Show TRIAL judge porter continues hia his demolition of the defense uy if U telegraph to the tile if herald jan 24 judge porter continued the sarcastic bar castic strain of his demolishing arraignment with regard to who was responsible for the tile killing of president garfield that father w horn whom when 18 years airs old be struck was responsible that father whom lie never forgave and with whom he lie had bad not riot spoken for at last fifteen years cars ochia honored life the mother whom lio lie scarcely ever ov er remembers was guilty because she had an attack of erysipelas some weeks before lie was born and had bad cut her ber hair thereby transmitting trans transmitting mittin to him congenial insanity his ilis drun drunken 11 en uncle who however did d not become insane until after fter the prisoner was born i vas responsible for killing garfield uncle francis wag was responsible because disappointed in in love he lie killed the husband of ortho the broman lie loved and mid long afterwards became demented ilia cousin abbie is s responsible because from a traveling mesmerist she became tile in inmate of an insane asylum slie made tills this murder insane guitrau theres enough to kill your our caso case by by your own showing porter continued the tile chicago convention killed garfield by nominating him tile doctors killed him ilia his nomination and tho the election were two acts of god and the prisoner would have us believe the dei deity t y who had thus twice confirmed d his Is choice cli oice found it necessary to correct his labors by appointing this wretched swindler and hypocrite this syphilitic monstrosity to murder the president whose nomination and election lie ile had confirmed con linned tho the deliberate murder bits sits there poin pointing tinz at guiteau Guit cau baid said ho lie to the jury tile junior counsel has said you are kin kings gs implying that ou uro almost in tangible doubt and ign ignoring ori ng the solid structure of the e evidence darice of guilt you are not kings and the man mail who told you ou eo so is ia tile only one man in fitly fifty million who could or would recommend guiteau for an office ilee judge porter after recess dealt with Guit eans cunning and duplicity referring to Gulte aus pious burst bursts s lie said with deliberate emp emphasis basis I do not believe that in all tins this as c there is ono one boul soul that con with such abject terror the possibility of facing ins bisi maker as does tins this brazen murderer guiteau Guil cau with tho the ferocity of a wild beast fair fairly veiled tints a miserable lie a and you ou know it por ter berand and you are an infernal internal scoundrel I hope god almighty will send for you and Corkhill for making such a mi miserable crable stinking as that is without noticing noti cin tins this outbreak porter continued hie tile first question for the jur jury is waa was ti the prisoner insane on jelv if n not of I alic I i c case is is ended if ho lie was insane invin ew was it to a degree that th it he lie did not know the murder was morally aika legally wrong if not the jury arc are oath bound to convict him third if in in utter disregard of ins his confession under oath alio jury find lie actually honestly believed that god commanded him to kill the dent and that lie was under a delusion the jury must convict fourth if such delusion did exist exi stand and was caused hy jy insanity then and then only they must acquit he ile has sworn lie wag was able to control his will firth ifcic if ho was insane through his own depra depravity ity and malignity they must convict sixth if tile jury believe lieve he be was partly or wholly insa insane ne but ut believe he lie knew his act was legally or morally wrong w ron they must con vict v act jury must not override over ov cr ride reason and law and let murder rape and arson n run not riot through the lauds lands murder has been in the world since the first born of woman slew the second born and god knowing mans nature inscribed on the tables of stone thou not kill human life to guiteau is of small value life life mid said he lie in one of these letters of his bis is is a fickle dream ac kc whoso choso sh eddeth mans blood by b i min an shall his blood be says the gospel and against this we have had the pos pel of guiteau you aro to judge the gospel of our maker or tile gospel of this murderer shall prevail referring to reeds reference refe renco to mrs garfielda Gar fields prayers porter said imagine lie the aged mother coming coining before you ou draped ili in black ima imagine i e en ace according arding to an all old c custom of english ig law s thi tins trial taking place inthe in tho arese prese presence lice of the corpse garfield mutilated ill dilated d by the murderer and wrapped d in tinen through winch which it was supposed the mere inere approach of the murderer would cause blood to flow imagine garfield lying lv ing there not one ne of tl alio le clavicles ca ides of his but tho the whole man cold in death with willi the death sweat not even dr do on his brow with w alli expressions of agony on his face w which this prisoner put there and with the coi cowering crin assassin yonder shrinking from approach to tile body imagine the aged mother who had looked to that son to close her eyes C cs in in death bowing with grief at the coain coflin head with mrs garfield whose lips were pressed on those cold lips of abo president ident sitting at his feet in ili dust and ashes if in such a scene air charles 11 II V reed leed stood up and paid said the woman is bowed in in prayer his murderer shall be dealt with leniently u what hat would you think of it it aswell ell for us its all gentlemen that tho tile law lav docs does not call upon jurors to leave the immortal part of their nature their moral nature outside ol 01 tile court house when they come como to administer justice although garfield is pris onor speaks and lias has spoken boken on tho the witness stand the wol which F prove rove him to be nut not only an but ut a y deliberate sane and res pon risible sible assassin of the president allis ahls m n slaughtered garfield Garfi ild as ho would have slaughtered a calf ho lie would cat doctors did that said the prisoner j and id having dis posed ased of him in that way in in comes flis his counsel and charges with the crime those who occupy too lofty a position to notice t bo vipers that said it and who would have degraded ed th alie I dignity of their office ice by y noticing it S one of them a distinguished distinguished american senator who I oat at th thia moment except that J lie was too lofty and tao too poud to accept offices office would be sitting as s chief justice of the united states the son of a great and lio honored nored american jurist a man who still young in years lias has commanded more attention at home and abroad of the admirers of intellectual greatness irim of the loftiest loft iest eloquence and grea of t the greatest statesmanship than anyone perhaps even of his time a bitter partisan a man honest in all his undertakings q a man faithful to his friends friend faithful to his convictions even though they involve sacrifice a man who was capable of doing what but few men are capable of doing re resigning siRing the leadership of the tile american senate ani and done at the peril I of ilia his own political belr destruction i r diction lic tion a man of unstained integrity courage fearlessness and manliness which made this withdrawal a matter of regret oven even to his political adversaries such a man is toay political Soli day arraigned before an american jury and arraigned not by criminals but by the defense without my knowledge interposed guitrau Guit Guite cau ati as res responsible risible of f the garfield murder r another not her of those arraigned is ft a roan man more lio honored nored in the confederate states than anany in any american state as their own cherished leader for services rendered first in war and atter afterwards ter wards in re conciliating difficulties which grew out of the war a man whose life lias has been without dishonor and with wi phout out reproach a man elevated to conspicuous positions the successor of washington jef erson jackson and lincoln who who after ho lie left that place w was a s welcomed in every european and oriental land as one of the tile ablest men and purest personal characters to bo be named in the history of tho th nineteenth century that man is arraigned by lie the lawyers of guiteau but not by guiteau interrupted the prisoner as Rs responsible for the murder of general garfield more than that we have the president Pros ident of tho united states the prisoner made so by the inspiration of guiteau do not to forget aget t that lat sir porter you ou do not represent him here cither either porter continuing said hayes lincoln jackson jefferson erson ada adams m and washington were elevated t to that position not by an assassin but by the voice of liis his countrymen and when this creature says bic lie was inspired to make arthur president lie forgets gen arthur was mado made president by the voice of his countrymen by that very voice which made gar field president ire ile was president under the constitution and laws millard fillmore was just as truly elected by the people as the president whom lie succeeded the prisoner prison e r that at isa is a false statement mr arthur and air mr fillmore Fill moro were nominated aa as vice presidents and could not riot have been nominated as presidents at the tile time air borter Ti iio tou aa ym in iaia i s speech last saturday t eliat I bat garfield might have died from any other cause that he lie might have trod upon orange peel I and received injury which might igl it have lave caused his de death iab or that lie might have trod upon a rattlesnake whose fangs might have pierced his heel was it an orange peel or a rattlesnake tle snake that made arthur president reviewing viewing Ilc the claim of the dere defense rise to hereditary insanity judge po porter arter said mra mrs scoville Sc dared not say that her father was insane his family physician who was with him till death would have known it and yet not one dare kiss the holy book and make oath to such sucha a statement this defense is falsehood and a part of the in imposture ture and shame that wraps about b it atlie whole case at this instant judge porter turned against the defense with telling effect sayi saying that raising of the murderous axe I x e a against ainest liis his own sister which she in her honesty of soul imagined an indication of insanity but which in reality was but in in kee keeping ing with the cowardly attack from behind upon his infirm father and with the devilish depravity which culminated in his murdering the president this raising she would recall through her forty years of knowledge of her brother guiteau twisted uneasily and with some nervous nervousness ne ss hesitation of speech callebout called calle dout out the prosecution are making a it good deal out of nothing they are just using evid evidence eilee altogether different froin what scoville intended he ile never ought to have said anything about it it just shows liow little sense the villes have pot got witness amerling who exhibited his bankbook bank book to the jury to show them that he lie had on deposit at homo home was very roughly bandied handled by the speaker as was ir dr north and their credibility shown to be more than dubious at a quarter past three judge porter not having concluded his argument the court a ad I journea until to morrow |