The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-07-04
GODS GU|TEAU,
Pays the Penalty of His Great
Crime, Today, at
1858.
Great Excitement in Wash
ington. Previous to
the Hanging.
The Prisoner Calmer Than
Was Expected He
Would Be.
Mrs. Scoville Not Allowed to
0OO
He Wrote His Prayer, and
Read it on the Scat
fold.
Flowers He Wanted and They
Were Given to Him.
A Historic Day in the Life of
the Nation.
Garf1eId's Death is Avenged and
the Law INDICATED.
The Graphic Story of the Execu-
flOn-
Flowers He Wanted and They
Were Given to Him.
A Historic Day in the Life Of
the Nation.
GarfieId's Death is Avenged and
the Law INDICATED.
The Graphic Story of the Execu-
tlOn

Guiieau was very restless during most OF
the latter part of the night, not sleeping
more than twenty minutes at a time. To-
wards morning he fell into sounder
sleep from sheer exhaustion. He Rose
few minutes after tive and ate breakfast
al $50. When the cook took the break
fast into the cell, GEiteau told him to
BRING HIS DINNER IN AT ii O'CLOCK
PROMPTLY.
Dr. Hicks, who remained at the Jail all
night, was let into the prisoners cell soon
after he arose, and held conversation
on religious subjects with him. At eight
o'clock DIR. Hicks saw the prisoner again.
when he made the request to have bath.
and asked Hicks to go out and see the
scaffold.
Guiteau desired him to arrange with the
warden to have
THE TRAP SPRUNG A. SOON AFTER TWELVE
O'CLOCK
as possible. He also expressed consider
able anxiety lest some acciden, should Oc-
cur, and insisted that Hicks should see
that the scaffold and its appurtenances
were all in proper condition.
After Guiteau had disposed of these
matters, he read poem composed by him
self, which he calls
"sIMPLICITY' OR A RELIGIOUS BABY TALK.
After reading it alone he attempted to sing
it, but broke down in the effort. Guiteau
then talked for sometime about his future.
He remarked that his heart was tender
II don't think" he said, that / can 60
through this ordeal without weeping not
because OF any great weakness, but be' ause
lam NEARER THE OTHER void.
hold to the idea that God inspired lne."
Guiteau subsequently asked, that in his
books all complimentary remarks about
President Arthur and his administration
be eliminated. Then he presented Hicks
the books that have been the companions
of his long hours. He told Hicks that he
wanted him to
OFFER THE FIRST PRAYER on THE scAF-
FOLD,
saving that he, Guiteau, would then read
his favorite scriptural passage, the tenth
chapter of John, wtich begins as follows:
"Verily, verify, l say unto you, He that
entereth not by the door into the sheep
fold, but climbeth up some other way, the
same is thief and robber," 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 ar
ranged that just as he
UTTERED THE LAST WORD, THE DROP
should be sprung. John w. Guiteau ar
rived at the Jail at 9 o'clock, and was fol-
lowed in by Warden c. Croker. These
two gentlemen, with Hicks, held a consul
tation as to the disposition of the body.
At 9:15 the prisoner came out into the
corridor and exercised for fifteen minutes.
He walked very sprigt tly, making it
rather difficult for his guards to keep pace
with him.
THE SCENE ABOUT THE JAIL THIS MORNING
Is UNIQUE
The Office OF the Jail has been given COM
pletely up to large corps of newspaper
reporters, and a squad of them are scrib-
bling awav on every table, window sill and
every projection that offers rest for pa
per.
Many newspaper reporters remained all
night at the private Office of the warden,
which has been transformed. temporarily
into telegraph Office.
At 9 O'Clock there was q constant stream
of people coming into the Jail
The scene outside was
LIKE THAT OF SOME GREAT GALA oCCA-
SION.
Some enterprising men had erected
booths from which they dispensed lemon
ade, cakes and other refreshments to the
weary and thirsty people, who began be-
fore 9 o'clock to assemble in the road in
front Of the Jail. Messengers are speeding
to and fro to the city and carriages bring,
ing visitors to the Jail kept a continual
cloud of dust lowering over the road that
winds through the common that lies be-
tween the Jail and the city.
AT 10 O'CLOCK GUIrEAU
expressed desire to take bath, and
large tub was taken into his cell At this
hour no one but the death watch Was with