Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-10-27

thronged the white Hoase day and
7 night TO receive the latest bulletins
from the bedside of the dying execu-
tive.
Messages of sympathy were received
by cable from every foreign country
and from every city and town in the
| United States.
Gitteau, when captured. was taken
3 by one police officer TO the station,
only a block away, without any dem
onstration, as the people as yet were
unaware OF what had happened.
4 MOB Gathers At Station
AS the news spread, however. a
threatening mob began TO gather in
front Of the police station, and il was
| deemed advisable to remove him 70
the District OF Columbia Jail. TWO
I miles away. for safekeeping
on his arrival at the Jail Guittelu
was declared crazy by the officials.
/ his words and actions indicating de-
mentia OF the worst sort He boast
ssd of his deed, saying that he had
made Chester Arthur. then vice pres
Iident, president
He had haunted the White House
for months. hoping in vain TO obtain
I an office in reward for his political
/ services under the spoils system,
which was then in vogue
! Al Garfield's bedside were gather
ed his most intimate friends and
these understood from the first that
there was no hope. although this
knowledge was kept froH the presi-
dent.
Mrs. Garfield who was away from
the city visiting friends. was tele-
graphed for and arrived the day after
the assassination.
Hope OF seeing her and talking with
her had kept. Garfield conscious. al
though in his weakened state he was
hardly able to converse.
Fighting Desperately for Life
Fighting desperately for life. the
president fingered until September
10, when he finally suceumbed to his
wounds. At first il was positively
stated by the doctors that be would
recover, and bulletins Of the most en-
couraging sort were issued from he
White House, until the news Of the
presidents Illness gave place on the
first page of the newspapers to more
stirring events.
ever, when the hot weather at Wash
ington began to be felt, a decided
change for the worse was noted, and
it was Immediately decided to re-
move Garfield to his summer home
at Long Branch, n. J.
IL was hoped the sea breezes would
have a beneficial effect. The pain
racked body was worn out by the long
struggle, however. and the president
was unable to gain.
The news of Garfield's death was
received throughout the country with
the deepest indications OF mourning.
The main streets in many of the CT
ties were draped in funeral black and
the church bells kept constantly toll
ing. Messages of coincidence were
sent by governors and mayors to
Mrs. Garfield. and cabled messages
from foreign rulers poured in a con-
slant stream into the house of death.
In Washington there was talk OF
lynching Guitteau, and the jail was
put under an armed guard of soldiers
from the regular army and surround
ed by a battery of artillery.
Assassin Kept Ignorant
The assassin was kept in ignorance
OF his victims death for forty-eight
hours, and when the news was fin
ally told him. collapsed on his cot.
apparently realizing for the first time
the enormity of his deed.
On September % the Lody of the
martyred president was brought to
Washington and laid in state in the
Capitol, under a guard of army and
navy officials Thousands of men,
women and children passed before
the bier to view his face for the last
time
On September "a the body was
started on a special train for Cleye-
land, where il was 20 be buried. All
along the route the towns and cities
through which the train passed. salut-
ed the cortege.
A special pavilion was constructed
In the City Park at Cleveland aud
there the body lay jim state until
September rs. when a military pro
eession escorted the coffin to the
grave in Lakeyiew Cemetery.
At the same moment funeral ser
vices for Garfield were held in almost
every church in the Unired States
and in many foreign countries
ouitteau Dies on Gaiiews
Gitteau was tried shortly after the
death of Garfield, and. found guilty.
expiating his crime on the gallows.
President William Mckinley was
shot in Buffalo. n. Y, a few minutes
after O'Clock In the afternoon of
September 6. 1901, by Leon F. Cool
golz. an anarchist.
The scene OF the shooting was the
Temple OF Music at the Psn-Ameri-
can. Exposition The assassin fired
two shots. both of which lodged in
the presidents body.
An organ recital had just been Civ
en- in the great exposition building.
Surrounded By the thousands. with
the plaudits OF the multitude ringing
in his ears, President Mckinley be
gan to shake hands with citizens.
who were formed into line
Beside the president stood Secret
Service Agent Ireland. The detective
with oibers,x had been watching a
man in the line who had acted sus-
piciously.