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HEROES: 1881 Man

To have witnessed the assassination of a U. S. President is something to remember all one's lifetime. To have collared the assassin is a 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,...

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