Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-12-05
AnsNer-Yes. he loaned me money

frankly GnaL got SI0 from Maynard, and
that I used $40 of it to buy that pistol
with
Questionable you deny when he was
on the stand that that was the money with
which you bought the pistol?
Answer-No, sir; | never denied it be-
cause that is the truth. But it is of no
consequence whether got the money of
Maynard or whether | pawned my coat
for it.
Question-Were you inspired to borrow
$15 from Maynard?
Answer-No, sir. Maynard did not
know what I wanted the money for.
Question-Were you inspired to buy
that British ''bull-dog?'
Answer do not pretend that l was
inspired to do that specific act, but claim
that the Deity inspired me to remove the
president, and that l had to resort to my
own means to accomplish the Deity's
will.
Question-The only inspiration you had
was to use the pistol on the president?
Answer-The inspiration consisted in
trying to remove the president, and Tim
PATIENTLY all these details are nothing to
the case.
Question-Were you inspired to remove
him by murder?
Answer was inspired to execute the
divine will by murder-so-called.
Question-You did not succeed in exc
| cutting the divine will?
| Answer think the doctors finished
| the work.
Questionable Deity tried, and you
| tried, and you both failed; but the doc
tors succeeded?
Answer-The Deity confirmed my act
| by letting the president down so gently
as he did.
Question-Do you think it was letting
him down gently to let him suffer that
torture over which you professed to feel
so much solicitude during those long
months?
Answer-The whole matter was in the
hands of the Deity, and Gmpatiently) l
do not want to discuss it any further. l
appreciate the fact Of the presidents long
sickness as much as any person in the
world, but that is very narrow view to
take Of the matter.
Question-What time did Senator Conk-
ling resign?
'Answer-About the 18th of May,
should judge.
Question was Monday, and you
had no inspiration on that day?
AnsWer-No, sir.
Tuesday?
Answer-No, sir.
Question-On Wednesday night you
went to bed at o'clock, and then came
the inspiration?
Answer-It came between and
O'Clock.
Questionable you believe that it was
the will Of God that you should murder
the president?
Answer believed that it was his will
that he should be removed, and was the
appointed agent to do it.
Questionable he give you a commits
sion in writing?
Answer-No, sir.
QueStion-Did he give it in an audible
tone of voice?
Answer-He gave it to me by his pres
sure on me.
Questionable he give it to you audi
bly,?
Answer-NO, sir.
Questionable did not come to you as
''vision of the night?"
Answer do not get my inspiration
in that way.
, Ouestion-It occurred to you while you
were lying in your bed that if Presiden
Garfield were dead it would solve tn
t whole difficulty?
: AnSwer-Yes.
Questionable it occur to you that yo
were the very man to kill him?
Answer-Not at that time. My min
was unsettled.
f Question-Who did you think then wa
, the man to kill him?
Answer had no thought on the sub
D ject The mere impression came to m
| min hat no
ed, everything would be well.
e Questionable you contemplate his II
= moval otherwise than by murder?
Answer-No, sir, (petulantly) do nc
: like the word murder"
e Mr.. Porter know you do not like til
word ssmurder." 1t is a hard word, br
Il it is there.
e The prisoner-I do not recollect til
4 actual facts in that matter (excitedly
If | had shot the president of the Unite
e States on my own personal account, Il
v punishment would be too severe nor to
= quick for me, but acting as the agent
Z the Deity, that puts an entirely ditferel
construction on the act, and that is VIII;
want to put to the court and jury and
Il the opposing counsel. | can say that tt
e removal of the president was an act {
necessity from the situation and for tt
. good of the American people. That
8 the idea that | want you to entertain, an
= not to settle down on the cold-bloode
~ idea Of murder, because | never had tt
e first conception of murder in the matter
Question-Do you feel under great o.
legations to the American people?
q Answer think the American peop
!, may sometime think themselves und,
great obligations to me.
l. Mr. pOrtar-MV uuaSti0n WAS whpth,
{. you felt under great obligations to then
The prisoner do not know why
u should be.
IS Question-Were you under great OBJ
!. cations to the republican party?
Answer-Not that l know of.
l. Questionable the republican party e
q er give you any office?
Answer never held any kind of poll
J.; ical office in my life.
10 QUESTIONABLE never desired one?
Answer had some thought about Il
" Paris consulship. That is the only Off
D. I ever had the slightest thought about.
Question-That was the one that 7
'i suited in the inspiration of the murder?
20 Answer-No, sir. My getting it or n
getting it never had the slightest effe
III on my mind in attempting to remove Il
ID president. That was purely polite
, necessity. If the political necessity h;
- not existed, the president would not ha
De been removed by me.
y Question-You never desired the I
- moval of Mr.. Blaine?
r Answer-NO, sir.
Question-And never suggested it
anybody?
Answer-No, sir.
Mr.. Porter-Alow me to read to y
vour letter written on the 23d dav of Ma
he four days, according to your account,
lis ter you made up your mind to remove
of president. Let me refresh your recolle
tic ton as to whether you desired at th
10 time to remove Mr. Blaine also,
rs The prisoner had never the slightt
thought of removing Mr.. Blaine. l h
- | not made nm my mind to remove the mr.