Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1882, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, FRIDAY whieh forn the extraorlinary ¢ ‘The trial, be: i law, as respe: 2 gin garded as important Additions ft n co-legal firmed, what Is the legal test of tnsant x's charge to the Jury On this polut won suc attention abr $0 approved that at the rec an, the man wir the justie he subject of f aracter of the er! feating the maj. account of the valuable ozitles Tespecting medi- tA by District Attorney A rhe: t. neh t ‘our chief 2 de jh world’s history the present. Tn been een 6 2 E h the power exercired THE RECORD. Guiteau was Inticted for murder October 8, and having been arraigned October 14 and pleaded not guilty, his trial began November 14. Three days were spent, and 136 talestnen examined before the, Mes Hi. Langley, Michael Sheehan, Geo. W. Gates. Thos. Heintive, Ralph Wormley, Wm. H. Brawner, S. F. Hobbs and'Joseph Prather. The government was Tepresented by the district attorney, Mr. John K. Porter, of New York, and Mr. Walter D. Davidge. ‘The defence wa the court. District Attorney of November wit) an addr f, Se first called to the stand. T examined during the tri: Ing and a writt» Fead. The division of time and THE WITS! 23 EXAMINED Were as follows: The government occupted until November 21st in presenting Its evidence-in-chief, Which was giveu by the following witnesses: James G. Blaine, Simoa Camacho, Sarah E. V. White, Robert A. Parke, Judson W. Wheeler, George W. Adams, Jacob P. Smith, Joseph K. Sharpe, Ella M. Ridgeley, Joshua A. Davis, Wm. 8. Crawford, John R. Scott, Edmund L. Du Barry, Patrick Kearney, Tuomipson H. Alexander, John jor, Aquilla Barton, Byron Andrews, Sevellon Adolphus Eckloff, J. Stanley Brown, George C. Maynard, Joseph U: O'Meara, Almon F. Rockwell, D. W. Bliss, Robert Rey- Barnes, James J. Woodward and $ b. Mr. Scoville begun his opening defence on the 21s" and finished on the 234 of November, and from that day Ull December 6th inelu: jury listened to the witnesses-In- ehtet for fence who were: H.N. Burton, ne Hiram H. Day frank a ts, Thompson Wilcoxson, Dr. John A> Rice, Ui Mary" 8. Lock George W. ps3, Chas. H. Reed, rih, John A. Logan, nd M. Smith, John’ A coville, Geo. T. Burroughs, 5 Guiteau, Mrs. Augusta Parker, namio Jones, Chas. J. Guiteau, Dr. Burnside, Chas. €. Alien, anicls, David Davis, . Kiernan, Richard J. Chas. F. Fol the govern McBride, Walter Chan r, E. ©. Spitz B. Far- a. There were also pre. nee a deposition dy John W. and a written statement by President mi offered the evidence Edward T. Ba e. k Bartlett, “Mrs. Florence Dunham, Jona Palmer, R. eit, Gesexe, W. Fla lish, wes, Stepher Brown, Thomas A. Darlington, Benjamin Harrisoa, Walter R&R Lioyd, Charles H. Raymond, D. McLane Fordyce Barker, Speacer Gobte, Will pe laud, Herbert T! Ketcham, Henty Wi mon D. Phelps, Jon L. Withrow, D. D., Charles A. Bryan, Henry M. Collyer, J. M. Justice, Rush R. Shippen, Annie Dusmire, ‘Dr. Noble Young, Joseph 8. noids, Barnard, Ellen C. Grant, William brs. Francis B. Loring, Allen McLane Hamilton, Sumuel Worcester, Theodore Dimon, eden H. Talcott, Henry P. Stearns, Abram Mar? Orpheus Everts, A. E. MacDonald, Ran- sdale, John H. Callender, Walter Kemp- ‘i PS ‘The prosecution having closed {ts rebutting t timony on the 31 of J 1882, the derence called the foliowing in sur-rebuttal: Dr. 8. D. . Gutteau (re-called), . Beard, Geo. W. McElfresh and James THE EVIDENCE WAS CLOSED on January 4th. After the arguments on the prayers had been made and the court had given his instructions upon the legal points presented, Mr. Davi un the ciosing arguments on the 12th, and finished speaking oa the 13th; Mr. Reed spoke on the 14th; Mr. Scoville begun on Monday, the 16th, and finished on the ta; Mr. Porter be- gan the “summing up” on Monday, the 231, and finished Wednesday, the 2th. Judge Cox having @ccupled about an hour in the delivery of the charge, the jury retired with the ca: ‘They returned to the p ing found a verdict of “ lity as indicted.” On Feb- Tuary 4th, a motion for a new trial having been Overruled the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged on the 20th of June. So much for the record of the case. SOMETHING ABOUT THE WITNESSES. Of the witnesses examined by the defence, nine Were expert witnesses, and of those examined by the government, fourteen were expert witnesses. The chief expert witness eximined by the de- fence was Dr. E. C. Spitzka, of New York, who gave expression to the “moral monstrosity” theory, and whose examiaxthoa and crossexam- ination occupied two days The ebi-f witness of this kind for tke prosecution, If any distinction can be made, was Dr. John P. Gray, of Utica, New York, wiv sed the case for the gov. ernment. “Stand fourdays. The defence endeavored to introduce Dr. George M. Beard, of New York, a8 a witness in Sur-rebuttal, but he Was noi permitu Dr. Buss was tne stand long r th day. The accused was cali November 23t! to the stand on Monday, djournment, and his yncluded whtil the fo’ Oa the Bh December unished for iis obstreperous ai from the counsel table, where er since the opening hock. petitioned the court for permission t» tntrod: rtain new witnesses, Dut the petition was not granted, as the evidence roposad to be offered was not properly sur-rebut- its character. ‘THE PRISONER'S CONDUCT. During the trial the prisoner asserted what he claimed as his rights by making hitle speeches, and interjections. Often he was so clamorous that the court had to exercise stern authority in order to quiet him. Judge Cox was severely eritt- cised in some quarters for his seeming leniency to ‘the prisoner, but ne was thoroughly vindicated by the outcome of the trial. It may be said ina gen- eral way that the defence was insanity. Mr. Sco- Ville sought to establish a case of hereditary in- sanity, and produced evidence respecting the pris- oner’s father and mother, and members of his father's faintly. ‘Then he offered much respecting queers Conduct of the prisoner, presentedhis iu Cm ge .. ori ¢ prisoner's om account is life, and offe: expert testimo! su; rt Of bis views, - plaza dats ‘THE PROSECUTION, by a tremendous array of evidence, controverted the prisoder was p: conduc produced the most positive expert testimony from dicating that the prisoner’s whole life was tainted the crime of which he was on trial seemed to be @ Batural outcome. ‘The verbatim record of the ease fills 2,421 closely ‘The subsequent arguments on the steps taken, & r3 in every quarter of the civilized globe. se Who were in constent attendance—and there are many whose business did not require thelr presence at court, who were not absent a ‘day—wili keep a most vivid recoliection of the re- f b} pnes of the trial. The faces of the uunsel and the jury, mude familiar by ssociation, were deeply graven in the mem- case, will always be re- 3 of the court af- THE CROWDS IN THE COURT-ROOM. To accommodate the people that crowied to the court-room a temporary platform was erected in the rear of the room. Seats were placed on this, whteh made it into a sort of gallery, from which a good view of the court-room could b2 obtained. ees were issued for admission to the court- Toom by the marshal and also by the district at- | ‘orney. The applications for these passes far ex- y of the court-room. Applica— tions for passes used to come often from distant cities, and_many persons visited the city during the trial espectully to attend the trial, THE DAILY SCENES | of the trial were ineitbly impressed on the memory | of those who were In constant attentance. | there was tie crowd in the morning pu oving at the doors, and tmportui dand was Another aspect of pening address to the jury, | ceeded the capac: Instration of the genins ith ng the oticers The court room was always filed | half an hour before the opening of the court. The | space tmmedtately i front of the bench was filled ‘© | with tables, the Inner row being devote * | use of the reporters and the outer ro: | The first of those actively enzaged in the trial to appear in the court room in the morning was usually Mr. Scoville. Following him would come Mr. John W. Guiteau and Mrs. Scoville leading her During the first week of the trial Mr. Leigh Robinson, of this city, was associated with him by assignment of th2’court, but was excused from further service after it became apparent that he and Mr. Scoville could not agree upon a line of defence. Mr. Charles H. Reed, of ized as an adviser of ‘Mr. an early stage of the trial, became his rosecution began the exam- ter Mr. Reed came in, the twelve jurymen would file in, martialed by court officers. “Scon afterwards District Attorney Corkhill and Messrs. Porter and Davide, counsel for the prosecution, ‘Thea Judze Cox wo the sound of voices would be hus! event would be the arrival of the pri oft-repeated scene was one of the chief character- istles of the trial ‘The com!nj heralded by the appearance o! door of the witness-room. A buzz goes through the ‘Then the prisoner, handcuffed, 1s led tn. The crier has to vociferate loudiy to keep the crowd quiet. ‘Those in the back part of the room fnvariably arise in thelr seats to get a good view He ts led, handcuffed. and shamn- bling in gait, past the jury box and taroush a narrow passageway kept open in the crowd, to the dock. There the gyves are removed from his wrists. He stretches his arms out as if glad to find them free again, and.gazes over the multi- tude with an air which seems to say, “I am Gul- teau; look at me.” ‘The long trial Was closed with a scene of strange an b a have been a ected are unbiased and free is extended to the prisoner criminal charged with the Uttle daughter. Chicago, who was ree @*} Scoville at Jury was completed. The jury was composed of | associate . John P. Hamlin, Frederick W. Branden- burg, uenry J. Bright, Charles Stewart, 'Phomas ination of expert wi would arrive. of the prisoner fs ni ‘a policeman at the Cork- Dill opened the case for the governmenton the 17th 3 which took half an nd then began the examination Secretary Blaine being the .ere were 187 witnes=es ome of them occupy- estind more than once, and one deposition ement by President Arthur were of the prisoner. IMPRESSIVE|SOLEMNITY on the evening of January 25. The jury, asstated, Already darkness was coming on, and the court room was filled with the gloom of dusk. As the darkness came on candles were Pliced on the desks and tables about the bench, which threw a faint weird light into the shadowy corners of the court room, the jury came in, the profound silence of the waiting crowd and the dim light, gave to the Seene an unusual degrée of impressiveness. The prisoner, who had been taken during the inter- mission to the marshal’s private office, was brought In by officers, and placed in the dock in the midst of ‘the gloom. As Clerk Wililams pro- ceeded to address the usual interrogatories to the | Jury, every tone of his voice, gained an unwonted stinetness from the deep silence that prevatled. After the Jury had been polled, and each member retired at 4. When at 5.35 o'clock there was a brief pause. Then the silence was again broken. A yolee that grated on the ears was heard to come out of the gloom that enveleped th: dock, “My blood w'll be on the head of that jur: ‘That 1s my answer.” Judge Cox then thanked the Jury for their long, patient and conscientious service. The assembly dispersed juiteau was taken back tothe jalla convicted ‘On the 4th of February, after the mo- ad been denied, Judge Cox | ment of murder in this case. don’t you forget it. tion fora new trial THE SENTENCE OF DEATH. The prisoner having been asked to stand up was asked: “Have you anything to say why sentence shoutd not be passed upon you?” “Iam not guilty, sir,” answered the prisoner,“‘of the charge set forth in the indictment. It was God’s Act, and not mine, and God wiil take care of it, and don’t the American peopw roryet ft; and every officer, judictal_or otherwise, from the President down to that marshal, taking in every man on | that jury, and every membei ay for it,and the American nation will 1 ood if my body goes Into that ground and I am I tell you the mills of the gods grind slow, ‘Those Jews put the despised Gallleah ‘into the ‘grave, and they had their way for a little time, but at_ the destruction of Jerusa- | lem, forty years after, the Almighty got eve with | Ttell you I am here as God’s man. I have Kill me to-morrow if you want to. Iam bere as God’s man, and have been from the start. I care not what man shall do with me.’? JUDGE COX'S REMARKS. When Guiteau had finished this speech Judge Cox said ina most impressive way: been convicted of a crime so terrible In its cireum- stances, and so far-reaching In its consequences, that it has drawn upon you the notice of the whole orld and the execrations of all your countrymen. Under the excitement produced by such an offenc® as that, it was no easy task for you to have a fair trial. But you have had the whole power and treas- ury of the government in your service to protect your person from violence and to secure the atten- dance of your proofs from the most remote parts Ithink you have had as fair and impartial a jury asever assembled in this court. You have been defended by counsel with zeal, and devotion that merits the ighest_ encomiums, leaving nothing to be desired for you in that respect, and I have certain- ly done my best to secure a fair presentation of your defence. Notwithstanding all this, you have been found It would have been a comfort to maffy eople If the verdict of this jury had established he fact that your act was that of an irresponsible man. It would have left people in the satisfy ing bellef that the crime of Was something entirely fare! and civilization of this country. your trial has denied people that comfort, and it fs only lett to the country to accept. the fact that ‘nthat crime may be committed, and it ts tor the courts to deal with tt by imposing the highest pe known to the criminal code in order to de- r others from following of this bench, will but they grind sure. no fear of death. | mercy and justice. As you act here, so w of the country. and ability, hf, litical assassination ‘n to the tastitutions But the resuit of 80 vicious an example, (our career has been so extraordinary that people may well, atdifferent times, have doubted your san- ity. But I cannotdootherwise than believe, as that Jury believed, that when this crime was commit ved you thoroughly understood the nature of this act and its consequences, and you had entire con- was acting as God’s continuing)—And when the idea came wis assassination you had moral sense jough to recognize the moral of your actions. Prisoner,—(Interjecting). and consctence of such an ac Prisoner, (Interjecting.)\—That is a Court, (continuing.)—Your own testimony shows that you rocotled with horror from the idea when c! i consumed an Mr. Joun W. Guitens | and Mrs. Scoville were each on the stand halfa | ‘TWO CLOSING ADDRESSES, What Mr. Porter and the Prisoner Said to the Jury Before the Verdict was Rendered. WORDS WORTH QUOTING AND READING TO-DAY. There were two closing addresses at the trial of | Gulteau which stood in striking antithesis, and which are worth quoting to-day. Mr. Porter, in finishing his address to the jury, sald: “Gentle- men, the time has come when I must close. The government has presented the case before you, without fear, favor or affection. We have en- deavored to discharge our responsible duties as well as we could, and hls honor has most certain ly discharged hs. as weil as h? could under many difficulties and embarracements unprecedented In our Judicial annals. Iknow you will be faithful to your oaths, an will discharge your still greater resposstblilties with equal fidelity. So discharge them that so far as depends on your action, at least, @ political assas-fnation shall find no sanc- tion to make {t a precedent in our future history. He who has ordained that human life shall be shedded by human i sides over your deliberations, and the verdict which shall be given or withheld to-day will be recorded where we ara all to meet. I trust that Verdict will be prompt; that it will represent the dignity and majesty of the law, your integrity and the honor of the country, and that this trial Wislch hasso deeply Interested all the nations o the carth, nay resait tn & warning to reach all lands, th:t assassination must not be used asa means of promoting party ends or political revo- lution. I trust tiat the tims may come in conse- quence of the attention which has been drawn by the circumstances of this crime and this trial, to @ perii cominon to every well ordered and organ- ized society, when, by international arrangement between the various governments of Christendom: the law shall be so strengthened that ‘THE POLITICAL ASSASSIN: shall find no refuge on the face of the earth. ‘The plotting murderer, who slaughtered President Garfield, knew that, against the laws of God and man, he was breaking with bloody hands into the house of life. He did not know that over his own grave, if grave he 13 to have, will be written by the general consent of mankind, in dark letters, an in- scription appropriate to the grave of a coward, an ingrate, a swindler,and an assassin. The notoriety which he has sought will be found in that inscrip- tion. He did not know what we do, ae ee t ath the President yielder Up his ves tne’ band chae aunaed tare pistol at his Dack, if I may be permitted to borrow in illustra- tion from the attorney general, on the occasion to which I have referred of the dedication of the me- morial statue of Alexander Hamilton, in some re- spects akin to this in its reminders, the assassin unconsciously wrote the name of James A. Gar- field in characters of light upon the firmament, there to remain as radiant and enduring as if every letter were traced in living stars.” GUITEAU’S PERORATION. Guiteau ended his closing address to the same Jury as follows:—“And now, gentlemen, I must close. Two months ago you lett your homes and loved ones to listen to this case. Ihave no doubt Dut you have given it your most solemn and prayerful attention, and that your verdict will be “not guilty,” as charged in the indictment. To hang a man in my mental condition on July 2 When I fired on the President, would be a lasting disgrace tothe American people, and Iam sure you so understand it. ‘The American people do not want me hung, They are saying, “Well, if the Deity did it, let it go.” ‘The mothers and daugh- ters of the republic are praying that you will vin- dicate my inspiration, and theit prayers, I expect, will prevail. A woman’s Instinct is keener than man’s, and I pray you listen to the prayers of these ladies. How would your mother, wife and daugh- ter vote on thisease? Have you any doubt but they would vote for an acquittal? And why should You not do likewise? ‘There 13 not the first ele~ e. You might as weil hang a man for murder during the war as to hang me. Under the law, as given by his honor, you can acquit me with entire credit to yourselves. Physi- ¢al death has no terrors for me. Suppose {t_passi- ble that Ishould be sentenced to be hanged in thirty days. Imay die 1n twenty-four hours. I shall not go untiliny time. I have always been a praying man and 1 tulnk I STAND WELL WITH THE DEITY, Tam sure I do in this case, for I certainly never should have sought to remove the President had the Diety not pressed me into it. It is said that itI knew the “difference between right and wrong” in removing the President, I violeted human law, and ought to be hanged. But this is not the law, and I say the President’s remova} was right, because I had Divine authority to doit. Admitting for the moment that I did violate the law of this District against murder, I reply, what of 10? Thousands of persons have violated the letter of the law with impunity. Ic I violated the | law, I did {t under Divine pressure, for the good of the American people. and they ate willing to let this case GO BY DEFAULT, In our western domain thousands of Mormons are daily and nightly violating the law, but the United States government do nothing to vindicate the dignity of the law. During the last decade Mor- | monisin has spread with frightful rapidity, and to- day nothing but another war can suppress {t. The federal government is responsible for Mormonism. Let the President and Congress suppress this gt- jfantic spiritual and social despotism. It I were President, I would clean out these detestable Mor. mons in some way, and that right speedily. And now, gentlemen, I leave this case with you. At the last great day, you and all men ‘will Stand in. the presence of tue Diety crying tor your final abode in the great hereafter. Ibeg you do not get the Diety down op you by meddiing with this case. I beg, for your own sakes, and for the sake of the American people, aud for the sake Of generations yet unborn, that you let this case alone. You cannot afford’ to touch 1t Letyour Verdict be that it was the Deity’s act, not mine. When the President was shot his Cabinet tele- graphed to foretgn nations that {t was the act of a ‘madman,’ and it will be far better every way that it be offictally decided that it was the act of a “madman.’” eee DEPRAVITY VS. INSANITY. A Passage from Judge Cox’s Charge to the Jury. Judge Cox’s charge to the jury can be quoted with pertinency to the recent attempt to reopen the question of Gulteau’s mental condition. After a long review of the case from a legal standpoint, Judge Cox admonished the jury that the only safe rule for them was to direct their reflections to the one question, which Was the test of criminal responsibility, viz: Whether, whatever may have been the prisoner's singularities and eccentricities, he possessed the mental capacity at the time the act was committed to know that it was wrong, or was deprived of that capacity by mental disease. “In all this matter,” said the Judge, “there 1s one important distinction that you must not lose sight of, and you are to decide how far itis applicable to this case. It is the distinc. tion between mental and moral obliguity; between amental incapacity to understand the distinctions between right and wrong, and a moral indifference 1t frst occurred to you. You say that you prayed sgainst it; that you thought {t might be a sugges- ton of the devil. All these things show that your conscience was warning you against it. Yet by a kind of wretched sophistry of your own, you up to the commission of tlils of- rotest of your own . id have indueed you to this perverse exercise of your faculties may be & matter of speculation. I think men will think that with some political fanatic worked yourself fe; at motive cou! robably most ible mixture of @ morbid desire for self-ex- altation was the real inspiration of the act. Your own testimony seems to me to swee| of the theories of your own cou maintained and thought honestly that you were inst your own will by some insane, impuise to commit this act. But your ou deliberately resolved ind that your was the sole testimony shows that to do it; that you will own deliberate but misguided Stapuise to the commission of the deed. - All this may seem insanity to some people, but the law Jooks upon it as a willful crime, I need not en- court, which 13 that you common jail of the i, and ewe kept of our Lord 01 elghty-two, you be taken to the for your execution within ‘hen and there, Prominent alienists who had made careful examt- | o'clock meridian and t Bations of the prisoner, but produced evidence in- | same ict of Columbia, whence in confinement, of June, in the eight hundred eth ES hours of twelve you be hanged by the neck until you ae and may God have mercy upon ‘with a depravity and a love of notoriety, ot whieh | Y°UF 5° pa AS ee Judge Cox had hardly ceased speaking when the Prisoner exclaimed wildly:—“And may God have exclusive of the indict mercy upon your soul! I am a good deal better off Binet cxctelon anes Fequire 80 pages more, | 0-day than that Jury is, Tam here as God's man, and | and don’t you forget it. God Almighty will curse on other legal make another —— ‘volume | every man that has had anything todo with this and tnsensibility to those distinctions. The latter results from a blunted conscience; a id moral sense, or depravity of heart; and sometimes we are not inapt to mistake it for evidence of some- thing wrong in the mental constitution. We have probably all known men of more than the average of mental endowments, who:e whole lives have been marked by a kind of moral obliquity, and apparent absence of the moral sense. fe have known others =n have rat gilelded to tempta- ton with pangs of remorse, but each transgressio1 became easier, until dishonesty became a con- firmed habit, and at gadis sensitiveness of n foomien g intelligence, and of better antecedents, reduced to this condition, we are dies to wonder whether the balance-wheels of the intellect are not thrown out of gear, But indifference to what ts right is not ignorance of it, and depravity 1s not insanity, and we must be careful not to mistake moral perversion for mental disease.” —————++-____. ATTEMPTS ON GUITEAU’S LIFE. How the Gallows Came Near Being Cheated. 3 THE SCUFFLE WITH MO’GILL, THE GUARD—WauT GUITEAU THOUGHT ABOUT HIS ESCAPES. Ever since Guiteau was confined, it has been ‘understood passed within an inch of my, Mle on the lead. Jones’ builét itdid me no harm. A guardtn the ja ustol within six inches of niy head in August, a1 fuente eh ne 7 ey cone he fired pet jendly gual in the ¢ fired ni at my head, but it missed me. this rience as acts of the Deity Thus it will be seen that Guiteau claims that the encounter he had with the guards at the jail, on 17th, Was an assault upon his life, THE M’GILL STORY. The story told at the jallwas that McGill, in passing through the corridpr, noticed Guiteau in his cell, leaning upon the windowsledge in such a position that he thought thé prisofer intended to do some violence to him: tered the cell. Guiteau immediately attacked him with a knife made of a steel shoe shank, supposed to have been secreted in the cell by a former occu- pant and found by Guiteau. Modill drew a pistol and in the scuMe that ensued the pistol was dis- charged without doing harm. Otuer guards then arrived and the prisoner was secured. Guiteau | bas always insisted that McGill entered the cell ‘him with the revolver, and denied si “& CHARLOTTE CORDAY IN PANTA- Ni Precedents Which Guiteau is Supposed to Have Studied. SOME INTERESTING EXTRACTS FROM THE TRIAL PRO- Win. ©. McGill, one of CEEDINGS—BOOTH AND GUITEAU COMPARED. ot August It seems evident from what transpired at the trial that Guiteau studied precedents for his crime. ‘His conduct was so like that of William Lawrence, Who was tried for attempting to kill President Jackson in 1836, that at the beginning of the trial the resemblance was generally remarked upon. Guiteau, according to Mr. Porter, went farther than that in his studies. There were some things sald at the trial regarding Charlotte Corday and Wilkes Booth which are worthy of reproduction In his address to the Reed, counsel for the accus: self. He thereupon en- jury, Mr. Charles H. |. Said: * You all re- ing read in history the sad, pitiful THE FAIR FRENCH GIRL, who in 1793, by stratagem, by lying, by artifice, gained entrance to the bath of Marat, who was then the chief man in the French nation. She Went Into his bath while he was there and ran a Her name was Charlotte Corday. If you have not—as.you probably all have—I ask you, after you close your labors, to go to the Corcoran Art Gallery, and there look at the picture of the sweet, sad face, the trembling hands clinging to the bars of her prison, looking posterity—insane. Yet in that land, within days she was guillotined and the name of the French nation disgraced. If the inter has represented her correctly, and, ls , he must have done so, you to look at that face and tell me if you do not the poor girl was insane. guillotine in four or seven days. Let not America’s nacag be stained in the same way. It will not When Mr. Porter came to sum up the case he did ‘Mr. Reed’s remark. m the record of the case. Mr. Porter “<The world had lived since the era of the French revolution In profound ignorance of the fact that the beautiful and brilliant CHARLOTTE CORDAY WAS INSANE. It was left for Mr. Reed to announce the fact to this jury and this court, for the first time in the world’s history, that this splendid girl was insave, She cannot turn in her grave, but there are some of us yet alive who know the bloody but radiant history of that extraordinary peasant girl, who, in her youth and beauty, consummated an assas- Ssination which was more than just.” ‘The Prisoner.—You would have hung her if you had been there. Mr. Porter.—Never! SERGEANT MASON’S ATTEMPT. On the 11th of September, between 6 and 7 o'clock, when a detachment of men from battery B, 21 artillery, arrived atthe jail to go on duty, Sergeant Join A. Mason, one of the squad, going tothe corner ot the west winzot the building, fired a bullet from his musket through Guiteau’s cell window. The bullet missed the prisoner and ‘Was flattened against the wall opposite the win- When the flattened bullet was found it had on 1¢ an impresston that was almost an exact pro- Mile likeness ot Gulteau. Mason was put under arrest, tried by a court-martial in February and 1s out a sentence of eight years impris- ihe Albany penitentiary. dagger into his heart. either four or seven When the Criminal Court adjourned November 19th Guiteau was placed in the van, as usual, to be Teconveyed tothe jail. The van was followed for some distance by @ man on a horse, who rode up to the vehicle as it was driving out of the Capitol grounds into East Capitol street and fired. The ‘bullet passed through the side of the van and ‘azed the prisoner’s arm. The horseman fled as ‘st as his horse could carry him, and escaped immediate arrest. He was apprehended afew hours later and identified as William Jones. a man living in the country, north of the city. His case has not yet been disposed of. It is supposed that many others, encouraged by the ex; ation that the act would be ae PUBLICLY APPLAUDED, awaited an opportunity to wreak vengeance on the prisoner. There was something of a popular demonstration in favor of Jones and a very marked one tn the case of Mason, though the law took its course. Subscriptions were started in every part of the country for the benefit of Mason’s wife and child—“Betty and the baby”—and Mrs. Mason has Teallzed a very handsome sum from the movement, risoner Was arraigned on the 14th of November last, a gaunt looking stranger mide a Sensation in the court-room by attemy Tow a pistol for the oner. Unfortunately for his purpose, the st.anger approached a jetective officer to make his request, ut under arrest. He was soon ufter The following is She was one of the nodlesse the God whose name this prisoner mes. She was no cringing coward. she humble house In which she was reared to lberate France; to stay the hand of revolutionary her own head, as a cheerful and neath the guillotine, in order to those who were slaughter; to la! Joyous offering Save the effusion of blood among bound to her by the holiest ties, because she most ly_ believed it her duty to the France she She made her way, with calm and dellb- mind and devoted in pie Me erate preparation, sane in purpose, ready to dic that others might live, and she succeeded in finding access to the cold-blooded and criminal ruler of the hour, who held in his Tight hand the lives of millions of Frenchmen and GEORGE H. BETHARD. who, by jotting Since then he has remained about Washington, and a short time ago served aterm inthe work- house for vagrancy. During the smallpox scare many letters were received at the fail for Guiteau, purporting to contain smalipox vi ters were invariably destroyed, and it cannot be said whether their contents were really harmful Mr. Scoville recetved similar letters. On several occasions much amysement was caused by the discovery of the innocent character of what were at first supposed to be INFERNAL MACHINES intended for the prisoner. @n one pecaston a mys- terlous box was received by Mr. Scoville for Gul- teau, and looked so suspicious that no one dared touch it. After some days ‘some Yenturesome re- porters carried the box to the center of Judiciary Square, and there opened ft with,great care. It contained merely a hangman’s noose, with a card of greeting attached. Andther Ukewise placed under suspicion, safety In the back yard of Mr. Scoville’s iodging, Some one fearlessly Investigated {t, and found that {t contained several dollars in. smnil Mr. Scoville by some sympatnt made publicly upon Gaitean’s an element in the public feeling reciutions taken by the harum-searum attempt, guarded by a cordon of police In its passage to ant from the was alwgys surrounded by a 4 MARK OF BLOOD opposite the name of any Frenchman or French- , could hurl his victim into that dismal dungeon, from which there was no escape, except through the iron Jaws of the guillotine. evpted herself to this holy work, caring notbing and providing nothing for her orn safely, and | looking to noreward from her countrymen. was an act of patriotic self-devotion, which will warm all hearts through all after-time. It was no precedent for the cowardiy and cold-blooded as- Sassination, She laid down her life as cheerfully for her country as Stonewall Jackson laid down his. Both acted upon an honest, even though it were a mistaken, conv women, We all honor; but a flippant lawyer, taking the Word of a murderous iar, is really convinced by his client, as you may fairly infer in trolling about Washington and visiting the Corcoran’ Gailery—for he was studying precedents, the Lawrence earlier cases of mur the case of Hiscock’s Corday and detected in evidences of insanity. his counsel, mace the di vhen he was X, which was oeag er, the D ‘ork, ‘as secreted for Unicroe eens her beaitiful face the Clearly the ass: iscovery that the Char- lotte Corday, who will live immortally in history, as one ready’ to give her own life for her bleeding ly insane. Mr, Reed professes to it in her eve, and torsooth he ismurderer and places him by the re und beautiful girl, who gave her f lve, and -sertonsly anpeala that there wi country, Was reull, have discovered 1 authorities.” After Jone the van was always side of that pu life that others to you to look at ti CHARLOTTE CORDAY IN PANTALOONS, and pity him,as If ne were, like her,a female marty toa sense of patriotic duty. think that Charlotte Corday played the part which in this man has so disgusted us all? When in rising that morning, she walked out calmiy, ‘With the crucifix on her breast, to the place of execution, the world knew that her’s, though a bloody, was a patriotic homicide. the gusto with which the prisoner dwelt on the I confess, though I know. {twill not accord with the general sentiment of the country, I have, notwithstaning my clear con- Wilkes Booth was @ Sane man, a feeling in respect of him; not that he wes rij not that he had any justification, , for that murder, but that there were, circumstances which tend to mitigate ree the horror we feel for the act of the assassin. He was a man wholly devoted to the cause which had signally failed; he looked upon Abraham Lincoln and righuy felt that his his devotion, his patriotism, which had’ prevented the southern states from achieving their independ- ence; he had been a brilitant play-actor; he had been in the midst of many temptations, and among many evil surroundings; the hea excitement of that bloody war had not yet passed away; the circumstances excited him; he was mulated b; Jail, and the prisoner umber of officers. cat: Cate MIEOKY OF TIlE CASE. Gentlemen, do you A Strange Story from the Jail. GUITEAU SAID TO BE IMPELLED 70 WIS CRIME BY DIS- APPOINTDIENT IN A LOVE AFFAIR—HIS CORRESPON- DENCE WITH A WEALTHY NORTHERN LADY—WHY HE WANTED TO SECURE A DIPLOMATIC PosT. You remember case of Wilkes Booth. There are some persons who have a theory of the case of Gulteau somewhat different from that usualiy accepted, or more properly speaking, one that goes back of the inspiration theory. This theory {s that the murder grew out of adisap- polntment in love. These parties are jail officials, who have had opportunities to observe things which the outside world Is not conversant with. It seems that after Guiteau had been committed and had settled down in his cell, he commenced writing letters to relatives and others, all of which, according to rule, were scrutinized by the officers before being allowed to pass out. Among others was one written toa young lady of wealth residing in a northern state, who, it is repre- highest circles of known to 50- This letter excited some sur- Prise and comment at the time, and it was confiscated and caretully stowed away by one of the officers, who keeps the secret to hiinself. After the lapse of a week’s time—sufficlent to bring back an answer—Gutteau wrote another letter to the ecelving no answer, in the course he wrote a third letter, but like the former ones it was detained at the jal. ‘These letters indicated that he was desperately in love With the lady, and regarded her as his affianced bride, for they were addressed words of endearment. One of the officers at the jail was astonished gn reading them, as he knew he famtiy of the lady in question, and determined. to question Guiteau to ascertain'it he had more than a passing acquaintance with the lady, as he could not conceive that any member of t would be on more than ordinary speaking tet with Guiteau. WHAT GUITRAU SAID ABOUT THE MATTER. The officer going to Guiteau’s cell mentioned the name of the lady, after whic Guiteau’s face was wreathed with smiles and hd spoke of her with some animation. He told of the many pleasant times he claimed to have had with her since his acquaintance with her began in 1880, He described the family residence, how the parlors were fur- nighed, the works of art, and the family portraits therein, gave considerable of the family history, and proved to the official that he was well ac- quainted with the family. The question was asked acquainted with the lady,ai ‘was moving in “high-toned ‘ing the leading public mdn of He asserted that after a sho! inlove with each other ( means of knowing whethe: even in hisown calmness, his wisdom, had been the tron bar ‘THE LOVE OF NOTORIETY, which has led to so many crimes; he mingled this with the Idea of a wild and exalted patriotism; he became infatuated, not insanely, but irrationally, With the idea that he should be rendering a ser- Vice to that portion of the country with which he had cast hjs fortunes if he committed the act for which he was ready to lay down his life. The prisoner.—That 1s a lie, and you know it. Booth killed Lincoin from revenge, and I shot Gar- field from patriotism. Mr, Porter (continuing).—And so he bravely and mantully gave up his own life. you nor I would justify his act. It was defended neither by the confederate army nor the people of the confederate states. It was justified by no man, north or south; but I cannot say that, even now, I have not some degree of oommiseration for the brilliant Ife so unfortunately ended by-an act, which, I really believe, by a feeltag of New York soclety and same lady, and of another week in the tenderest Of course neither » Was in some degree induced MISGUIDED PATRIOTISM: © Are there any of the mitigating circumstances here which attach even tothe inémory of the mur- derer of Abraham Lincolh? ‘None. murderer did his bloody work, it is true he shot from bebind, but he felt that he was not putting his life in peril, for he was not, like Booth, in the midst of a crowded audience. Booth, with the in- ‘stincts of manhood, and believing he might be jus- tifled by hissouthern countrymen, leaped from the Stage, afterwards mounted his horse, Rode for life Or death, as it oe Haat tien ame e wi et} pens murdere! the lion front of a brave maimed and crippled in body, er,—I shot my man in broad daylight. become jwered that he a3 his associates he still presented and, although ikea hunted Inments, }. finally the; engaged to be married: the subject of Hon in diplomatio, elrcles 6 Society of sovel le came here to obtain Sach field; that he fully ex) on receiving it wot id proceeded of the go trian mission in view - eng But You did not get the alistriai mission,” sald “SNo," replied Guiteau; « 10,” Fe] a; ne consul genesis it would suit her just as well as Vienna,’ REVENGE, Guiteau is believed by the jail officials to have ‘sort of ‘humor about his narrative, and total or aa coon of pathos. He nti) i i +} te GOING TO LECTURE ANYWAY, hour, and gave the substance of it. The Tribune to correct it, Weil, he said, it was a fair report and he was not going to correct It, and all that. 1 wanted what I considered a decent report and» fair report of my attempt to enlighten the public on the Second Coming, instead of having It put in such a ridiculous way. It made fun of me. That is It, to make it short. Says he: ‘That is the laughing stock of the whole city. We cannot Spoil that.’ He was not going to spoil that, he sak. Then Iwent to Mr. Medill, the managiag editor. I knew him very well. correct report and he would not interfere. Then I went to the city editor, and after considerable talk, he said: “if you ‘will write three or four Ines of correction, f will put 1 in’ I wrote a very short and polited article, and he put it in the next morning. That relieved me some. This only shows how hard ft 1t 1s to get a newspaper to inake a correction. They will Say whatever they have a mind to against a man, but won't correct it Af they can avoid it. I thought I would drop tio- ology then, and went to work at my law business; gol A hice office and got_my cards g ,and pushed Out all over the city, as T ways 3 about any matter, very enthusiastically. I do every thing with my whole soul and iy whole mind, and JUST EXHAUST MYSELF in whatever I yndertake. I was remarkably lively in getting business in the spring of 1877. 1 pre- sume I could have made $5,00) very easily. I had good luck, and clients came to me, and everything was going well, but I could not get the theology lecture on the Second Coming there. It was a free university 1s there, apd It is a liquor there. Of course they are more or less in- terested in the Second Coming. I got the church and got it advertised, and Y lectured, and had thre? or four hundred people. I spoke’ with con- siderable force, I guess. ‘They pricked up their ears pretty lively. It was a new doctrine; they had never heard of it before, and they did not like it. It kind of upset their notion about the Second Coming. Most of them heard me patiently. I Went back to Chicago the next moraing. Twas running a law office at that time, but my mind was running on theology and not law. ‘They did not interrupt me during the lecture particulary. They were quite respectful; but they did not tke my Views, I shoula say, from the way they looked and acted and whispered. ‘There was no violence at all They thought I was very cranky: there 18 no doubt about that, That 13 what ail people thought about my views on the Second Coming, because It upset thelr old ideas. ‘They have been in the habit of looking way off into the indefinite iuuure for the Second Coming. ‘Hold!’ I say, *it Occurred eighteen hundred years ago.’ ‘That laea upsets their theology, and they don’t like it. AS a latter of fact I never got much MONEY OR SYMPATHY out of my theology, because my theology did not fit the theology of anost people: but I have stuck to it like a brave man, and have sacrificed every- thing for it. Ileft a good law office and leda vagabond life for several years, but I did not care, forI said, ‘Iam sure the Lord is back of me, at least I think that he 1s, and I will exhaust. myself on this work.’ I thought the Lord was back of me, because Fhold that Ihave the truth on the subject, and I claim inspiration on it just as much asthe Apostle Paul did. There was no money in itfor hun, He lived a varavond life also for the Saviour. I do not think he had as much success as Idld. I say that my book forever settles the ques. ton of the Second Coming of Christ, and the Lond will sometime honor the work. I have no doubt about its future. After the lecture ut Evanstown I was uneasy and restless, and my mind was run- ning on theology and not ‘on law, and 30 I firally made up my mind that I would’go lecturing. I went up to Racine about the ist of August, 1877. I had the lecture advertised as usual and hud about one hundred people there. The minister of the Presbyterian churea there was avery clever fel- low and gave me a warm reception, and said, ‘Perhaps this man has new light, and if he has i am ready to re it.’ He was One of the most Uberal men I ever met on theology. His mind seemed to be broad enough to take In a new the- ology, and that 1s more than a these other people ever could do. He seemed to be leased with my lecture. He sald, ‘I studied the tion myself, and have often Wondered if that ot the truth.’ He came to my lecture with I friends, and they were pleased ‘They came up tome and thought I wasagreat man in embryo, and some ladies came up and wanted to know if I had that lecture published or was going to have it published, and all that sort of talk. “Idid not make any mone! by spentoay. Dnring the tava ar three yeare 1 was 1 WaS WRU. pen and well taken care of, but the Lord did that, even 1f I did owe several board bills contracted at that Ume. I think I went next to Milwaukee, and haa about the same success as at Racine. I then went to White Water, Wis., with about the same result, and jumped from Milwaukee over to Kalamazoo, and stopped at Chicago and got some things that Thad and went down east lecturing. In Kalama- zooThad a fair house,and took up acollection, and did not get much. They do not give much on collections, I found. ‘They are willing to get your {deas, but Will not pay anything for them if they can help it think Fgot enough to pay my rail~ road fare, and that is all. I think I went next to Ann Arbor, and thought possibly I might do well. T went there with great hope, because “my father had lived there forty or fifty’ years before, and I had an uncle, William 8. Maynard, who had died there several years before, and I thought, town; very religious peopie; they don’t sell any | would not take this ki .. here Although Mrs. Maynard was married to a her personal friends attended, and that and tried to _lecture in the xouny Men’s Christian hall there, I sae at Batule tip and lectured there, Igotit well advertised, lectures. That was the disability I labored under. Thad not reputation to draw then. I suppose 1 WOULD DRAW Now. The lecture at Ann Arbor was a failure all the way through, and Istuck toit lke a hero, too. I then went to Detroit, and I got well advertised* and I had about fifty or sixty people there. They Were quite respectful, and interested inmy new ideas of the Second Coming; and I got. a good news- paper report, but it was flavored with the fact of my arrest the night beforefor a board bill of $8, af the Leonard house, at Ann Arbor. At Ann Ar- bor the man was going to arrest me for the hall. The fact is that he agreed to furnish the hall and the advertising, and to take his chances on the receipts. That was the ent I made with him and all these Lg ‘Was to do the lec- turing and they were to he rest, The fellow was #man of ugly disposition, and he got very any ‘when he found there was nothing to pay the ‘hall rent. “ He eed pretay. hard, and rather than Papiaty and left hin. a conihe ase a Own mind. He wanted to Lage about ca Dill, and I did nat-gobacic to see about it, but made ‘a bee-line for, Ypsilanti, and walked out of the city on the rafiroad track. I staid there until about one o'clock, and the fast Chicago express came song: about 1 or 2 o’clock in the sponta y, Yael! is eight miles from Ann Arbor toward it. T got on the train, and the conductor came wi and I told him who I was, and he said it was right. I told him I wa ny christian man, and ini yes ee me of a tured ia Detroit. ‘The result was about ake ABRESTED FOR A BOARD BILL. Thad about fitty or sixty people and charged i eae ters TOOK ME POR A GENTLEMAN. soTgotonthe stand and spoke about half an | I was terribly exhausted in mina and dody, anf at all,and had walked twenty the night before, and’ had not slept came out the next day and gave me what they | miles on the ratiroad tra: called a very scathing—I guess that ts the word to | Was in a pretty bad condition, physically and men- Uuse—notice of it, full of wit and sarcasm. Itdida | tally. A lady took me right In, a great deal of harm and hurt my feelings pretty | there, badly at that time. - I went to the city editor | took a bath and got recuperated a littie I went out ‘the next day—it was Sunday—and tried to get him | to see about getting some printing done to adver- tise the lecture ou the following Sunday. the president of the Christian Association. Hé knew Mr. Moody and those kind of pe knew them, and that wasa bond of fe! and he would let me have bis hall; and I went to the printer and got some hand-bills, and got well advertised, and there was not a came, and I had not a cent of money. ought vugh, and I felt pretty bad, but I the wore, T next went to Cleveland, '¥ money to pay my fare, 1 we tas usual, as if Thad a hundred Ket. The conductor came aru a1 had not got any money, and to lvctare for the Lord and “That a4 all be, rot 1 was well fed. Twas therea @ay or two. As soon as I I did not have © down to the de, my jacket, and he let ne goto Cleveland on that. Lnever gol it back from thatday to this, It was worth #10, at} Lowe him $3 for the fare. That the same experience in the lecture to be delivered in the Christian Assocle ‘iton hail, and they did not come and did not ADOUT MB OR MY LECTURE. T took a train, and without any money, and the fare was $% trom Cleveland to Buffalo. The cone ductor was a very clever fellow; I guess he was @ Christian man, and I says: ‘I have not got any money. I expected to lecture here and get some money, but I have not got any money, and 1 am out of my head, and so along in May or June—I | €0lng to Buffalo to lecture.’ He says, ‘never mind, fink it vas tm May—I went ont to Rvanstown, | never mind. wt let het greywei ps ypanl ne al ‘ou tay say x and Ige a church there and tried to deliver my ence is Gend-beating, but Tsay it 1s @ lecture, and Ihad three or four hundred people. | ra That was a suburb of Chicago, a place of ten or | Wat : twelve thousand inhabitants. The Northwestern | once at Pous! great Methodist | ductor was 11 I otvercised iat d-headed, as they call it, from Toledo, 01 and didn't get p ‘nkeepsie, New Yors, where the con- wt & Christian man, evidently, and and once af came very near getting ay say that Ubis is dead-deating. and I had no business to go around in this kind style. Isay I was WORKING FOR THE LORD, and the Lord took care of me. My duty was todo my duty as I conceived it to be, and to let Him pay” my board bills the best way He could. I always paid my debts when I had the money. Sometimes T didn’t have tie money, and sometimes I did have tt. When I didn’t have it I could?t pas falo in that way by the conductors saying ‘never mind,’ and he did not bother me at all. He was a very clever fellow. I lectured there Inthe base- ment of one of the high-toned Presbyterian chu.ches. I was well advertised, and I had « three or four hundred house—one of the most re- spectable houses I ever had. The lecture was free, T think Phad four Lat money to get to the T always paid when I had the money, id not have it 1 told theiu, and they sald, ‘All right, let tt go.’ T got a pretty good news: reporvot it in the Buffalo Courier, audience thought I was VERY BADLY CRANKED. ‘They laughed and chatted and made fun and all that sort of thing. Itwas a new idea, aud they never heard anything lke it before. ‘They did no? believe in that kind of theology. Iwent to Roche, ester next, and the state fair was just about t? close, and I lectured there in the Plymouth Con-* gregational church, by the consent of the pastor, ery clever man and who sympathized, I guess, with my views on the Second Coming. I nial way in which he received I was well advertised in the new ot my handbills out as usual, and T Thad three or four hundred people, guess, and they were very atte: ‘Some of thei pricked ‘think so from the ve, although p their evrs and aid ind of doctrine, and laugh: meiaber a gentleman an his wife looked down and smiled, and sald they had never heard anye I remember one 10 FOr just as mad as she could be, , ver peculiar tone of ¥i ard that doctrine before, and I don’ 1 used to deliver my lecture, but Thad itin manuscript. I spoke with a good deal of ane imation, as I always do. had a great many scripture references, and to refer fo my manuscript to get those out. Rochester, I went to § in Association hall, but there was only one or two came, and I did hot speak. ica. It rained that night, and T had five or thirty in the Christian Association as usual. One or two ladies | didn’t believe that kind of doo~ pered and chatted and laughed all the discourse. I went yracuse and tried to I next went to about: got very angry and trine, and whis} wi Thad a slight acquatotance with Thurlow Weedl+ Darucs, vecause ne was second cousin of Mr. Sco= ville’s. He was city editor of the Albany Evening Journal. He spoke well of me, and under bis ine Duence, I presume, the Journal being one of the leading papers there, and having an immense cir” culation throughout the city in the best f: had a very resy ble house. I presume I jarnes’ notice. I spoke there im tist church, which was quite ® juite a good house of three oF le, I had the usual reception, Uhe doctrine. They were mad and gritted ‘their Mr. Barnes th ga & nice ttle notice as a man of ability and a student of the Bible, &c.—a very niee little notice of five or six lines. distinctly, during the lecture, several of those maids couldn’t stand that talk, ana were as nad ag they could be, and some of the’ladies—I remember one or two ‘that sat right by me—laugued and the Maynard iamily would be of some help tome: | Suickored Tul the time I was talking, gentle. | Iwas badly cranked. man named Wood she invited me to her house and | Troy, and Saw the pastor of one of the lead! jas very clever to me, and she and two or three of | churches there, and he was perfectly willing was all | should lecture. the audience Ihad. Iwent from there to Detroit | rain, and I did not lecture. I wen! the hall of the large room. I four hundred They did not ip and went out, and all that sort of tn and thought T think I'ient next to It rained terribly, just a — wo and did not try to lecture; 1G Stayed in Albany a few hours and took the train for New York. but noone came. I always well advertised my | I oe it | atitttle Palts e afternoo! reek during that | rained so hard. t ‘That is when of at Pouchkeepsie. the train and told the conductor who I was, He Was a bluff sort of fellow, and didn’t care about that kind of talk. It was the fast ex think, that ran from Albany to Little Fol out stopping. No,I am wrong about that. The ughkeepsie. He told him generally that I hed not any money, and was trying do etwas eke for you, my fric! to pass you CCD sie; that isthe first stopon this fast train.’ I cot off there, and a train came alot on, and the man was a bluff fellow, and ie did ‘not take any stock in that kinil of busl- ness, and I would have to That is between Poughkeepsie I am not certain. At all event ut of at Poughkeepsie and Little Falls me on to sympathetic. I work for the Lord. get off at Little Falls, jue; but I had not been there for several years, and I looked at the great bulidings and all ‘the wealth, and contrasted It with my poverty in ‘wying to serve the Lord—with all the wealth an@ j E tilize : j i i 3, | i 8 ati Ms 4}