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Jan 17, 2012 · Charles J. Guiteau, a mentally unstable 41-year-old lawyer, had stalked Garfield for months before shooting him at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington on July 2, 1881.
In James A. Garfield: Assassination. , by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker with messianic visions. The first shot only grazed Garfield’s arm, but the second bullet pierced his back and lodged behind his pancreas.
Charles Julius Guiteau employed the unusual medium of poetry to plead his innocence while on trial for assassinating President James Garfield. Guiteau’s odd behavior in court made him a media sensation, and the Gilded Age press eagerly published much of his irrational verse.
Nov 19, 2018 · Charles Guiteau, the 40-year old assassin—a lawyer, former bill collector, salesman, preacher, divorcee and political hanger-on who’d failed at most things in his life—had stalked the ...
On January 12, 1882 closing arguments began in the case of the United States v. Charles Guiteau. Shortly after President Garfield’s death, Guiteau was formally charged with murdering the President. Over the following months, Guiteau's lawyers attempted to plead his case on the defense of insanity, to little avail.
The trial of Charles Guiteau opened on November 14, 1881 in a packed courtroom in Washington's old criminal court building. Guiteau, dressed in a black suit and white shirt, asked the proceedings be deliberate so not to offend "the Deity whose servant I was when I sought to remove the late President."
Oct 4, 2015 · Charles Guiteau, born September 8, 1841, in Freeport, Illinois, was, by all accounts, not a stable person. Guiteau bounced around from being a failed lawyer, a charlatan preacher, and a sticky...
