May 16, 2008...1:09 pm
Ingratitude
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The fourth installment in my series on handwriting: an affidavit signed July 16, 1881 by Charles Julius Guiteau, who had shot President James Garfield two weeks earlier at the Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road Station.
Prior to assassinating the President, Guiteau had been a journalist, blackmailer, preacher and spousal abuser. He was probably insane; a plea to that effect failed at trial and Guiteau was hung in Washington DC less than a year after writing the “Address to the American People” shown above.
Georgetown has his papers.
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