ial 7 OV ON TRUL washington 1 upon entering ill alio llio 0 witness box bulteau desired desire to ja peni personal statement and addressed the iho audience aud ienco said bild lip lie two weeks BRO ago I 1 borit sen I 1 out in all appeal for til money loney I 1 till it on oil my lily own RC ne count and tile lay afterward scoville Bc publicly that it WM was with walli buthis out his authority I 1 again invite tiny of my friends to send me money in the interest of tile cause of nf justice and for my deff I 1 orense nae they can call send five ton fen or dollars or a i thousand if they visit if they donl want to bo be known they cin bond it without then nino to Scovil lp judge judee porter then bog an it rapid ft fire re ot of interrogatories lories from the I 1 I 1 prisoner that phy 8 ile wits no n coward and alwa kept awny away from danger morally lie ho was bravo brave a as a lion when lie ho thou thought glit the deity was lack back ol of him in iii his hh opinion the doctors killed tho the president the reis anil mason illusion ut ill tempting to io kill hlin were wrong and they ought to bo punished wl WI ness soon showed signs ans of impatience and excitement ollen often striking his open hantl ham upon tho the desk every sen seu lenco enco lie ho uttered wheal pressed for answers lio lie finally shouted to porter I 1 know you well find and I 1 know bigger men than you are arc you shook your finger lit at witnesses in ili new york but you cant scare irr TOO ifill and shortly after when asked if he be believed in ili tho the ten command ments to which ho responded lit in the tha affirmative arid and if lio ili believed the commandment tit ou ought to read lit in his case thou shall kill lie ho became exceedingly violent and refused to discuss that at nil all thero there was no murder in iiii case and no killing it was waa al simply triply for to lo determine whether ills his net act in removing tile the president was inspired bythe by tho deity or riot not it was ull all n nonsense 0 to split hales hairs any longer longe r over that word witness bitne proved decidedly obstinate find often ili flatly I 1 fly contradicted the testimony or of ion gen logan col reed heed and several other oilier witnesses witness wi anesa ho seem cd it to 0 be greatly annoyed tit at judge porters t e r I 1 a habit of pointing hla his finger at I 1 him again broko broke out tin angrily you I 1 need not point your long finger at me judge porter ive seen you do that before but you cant cearo tile ne witness was wai readily driven from ono one position to another till confront edwith el with tile evidence of 0 till hh own witnesses when lie ho would pronounce unco their evidence false ile iio emphasized his con contrini dililon dIc ilon by saying anything 1 beear to ludge judge Is true you can put that down as a fixed fact was closely questioned about tho purchase so of the pistol and asked why he bought ono one with an ivory handle instead ofa of a plain one lie he replied because I 1 thought it worth a dollar more judda porter DU you not say it would look better in ili tile tho patent face witness admitted that ho he might have hava believed or thought tile the pistol would sonic tima bo in the I 1 stale edep i department arment ir ment shortly after iward became very indignant dan tat at judge porters Portera use of tile word murder and shouted fiercely you seem saem to delight in tile use usa tit of the they voids kill find and murder there Is no ae bao of your whining in that flat vay nay tho the outward fact of how I 1 removed the president has hang nothing whatever I 1 I 1 lodo 0 do with tills case judge porter pressed him film very closely to fix the day when lie he received his alleged inspiration ins P to the lent dent and bulteau finally shrieked cut to remove all till talk I 1 want you to 0 o know that I 1 would have removed the president at any time lime between tile middle of june and th tho 0 ad of july it if I 1 had found ra an opportunity eunity I 1 would have done it I 1 for tile the good of tho the Amer american liau people 0 the presidents dents frig ingratitude rati to grant and conkling lie ho was led by judge porter to admit that I 1 ingratitude la Is the basest rimps t J Porter Stop there what would yon have thought of your act to in killing the president had he given you the paris consulship instead ofha having refused it lie ile hesitated a moment and then with great emph itAi said 1 I want fasten you solid right here I 1 would not have taken aken tho the parl paris c consulship 0 asu iship after the lit iii of june if I 1 had been appointed to it arid the r resident president and secretary bialka I 1 had A 11 both pressed we me on their knee to t take like it I 1 had bad at that time res resolved olvea I 1 to 0 remove the president recess guiteau resumed ile iio had no shrewd purpose la in using flattering flatt erinc words to blaine I 1 simply made mada the ticia to him in caso case lie assisted raci me in getting 1 the consulship consul that I 1 should feel eel bound if he wai wa a candidate at the national I 1 convention to assist him the way they hey do in poll politics ties judge Juil did you write president lar flold a letter marked private in which you yon said bald 1 I intended expressing sy sympathy m athy for you on n I 1 of the pr esauro esware that has haa been on you sInco you came camb to this city lo 10 yes I 1 wrote that letter my bly idea was just jual thi to express e liny personal regard for general on account of tho pressure on him for office I 1 sympathize with any president WI who has haa this hordo horde of office seekers athia throat at tile the time those letters letteri were w written ft eteri I 1 bad not the slightest conception or of removing the president if you want to bring those letters against roc that were written fit at that time then you are trying to do what you can cant t dy do banging ilia the prisoner being iskel h how 0 I 1 many allany times lie he hail had 8 spoken P ok ell C enkling in ili the street answered I 1 I 1 met him once on tile the street ire he wm was exceed exceedingly I 1 angly cord ili 1 bo wed and fiield ilow how do you boudo do hiir gulcan Gul cau I 1 was waa on oil good relations with will all those men during nit and april porto porter r slowly find will great deliberation did senator conklin conkling prisoner DI oil oh dont look so fierce tit at me I 1 dont care tho the snip or of my finger fur for you Porter butyok But you will vl answer my question prisoner rut your questions quo illona in a quiet sli nilo sort of a way and I 1 will porter did senator over ever pron promise niso to support supper your application fur for tho the paris consul consulship thip prisoner my aly idea about the iho paris consulship was that I 1 would got gel it through ruy my personal influence with the ilia president ulaine arid and logan and that when lily iny nomination wont went to the senate donator conkling arid anil that sort nort of men would BOO bee it through but I 1 dont think it nece sary to this matter of the iho paris consulship it iliou you dont dint know the facts about it yet you hail had better read this ihli paper and you i ill find them tha prisoner was quest toned about tile inspiration of its suggestion to garfield that lie ho would succeed film self in 1881 1891 ile ho replied lit in IL resolute tonal 1 I decline to to discuss tills ihla mitt mat ter any further ia mi wore were correct about my having malice in ili tile tho matter blaloc wits was tile iho limn for me to have shot what possible ill will could I 1 have against barfield Oarn ild wits tile tho man inan lo in have been shot according accord ing to your theory it if garfield imd had paid re respect to those letters it would have been fill all r right gh I 1 but ho he went wen land and hold bold bod body y and soul to blaine ile he did not appreciate pre preci clato ate tho bo sentiment and kindness of those totters but throw himself into Il laines hands unlit tind allowed blaine tu to uso the presidency to do 10 stroy conkling and grant porter was your motive for demanding mandi nir resignation lie ile cause ho had said to you lie fir to speak to him again on oil tho the parts consulship sul ship prisoner excitedly I 1 told you that hint ila had nothing to do with the paris consulate I 1 want to rant raft that I 1 into oto you find put it down deep laughter I in tho course of further further HOD flon lie he said in relation to the time lime of tile the murder the dolly deity seemed to be on my lily side and every one against neal nit me but there la Is a great deal butter better feeling towards me into than thain thero there was two or three weeks BRO ago sumo of those bittl bitter r crank papers havo have heon been toning down wonderfully for tho the last three or four weeks prisoner having expressed a belle belief f that tho the deity protected elui from the day lie he shot tho the president Preside ut to thia ati porter said it depends more on oil whet herthe jury believe you 11 the prisoner Exactly wit what at the jury Is hero here to pass upon is ia whether tile the deity did ackwith I 1 did it on my personal account I 1 mid find 1 I tell you further I 1 expect there will be an all net of god to protect tile if it Is i necessary irom from diny any kind of 0 violence 0 tile the prisoner asserted that ilia act 0 saved the country from at another iother war porter would thero hive have been war now if not for you 2 A I 1 do not pretend that the iho war wits was immediate but I 1 do say that the bitterness of the party was hour by hour and that by two or three fir years ut at least tho the nation would havu have aeeti in the games flames of war lu in tho the presence of 0 death all hearts were limited tills dissension ceased to for r weeks and weeks the heart anti and brains of the nation con centred on the sick man at tile the white house tilt till at last as anil and hero lie iho speaker lowered his voicu so us to be almost ible lie ho went the way may ol of all flesh and the nation was in mourning that is a paragraph from tile speech I 1 wanted to wak e two weeks eelis ago it II comes in very ery pertinent here and I 1 aoi am glad I 1 had it chinco chance to del deliver I 1 ver it counsel biked n tile tho prisoner wh whal 11 I 1 ws was tile the necessity of requesting thrig general sherman to rosend send troops to the jail to protect him for having the ilia deity A I 1 would have been shot ond and hung a hundred times if it hall had not bo to for the fit at the jail Q any harin barm in 1 but hata A thal thai Is a tr matter iatter for tile law jaw to pass upon impatiently I 1 will not have any more conversation with you yo u on this sacred subject you tire are making it lit of a serious gantter nant ter guing going buck back to the letter latter porter read chatin that in which the garfielda Oart Gar lelda fields nomination election anti and removal were the tha acts of iod god and then asked who nominated him arthr 4 the chicago convention Q Y i that inspired tile prisoner hesitated aud seemed about to lodge tho the question when t i porter flopped him with an impatient now now now prisoner now now row now I 1 thought ought iti or blaine biala 1 I would wool be nominated and aad when w lien gar fjeld was oo on tile the thirty sixth ballot bill nt it was the ibo net act ol of god tho the facts fact surrounding his hia election would sustain tile the position that it wits the act of cod wash I 1 it in im med mediately lately upon ill the e open opening ing of the criminal court bulteau was placed in tho the witness lines box lie glanced at the iho papers a moment and then said 1 I desire judge porter to state to you sou and the honorable court that I 1 d decline oell n 0 to answer any more questions mere repetitions of what we have alreada been over judge porter immediately resumed the crogg crosh examination with the question was one of your purposed in removing the president to create ere ate a demand for your book Answer ryes r Yes sir with alth tile iho flea fleetion tion that it was to I 1 teach beach the gospel 11 witness soon oon became excited and gesticulating wildly in insisted le 1 upon his bid inspiration and I 1 that lint the lord had selected him to do tho the work nork lie ile waino win m fool the lord never selected fools to do his bis work lie had inspired him to remove and left him witness to use his own judgment in ili selecting means continuing excitedly and theford the lord has had taken laken care of me I 1 have neither been shot nor hanged 11 judge porter band and you did not expect to he be answer 1 ill I decline e to j the matter with you I 1 did not have any thought on the subject I 1 left all that to the deity A letter addressed by bulteau to the oneida community wit was 3 I 1 then lion read in which the writer confessed his lovo love for nit and subjection to hayes and tile onelda oneida community gul bulteau lentil insisted I 1 in if spite to of the warn ing in making his explanations lie ile was naked asked if lie he laid ludd in walt for tile the president in an alley hy by night and after a short abort wrangle now you are on that hat ill 1111 give you a little news ill tell to I 1 I 1 you what occurred 0 that evening ev en july witness then detailed his movements up to th the 0 time he saw tile tho president and blaine emerge from the house of the latter and walk down fifteenth street said bulteau Gul leau they walked along so lovingly arm in arm they had their heir heads together like two school girls their fellowship was delightful and it confirmed mo me in tile the belief that had bull sold himself body and seul to Blain Blaine eRnd and using him to ruin thy tho stalwart inar if the republic m I 1 arty guiteau hero became furiously excited and plunged into t it wild harr angue denouncing blaine as mal a bold wicked designing man who w ho wanted to ruin ilia iha republican party in revenge for the two times lie he had eliud bann baen slaughtered by political conventions striking his list on the desk with considerable alo violence e net lie ho shouted yes air in ili my iny 0 opinion P n ion blanno Is morally responsible for the death of garil eld 11 recess Ile eess tile cross examination exam I 1 nation of bulteau was resumed witness did not intend to remove the ahe president on the night that lie ike visited the christian church ue ile went to see where the president tsat sat ire he intended to t 0 remove him film whenever he be could find a favorable opportunity if Ithe he had hadre re noved him then lie would have shot him tin through tile the head ile he visit visitpol pl about the of june jime ile wanted to see it because ile he expected he would bo be taken there for removing tile the president lie ile halt had hii pla tot tol with him lit in the lie alley on the night of july took it out and ex it would probably have shot garfield eliat night if lie ho fill anid had film alone blaine ww was with him I 1 it 1 W was as a hot night witness was not feeling well so lie he did riot not try to shoot the that night flight tho the examination of bulteau was continued till patst 2 and the prisoner resumed his seat between butr teon wa brother other lr and scoville in the oil eteau enst to daiy diy porter having elicited from guiteau tile thy assurance ais urance that lie he lidid not read much about napolpon napoleon asked him if in saying tile the presidents nomination was an act or of god hla his removal ai an net act or oford pod lie he dill tilt have bons eons on Is bulletins in his mind answer awer apparently aratine Kr atine trill that j Is the way I 1 express myself in ill sharp pointed sentenced cei lf if you you want to see of I 1 thai t kind iad of style look through my book