The Portland daily press., 1881-12-02
GUITEAQ's TRIAL.
Another Day of Cross-Examina-
ton.
THE PRISONER EXCITED AND DEMON
STRATIVE.
All Responsibility Thrown on the
Deity.

their part, saying, I'VE shall expect you 10 oD-
serve perfect order to-day and avoid laughter
and applause"
Upon entering the witness box Guiteau de-
sired before resuming his evidence to make
statement and addressed himself to the audi
epce 1.-TWO weeks ago sent out an appeal Tor
money. / did it on my own account, and the
day afterwards Scoville publicly announced
that it was without his authority. / again in
yite my friends to send me money in the in
terest of the cause of justice and my defence.
They can send So, $40, SIS or $1,000 II they
wish. If they don't want to be known they
can send without name to Mr.. Scoville."
Judge Porter then began rapid fire OF in
ter, ogatories eliciting from the prisoner in his
several replies that physically he was coward
and always kept away from personal danger.
Morally he was brave as lion when ne
thought the Deity was back of him. The
Deity influenced him to remove the President.
In his opinion the doctors killed the President,
not he The acts of Jones and Mason in at
tempting to kill him were wrong, and they
ought to be punished unless they can show
that they were inspired by the Deity. The
witness soon showed signs of Impotence and
excitability and striking his open band upon
the desk emphasized every sentence uttered.
When pressed for answers he finally became
obstinate and shouted to Judge Porter, II
know you we'll, and I know bigger men than
YOU are. I've seen you shake your hnger at a
witness in New York, but you can't scare me.
in the ten commandments, TO which he re.
sponded in the affirmative-and If he believed
that the commandment "Thou shalt not kill
ought to read in his case Thou shalt kill" he
became exceedingly violent and refused TO dls-
cuss that matter at all. There was no murder
in his case and no killing. 1t was simply for
the Jury to determine whether or not his act in
removing the President was inspired by the
Deity or not. It was all nonsense to split hairs
any longer over that word 1t must be DIS
tinctly understood that the removal OF the
President was the act of the Deity.
The witness proved decidedly obstinate, and
after fatty contradicting the testimony of Gen.
Logan and several other witnesses, he positive
ly refused to answer several questions. ms IN
variable response being, II decline TO discuss
that with you" The witness seemed to De
greatly annoyed at Judge Porters habit OF
pointing his finger at him, as he frequently did
in the way of emphasizing his interrogatories,
and again broke out aHgrily, You need not
point your finger at me, Judge Porter. I've
seen you do that before, but you can't scare
me-"
The witness was closely questioned with re-
gard to the different boarding houses at which
he had lived while in Washington, and became
very uneasy at the bad showing he was making
by his own evidence for honest dealing with
his landladies. His restlessness soon found ex-
preston as follows:-"I decline to go into this
boarding house business. 1t has no bearing in
this case. suppose owe $3.50 in Washing
ton to these genteel ladies, and sometime or
other expect to pay them when have mon
ey." He continued, angrily, ~ pay my debts,
and when have no money l can't pay them.
Judge Perhaps the judge will think
differently.
Guiteau, turning with smile and nod Of
satisfaction to Judge Cox, said: "Your honor
will see how irrelevant this talk is.
Judge Cox-"You were allowed great lati-
fuda nrisnnar in making yOur statement.
You will reply to the questions"
The witness was readily driven from one
position to another, till confronted with evil
dence of his own witnesses, when he would
Once he emphasized his contradiction by say
ing, Anything that swear, Judge, is true,
you can put that down as fixed fact"
Being pressed as to how he proposed to raise
raise the funds which he said he was expecting
to receive, the witness replied, Il intended to
borrow 1t from some of my friends" aud
added, an tell you, judge, how 1 borrow
money. 1t may be of service to you when you
want to borrow for yourself. don't lie nor
sneak but go right up to man and ask him
for what want and if he has got it perhaps on
the impulse of the moment he will give 1t to
me. If not, that's all there is to it,
The witness was closely questioned about
the purchase of the pistol and was asked why
he bought one with an ivory handle instead OF
a plain one. He replied, because l thought
it worth q dollar more.
Judge Porter-"Did you not say 1t would
look better in the patent ofice?'
The witness admitted that he might have
believed or thought that the pistol would be
sometime paced in the State department.
Shortly after Guiteau became very indignant
at Judge Porter's use of the word murder
and shouted fiercely, "You seem ito delight in
the use of the words 'kilp and murder
There's no use of you whining in that way.
The mere outward fact of how l removed the
President has nothing whatever to do with
this case"
Mr. Porter-After you had bought the re-
volver, being unused to fire arms, did you
practice with it?
: Al went down to 18th street and fred 1t
off over the river.
Q.-why did you do this?
A.-Because the man in the store told me l
would have to go outside the city limits to fire.
Odd you take box OF cartridges with
you?
A Il think SO. fred it off two rounds, ten
cartridges.
Q-What did you shoot at?
Al shot at a SapliDg.
Q-Why did you want to shoot at sapling;
you had no divine command for that?
Al wanted land here the witness hesitate
ed for some time) to fire it two or three times
/ knew nothing about the weapon. expected
to have to use it and wanted TO familiarize my
self with the outward use of the weapon.
Q.-You did not know how to fire pistol,
but this was the work of the Deity?
A.-(Apparently in a violent passion and
wildly-There is no use of your
whining in this kind of way. You might as
well rest. You are making entirely too much
talk about the outward act of the Deity. 1
say you will have to go back and look at the
motive.
Q.--The motive was to kill2
A.-Qnterrupting excitedly)-To remove the
President for the good of the American .peo-
plo Tho oufuuo rd faof which dasira Ia ir-
relevant matter. There's no use in whining.
Q.-You practiced repeatedly?
A-Never repeatedly. / fred it off twice
on two different occasions lust to get used to
the outward act of handling it. knew no
more about it than baby. When went to
buy it 1 looked at it and it kinder scared me. I
went back after two or three days and bought
it, The man in the store loaded it and put 1t
in my pocket.
Q.-Were you afraid it might go off?
Al knew nothing about handling
weapon. was innocent as baby. 90 not
know that 1 had any special fear but kept
the point away from me pretty well.
Q.-When did you practice the first time?
Al think bought the revolver in the
middle of the week and went down to 18th
first time I fred it off it nearly knocked me
over and scared me.
Odd you hit the sapling?
Al hit it the first time and not another
time.
Odd the sapling go very nearly as Gar
field went?
Al don't know.
Q.-Have you had occasion to speak Of 1t
that he went down as that sapling?
A.-Never used that expression in the
world.
Q.-When did you try it again?
Al went down week or two after that
and fired it again. When l had finished put
the pistol in my pocket and went back to my
room, wiped it and laid it in my drawer and
there it remained couple of weeks.
Odd you have it with you the day you
intended to kill President Garfield, the 10th Of
June?
Alt was the 18th.
Odd you have the pistol with you?
Ayes
Q.-During all this time were you on the
lookout for Gen. Garfields movements9
Al was looking out for him somewhat.
Odd you go to the White House?
Al never was in that neighborhood.
Q.-When did he go to Long Branch?
A.-About the third week in June.
Q.-Among those scraps which you preser-
we'd were there any saying when he would go
to and return from Long Branch?
Al think that was mentioned.
Q.-You kept that for the purpose OF keep
ing an eye on his movements?
Al was watching his movements.
Q-When did you begin watching the Presi-
DENTS movements?
About the time he and Mrs. Garfield
went to Long Branch.
Odd you not go to the White House
grounds to see when he went out?