Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-10-12
GUITEAU'S BONES.
The Real Burial Place Of President
Garheld's Assassin.
Not In q Medical Museum But Beneath
tho Floor of tho Prison In Which
the Murderer Vas
Confined.

Confined.
Deputy Warden Russ of the district
Jail made q statement that the skelc-
ton of Guiteau, the assassin of Prcsi-
dent Garfield, is not on exhibition at
the medical museum, as has been gen.
orally supposed.
1t wl2l be remembered that for long
time prior to the execution strenuous eff
forts were made to ascertain where Gui-
tcau was TO be buried. Persons acting
in the interest OF rcsurreetionists. both
those who wantel the body for dissnc
lion and several entcrErising propr;.-
6oI's who much desired to secure it fol
exhibition purposes, indaStriousiy qle3-
toned every one whom they thought
possessed the slightest knowledge.
Great precautions were taken to pre-
vent the grave from being robbed.
The following mode of procedure was
agreed upon to prevent the body from
being stolen. In order to obviate what
ever legal difficulties might arise and
to foreStal any claim the sister or
brother of the murderer might make,
it was decided that he should make a
Will bequeathfng his body to DIR. Hicks,
and it will probably be remembered
thnt the will when published created
some curiosity by its wording, giving
as it did the body to be disposed of as
the beneficiary saw fit.
'After going over the whole mat
ter" said Warden Russ, land realizing
that it would be impossible to properly
protect the corpse, it was decided to
bury it in the Jail the night of the
hanging. After the autopsy the body
remained in a cheap coffin in the
chapel of the Jail. Upon my arrival Mt
the Jail early on Saturday morning fol-
lowing the execution, I secured q
couple of trusties and taking them
with me proceeded to the laundry
room. It is n little room jugt to the
cast of the engine-room, dinly lighted
by a small barred grating, and it made
almost an ideal tomb. ....
1.-TWO amateur grave ,diggers went
to work, and, quickly removing the
flooring, dug grave sufficiently deep
by the time The body was brought
down from the chapel.
'"There was only q small party that
stood about that open grave and lis
! toned to the solemn reading of the
burial service. Gen. Crocl:cr, who was
the warden, was present, and believe
Charley Reed, the lawyer who assisted
IN Guiteau's defense, besides several
guards and the two prisoners who dug
the grave. 1t was weird scene, and
one shall never forget. The burial
in such somb Der place was particular
ly nerve-trying, and think we all felt
relieved when DIR. Hicks concluded and
the darkies began to cover up the cof-
fin. This did not consume much time,
and it was not long before the grave
was filed UP and the flooring restored
to itT normal position. g..
"There was no particular compact as
TO secrecy among US, but it seemed to
be generally understood THAI we would
maintain silence, especially rs there
was considerable excitement ct the
time. The story that the body. had
been secretly removed to the medical
museum was permitted to go uncon-
| tradicted, just as / state, because we
did not believe IL concerned anyone.
"What became of the brains and
| other organs of the assassin which
J were removed at the autopsy held i'm.
! mediately after the execution do not
+; l:now, except the spleen, which is on
I exhibition at the museum. Whatever
| else was left of the man who murdered
President Garfield lies beneath the
floor of the laundry-room of the jail
AMONG some OF the ecuriosities ofHere,
for exhibition Mt the WORLDS fa;s 11er,