Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — The Prostrate President. [ARTICLE]

The Prostrate President.

The Attempted Assassination at Washington. Although Desperately Wounded President Garfield may 'T Yet live. * * 4 How the Sows w£s Rceel v- . ed ia fteuMflnrr. Tiie rulers of Tub Republican are, of course, for the most part, already familiar with the details of the attempted murder of President Garfield. Some of our country riders, however, who do not have access to the daily papers, will be interested in a short history of the terrible event. At half jwifct 9 o’clock Saturday morning, ns the president, with his nnrty, was in the ladies’ room of the Baltimore and Potomac depot, at W nshington, waiting to take the iruin, he was approached from heitimV, <H1(1 sho4 twice by a man within two feet of him. The president fell'at once tpid the assassin turned and tried to make off, but was immediately seized by the depot police. ' Both shots took effect, <>ne in the right arm* rind the other in the abdomen, entering just the right* hip near the kidney. Tka?' last shot is a terrible and most ifiangerous wound. It seems, how-, •fiver, to have avoided the kidneys and intestines, but the liver is believed to be badly lacerated. , The weapon used was an English “Bulldog” revolver carrying' a ball of nearly a half inch diameter. Ihe wretch when arrested stated that be was n stalwart, and that Arthur was now president. The assassin, whose name is Chfas. J Gniteau, seems to have been a sort of wandering vagabond, but gives Chicago as his last place of residence. From what can be learned of his history and antecedents he seems to lie more or less insane.