Show A reminiscence of A gentleman now residing in chicago yesterday gave to a bews yews reporter alic following reminiscence of guitrau Guit cau tho ai sassin 1 I was in minneapolis last summer soon after tho assassination and called on a mrs mary sani mi a widow residing on first street been a member of the duil cau family in harbor n town in new york state on lake ontario mary and guitrau were about of an age and both attended the same school saiu told me ill about the boys home life his passionate nature and alio fear in which he was held by abo children lie was constantly writing religious e ays and preaching and again declared ho could walk on the water as at last guitrau appointed a arno after hours when ho would demonstrate his faith on the of ontario all tho school children and many of the grown people of the town assembled on the shore and guitrau speedily put in nn appearance ho passed through the crowd a word and stood by the water on 1 small dock after waving hh hands about several times and mumbling an unintelligible prayer be stepped off the dock into the water and of course went down the crowd booted and yelled and made merry over the failure it was only by the greatest exertions the boy then aged about eighteen years was saved from drowning tho next day he explained his failure by saying that among tho crowd were a number of un believers and ho could do nothing in their presence tah incident was but one of miny similar sensations guitrau in harbor and no attention was paid to it until he earned world wido notoriety by shooting president chicago news |