Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1882 — THE ASSASSIN. [ARTICLE]

THE ASSASSIN.

His Bones Now Blenching in tho Sun, [Washington Telegram.] It seems difficult to banish the word Guiteau from the dispatches. His bones are daily bleaohing in the sun, but the doctors’ quarrels have not ended, and the jail guards, laughing in their sleeves at human incredulity, point out the spot beneath the Warden’s room, where it is supposed that the assassin lies - buried. It was not until yesterday that the jail physician discovered that he had been made the victim of a grim practical joke by the jail guards, because he had poured large quantities of * carbolic acid over the spot where he thought Guiteau lay buried, to overcome the noisome odor of what he now knows was a rat long dead, placed there by the jesting guard. Guiteau’s bones are being bleached, preliminary to being “ articulated." as the doctors call it, in a skeleton. This is the way in which the local papers say it is being done : For several days the huge boiler in the back building of the Museum has been seething and babbling. In it was Guiteau’s body. On Saturday morning about 9:30 the process of boiling and maceration was completed, and the bones of the assassin were removed with tongs from the pot and scraped carefully, to divest them of every particle of flesh. They were then steeped in ether, to remove any fat that might have clung to them, and placed in a stout canvas bag, in which they were taken to the roof. The large bones were then spread out upon the roof. The little ones were placed in small boxes, to insure against the possibility of their being lost, and the process of bleaching commenced. At night the bones were gathered up and taken inside the building by the colored man who has charge of them, where they were placed in a bleaching fluid. Yesterday morning they were taken out and again placed upon the roof, and this process will he continued for a couple of weeks, when tbe skeleton will be articulated and placed in a oase which has boon prepared for it.