| Show I il ilI l t 1 t h d dt I I i 4 4 I f Prest Garfield s Assassin I I w I k r As Ho to a Q Brooklyn Mn INhO had Business tf i i Dealings With Him 1 I j v u t in 1 I t i u u u u u w H u u u u HE first drat time I ever eer paw laW Charles I t 4 J who afterward m t achieved notoriety by shooting t r f l f 1 r i j President was In the thet t of ot Granville P Howes es r t 4 j t i l of ot Broadway Now York f paid Bald a 11 Brooklyn lawyer WhOa who i i has ho s In hi the lien 1 l s a I t 1 Exchange on oh street the other r r day dayi 1 the 1873 1573 before i It was teas back In year I I J was vita admitted to tho bar bur 1 l was manI man I aging hig clerk for tor Hawes and t r n a tenant having desk room In tho the 11 for tor about three mouths months It i r tIne He Ile way was slight of ot build ot of medium to height giving RIving an nn Impression lon of ot small smallness i ness nus his face tace was thin pale unhealthy 1 with e straggling beard parted at atthe ati I Ithe i i e the chin like his hair He Ifs hUll had hadI I Ti n 0 furtive animal secra secre tire a n fellow tellow on the run w l He lie had hall had a n seamy sort of at past been beena lacno r a o preacher of ot free love a 11 member mem ber of ot But ButI the OneIda Onelda Oneida Community and and so forth Hut thesa the things about his past I did not I tr r know till afterward I d lIAs As I have said ld I was n a young fellow I i y 7 flung filling tho the place of ot managing clerk and andI j r I therefore there tore pretty busy bu y so that I 1 had not much time limo for tor observing What 1 J did see seo of ot him filled me 1110 with dislike i I Ills entire personality per was squalid and i t i and his manners were rough I i coarse and brutal L 1 1 Ills His vanity was W of ot that large sort t i that does not care tor for personal adorn adornment r mont ment and It was Just as well for tor no noi i 1 amount of at good dressing could ever cor cort t make Charles J good looking i e 1 U His tongue argued questions of ot ofu u He used to come com to the ti f i In the morning primed to argue arguo on the thel l d j lending leading topics of ot tho the day but no one t 1 could argue nr with him long for his Idea I r I of retort was WIlS to call his hla opponent a liar liari I i He Ue was exceedingly Impatient of ot opinion opInIon I ion tan that did not agree with his own awn i i t Guiteau when I knew know him was wait try tryIng t Ing to do a collection business and any anything anythIng l t thing else in the tho way of at law that ho he ri could He never tried n a case coso In court courty y I but that was nothing against him I remember the tho years yearn when I never neer had hall hada halla 1 4 a case to try Cut But did dill a n lot of at little shady k 1 helped to stamp the tho had bad Im Impression Imi i i l he had made deeper In my mind and finally led to his hIli leaving tho l office where I was employed As managing clerk It t was WIS my m duty each week to make out a 11 check where wherewith with to pay the boys boya bo and relm reimburse 1 bursa burse myself for any expenses pe 1 I had hada ad a been n at This check waa wn signed signed by t Mr Air Hawes and then a IL clerk took It to th the bank on Saturday morning and got goti i th tM the money knew this anti ono one Saturday morning he heavy lay IlLY In watt walt for the clerk t r with lIh the check and told him that I IOd It t r owed Od him 45 5 and had sold ald he was teas toi to i 1 receive It out of the tho check r i Tho Th clerk accepted this as truth andt and nOlI t gave him th the 5 and afterward came cam back and told told tola me I Informed him hint that r I had lied and swindled him and aUll i f lie he h was very angry I r l i On Monday Monda morning when ji 1 appeared the clerk whom he had hal de do defrauded pounced upon him Insisting on p the return o or at the 5 demurred t Get that JO 6 5 or Ill whip you said BollI the ther r clerk Youre In danger don er of at getting II whipped d every time you come In hero without ut the money mune You are Ire In danger f 1 F of or netting getting whipped right now 1 I Iti blustered and s ho he went event and got the money which I dosed closed that particular Incident 41 t r After Atter tho the shooting of or the cl papers came out with the assassins name spelt Gatto and a 1 variety of other v waYe At rt last mst they settled down don to Kl t and I got a n letter from Cram the Welt Vest written by this clerk who had hod hadt t th the ht encounter with tho the murderer In our t office He IIo wrote I i If It the Urn assassin of the tho President Is Isas l Isi i as 8 I 1 suspect our old friend Charles Jt J t who had desk room In Hawes 1 once office while we wo were there you ou and 1 I i divide a great treat responsibility between i ui us because If It either cither of ot us u had knocked w his Ills head off as we should have havo done s he could not have committed the 1 t i crime J l After returned the tho 5 out of o oa a which he had hall swindled the clerk ate jle atef ie f pursued his hl dark and devious idle ittle L i i ways w YI In our office for tor some come po me time One Ono m r of ot hit his methods method of ot raising money was u quite Ingenious He got up a circular t r i quoting a B pretended decision of ot the su supreme Jr preme court to the effect that he owned It I the patent for tor the process of ot polishing t precious metals by means of ot rouget rouge t I suppose that the whole thing was wasa waso t a Q swindle My Iy rather father who was wan a IL manu manufacturing factoring Jeweler told me that this l method of at polishing the precious metals had haeS been en used In the trade for tor upward ff of at yeara or more and that there tl l t could have havo been no patent Issued for It P 1 that In fact tact rouge rougo was Will the only sub substance ull I n stance used for tor the polishing of ot gold old used to send end the circular around to the small smell Jewelers more than half of whom ore are foreigners who can call r hardly speak the English l language and t dr k knew nothing about the law After a t little Mille while he would follow tallow the circular I f r up by calling on the je eler and threat threatening threatening f ening him with an nn action for tor I t I I w M ing his patent Then rhen he would settle the false claim tali for tor whatever he could amount of at tho the victims pile from tram U 6 5 to 25 Of ot court course I did not know this when then ho wash in our Jur About this time one of ot Ills his was WIt In the ther matter of ot Winston against I English was tho thu editor of at an Insurance and Winston was the president of or the Mutual Lira Insurance con tny English made an In attack on the tho Mutual Ute Life and Winston and the tho latter sued him for tor criminal libel Eng lish went nt to Ludlow street Jail fall amt procured from him to ball him hirn out Ho Ito secured J the tho ball bail but It turned out afterward to be he a straw w bond and English h sued him for tor the Gut GUI GUIteau defended on the ground he ho agreed to procure ball ho hB did not agree to furnish sureties who were sound Of Ot course c ho he was b beaten benten nten Thera There was another proceeding against while ho was wall in my I sight eight It was wan brought by b a n man who I had formerly been heen his hili client had agreed greed to collect a 11 claim he to re ro receive half halt Ho Ifo collected some money but gave gae none nono to his hili client who sued and und ho he defended on the tho ground that t what he ho hud had collected was teas his hili share and his client could have hac no Interest In It Tho The court naturally took another view ot ui tho the matter Ino lie He terminated his stay ta In our omco by reason t a on of at a n row that ho had with ma nil mathat that I think admirably Illustrated the ho tho thoc egotism c of the man moan I was alone with him In n tho the office omeo ono one afternoon when hIli I 1 observed him In Mr Hawes room lock locking lockIng ing Inn the door of ot the safe I went In 11 and getting between him and the door demanded the sate afo key koy which he ho refused to give me tuG on tho the ground that he had papers In tho the safe and did not care ClUe to the tho key koy to tonny any other oilier person I told him I would take the key ke from tram him by I force Ho would not give It up and so eo we wo had hada a n scuffle ami anil I took the key kc from his rocket pocket tearing the tine pocket a little In Inthe Inthe inthe the operation He complained about me mc In the morning but I told my side of ot tho the story atory anti and Mr halves Hawes concluded that ho lie had had better bettor lose loo a n bad tenant than a 11 Rood good clerk So went Ills His papers that were In the safe ane were of at no consequence anti and he hAd Imd begged permission of ot Mr Hawes to de deposit deposit deposit posit them there yet ot he made them an nil excuse for tor claiming to own the whole concern n was an nn active zealous man manvery manvery very er busy bUB about the he smallest things hustling for tor a What I had against him were apparently trills and when I r w went nt to Washington to tell What I knew about him on his trial I heard witnesses whose knowledge was like my own They Tho accused him of at Innumerable Innumerable able trilling frauds Taken In detail these e affairs seemed almost too small to consider but they made up u nn an aggregate that Justified the declaration of or so s many that he ho was Wall the wickedest man manthey they ever Cor mot met and ond that he h seemed to study to find out what was the wickedest and meanest thing ho he could do and then go and dd dO It It One very respectable witness swore that even seven years before the shooting of ot Garfield he h had heard say lilY that If It he ho could not win fame any uny other way ho would attract the attention of ot the tM whole world orld to himself by killing some great gren t man mean counsel denounced this wit fleas nesi most mOAt violently and threatened to Indict him for tor perjury and I met him himat himat at a n Washington Wu hotel on tho the night at af after atter attar ter tar he had given his hili testimony und and found him feeling very Cry unhappy He Ill said that he knew his hili story sounded Bounded unlikely but nevertheless It was true Guiteau had really feally made the tha declara declaration tion he ho attributed to Wit Win WinNo No one believed tho the witness at nt the tho time but In n a few rew days a man who had formerly been associated as with him wrote to say that he wn wa was present and nd remembered perfectly when made the declaration This man was way brought brou ht on to Washington and made his declaration BO so that there were two responsible witnesses who swore that seven soven years yearn lr before assassin assassinated sled Garfield he lie had made up his mind to kill some ROme great grent man an If It he ho could co not get Into tho the eye of or the world In any other manner 1 I have havo always Insisted that Guiteau was not crazy ernE eras but a morbid and abnor abnormally abnormally mally malty bad man He had hod hn a sort of mal mat malformation formation of ot the tho mind an Intensely evil disposition He lIe hated everything good despised everything high and re ro resented tented the lifting of ot any man mm above him nut But he was sane according t to tn the legal definition He lIe knew perfectly the nature and quality of ot his act net and the difference between right and wrong At the tho time that shot Oar field he had hall not a 11 sou In tho the world He Ito had lost his hI little place In the secretary of at states and could not get Ret back He Ile was Scat n a vagabond The hour had hlll struck for tor hIm to carry carryout carryout out Ms his Idea of df t killing some great rent man manSo manSo So he ho shot hot Garfield and having tailed failed of ot winning the applause for tor ho he was hungry gained instead the uni universal versal er nl execration which suited him as all aswell allwell aswell well and in which he ho reveled for tor month Held neld In Brooklyn |
