SHOWMEN & GUITEAU.

Patea Mail, 21 March 1882, Page 3

SHOWMEN & GUITEAU.

Various schemes for making a “ show ” of Guitean, the murderer of the American President, have been made public. A 5000 dollar cash offer for the body has been refused by his friends. “Jacob Terry ” writing about this matter says But then, should Guiteau be hanged, the offer of chemist Ridgway, of Philadelphia, is vastly different from a 5000dol cash offer. In a reported interview that solid citizen estimates that the Guiteau family would receive from 400,000d0l .to 500,000d01, as their share of the enterprise. He treats the affair in the most matter-of-fact style, describing the refrigerator car and glass show-case, which he is having made at a cost of 25,000d01, to be ready when Scoville is prepared to deliver the corpse of Guiteau. He proposes travelling with the show himself, paying Quiteau’s relatives half the receipts ; but doubtless one or more of them would travel as checktakors to prevent fraud, and enhance the attractions of the show. Mr and Mrs Scoville “ at the door ” would be certain to draw on their own account. Mr Ridgway anticipates making more money in London especially, and in European cities, than in America.