Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-29
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. MAKING HIS WILL. Guiteau Getting Ready for
 the End. TALKS WITH HIS MINISTER. Protesting to be Ready
 to Die. LAST EFFORTS OF HIS SISTER. A Final Appeal to the Pres
 ident.
LAST EFFORTS OF HIS SISTER.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

| Guiteau has not given up hope of a respite from the President. Mrs. Scoville appears resigned. The tStar publishes letters from Scoville to his wife in which the family l troubles appear aggravated. He seems to have been constantly berating her for her conduct during and since the trial. He writes to John W. Guiteau to-day that he fears for l the safety of his child Bertha, and begs him to see that her mother does her no harm The correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle
 has had an interview with Guiteau in which the latter is represented as having mentioned possible plan of escape by the connivance of General Crocker, warden of the jail. The plan is for the warden of the jail to go to Baltimore ostensibly on business Thursday and arrange to be detained until after ? o'clock Friday. Then as no one but Crocker is authorized to carry out the sentence the execution will have to be postponed for some months until the prisoner can be re-sen- tenced.
 The following invitation was sent today by General Crocker to those who are to attend the execution:
 WARDEN's OFFICE, U. s. JAIL,l WASHINGTON D. C., MT. -: You are respectfully invited to witness tho execution of Charles J. Guteau at h jail Fri
 day, June 30, 1S82 between the hours of 12 m and o'clock ? m. (S1gneol
 JOHN S. CRocKER, Warden. Dr. Noble Young VI ill be the doctor in charge and there will also be present Drs Mac illiams, Johnson, Elliott and Vanarum,
 and Coroner Patterson. The jury will be em pannelled from members of the press, who will be selected Friday morning. General Crocker's private office will be turned into 8 telegraph office and the Western Union Tele- graph company, United Press association, Noyu Vorlr Prasc association and Associated
 Press will run special wires into the building The preparations for the last event are practically completed. The scaffold has been erected in the northeast corridor of the jail, an apartment 16 by 115 feet, and of the whole height of the jail, perhaps 80 feet The scaffold occupies the extreme northeast part It is substantial structure of Georgia pine painted pale green. The platform is reached by an ascent of fifteen steps and is pris and perhaps six or eight other per sons. The drop is so arranged as to show the body to the persons in the corridor. Sev- eral of the cells open on the platform, but these will be vacated at the time of execu ton. The rope runs through 8 covered trough into one of the cells and here, hidden from sight, will be the hangman ready to cut the rope at the signal from the warden, who will be on the platform. The corridor would accommodate perhaps two or three hundred persons The design, however, is to have the execution strictly private The or ders for admission will be restricted to the limitations of the statutes, the jail officers only allowing themselves some latitude of construction in the case of newspapers The scaffold could be seen from the outside through a number of windows, but these will be shaded, so that no opportunity will thus be afforded either for outside observa- tion or for Guiteau. as he mounts the steps. to take 8 last view of the landscape. The prisoner is confined in one of the condemned cells, his only neighbor being negro named Shaw who is sentenced to be hanged next January for the murder of his sister. The corridor is closed to view by wooden door, but it was loosely closed. The death watch could be seen pacing the vacant space within or sitting before the gate Guiteau's cell has been changed with in day or two as it's location had become generally known, and it was thought best to put him elsewhere. AS seen from the rear 1t is marked by wooden shutter opening into the ca corridor When taken to execution he will be obliged to walk across the main hall of the jail, large open space, and then the whole length of the northeast corridor facing the scaffold-a walk which would try any mans nerve. From the cell door to the scaffold is about 200 feet. About the jail there is an evident air of anxiety about the 
 they have opportunity, observe the visitors and show curiosity in the proceedings. The jail is visited by little squads of people, on one pretext or another, and, so far as they are allowed permission to enter, they have examined the scenes and taken away relics. squad of ten soldiers is still detailed to as sist the officers in maintaining order and pre- serving public property. No danger is ap prehended, however, of an attempt at vio- lence, though stlict watch is kept at night by sentries to prevent any such attempts as those of Mason and Jones. There have been two or three suspicious persons from time to time skulking around the jail, but no evi- dence has been found of 8 conspiracy to de- feat the orderly process of the law. The jail is very neat, and apparently well kept and secure.
 Mrs. Scoville sent letter to the President to day making strong appeal for her brother on the ground of insanity. Guiteau asks Reed to come to morrow and make his will. He desires to dispose of his body, the copy right to his book and the right to write his life Mrs. Scoville's letter to the President was being peddled around for cash tonight. It contains nothing new.
 In Mir. Scovllle's letter printed here today, dated April 30, to J. W. Guiteau, Scovllle says Eff she (Mrs. s. comes back here to- day and keeps on as she has been doing, there will be somebody killed." To his wife he says, under date of May 4th: "You have proved yourself even more ungrateful, more heartless and more utterly depraved than either of your brothers" To John
 W. Guiteau, under date of Chi cago, June 3, he says: "We here charitably say she is insane. That is the only theory on which her conduct to me can be account ed for except one of devilish depravity and she and you can take your course."
 Guiteau's moods are as changeful now as
 IN-z II h. =.I.s in violent denunciation of everybody con- nected with the case exclaiming, ''Ar- thur will go to hell; the Cabinet, Bradley, General Crocker and you (the guard) will go to hell," en- phasizing hell in each case by a violent blow on the table. When Rev. MT. Hicks came in the morning he was quiet and said he was ready to go. He had no enmity against anyone and felt sure that hs would be welcomed to paradise. The character of his finale will depend much on his mood at the time. Doctor Hicks presence may have 8 soothing effect, yet an outburst of fury may be caused by some trivial incident.
 The Star Route Trials.
 WAsHINaTor, June 28.-In the Star route trials to day outes numbers 38, 134, 39, 40 and 96, 247 were taken up. G. w. Sweeney identified papers belonging to the routes. i Petitions were produced by MT. Bliss asking for expedition and increase of routes. The defense asked that they be read, but the court declined to allow it, as there was no evidence that they did not act rightly. J. N. Major, ub-contractor, was examined. Jo- seph Mccormick, postmaster at Bedding, Col, was put on the stand and closed the evil dence on route 96, PAY and route 38, 134 was taken up. The prosecution put in evi. dence letters from Senator Chaffee, Chief Justice Thacker and other Colorado officials, and proceeded to read them, when the court interrupted and said he didn't want to hear evidence of that kind from that side, but
 wanted them to prove their own side of the case.
 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.