[Charles Jules]. Assassin of President Garfield; born in Freeport, IL, on the 8th of September 1841; admitted to the bar, but achieved no success; published some pamphlets, setting forth his views on various moral questions, which were of the most erratic character; married, but his wife obtained a divorce from him, and he obtained a precarious living by lecturing and writing. He had been a member of the Oneida Community, but was expelled from that body. Guiteau became an office-seeker, and persistently solicited an appointment as consul from President Garfield. Enraged at being refused, he lay in wait for the President, and shot him, July 2, 1881. He was tried in Washington, DC, found guilty of murder, and executed on the 30th of June 1882.
