Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-30
and deputy being present. Guiteau was at
first much excited and

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In few minutes he Gained down and said
he was ready to die and wanted to be hung al
10 O'Clock sharp At parting he said, LEI
me kiss my sister through the grated bars ano
. let it so 90 on record" After kissing his
sister and little niece, he turned 10 his brother
and handing him dime said, "Ihere Is Inc
ten cents due the, washerwor,an, guess you
had better settle that balance to-day mrs.
Scoville and her brother John then TOOK
leave of him and passing directly to their car
riage were taken back to the city.
AN AUTOPSY TO BE HELD.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-The following in
vitation to attend the autopsy on the body OF
Charles J. Guiteau was issued to-day;
Washington, June 20, 1SS3.-Doctor Hicks;
custodian of Guiteau's body. invites you to
attend the autopsy to morrow at O'Clock, at
the Jail. s.
TSirnedl GEORGE NJ. Beard.
The above invitation was sent by telegraph
to many physicians. DIR. Beard, who leaves
for home tonight, says he feels no interest In
further proceedings. He expresses his firm
conviction that he has fairly predicted Quit
eau's action tomorrow. He does not believe
the post mortem examination will reveal the
true condition of Guiteau's brain, or sutfici-
entity demonstrate his insanity. DIR. Beard
says that in selecting the names OF those to be
invited 10 the autopsy, he tried to cover per-
sons of all shades of opion which had been eX-
pressed with regard to the prisoners mental
| condition.
THE S5ovILLEs.
Mrs. Scoville said tonight in further sup
port OF her opinion that Scoville had no in
| tention of coming toWashington at this time,
that just before her departure for the east
scoville had announced his willingness to pay
the expenses of herself and daughter to
Washington provided she (Mrs. Scoville)
would surrender certain papers. Recurring to
the stter which she had received from SEQ
vile; .last evening Mrs. scovllle said there
were Enclosed therein nttmber of self ad-
dressed envelopes which Scoville wished
handed to his little daughter Bertha whom
he desired to hear from, request, Mrs,
Scovie added, which would be complied
with.
Mrs. Scoville also added that there was alb
solutely nothing in the contents of the letter
to indicate that her husband contemplated
coming to Washington and she expressed the
opinion that the telegram announcing his in
tention of doing so was made up by some
person or persons DESTROYS Of making sensa-
lion. She says she is firmly decided to retain
the custody of the little girl and irrevocably
fixed IN her determination to obtain divorce
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approach of her brothers. doom had caused
her TO lose hope she replied, mo, and lven-
ture to say that Friday Will bring with it a
great surprise"
She is very hopeful that the hand of the ex-
ecutive will yet intervene to prevent the kill
ing OF an Insane man.
ii can be stated authorltatively that the
president will not see any more persons IN re- |
ference to Guiteau's case, and it is useless for
any one TO send any more letters, appeals or |
petitions TO him on the subject, as he has |
acted finally and does not propose to recon- |
slider his action.
There were number of queer people at the |
White house to-day to see the president in |
Guiteau's behalf None of them were ac-
corded au interview.
They were all referred TO w. II. Crook, one
of the executive clerks, who received them i'll |
an ante room, and he heard their requests. /
Three woman and one man wanted to have |
him persuade the president TO see them, but |
to no purpose. They came separately, but |
were all on the same GRAND, TO ask that |
Guiteau be respited because of his insanity. |
One man was a Frenchman and wanted Gulteau
pardoned outright. When Crook told one |
woman of the visitors that it was useless for
her to trouble herself further about the case,
as the president had decided not to interfere
with the execution of the sentence, she was
very much overcome with grief and burst
into tears, and had To be led cut Of the build
ing. She sadly bemoaned her unhappy lot,
and said it was a shame for the country to al
low "poor brother Guiteau.' to be hanged. |
The letter in the nature OF will by which
Guileau disposes of his body is as follows:
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June 29.-To Rev. W.
w. Hicks: /, Charles j. Guiteau, of the city |
of Washington, in the District of Columbia,
now under sentence of death which is 10 be |
carried into effect between the hours of IL
and o'clock, on the 30th day of June, A. D.,
1852, in the United States Jail in said District,
do hereby give and grant you my body after |
such execution, provided, however, it shall |
rot be used for any unnecessary purpose, |
and l hereby, before God and for |
sufficient considerations, give, deliver and |
transfer to said Hicks my books entitled ''The |
Truth and Removal and the copyright |
thereof, to be used by him in writing truth |
full history of my life and execution, and | |
direct that such history be entitled "The |
life and Work of Charles j. Guiteau;" aud | |
hereby solemnly proclaim and announce to |
all the world that no person or persons shall |
ever in any manner use my body for any mer- |
cenaIy purposes whatever, and if at any time |
hereafter any person or persons shall desire TO |
honor my remains they can do it by erecting |
a monument whereon shall be inscribed these
words, Here lies the body of Charles j.
Guiteau, patriot and Christian. His soul is
in glory [Signedl CHARLES j. GUITEAU."
Witnesses-Charles III. Reed, James Wood |
ward.
In conversation with representative Of the
Associated Press to night Reed, counsel for
Guiteau, said: 81 have seen nothing as yet to
shake my conviction that Guiteau will die to-
morrow without weakness or falteriuG. His
courage is not that of an ordinary criminal, a
mere rutliau who takes pride in dying game.
1t is rather that of martyr, OF man who
suffers and dies for the sake of some religious
principle. | thought at one time he was be-
ginning to show weakness. saw in the
newspapers that a spiritual adviser had been
called in, and the thought occurred to me that
perhaps Guiteau had begun to realize that he
had committed crime and needed divine for
giveness, and that he wishes to make prepra-
ton for death. The next time ] saw him
said to him. "Charles, | see by the newspa-
pers you have called in minister. Do you
feel as if you needed to prepare for death? Do
you repent of what you have done?"
He looked at me with wild expression in
his ewes, snd shouted, "no haven't called in
any minister. l haven't done anything wrong.
The minister came of his own accord, didn't
send for him."
Two or three days after l was introduced 10
DR.. Hicks, whom had never previously met,
and l said to him, "doctor, has Guiteau ever
shown in his talk with you any consciousness
of having done wrong; any feeling of repent
ance or desire for forgiveness"
''None, whatever" he replied; he has main
tanned constantly throughout that he has
done no wrong; that he has simply done
Gods service and has nothing 10 repent Of"
Up to the present time, Reed added, Guiteau
talks of his death without any manifestation
of fear of death. He said to me, ITO morrow.
Mr.. Reed, what are you going to do with my
body" told him that was a very painful
subject to talk about, and that would rather
not go into it, but that he might
rest assured his body would be properly cared
for. He said, 81 don't care particularly what
is done with it SO long as it is not used for
| not be diagnosed or used for mercenary pur-
poses. "What do you mean by that" he iu-
quired. l explained to him the meaning of