Show miTE ATTS trin tho the prison prisoners era Pre sentiments menta about becoming president oa on cross examination he declines responsibility by liy W U telegraph raph to toabe the herald washington nov SO 30 resumed suddenly on IN wednesday ednes day even evening after Con klines klings resignation guiteau said ho he thought if president garfield was out of the dayall way fall would go well ue ile tried to shake it off hut but it crew grew in a bortni fortnights fort nights avs time it had bad become a fixed resolve had never doubted pinco aliat time tinie about about the first of raun aei e that he be was inspired Hc prayed and nd prayed brayed asking god if garneld garfield was not to be thus removed to get rid of him some other way his ilia removal was necessary to save the nation from ruin I know added he be the lord employed me because he ile always employs the best material I felt the lord wanted mo me to do it to advertise my book no allusion was wits made b by tho the witness to tho the immediate iny incidents of the shooting recess after recess guiteau said he be believed in special provi dences and had no concern about hia his safety he ile felt that the lord and the government would take care of him the lord lie added is no fool he ile uses the aest beat means for his ilia work and he ile has provided all the guards the court and jury and these he ile expects to do his work and preserve me scoville have you a distinct recollection of the incidents of the ad of jul july r wu guiteau eteau smilingly milin gly O ob b yes certainly the witness then briefly recited his I arrest with the least possible feeling feeling when I was finally lodged I in n jail H I felt happy bapp and ande thank go god iti it is s all over with after a few questions question s he lie broke out I want to define my position on this one point I believe gen arthur is a friend of mint mine he ile ought to bo be for I am the man tuan that made himor my inspiration did but I have never yet asked a favor of him and I dont suppose that I ever shall guiteau continued A few weeks ago I addressed bennett a note suggesting b lie e send me and I think it very likely he lie will send it I owe probably 1000 and that is e every i cent I do owe in the world a and nd if bennett ten tends ds me the money I shall pay off my boarding bills lie saad said he did me a great deal of damage in in 1874 but bennett is a fellow I have an idea in my head for twenty years that I be president of the united states I suppose people think I have be been en badly cranked about thit ahad the idea in tho the oneida community I went to boston with a distinct feeling I was on my way to the white house and I shall make it yet laughter spread through the audience at this prediction if I am ever president continued tho the witness it will be by the act of god I shall get tho the nomination as lincoln and garfield did and I shall be elected as they were I anticipated a decided cha change n ge in public opinion in regard to me the idea has been in my head for twenty years I would be president I did not want to get the herald down on me the reason why I did not press my euit against it I dont care a snap of my finger about being president I dont know if I should take it if I was actually nominated and elected witness related the etory story of his 11 personal writing correspondence with a view to matrimony and said I want to say a word in reference to m my divorced wife the he court no not now the prisoner I I do not know anything about tier her nor have I known forbears for years past but she had no business to come here for the prosecution questioned about the revised edition of truth the witness answered red there bisno money in that business in in any way shape or manner and never has been when col corkhill came to me in july and talked about some great lot of money and some great men backing me with money andall and all that nonsense I told him blin about my circumstances and convinced him that I had no money judge porter now began the cross crow examination the prisoner bore examination with considerable self possession although ho he occasionally got flurried and excited question you determined to kill general garfield did you not answer JI I decline to answer that that is a very strong way to put it with some excitement I t consider myself an agent of the deity in the ilia matter I bad no personal volition in the matter Q did you say to officer scott on leaving the depot after the murder of the president general arthur is now president I A I decline to answer that Q why do yon you object to answering that A I suppose I did say that then he lie added excitedly I want it distinctly understood I did not do that of my own personal volition but on the inspiration of deity I never would have shot the president denton on my own personal account the deity inspired the act and deity would take care of it the deity furnished the money with which I bought the pistol I f was the agent deity inspired me to remove the president and I had to resort to my own mind to accomplish com the deitos will Q the only inspiration you had was to use a pistol on the president A the inspiration consisted in t trying ing to remove the president re ent for or the e good oo 00 of the american r i people tople and impatiently all th these be details details are not nothing in to thee the case e the whole matter was as in the hands ds of deity emphatically I do not want to discuss it any farther further I appreciate tb the e fact act of the presidents long as muc much as any person in the world but that ia is ave very p narrow view view to of tho the matter Q did you contemplate his removal otherwise than by murder 11 A no sir fetu petulantly bantly lant ly I do in ot like the word mu murder ader I do recollect tho the actual facts in the matter a t excitedly if I had shot t president of the united states on my own seasonal Sers personal onal account no P punishment shi nent would woul be too severe nor too quirk quick for me m but acting as the agent of the deity defty that puts an entirely different construction on the act and what I want to put to the court and jury and to the opposing counsel I say that the removal of the a president was an net act of necessity from the situ sitti aaion and for foi the good of the american people people that is the idea I want you to entertain and not to settle down on the cold blooded idea of murder I because I never had the first conception of murder in the matter cross examined were you aware it was against human law tho the prisoner prisoners I felt the deity would take care of me I never entertained an idea of murder in the whole matter I never had any conception caption of the matter as murder my mind is perfectly blank on that subject and has been 11 tho the cross crow examination will be continued i to tomorrow morrow morro w |