
CLICKING A MERRY ACCOMPANIMENT
to the gloomy preparations going on inside
the Jail. AT 8 O'Clock there was a constar
stream of persons coming into the Jail. The
scene outside was like that of some great
gala occasion. Some colored men had
erected booths from which they dispensed
lemonade, cakes, and other refreshments
TO THE WEARY, THIRSTY PEOPLE,
who began before y o'clock to assemble in
the road in front Of the jail. Mounted
messengers speeding to and from the city,
and carriages bringing in visitors to the
Jail, kept a continual cloud of dust hover
ing over the road that winds through the
wide common that lies between the Jail
and the city. At 10 o'clock Guiteau eX-
pressed desire to take bath, and large
tub was taken into his cell. At this hour
no one save
THE DEATH WATCH
was with him. Guiteau nervously dis
robed and plunged into the cold bath. 1t
was quite apparent to.the guard, who was
closely observing his every move, that his
obtain some employment which would dis
tract his thoughts from the dread contem-
plation of his approaching death. He
evinced increased nervousness, and his
UNCERTAIN MOVEMENTS,
distrait manner and the marked tremor in
his tone when he attempted to speak, i'm
pressed the guard with the belief that he is
rapidly weakening, The opinion is ex-
pressed by some Of the Jail officials that he
will be unable to control his emotions when
the dread moment arrives, and even if he
does not completely break down and make
q scene, that he will be unable from ner-
vous excitement to carry out the pro-
gramme
UPON THE sCAFF0LD
which he has announced. The rotunda
was thrown open at 10 O'Clock and the
newspaper men: focked in. There were