ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA- ♦ V
CRITICAL STATE OF THE VICTIM. ARREST OP THE CULPRIT. [bxtttkr's telegram J Washington, let July. A daring attempt was made to-day at the railway station upon the life of the President by Charles Gintean, an attorney of Chicago, and an unsuccessful office-hunter. As Mr. Garfield was on the point of leaving by the train for the North, Gintean fired at him with a revolver. The shots took effect, and wounded the President in the arm and hip. He was at once conveyed to "Whito House for medical attendance. The surgeons report that the wounds are not necessarily fatal, but that his condition is critical, internal haamorrliHge having set in. Gintean was arrested at the station before he could escape. Great exc'tement has been caused in the city and throughout the States by the occurrence, and much anxiety ia manifested at the President's state.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 3, 4 July 1881, Page 2
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151ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA-♦ V Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 3, 4 July 1881, Page 2
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