The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-18
GUITEAU's AWFUL CURSE,
It Hss Not Particularly Affected tn. M.
Who Tried Him.

1t Has Not Particularly Affected the Men
Who Tried Him,
N. Y. World.-It was after dusk on
the 25th day OF January, 1882, tn.
weather cloudy and gloomy, that
there filed into their box in the old
criminal courtroom of Washington
twelve jurymen, who had listened TO,
months to the testimony and areu.
ments in the case OF the trial O.
Guiteau for the murder of President
Garfield, and announced their yer.
dict, Guilty, as indicted" Without,
a drlzzling rain and snow was falling.
n the large, dlngy old courtroom
was lighted by some half dozen can.
dies placed on the Judges desk and
on the tables of counsel, giving
but little light and adding to thu
weird darkness of the room. judge
Cox took his place on the bench.
At n table sat Judge John X.
Porter, Mr.. Davidge and District At.
torney Corkhiil, representing the Gov.
eminent. Mr.. Scoville, the prisoners
brother-in-law notwithstanding counsel:
the prisoners brother and his sister.
Mrs. Scoville, and some personal
friends ofGuiteau. sat with him at an
adjoining table. rs the verdict was
announced, the prisoner exclaimed in
a loud and defiant tone:
"My blood be on the head of that
jury. Don't youforgeti it. That is nv
answer"
And when afterwards on February
4, 1882, the Court asked him ifhehad
anything to say why sentence should
not be passed upon him, he replied:
Every officer, judicial or otherwise,
from the President down, taking in
every man on that jury and every
msmber OF this bench, will pay forit.h
And when the sentence was pro-
nounced he repeated vehemently:
God Almighty will curse every man
who has had anything to do with this
case"
Various statements have from time
to time during the last four years ap.
peared in the press OF the country call
ing attention to the realization Of
"Guiteau's curse" ard the fulfllment."
OF his prophecy. g.
A correspondent called on Cole, IL
Corkhill, the U. S. District Attong' =,
at the trial, for some of the fact an -.
nected with the history of tn had -
gagged i'll it, and whom Guitolonei 30
specially mathematical. Office in ~
Corkhill was found at his le # INV ~
this city, and he looked the trial hn
older than he did dunled bv vonr ;n'
When his attention wSect. he said. ~,
correspondent to these statements nv
YES, l have seey receive letters Gle
often, and | frequany truth in ,he me-
asking me if then. There seems tn nr,
stories that archie Part of a laroe ~
be an anxiety to seize upon anv- The
number OF pders on the a, nerst; nv
thing that1ly needs the slightest co. Gin
tlous, anda prophesy and a CORE. alw
lncldenccurlence to enable them tn ma
spondpn %inscrutable mystery in hal
disco,n with it. Al ..9.,
20 mnr L'ui1eau trlal, oil the wit bill
rror the government that were h,s
y, 10 prove the crime before tbe A
"a jury, and whose names we're an hos
sea on the back of the indictment so Z
WHO We're eXarlipe1in chief nv tha in 4
eminent, are alive and pursuino ION,
T ordinary business, excent S,,r7 voa,
! General Barnes, who died Soma. orti
ago. saw the foreman Of the vo,
!, John T. Hamlin, OF this civ q n W.
DAYS ago, and heinformed me- tIot 0n4o9
he Jury who tried and convic,a5 10 So
-eau are alive and a in ia II !
ness they were before the tr;ol Nv H.
one, Michael Sheenan. who 80 nns ;
at the time and has since d;od FL
,rv had h,oiai '9uee Porter was With
the lahor ia uuiihs n trial, very
yerv n,,,ah AZ upol nm physi- upon
8 ws,l ona !'tVl'ge is look great
~ "urA'he as hard as firms
Judge Cox, who presided at the and
in Cod o hoC oie oench, vigorous $500
~; ne same is mean
ces Nonan. 'use'ce Carter, cling
or vho aae:'i James and Some
40 +ha ucl.oeu case sus- trunk
Instioo Hiutclol the jury on ap- in the
. nyliena peer retired I'M l kno'
49, IND i0IelaW on account the SIX
e ana long service. Mr.. Justice sansa,
VINO denied the writ of ha. wav 5
corpus, is still on the bench of the bao n,
me court OF the United States. satche
y old enough to be entitled to made
~ ne desires. Marshal Henry is him ey
corh, potatoes and wheat on I kno
IN IN ONO, with probably more San II,
lc.,on n certainly with more one q
> IMAM when his portly, farmer travel,
'iIn was seen shadowins the they h
Oh the courthouse, and 10 was largest
ing he was performing the du. come t
U. 5. marshal. Trha' =
at tLo : Lamb, who as the gro
az the autopsy. and who tri. and ca
my carried off his bones, which there a
eiuliy polished and articulated ..Tra
,ri'1eht expense, is still caress- continl
grlnning skeleton in the erous f.
al Museum of this city. many =
leading experts whom Guitean and lea
Y cursed-Dr. John p. GRAY. OF poor.
A. p. Mcdonald and Alien care of
J Hamilton, of New York; Dr.. a trav.
lempster, of Wisconsin, and by tran
JUS other physicians in charge to their
ar'ous insane asylums of the one of 4
> whose names l cannot now ST. \ ",
are all alive and, with one or to snct
in charge OF the sama make n
they were at the time ri he this wa
n TACT, l think it remarkahle or soma
avg 'He urge number ofactive comfort
there should be but two the occn
deaths in over four wears, forts Of
Is IN Chicago trying to raise We will
.,noo.1I a''inony 1or his wife, year or
as W nave MN arrested be- and the
1nL. hoI succeeded. Guiteau's OF q com
inc VINO Was a spectator at This pro
- wrestling with the intri- submitte
ot business o. life in of merch
;aI E.u, TICKS, G%uiteau's supporte
u'lser' mas stopped men. anC
g. and has gone to Florida to is carried
'nses. 1t may be added chat
who adjusted the moose
us neck is a~nxiously waitins
opportunity, which no Will From the