People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-11-11
AsstNIo AMONG THE FLOWERS.
GuIt.sps Alleged Attempt at Suicide While
A,,.ltin. III. Doom on the Gallows.

Awaiting Ms Doom on the Gallows'
One Of the most skillfully planned at
Temps 10 dodge death on the Scaffoid
By committing suicide was discovered
in the case Of Guiteau, the assassin OF
President Garfield. The guards at the
district fail had been warned TO keep
the closest watch on him 70 prevent
this Nothing was permitted TO go to
his cell until Il had undergone the most
careful scrutiny by the keen-eyed prison
officials. and from time 10 time his cell
was thoroughly searched TO prevent his
concealing bits Of iron with which he
might do himself bodily harm. No one
was allowed TO speak with him, save
when in company with one OF the
watch. As the day Of his execution
drew near the care was redoubled to
prevent his cheating the gallows The
day before his execution arrived and the
Jail was filed with reporters and corre-
spondents watching for some sign OF
feeling on the part Of the man who had
committed the awful crime, and had
yet remained apparently insensible TO
any feelings other than fear Of death
and sorrow not that he had committed
the crime, but that he had been caught
In the afternoon his sister. Mrs SEQ
vile, came TO see him She pleaded
hard TO be permitted TO enter the
doomed mans cell, but positive orders
had been given not to allow this. and
she was refused. She was much az
fected and wept bitterly, kissing him
many times and attempting to embrace
MIN through the bars. After she had
left, one of the reporters went up TO
Deputy Warden Russ, who was at that
time guard, and said:
"Mr Russ, il has come at last. Gui.
teau has proved that he is a man, and
not simply murderous brute. When
his sister gave him bunch of flowers
he broke down completely and cried
like a child"
At the mention OF the bunch OF flow,
ers Mr.. Russ became interested. When
Mrs Scoville had asked to see her
brother she had said nothing of this.
Mr.. Russ at once went toGuiteaus cell
The assassin sat on his bed holding the
bouquet at arm'slength, with strange
mixture Of fear and hope on his face.
He reluctantly gave them up to Mr..
Russ, who upon retiring from the cell
opened them to see that there was moth.
ing concealed in them. As he moved
them about in his hands some white
powder fell on the floor. This was sus.
picious. He at once removed them to
the private Office, calling at the same
time for the prison surgeon to assist in
the examination, as he suspected poison.
Each flower was submitted to the closest
examination, but save little fine white
powder which adhered to few he could
find nothing, till at last he came to a
great camelia which had stood in the
center of the bouquet Concealed in
this he found large quantity Of the
powder.
A chemical analysis was at once insti.
tuted and the result was that the pow.
der was discovered to be arsenic. The
quantity was sufficient to have killed
six men, 1t was evident that Mrs SEQ
vile had wished to enter the murderers
cell in order to give him the poison her.
self, but being prevented had given him
the bouquet telling him to eat it,
Washington Sunday Herald.