Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-01

the white house and 1 shall make it yet
A laugh spread through the audience at this
prediction. ''f I'm ever president,
continued the witness, ''it viii
be by the act of God. shall get the nomina
tion as Lincoln and Garfield did, and shall bt
telected as they were. / anticipate decided
change in public opinion in regard to me. Tht
idea being in my head for twenty years that J
would be president. did not want to get the
Herald down on me; that is all the reason why
did not press my suit against it. don't care
now snap of my fingers about being presi
dent. don't care anything about it. DOM
know that should take it if were nominated
and elected"
Witness related the story of his personal
inviting correspondent ce with views to matri
moDy and said, 81 want to say word now in
reference to my divorced wife,"
The Court-''No, not now"
| The Prisoner-'I do not know anything
about her, nor have known her for years
past, but she had no business to come here
| for the prosecution"
| Questioned about the revised edition of
''The truth" witness announced ''there is
no money in that business in any way, shape
or manner, and never has been. When Col.
Corkhill came to me in jail and talked of some
great lot of money and of some great men
| backing me with money and all that kind of
| and convinced him had no money"
| Judge Parker now began the cross exami-
nation.
The prisoner bore the examination with con-
siderable self possession, although he occa-
sionaily got flushed and excited.
Question-"You determined to kill Garfield
did you not?' Auswer-''I decline to answer
that; That is very strong way to put it,,
with some excitement.) II consider myself
an agent of the deity in the matter. had no
PERSONAL voltion in the matter"
Q.-"Did you say to Officer Scott on leaving
the depot after the murder of the president,
Gen. Arthur is now presidentg Ar de-
cline to answer that"
Q -"Why do you object to answering
that?' Al suppose l did say that" Then
he added, excitedly, 81 want it distinctly un-
personal yolitlon, but on inspiration of the
deity. never would have shot the president
on my own personal account. The deity in
spired The act and the deity will take care of
of it. The deity furnished the money with
which I bought the pistol. was the agent.
The deity inspired me to remove the president,
and had resort to my own means to accom-
plish the deity's WILL
Q.-"The only inspiration you had was to
use the pistol on the presidentg' A.-"The
inspiration consisted in trying to remove the
president for the good of the American peo-
pie and"- (impatiently) call these details are
nothing to the case. The whole matter is in
the hands of the deity, and l do not want to
discuss 1t any farther. appreciate the fact of
the presidents long sickness as much as any
person in the world; but that is a very narrow
view to take of the matter"
Q.-"Did you contemplate his removal
otherwise than by murder?" A.-"No, SIR"
(petulantly) 81 do not like the word murder.
do not recollect the actual facts In that mat
ter. (Excitedly)-"If had shot the President
of the United States on my own personal ac-
count no punishment would be too severe nor
too quick for me; but acting as agent of the
Deity, that puts an entirely different
construction on the act, and that is
what | want to put to the court, and
jury and to opposing counsel, / say that the
removal of the president was an act of neces-
sity from the situation and for the good of
the American people. That is the idea 1 want
you to entertain, and not to settle down in
the cold blooded idea of murder, because I
never had the first conception of murder in
the matter"
Mr.. Porter-"Were you aware that it was
against human hw?''
The Prisoner-''I felt that the Deity would
take care of me. l never entertained the idea
of murder in the whole matter. I never had
any conception of the matter as murder. My
mind is perfectly blank on that subject and
has beeno
The cross examination will be continued
to morrow.