Show TRIAL porter paralyzes the precarious ions plena pleas for the prisoner ony NV V U telegraph mab to the ceraldi Her aldi mal mox jan 10 lo judge porter b ec n allds address aar adr yesterday y with a reference to the disorder winch which had characterized the proceedings of tho the defense and then spoke of feeds reeds argument as lawyerlike and based on oil the only v law points which with any plausibility could be adduced by the defense of villes argument he said it could only have been delivered by some member of the tile family who as bohag himself boasted had learned his law in police courts and acquired ills manners aanons the hooting the woods of western ohio porter reviewed the argument of davidge Da vidgo pointing out its strong points malice mallee mr davidge had rightly said was the presumption of the law question for the tile judge not for the jury should the judge decide as tho the defense defenso desired that malice was a question of fact for the jury he lie would overturn the law lie would create a precedent in this famous case which would inevitably bo be condemned through all time to come mr villo had objected that tho the decisions in support of tho prosecutions postulate were as antiquated as his porters style of oratory I never said porter imitated any man nor commented on oil any oratory I never sat at the feet of that gamaliel as guiteau did whether my manners and morals would have bave been improved is for others to say judging from the disciple who is before you he would scarcely seem to bo be an appropriate instructor tor for youth proceeding to expound the law on the subject of malice reading from the edition of Archi balds criminal ice t porter dwelt upon the premeditation pret of referring to his lying in wait and dogging the footsteps of tho the president lie ile said was the worthless Tag vagabond abond the theman mah to be selected and inspired of god A cheat a swindler K k of the vilest habit lie then is the junior in the firm of jesus christ A co this murderer tracking his victim at night at chur church cli at the railroad station everywhere every where till the deed esdone but grant this hideous pretension and allow him the inspiration of paul which lie impiously y quotes that should not protect him as it did not goject eath paul from the stripes and porter went onto say that althou h the president had died t the ie go government ve m still lived and liis his was prosecuting his assassin yes eaid said guiteau and arthur ein employed plo ed you under misapprehend ions bion a sai d judge apter unde under bem fill ampre ien boitt stronger than Guit guiteau cau guiteau seems to think ho lie is stronger than the law I do not claim to be stronger than t lie law but god almighty is stronger than the law said guiteau suddenly you will come before god almighty presently said porter solemnly until then you would do well to refer but little to him you will feel soon what you have never felt before the divine pressure in the form of the hang mans noose at the prisoner had sworn on the stand that ho lie was predestined to remove the president he ile had forgotten to say sty that lie was also predestined to bo be hung for it speaking again of his interruptions and of the r finlof g of ids his family porter said tie e had supreme u p reme contempt for all the uit n not the respectable ones b but it th those e who ho sympathized with the assassin porter then t took 00 up t lie authorities cited by the defence pronouncing th them em cither either misreported mis reported or bad law from lie ile sneered at a the assertion of scoville that the antiquated arguments of ill alie prosecution could not stand in tho the light of those of the defense which purported to be tho the outgrowth of an enlightened age an ae ag of Gulte aus when a hungry politician kills a president from pique A ild politician libician lit ician continued porter who had such a belief in the gullibility and depravity of mankind that lie supposed he was doing men like general grant and mr conkling the greatest parliamentarian and one odthe foremost statesmen of liis his time and even president arthur a service service for which lie would receive reward why had general grant mr col conkling alding and president arthur been standing at the door of the baltimore potomac railroad Kail road on the morning of the shooting had they seen the assassin creeping upon his victim revolver in hand aiming at his backan iron hand would have descended which would have paralyzed the assassin assi n and saved the president the audience were carried out of themselves by porters eloquence and ap vigorously despite the ties of order and silence eyen guiteau was affected but lie managed to say the tile stalwarts Stal warts are coming to my side every day lay you ought to see some of the letters I pet get they are all coming to think with me and so are all decent people porter ran over the decisions of the courts collected in the st louis lav law journal produced by the defense yes showed that tho the courts oi of eighteen states held the view odthe of the prosecution that tho the insanity afan of an assassin n must be proved hv by tho tile p preponderance re of evidence the federal aral courts unanimously adhered to the same view w hile the courts of eight states stat es leid beeb feebly ly that the accused was entitled to the benefit of the th doubt |