Workers cleaning out a closet at D.C. police headquarters last week uncovered the handcuffs used to detain the man who assassinated President James A. Garfield.
The discovery came nearly 127 years to the day that Charles J. Guiteau gunned down Garfield at a downtown train station and was quickly seized by D.C. police Pvt. Patrick Kearney.
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