There is no other man in America so universally despised, so universally abhorred, as Charles J. Guiteau. He is imprisoned for shooting down the Executive Head of the government. And yet in such sacred regard is human life held in this country that the army and the navy are already put in requisition to protect the life of this execrated miscreant and to secure him a fair and impartial trial. Verily, the equality and fairness of our institutions are not an idle and empty boast, but an invaluable reality.
~ The Lititz Record, 02-Sept-1881, Page 2, Column 1
Items Of All Sorts.--
W. Henderson, who is stopping at the Lititz Springs Hotel, was in Baltimore when the Presidential funeral train passed through, and states the assemblage placed on the track coins of various denominations, from standard silver dollars to double eagles, for the purpose of keeping them as mementoes of the occasion. He also states that the people, without regard to political affiliations, hung Guiteau in effigy.
~ The Lititz Record, 07-Oct-1881, Page 3, Column 4
You can visit the memorial page for Charles Julius Guiteau.
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