| Show 11 I I R I T YS TRIAL judge porter comm ekoes his closing argument for the prosecution Cru ahing alling the cool calculating cold blooded criminal and defining to the jury their duty and decision by nr U V to iho tho washington jan 23 for every seat in the court room this Inor morning nin I there v were ere at least ten clamor clamoring ing applicants cants besieging every avenue of approach the crish was greater than over ever before when the door was closed thousands of people were left outside As soon as tile court was alamed guiteau said I spent yesterday in in examining i my mail I had several hundred letters many from ladies and some were very tender I desire to express my thanks to the ladies for these kind and tender letters one letter suggests that general arthur give me a cabi cabinet not office now I want to say I would not take any office from az president es ident arthur and under tinder the circumstances it would not be proper that I should accept one now in I n regard to judge porter I jv want int to eay say as he lie is to have the dosine dosina of the case ease if ho lie attempted to mislead the courland court Cour and tand the jury I and my counsel will vill stop him ho lie came into this thi case under a misapprehension antho on the part of gen wise he lie would not be in the casear case at all he lie dont properly represent the government lio lie only represents himself judge porter entered iho the court room shortly before wor re the prisoner had delivered himself liim self of this warning after a few I moments delay he lie stepped to the open space before the jury and in tones which clearly betrayed his weakened condition began the closing argument said judge porter if it please your honor the tile gen alen odthe of the ju jury ry in in my alvn own in infirmity fir mity for I share your fatigue I proceed as best I can to dischar discharge it go my duty the natura nature of this duty is such that I should feel I were almost accessory after tho tile fact if I should fai foil I to speak such words as I c can in to aid you ou in reaching the tile proper conclusion cl thus far tho the trial lias has practically boen conducted by alie prisoner prisoner and scoville every buo ouo has been denounced at their will and even now I am informed formed I will be interrupted by them both judge porter briefly recited the scenes scenes of the abuse and slander to every one in in the case had for two months been subject and yet ho lie said of three spec speeches elies which have been roads made by the tile defense I will do the prisoner the justice to say that his was t the he I lc c st objectionable after ake sketching aching the circumstance lending up tip to tho the crime and pointing with fervid language to the damning wickedness of its execution judge porter turned his attention to the prisoner and proceeded to depict his character judge porter used tho the following terms with reference to guiteau A X be bedgar gar a hypocrite a robber an and d a swindler a lawyer who never won w ona a fase case no court no jury failed to see in in him a dishonest rogue and such men cannot win causes lie ile lias has left his trail of infamy in a hundred directions the man who as a lawyer had such notions of mor morality aliby that when lie had taken debts to collect and collected them by dogging the debtors deb tore and withheld them from the creditors a a man who was capable of blasting the name odthe of the woman with whom he had slept t for years and still recognized as h hla 71 wife a man who when he lie tired of this woman pretended to be a christian and a believer of the bible looked into tho tile book and read thou not commit adultery and then went out immediately and committed adultery with a street balker walker a man who pushed himself into to tho the fellowship of christian associations ciati ons as a follower of the savior when fresh from six six years ears of f foul fornication in the one oneida j a community guiteau that lie ought to choke YO you AL As judge porter proceeded with liis bis resistless torrent of denunciation the prisoner occasionally called out th ats a lie absolutely false or that aint so passin passing in ili review tho tile principal events of f the prisoners life audgo jud o porter showed up tip in all its hideous hideous deformity tho the infamous bent of his nature alluding to his dispute with his brother john W guiteau in boston when bo ho struck the latter in the face judge porter said this was the first and last time this coward ever struck any blow in the face his coward band always struck from behind 11 after showing who and what w was as qu no murderer judge porter next described b hia is viet victim in paying a glowing gloning tribute to t tho lie character and services of the lamented president ho ile pronounced the most to touching eulogy as it vere upon his memory emory Ln the claims of the prisoner ho be said to be a praying man were consi considered derea as hollow mockery guiteau angrily shouted I pray every nig night ht and morning and before every meal if you did the same byoir would be a better man you bo 10 hero looking for blood money the prisoner judge judo jud o porter con linued says J he prayed for six aks why IV if I he had made up his mind ac un unalterably t bably to murder the president on the tile first of june why did he still continue to pray down to the very act of the murder guiteau I I prayed to see whether tho tile lord let me off from killing him what was he lie praying for continued judge porter the man who claimuel to have received divine inspiration pi ration himself prepares his defense ili in ad advance villice for an attack to do which he lie was divinely inspired the believer in inspiration he lie would himself alter tho inspired book and substitute for it u book of his own that lie did not shoot the president on tho tile uret first occasion said jud judge porter was due to his coward heart hear t had he lie done it on that occasion he lie would have been torn to pieces and he lie knew it on this occasion the president was surrounded by his cabinet and his friends he was not yet stron strong but lie would have been urged atrach alime with god given strength to defend himself liim self his father was also by liis his side and the asnass assassins ins craven heart failed him and lie said not yet at some other time with graphic picturing judge porter related the dogging of the presidents to tho little church the incidents or accidents on each bocc occasion ion which baffled president gar fielda visit to Secie tary blaines hou house dogged by the assassin were vividly portrayed I I I ia h z i A AI i I I I I I I r im I I it was nihl night ni hl ald the a r c i dark as that night when abo dovil a first N w diapered ciline in III cheass alsins ear oar he ile laid fa hiding in ili nn nu alloy wh why with an all inspired i red command eom manil of sod god resting upon him jim to hill the president Pres dent and with a pressure that w would ad have made him bim do it if lie ile died the next minute any time after june hit 1st why then did lie not kill hill then and there licause lie thought til Ought he lie would do it some other ti time nie bool tuse this politician thought he lie could become identical N with ith the stalwart tal wart aud and republican publican Ec part be cause lie ile thought lie had so carefully laid tile foundation for his defense against tin the and for his protection from mob violen violon e that ho be might safely commit tile act in ill the tile light of day this careful in u cartful of his own n safety wety made every provision even to hia his conveyance to jail rind when lie had seca seen his victim fall turned and ran R kan zan where where could mild lie run rem Pc i lie interrupted interrupt ed judge porter I desire to correct the tile speaker on oil the evidence I do not find a single w it ness who testified that the prisoner ran after firing Dav davidge A dge with earnestness objected to the interruption ho ile believed it buethe but alie first of a series of inter interrupt rup eions intended to break the force of the closing argument counsel had no right to interrupt unless the speaker read incorrectly jud cudse eco cox etwo cannot havo a running niD Jiing discussion and that id is just what this will lead to scoville Sc I wad was interrupted times tin ies I have done so but twice I propose to test this question right here if the tile counsel persists in ais hig misrepresentations m i r e pre ze nt I davidge your honor can at once see the oba object act of this thin thing and it is forvour for your honor to decide whether tho argument is to bs be given in ili its entirety to tho the jury or whether it is to be split up tip in this manner judge cox you will ill proceed proc eod mr porter the speaker after ting this ir I i 11 e ll 11 t continued by saying I ep ci cidot n not t i in this argument oven even allude t Sc or reed the counsel on oil tho the other bide side orthis of aliis case the evid evidence enco looms so immeasurably above them that in ili makin making tho the closing argument I cannot even allude to them except as it may be absolutely necessary tile evidence alid papers presented d here hero by gen reynolds Roy said porter and among mong them tha the prisoners address to the american people are to stamp him a ceol calculating lat irIg and cold blooded murderer these papers at one time could not be found cither either i in n the district attorneys or attorney generals office and neither of the counsel for tho government saw them until a day d ty or or two before general Il eynolds took the stand but tai thank ink god the papers I were fo found d and d th they e arc are in in evidence before yon you and before I conclude I it do I think I shall bo be abi able e to show you that not one of you could coul 91 upon this evidence acquit this lesa less you perjure perjury your souls and ns as bume your share sharo of ol the responsibility for the murder of the lamented garfield guiteau all bosh I im in very clad I d that those papers are here when bixen the attorney general saw them he lie have anything to do with this case judge porter then explained at some length the relations of the counsel for the prosecution for this case in ili reply he lie eaid said to the frequent insinuations or tho tile prisoner and his counsel that ili his associates A were ere improperly influenced b by expectation of money reward and had entered into conspire conspiracy con spira to execute the law and convict this prisoner judge porter repelled the assumption of the counsel for the tile defense that there was a man upon the jury who would bang the jury the prisoner himself hag bas indicated that ho rested liis his safety upon one man Guit guiteau cau I rely upon twelve men the arguments of the defense said porter for the past seven d days af have all been directed to this on one object yb j e ct to divide the jury judge porter addressed himself upon this subject with great force of argument and eloquence directly to the intelli intelligence once and and conscience of the jury they must not believe that if any man of them thought to discharge his duty and should cause a divide jury that the united states government would press this trial to a conviction any the ra less ra jud judge jude e porter continued tin this s case stands and stands alone upon the single question whether i r anthe on tho 2nd and of july the prisoner was sano sane or net not I |
