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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1261, 29 January 1883, Page 2

This is from a Cairo paper:—“ The Bedouins were greatly puzzled by the garb of the Highlanders, who, they came to the conclusion, were not soldiers but the wives of the soldkij. of course, encouraged this delusion, us bare legs were obviously more discernible than the men’s faces, covered as these were with veils. The Bedouins noticed that the soldiers’ women camped by themselves, and they resolved to go down and despoil the infidel soldiers of their wives ; and a body of them actually w’ent, with a r»*sult w ich mu-t have added to the wonderment of both, for the British harem turned i-ui will) rifl.-! au>l bayon-d, and very sp-edih thirty or forty of th • amoious Bedouins bit the dust, after this episode t 1 e soldiers’ wives were n*»t agniuattacked by fiab Sheins who wanted to replenish their harems with English moonfa.*es.”

Guiteau’s skull has been stolen from the Amy Medical Museum at Washington, where it was exhibited. There is no clue 4o its whereabouts.