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August 26, 1899
Daily New Dominion
Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia
What is this article about?
George W. Scoville, the lawyer who defended Charles J. Guiteau for assassinating President Garfield, has become a reclusive hermit near Mud Lake in Kokomo, Indiana, due to societal shunning and personal misfortunes including the loss of his wife.
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GUITEAU'S LAWYER A HERMIT.
Man Who Tried To Save Garfield's Assassin Shuns The World.
Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 25.—George W. Scoville, the lawyer who defended Charles J. Guiteau in his trial for the assassination of President Garfield, has been discovered living in a cabin near Mud Lake. From an affable and influential lawyer Scoville has grown into a morose and unapproachable hermit.
He feels that he would still be shunned by everybody for trying to save Guiteau. The loss of his wife and other misfortunes added to his melancholy and confirmed him in his determination to abandon the world.
Man Who Tried To Save Garfield's Assassin Shuns The World.
Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 25.—George W. Scoville, the lawyer who defended Charles J. Guiteau in his trial for the assassination of President Garfield, has been discovered living in a cabin near Mud Lake. From an affable and influential lawyer Scoville has grown into a morose and unapproachable hermit.
He feels that he would still be shunned by everybody for trying to save Guiteau. The loss of his wife and other misfortunes added to his melancholy and confirmed him in his determination to abandon the world.
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
What themes does it cover?
Misfortune
Fortune Reversal
What keywords are associated?
Guiteau Lawyer
Hermit Life
Garfield Assassination
Scoville Decline
What entities or persons were involved?
George W. Scoville
Charles J. Guiteau
Where did it happen?
Near Mud Lake, Kokomo, Ind.
Story Details
Key Persons
George W. Scoville
Charles J. Guiteau
Location
Near Mud Lake, Kokomo, Ind.
Event Date
Aug. 25
Story Details
George W. Scoville, once an influential lawyer, defended Guiteau in his trial for assassinating President Garfield but now lives as a morose hermit in a cabin near Mud Lake, shunned by society and deepened in melancholy by the loss of his wife and other misfortunes.