Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1881 — Guitean, the Assassin. [ARTICLE]

Guitean, the Assassin.

Washington, Sept 27. Guiteau has frequently boasted in jail that l:e would have eminent legal counsel to defend him, but he would never give any information oh to whom he had in view. It now turns out that be was only indulging in exaggeration, of which he is fond. When infoimed by the District Attorney to-day that the Grand Jury would indict him next week and advired to make preparations for his defense, he requested the District Attorney to telegraph to bis brother-in-law, Scoville, of Chicago. Ho is compelled to fail back on his relations. If no counsel is provided, tho court wil’. of course, assign him counsel, .though this may not bo an easy task, as the lawvers here are all averse to appearing m the light of counsel. None of them want to utter a word that would tend to save his .neck. Guitean still chugs tenaciously to the delusion that, if he can escape mob violence and get a trial before a court be will be acquitted Since he has learned of the de th of President Garfield he has on several occasions expressed gratification that his murderous work was accomplished, always speaking of it as the Lord’s will, and accompanying ins remarks with regret that his victim suffered so much. He pretends to will yet get the sympathy of the pcople.MW conversation with one of tho jailguards the other day, he said irreverently that ho was sure th<s American people would, after President Garfield was buried, “transfer their sympathy from that lump of clay” (referring to the dead President) to him. He does not express or feel any remorse for his brutal, cowardly act, but bis great dread is of mob violence. He has been in a constant state of fear since President Garfield died, and if he hear# any unusual noiao or step# of more than oiiQ'perHon approaching his ceil he endeavor# to conceal himself under his bud. He is a pusillanimous coward. Odo of tho guard# who docs duty at Guiteau's cell said to-day, “Guitean believes that he will have a fair and impartial trial, but docs not believe that he can be tried for murder. When I asked him the other day bis reasons for believing that he could not be tried for murder, he said, ‘lam a lawyer, and am conversant enough with law to know that 1 cannot be tried for murder, for the reason that there must be malice shown, and I certainly had no malice toward Garfield. His death was a political necessity, and when bis body is laid away to ■ rest, and the excitement incident to his death subsides, the American people will bepn to appreciate my motives for killing him.’ ’