Charles G. Francklyn Francklyns had a twenty room "cottage" in Elberon, New Jersey on Long Beach Island directly on the ocean, designed by Charles F. McKim of McKim, Mead & White. In 1881, when President James Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, the president was taken to Francklyn's cottage, along with his doctors, nurses, and family, to recover. The president died at the cottage shortly thereafter on September 19, 1881. The cottage was later sold in 1889, and eventually burned down in the 1920s. After they sold their New Jersey cottage, they built another summer home in Southampton, New York on Ox
Charles J. Guiteau to be the center of attention for once in his life. Guiteau sent a letter in which he argued that Arthur should set him free because he had just increased Arthur's salary by making him president. At one point, Guiteau argued before Judge Cox that Garfield was killed not by the bullets but by medical malpractice ("The doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him"). Throughout the trial and up until his execution, Guiteau was housed at St. Elizabeths Hospital in the southeastern quadrant of Washington, D.C. While in prison and awaiting execution, Guiteau wrote a defense of the assassination he