The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-02
TODAY IN HISTORY
Assassination Of President Garfield.
SATURDAY. JULY 2, 1910.


on July .. 1881, second president
Of tho United States was assasslnated,
and the country was thrown into n groat
turmoil, equaled only by that following
the news OF the assassination OF President
Lincoln In 1865. When Lincoln was as
sassinated we had Just passed through
a serious war during which our country
was kept at a fever-heat at all times
but the assa ssination OF Garfield came as
If out OF a clear sky. No one ever. imag-
lned that there was the slightest danger
10 the chief executive when IL was an
nounced that he would leave Washington
on July for trip TO New England TO
attend the commencement exercises OF his
alma mater at Williamsburg.
AT moment OF special eXaltation;
when peace and happiness retgned, and
Garfield was cheered with the feeling that
his administration was growing III
strength and popularity, he was shot
down by disappointed office-seeker. 1t
was o'clock In the morning, In the walt
ing room OF the Baltimore & Potomac
depot at Washington, that the ASSASSIN
Garfield was passing through the depot on
his way to the train, leaning on the arm
OF James G.. Blaine.
The first bullet passed through the coat
tered by the back fracturing q rib and
lodged deep in the body. He was carried
to the White house, where. under the
bring. he fingered for more than ten
weeks between life and death.
by the dastardly deed; and the fortitude
and cheerfupess with which the presi-
dent bore his suffering added TO the uni
versal grief. Daily bulletins Of his condi-
ton were published In every city In the
United States and in all the European
capitals. MANY OF the crowned heads OF
Europe sought, by telegraphic inquiry,
more particular news. and repeated their
wishes Tor his recovery.
\ day OF national supplication was set
apart. and sacredly observed, and the
condition improved. but when midsummer
came the patient failed so perceptibly
that removal was hazarded, On Sep
tember G, 1881 he was taken to Elberon.
n. J., by a special train. He bore the
journey well, and for a while, under the
inspiration OF the invigorating sea
hreSzss. seemed to rally & But on Sep
appeared, He fingered until the 10Th.
when, after a few hours of unconscious
ness he died peacefully: : special train,
Washington through country draped
With the emblems of mourning. and
through crowds of revercnt spectators. to
lie In state In the rotunda of the capitol
TWO days. In a long train, crowded with
the most illustrious OF his countrymen,
which in its passage day and night was
never out OF the silent watch OF mourn
Ing citizens, who stood in city. field and
forest 10 see IL pass, Gariield's remains
were borne TO Cleveland and placed on
September 26, In q beautiful cemetery
which overlooks the waters OF Lake Erie,
Later an elaborate monument was erect
ed In that same cemetery TO his memory,
and his remains were deposited In II.
Garield's assassin was Charles Julius
Guiteau. who was born in Freeport. Ill.
in 1912. He was convicted. after pro-
| tracted trial, In which the only defense
offered was that OF insanity. and was
hanged In the Jail at Washington on june
80. 1882.