Show 0 BY telegraph p 1 I PIM PER WISTERN UNION TELEGRAPH lina 1 AMERICAN washington 9 guiteau arrived at the court house about h m and was taken to the waiting room he appeared rather nervous and his countenance indicated anxiety when he had taken his seat in the dock he glanced around stealthily over the audience and immediately began a bar ngue evidently intended for the jury 1 I have received J hebald he said baid some letters a great many of them from ladies when I 1 get time I 1 shall attend to them I 1 want to send my greetings to the ladies of america and thank them for their sympathy they dont want me to be hanged public opinion Is fast oha pha changing nging I 1 received on saturday a check for 1000 from the stalwarts stal stai warts of brooklyn and another of from the stalwarts stal warts of new now york I 1 want the jury to under stand how public opinion is on the case A bailiff here tried to silence hini him when he turned upon him in the most vicious manner and shouted out you keep quiet and mind your business do not interfere with me when I 1 am talking if you had any bense sense you would understand your place 41 with this uis opening breez breeze proceedings ce in due form were begun and scoville resumed his argument scoville proceeded without inter for an hour his remarks were listen listene id d to with mark marked e d attention he laid laa seress beress stress atress up upon on the propositions that insane men often knew the difference ditle ditre rence renee between right and wrong and for that reason conceal their plans that the of doubt shoun attach toa plea of in k sanity when raised with so some bome beforce me force as when urged in connection with w ith the commission of crime his allu idon rion to the decision of judge davis who went out of his way he be said to pass upon som Eom something ething not involved in the case he was then considering brought judge porter to his feet with an indignant reply that the charge was false seuville retorted rne r rne nu vp turan tuSan nan f ahr the same bench with a nd a cordoza should not be received with much consideration judge porter with even more vehemence reiterated the charge of counsel absolutely false that judge da vis never sat bat on the bench with either of the gentlemen named if an honorable member of the federal judiciary is to be put on oil trial here I 1 demand I 1 said judge porter that the record be produced here upon which this faisz falso charge is made madei scoville insisted that when a style of proceedings best bast suited to a police court cobit were introduced here by the prosecution he could comment upon them as he deemed fitting he should not be frightened by the tragic utterances of judge porter he had heard the same notes years ago from owls at night in the woods of ohio davidge protested that now for forty ty five minutes time had been devoted to the proper scope of the a argument u t and the court warned counsel they abstain from personalities scoville concluded his argument at 12 and in conclusion desired to make a few remarks of a personal character alluding ti to his bid controversies with judge porter he disclaimed any intention to transgress the bounds of propriety or rules of practice but he should erit crit criticism criticise critic leise ielse ise lse the conduct of counsel when it merited criticism and the threats of prosecution rose cution would not intimidate him arn citing the custom of coursel cour coul sel sei upon the other side sometimes sit jt ls is is 13 three bows all around sometimes more never less than three it lias has never been done by council on this eide aide and I 1 do not hebl heal hesitate tate to cr criticise critic ise lse the propriety of it judge porter the gentleman is simply instancing his lack of politeness if he has no apology to offer I 1 shall certainly not apologize for him rece recess a after recess corkhill said relying on the assurances of the defense that the question of jurisdiction would not be raised he did not expect to speak on tho the th legal points but as the tho last two prayers of the defense distinctly made that assue it was his hia duty to 10 speak on th the question he then read an exhaustive argument upon jurisdiction consuming one hour D bidge spoke on the general propositions contained in the prayer and discussed 9 fm matiel atiel which legally meant the intentional doing of a wrongful act davidge discussed seriatim the prayer of the defense and pointed out their sophistries sophis tries and inconsistencies ten cles cies the object of the prosecution he said Is to obtain from your honor a plain clear direct ruling upon four distinct propositions positions the apparent object of t the e defense has been to befog belog all that may be clear in this case in the vain hope that they may get to the jury wa with th some uncertainty attached in someway blume flume way to the case cas e upon which to build up a plea of acquittal why your honor jn in over 30 years practice I 1 have never heard such a prayer as this thia one offered ed by loy a defense it has no justification it has no excuse we dont want obscurity in this matter we want light we dont mean to let this prisoner escape in in a cloud but b ut we want from your honor a clear and perspicuous ruling so that twelve average men sitting upon the jury cannot possibly go astray davidge severely handled the eleventh and twelfth prayers of the def defence enkie and characterized them as mean attempts to cast aspersions upon experts who had testified for the prosecution and upon counsel for the prosecution themselves the prisoner followed the ment with the closest attention and indulged in frequent and noisy comments davidge concluded his Us arguments at p pm m tile the cat court then adjourned until tomorrow to morrow morning judge porter will make the concluding argument immediately upon the opening of the court after which judge cox will render reader his decision NEW YORK 9 the boiling or an house bouse of havemeyer elders gro Uro rooklyn sugar works a building seven stories high x feet were completely burned this morning the crash of the falling copper pans weighing 15 to 20 tons each was and shook the ground like an earthquake hon theodore A havemeyer austrian consul owned the building and had just been through it when the fire broke out loss on on building and ma chinery insurance 60 per cent distributed in small risks all over the united states the char house opposite waa was damaged aulm our 00 thousand DAnd mon men are out of employment the building will be replace dat once e NEW ORLEANS 9 orders are received here today to day from san pran cisco to provide freight room in march and april for bushels of wheat to great britain this wheat li ii l i to be shipped from california to new orleans by the southern pacific R R thence by steamer to its destination LITTLE boor BOOK 9 A band of ku klux from little rock river biver invaded the town ot of corning with the avowed intention of murdering jim and joe stevens lute inboden and al berger one of the party riley eiley black refused to assist and his ass eates dates killed him this disgusted several of the others and they gave the clan assay the citizens attempted te to arrest the oat iamb lams and I 1 1 in the melee three of the clan were k killed led intense excitement prevails washington lo 10 when guiteau came into court this morning as he passed his hia brother he whispered to him come over to the dock I 1 want lantto to see you about something of great importance taking hi his hii seat the prisoner laid down a large bundle of pa papers pers ani spreading out manuscript C rip nip t busied himself in looking it over judge porter began his his argument shortly after ten and at iut once fixed the attention of every one in the room guiteau pretended to be le engrossed in his manuscript but soon laid it aside oid old and listened with attention ien len lention tion judge porter began his address in reference to the disorder which has characterised characterized the proceedings of the defense and then spoke of reed reeds Is argument aa as lawyerlike and based on the only law a w points eints which with any plau piau abill V could be adduced by ane defense of villes argument he said it could only have been delivered by Gul gui guiteau who a aa he had bad himself boasted had learned his law in a police court and acquired his manners among hooting owls in the woods of western ohio porter reviewed the arguments of davidge pointing out its strong points mr air davidge has rightly said it was a presumption of the law a question fur for the judge not for th the jury eJury should the judge decide as the defense desired that malice wasa was a question jor zor or the jury july he be would overturn the law he would create a precedent in this famous case which would devita 1 ably be condemn condemned eti eli through all time to come mr ti coville had bald said that in the decision in support of jot the i prosecution the postulates were as antiquated as his porters etyle of oratory he dwelt upon the premeditation of ou guiteau eteau re referring firring to his lying in wait and to hig his dogging the footsteps of the president he eaid said was the worthless bond the man to be selected and in by god a cheat a swindler a creature of vilest habit claiming to be a junior in the firm of jesus christ the murderer tracked his victim at night at church at railroad station ati tion tiou everywhere till the deed is done porter went on to say that although the pr had biej the government still lived and his hia successor was prosecuting nia hia assassin yes ats 11 said guiteau and arthur s employed you under misapprehend gions 11 1 yes said sald judge porter under the misapprehension that law was stronger than guiteau guiteau seems to think that he is stronger than law ido do not claim to be stronger than law but god almighty is stronger than law said guiteau suddenly you will come before god almighty presently said porter solemnly until then he would do well to refer but little to him he will eel feel soon what he has never felt before divine pressure in the form of a hang mans noose the prisoner had sworn on the stand that the politicians kill a president from pique A politician ciar cial continued porter who had such a belief in the gullibility and depravity of mankind that he supposed he was doing men like gene al grant mr conkling the greatest parliamentarian and one of tile the foremost statesmen of his time and even president arthur a service for which he would receive a reward why had general grant mr conkling and president arthur been standing at the door of the baltimore potomac railroad on the morning of the shooting had they seen the assassin creeping g u upon P his victim revolver in hand band aiming at his back an iron hand would have descended which would have havo paralyzed the assassin and saved the president the audience thrilled by porters eloquence applauded vigorously despite the cries of order and fasi silence 31 even guiteau was affected but he managed to say Thestal waits watts are coming tomy to my aid every day you ought to see some of tile the letters I 1 get they are all coming to think with me and so are all decent people nothing like it has been seen or beard heard of during the past nine weeks in the guiteau trial as judge porter reviewed the conduct of the prisoner and the conduct on the part of the counsel of his cause in this court the crime in all its hideous ugliness was held up to the detestation of his hearers the silence became oppressive and the presence of bf avenging justice in the near future was suggested with a force of conviction that swept from tho the court room every vestige of that levity which has so long danced attendance upon every utterance of the prisoner and like a veil obscured from the consciousness of the spectators the horrors of the crime and what should be the solemnity of its judi cial atonement the prisoner winced and nervously twisted in his place and for several minutes was unable to say eay anything that in any sense could approach to an gradually gra Ora dually the prisoner regained his usual assurance and resumed his dally daily ha habit bit of 9 with contradictions and denial denials s e for once however the insufferable e i of the prisoner was completely p i ebely overawed over awed either neither his noise nor his abuse abuso could interrupt orsil or silence the avalanche of condemnation that swept from the lips of the elo eio q quent n t co combel insel the ithe prisoner is ny mistaken staken your honor said judge porter if it he believes by his unseemly brawling h he a can prevent I 1 my voice f from rom being heard by th the jury eJury the puppet cannot be moved to his bis outbursts in such good time as when he sat with his counsel now he ia Is fast tightening the hang mans noose about nis his nee 1 with nervous twitching of the mouth guiteau muttered veil veli vell clovell see about that tile here tolore audacious and wholly unabashed prisoner seemed ill at ease and at a loss joss to understand why his bis would be sallies of wit or impudence wholly failed with the audience while mare more severe became the d denunciations B of the counsel the more mor e frequent and marked were the demonstrations rations of approval finally like a wild beast brought to bay guiteau yelled out gil staked my life on the issue and I 1 am willing to go to the gallows tomorrow morrow w if it is ig the lords will pm im sick of this bosh judge porter I 1 wish you would get your aud and go home borne judge porter concluded bib hib masterly argument at 1140 by reading the now famous letter of bf president garfield to judge payne in which he complimented and thanked him for brushing away the n network of so with which it has of late been customary to envelop envelope 3 pleas or of insanity when set up in a excuse for crime a judge cox at 1145 began the of his hig decision which begins with a lengthy review of the cub eject of jurisdiction judge cox occupied 55 minutes in reading that portion of his decision touching up on the question of jurisdiction he reviewed the progress of opinion and cited all important rulings from the early day of common law in england and decided against the prayer of the defense ile he summed up the question that jurisdiction is complete in the place where the wound is complete consequently this court ha hs h a s full cognizance of the offense lense of judge cox next took up the question of the leg ia 1 test of iu la sanity and decided that knowledge and appreciation of the cliffie difference rence renee between right and wrong must be taken as tile the correct test judge cox concluded his decision at 12 oJ clock having consumed an hour and fifty minutes with rapid speaking upon every natural al point his hia rulings were decidedly against the prayers of the defence the only grain of comfort for uhe the prisoner was as offered when judge cox reached the point of reasonable doubt iio lio upon n his this subject he said I 1 shall n not t c charge h r ge the jury to acquit if they find a reasonable doubt as to any one element but buti J J shall take into consideration and them relative to the element and that if fr tr m all the circumstances and the evidence they have wrea doubt of the commission by defendant of the crime as charged then they shall acquit As judge cox ceased speaking guiteau called out I 1 am perfectly satisfied with that exposition of the law after consultation between counsels court adjourned until thursday morning when davidge will make the opening argument to the jury for the prosecution the strongest lobby on hand so far this winter is that in favor of the hip railroad scheme chief engineer captain eads is here himself and already many meetings have been held in the interest of the p clet olet at mr arapos rooms according to report it is believed if any project will pass this |