GUITEAU'S SKELETON.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1182, 20 September 1882, Page 2

GUITEAU'S SKELETON.

" >il ver Pen " writes to the A uckland Herald :— There has been quite a squabble among the faculty over the body of the man wjio killed the President. The doctors, as a rule, quarrel as much as women at a " lien convention," and here they disagreed most decidedly. I will not go into the matter, but merely toll you of the arrangement made about .tin* disposal of .Mr GuiteauV bones. Six days after the hanging and disposal- of' the l>6dy within the jpreeincts of the goal, the dgad .mail U. S. Medical College, where it underwont the process of being skeletonised The skeleton will be bleached and i mounted, then placed in a case con- 1 taiiiing a section of the vertebra? from i the back of his victim (Gartield) showing the spot where Guiteau's | pistol ball entered ; also a portion of Lincoln's skull, some bones from the body of Booth (who shot Lincoln) and the skull of Wertz the prison-keeper. The idea is, to say the least of it, disgusting. Fancy Guiteau's skeleton swinging over his victim's bones for all time ! but so it is to be, and in the arrangement the skeleton has the place of honor. So far, the autopsy has not developed any new facts, and the doctors are undecided whether the man was insane or not, but he certainly must have bee a little cranky, and his sister Mrs Scoville, shows the same symptoms. Guiteau's cravat, which means the rope that; tied Kirn when he was launched over to the other side, has been in great demand ; the respective sums of 1000 dollars and 500 dollars have been offered for the pretty souvenir, but the governor of the gaol refuses all money for- it, preferring rather to cut it up and distribute the pieces among his friends.