Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-16
GUITEAU's PLOT.

A Little INSIDE History Relative to
Attempts to Prove Participation on
the Fart of Persons OF high Stnnd-
ing
Washington, July l2-People in
Washington who know most about the
affairs which surrounded President Gar
field at the time of his assassination,
aud vino have kept we'll informed f,s to
the workings of the two great factions
IN the republican party, and who, too,
attended the trial of the assassin
Gniteau, declare the stories published in
connection with the death of the late
United States District Attorney Corkhill
to the effect that the assassin had
accomplices, the veriest kind of rot. No
one here believes that any one had the
slightest idea of the assassination before
1t took place other than Guiteau, and
everybody believes that that miserable
wretch would have "peached" on any
one who was in collusion with him the
very first opportunity he had.
Guiteau was notorious coward and
wholly destitute of principle, aud he
would have spared no means at his COM
mand to turn the tide in his favor at any
time during the trial. He fairly ached
to draw somebody into the trial with
hlm and divert the responsibility from
himself. But the theory that Guiteau
had accomplices, or was encouraged in
his tiendlsh work, was sifted to its bottom
by the very best detectives in the coun-
try, and by men who had every facility
IN the way of social and political associa-
tions TO do so. Your correspondent had
a loug talk to-day with one of the princi-
n ..fp Mt IN 4 l,o 81, e.. ~,
trials, and he exploded the idea that
anybody except Gnlteau had anything
to do with the killing of Garfield.
zone time during the star route trials,
said this gentleman, ''there was great
deal said about this thing of Gn,teau
not beng solely responsible for the
death of Garfield. There were mean
contemplate hints that President
Arthur and ex-senator Conkling knew
something, and should be on trial with
Gulteau. At this time General Brady
and ex-senator Dorsey were winching
under what they conceived to be per-
sonal persecution, and while both had a
high regard for MIR. Conkiing, each des-
pissed Mr.. Arthur. At conference held
one evening, at which both of these star
route kings or their representatives were
present, the matter of Guiteau's alleged
accompiices was brought up and dis
cussed. l remember that General Brady
declared the insinuation that either
Arthur or Conkiing was in any degree
responsible was barely false, and that no
one but william would accuse them of
it. lie said that he and Mr.. Dorsy had
been intimately associated with
the friends of those
men, and with Arthur and Conkling
themselves, and that after weeks of the
most dilIgent watchfulness, and assis-
tance OF number OF the shrewdest
detectives IN the country, they had been
unable to find the slightest clew He
believed that if they, with their social
and political ties, and the work of their
detectives, were unable to trace this
thing, there was nothing in it,"
'You see," continued the gentleman,
''it would have been big card for the
star route men if they could have un.
earthed conspiracy to the assassination.
Lit would have freed them and turned the
current of public opinion from them.
Well, at the meeting ! speak of, it was
determined that renewed efforts should
be made to gcs thread of the
conspiracy, if one existed,
and although Brady and
Dorsey neltner DeileVeu IN III, tnelf ma
chinery was again put to work. Months
of work failed to result in the slightest
discovery. At the same time this inves-
tigation, deep end scorching, was going
on, the government was trying to solve
the mystery, if one existed. doubt if
ever more earnest, patient, far.reach.
ing and fruitless Investigation was ever
made of anything, L know, too that the
most diligent effort was put forth by the
family of Guiteau to patch up sensa-
tion in this direction, but that the assas-
sin was SO completely destitute of ma
terial to work upon that the diabolical
plot was an utter failure. No one but
Guiteau was responsible for the assas.
sinatiop of Garfield