The Daily Gazette

A Bid For Guiteau's Body.

An Offer of $1,000, Which the Prisoner Thinks Ought to be Made $2,000.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Mr. Scoville has received a bona fide proposition from a medical gentleman for the body of Charles J. Guiteau. This gentleman (whose name Mr. Scoville declines to make public at present) has offered to pay down immediately $1,000, the amount of the purchase money, on condition that he shall have the body of the prisoner as soon as the executions of the law have been met, to dispose of absolutely as he shall see fit. He also agrees to take his chances of waiting one month or twenty years for the consummation of the bargain on Guiteau's part. This somewhat liberal proposition was submitted to Guiteau to-day and seemed to impress him quite favorably.

After reflecting a moment he suggested: "I ought to bring more than that. Perhaps some other fellow will offer $2,000; then I can pay my debts, and if I get a new trial that miserable Corkhill can't bring on a lot of fellows just to swear how much I owe them."

The only persons admitted to the prisoner's cell to-day were J. W. Guiteau (his brother) and a friend who accompanied him. The brothers held a long conference in the effort to arrange the order of the arguments to be made before the jury. Guiteau not only insists upon speaking in his own behalf, but in making the closing argument for the defense. He cannot, he says, at this late stage jeopardize his case by allowing Mr. Scoville to have the last say. Mr. Scoville is perfectly willing to let Guiteau make a speech, but wants him to make it first, so that he (Mr. Scoville) can comment upon it (if desirable) to the jury. Guiteau was very busily engaged when his brother called to-day in the preparation of his argument and had already covered four pages of foolscap.