The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-10-05
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was deathly pale, almost pulsesess, and
! apparently dying from internal hemor
, image He urgently begged to be re-
| moved to the White house I think r
! can see now the sea of human faces that
completely filled the space in and around
the depot as we carried him downstairs
| and out to the ambulance, in which he
was slowly driven to the executive mar-
1 sion. -~sz--. =. =
"A telegram was sent to Mrs. Garfield.
but It was feared that the president
| would die before she arrived Once in
| my hearing he asked the secretary of
state. Why should he have wished to
shoot me?' It was explained that proba
bly, the assassin had been disappointed in
/ seeking some Office. Later on there was
an unexpected Improvement in GardeId's
condition. and he asked what his chances
! OF recovery Were. I replied: Mr. Presi-
dent. In my opinion you have a chance
| for recovery ~ T. III. ..s -..-
He placed his hand on my arm, and.
turning his face more fully toward me,
! said, with cheerful smile Well, doc
tor, We'll take the chance y
Al the time of the murder OF Mr.. Gar
feld.- the old playhouse known as Ford's
theater,' where Mr.. Lincoln was assassi-
mated, was occupied by the Army Medical
| museum The body of Gu;teau. after the
!
jail, and then was dug UP again being
wanted by the government physicians
kit was brought to the Ford's theater
building in wagon. as secretly as pos
slbie, :but local newspaper man got
Wind of it, looked UP the person who had
| driven the cart, and, pretending. that he
did not believe the story. made a bet
| with him that it was not true
The man, whose vanity was picneS
int
theater. at night. carrying lantern.
After walking among piles Of lumber
and boxes, the small light seeming to in.
tensify. the gloom the guide suddenly
stopped, and with deep-sepulchral voice
said: :. -. ~ r~..,
"You are now near all that remains
mortal Of Charles Guteau.'' ;; !:
| Where is it?' was asked. g.
do YOU recognize those shoes? Amt
this his coat2 Do you see his coftin?'
yes, they look like Them was the
answer .but 1t is Charles I want to see.''
Whereupon the body was shown and
duly identified The reporter paid the
bet. .-% $ @t.--- ..
Guiteau was dissected and s,zeletonizec.
and his bones are still in the possession
of the Army Medical museum.
1t was on the evening of April a. 1865
few minutes after 10 O'clock that Mr.
Lincoln was shot by j.. Wilkes Booth IN Z.
private box at Ford's theater. The. nety
was Our. American CousilY,;'' and the
famous actress, Laura keene. had the
principal part. After firing the fatal shot
the murderer sprang down on The stage,
but Caught one of mis- spurs in the: flag
with which the bcx was draped. Though
has ankle was broken by this. accident,
he took time to strike an attitude and
cry to the audience. "Slc semper tyran-
lis. " before taking flight. Only one per
son in the tneater, Maj Stewart had the
/ presence of mind to pursue the - man,
climbing upon the stage and running az
ter him down the alley, where Booth had
left his horse in charge OF a boy But
the assassin by this time was mounted
and away. He got safely over into Mary,
land, and several days elapsed before he
was finally cornered in a burning barn,
where he was shot to death by Boston
Corbett
The fatally wounded president was car
ried, across the street from the theater
to the house of William Peterson, where
he died at 1922 o'clock the next morning.
At 9 o'clock the body was taken to tho
White house, where 1t remained in the
east room until the 18th. Then it was
removed to the capitol and lay there in
state. to be viewed by tnousands, unan
April %. On that date it was taken to
Springfield, Ill, to be buried.
l. Wilkes Booth was buried III the pent-
tertiary at Washington. When part Of
the prison was torn down his remains
| were taken up and inferred beneath tho
floor OF a storehouse, now occupied as
a barracks by the war department. Rel
atives obtained permission, near the close
of Jol.nson's administration, to remove
them, and the task was accomplished
as quietly as possible, the services Of an
| undertaken being engaged. .....e.,,
This undertaker's shap happened by
chance to be Just around the corner from
Ford's theater. About p. m. a wagon
drove into the alley alongside Of the thea
ter and stol ped in the rear of the und1r-
takers This, oddly enough. was the
same alley in which Booth had left his
horse to be held while he went into the
theater to accomplish the crime that was
destined to startle the world: The wagon
urlosded q! pine box COZ tanning body,
which was carefully examined and duly
identified with the help Of a dentist who
had filled the teeth. Then 1t was put
into a coffin and shipped by rail at night
to Baltimore, where it was inferred In
the Booth burial lot at Greenmount ceme-
tery.-Cincinnau Enquirer. ~