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...distinction, a thing to tell about, that has come to only three groups of men in the history of the land. One of those men, the man who collared Charles J. Guiteau in Washington's old Sixth Street railroad station a few seconds after he shot President Garfield, last week observed the 50th anniversary of the occasion by granting press interviews...
Robert Andrews Parke, the national hero of July 2, 1881, was special Washington agent of Baltimore & Potomac R. R. It was his duty to arrange transportation for the President or any other dignitaries going and coming at the capital. President Garfield wanted to go to commencement exercises at Williams College in Massachusetts, which his two eldest sons were entering that autumn.* It was an ominously warm day. Special Agent Parke, having seen that all was aright with the presidential train, stood in the ladies' waiting room. He vaguely remembered having been interrupted by a calm, lithe little man who asked...
James Abram Garfield had been in office only four months but already he was tired. He leaned heavily on Secretary Elaine's arm as they got out of the carriage and entered the waiting room. Agent Parke started walking to meet them...
Died. Dr. Charles Karsner Mills, 85, Philadelphia alienist, emeritus professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania; in Philadelphia. His two most famed cases: Charles J. Guiteau who killed President Garfield in 1881; Harry Kendall Thaw who in 1924 sought (and gained) release from a Philadelphia sanatorium...
Died. John Newell Garfield, 39, employe of Boland & Cornelius Co. (shipping), Cleveland commander of the Crusaders (national anti-Prohibition group), grandson of James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the U. S. (assassinated in 1881); by his own hand (revolver) because of ill health; in Mentor, suburb of Cleveland...