Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-03

night and after . short wraDgle said:
Nov YOU are on that I'll give you little
news. III tell you what occurred that even
ing. July lst" Witness then detailed his
NOV ems nts up to the time he saw the Presi-
dent and Blaine emerge from the iatters
house and walk down 18th street. Said Gut
teau: They walked along. arm IN arm,
| their fellowship wa. delightful and it con-
| firmed me in the belief that Garfield had sold
himself. BODY and soul. TO Blaine, and that
Blaine was using him to ruin the stalwart
wing of the republican party" Guiteau here
/ became furiously excited and plunged into
a Wild harangue, denouncing Blaine, who TO
ruin the republican party in the two times,
| he striking the desk with considerable VOL
ence. shouted. ..Yes, sir. in my opinion
Blaine is morally responsible for the death OF
Garfield"
| Recess.
| The cross examination of Guiteau resumed.
Witness did not intend to remove.the fresl-
dent on the night he visited Christian church-
He went to see where the President sat In
tended to remove him whenever he could
find favorable opportunity. If he had re-
moved him then he would have shot him
through the head lie visited the Jail about
the LIST of July; wanted to see ii because ne
| expected TO be taken there for removing the
President
Had his pistol with him in the alley on the
night ofJuly Isl. Took 1t out and examined H.
Would probably have shot Garfield that
night if he had been alone, but Blame was
with him. II was hot night: was net feei-
ing well so did not try to shoot the fresi-
dent
| Judge Porter-Did you think it would
make you hotter to pull that trigger!
| Guiteau-(Angrily,a and mimicking Porfer's
| s. sn.aL;nyN Now don't YOU put
on SO much style on that trigger business
| In answer to Porter's questions, Guteau
then. after an earnest remonstrance against
| going over the whole story again, narrated
the particulars Of the shooting.
Judge Porter-You shot him in the back:
Al did not fire at any particular spot or
place. -.
Odd YOU not fire for the hollow OF his
back?
Any intention was to shoot him in the
back.
O-Dil YOU think if he got two balls in the
back it would remove" him?
Al thought so.
O-And you intended to put them there:
Al did.
DIN a solemn manner. And from that
bour to this YOU have never felt regret or
remorse.
Al regret giving pain or trouble to any
one but have no doubt as to the necessity
and divinity of the act.
Q-You never limited at any remOrse.
Any mind is perfect blank on that
subject
O-Do you feel any more remorse about
rendering his wife a widow and his children
fatherless than you did about breaking the
leg of that puppy dog?
Al have no conception of it as murder or
killing.
Q-And you feel no remorse?
A Tin low and almost inaudible tOne)-
Of course feel remorse, as far as my per-
sonal feelings are concerned. | feel remorse
as much as any man and regret the necessity
of the act, but (raising his voice.
Mr. Porter-The cross examination is
closed.
But" continued the prisoner excitedly,
"My duty to the Lord and the American peo-
pie overcome my personal feelings. If the
Lord did not inspire that act it would not
have been done.
Scovlle then proceeded with the redirect
examination of the prisoner as follows:
Q-Is your feeling at present. or has it
been at anv time since July 2nd last, any diff
ferent from what it was at the time of the
shooting in this espect?
A-No different whatever. | have been
lust as clear as to the divinity of the act and
the necessity of it for the good of the Ameri-
can people since the first of June as man
can be on anything.
Odd YOU have before the shooting any
feeling such As we would call human or hui
name feeling on account of suffering which
might be caused by your act?
A-From the middle of May until about
June 1st all my natural feelings were against
the act That was the period when my nat
ural feelings were excited but since that time
have not had the slightest doubt as to the
necessity or divinity of it. | have not the
slightest doubt the whole thing was inspired
BY the Deity and He would take care of it.
Odd it present itself to your mind in an
ordinary view of humanity as to whether it
would cause personal suffering or not?
A-No; l never had any conception of it
in that way at all. NY mind was perfect
blank on it.
Q-Do you recollect the interview I had
with you in Jail two days after the shooting?
Ayes, Corkhill and his stenographer,
Bailey, were present, and | want to say here
what have not said before. told Scovlle
and Corkhill did not believe the President
would recover, because the Lord did not wish
him to recover.
This closed the examination of the prls-
oner, who was then conducted Cooking com
pletely worn OUT from the stand to his reg.
uar seat beside his counsel.
| In the course of the cross questioning the
witness said: had to nerve myself up to
| it all the time.
Judge Porter-Your conscience troubled
you, did it?
| Witness became very angry and excited.
and retorted: Conscience had nothing to do
with it. From the LIST OF June, | never had
/ 1 -. g. al
The act was the Deitv's, and conscience has
nothing to do with it.
| Witness stated that he wanted to go to jail
after killing the President for his own per
sonal protection. didn't want to be ex
posed to bowling mob which would not
know his motives and inspiration.
| The examination of Guiteau was concluded
at a quarter past two.
DIR. Alexander Neal, physician and sur
geon of Columbus. Ohio, who met Guiteau
at Columbus, thought, at the time, he was
lunatic.