New-York tribune., 1881-12-02

| be sure that it would give him the hydrophobia
This intense feeling did not diminish the examnq
alton went on, and the assassin grew more and
more restless and hot YOU'RE mean man. Judge
Porter; you're bad man." he would shout Judge
Porters very calmness and mildness seemed to
harass him. The two men made an interesting con-
tTast. Porter, with his large head full high fore
head, aquiline nose, graceful gray hair, and gray
mustache. piercing eye that seemed to read the
prisoner through-a handsome man, with
cOurtly bearing. to personify intelligence and
morality; while the other looked like the sum of all
| brutality and wickedness
Gueau faced the spectators for four hours to-day,
and many of those present had an opportunity to
study his face carefully for the first time. COM
parison of it with photograph shows that since his
incarceration he has grown much more haggard, and
his face has wasted. 1t Is curious fact that the
right half of it seems better developed than the
other The forehead the right side is higher and
squarer, the eye is larger and wellshaped. On the
left side the forehead seems to break down,
| the hair runs lower in places, the eye is
considerably smaller. and has even more
depraved look than the other. His left eye is q
striking feature. 1t is ill-shaped bloOd-shot
ing and ugly His eyes look dark in the dim light
| of the courtroom but they really of hdeOus
pale blue His head resembles a standing cube, the
top of it being fat the face and back of the head
| having pc uar slant forward. His hair, short
beard and eyebrows are of dirty brown. His grin
is of the most repulsve things about the man.
His lips scarcely move, and when they do they
merely make slit across his white teeth,
while the demOniac light comes into his
eye, and the whole of the ragged, repulsivo
face lights up When this grin enlarges to
smirk the assassin glances about TO whether tho
spectators catch his joke and the picture is intensi
fed T. is a face in which the eye cannot find re-
deeming feature anywhere.
Guitean fought his way through the cross-exami-
| nation with wonderful cunning. He saw tue bear
ng OF every one Of Judge Porters questions before
| it was concluded, and he would often break the
planatiOn designed to help him out The skill with
| which he evaded many of the dilemmas Judge Por-
! ter offered excited asOnishment Every time, FOR
| example that he refused to answer a ques-
ton. Judge Porter inquired in the blandes5s
manner whether he did so because, it would
! criminate him, but be could never get him to ac-
| knowledge it. He always WINGED when the cross:
| examiner thrust the words" MURDER" =" klllP
assassin" etc.. at him. His palior yislbiy In.
| with great rhetorical effect When on the sup)ecs
of the pistol practice he asked, What became OF
had %9dn target Of Did If 90 down very much
as Garfield did ~ asked the Judge, dwelling long on
the last three words in clear musical voice. whLe
a thrill of silent horror ran through the crowd
| Guiteau looked blank rather than turned
| pale, but he plan ~ felt IT.
| Columns might be filed with details Of the way
IN which Guteau slipped out OF embarrassing
questions tall times he was as quick as any law
| yer could be- AT one point there had been some m
! n1pers; He swearsn "Who swears Iei me who
| swearsn cried Guiteau. The omission was promptly
rectied At another point he perenptorlly ordered
Judge Porter TO stop and demanded the reading or
| the stenOgraplers report OF the DAY Dfl0Te.
Ihe point illustrates his CUNNING judge
I FGriteau's sense in questioning upon a passage
nsed it in the ordinary political sense regarding
Afp Rlain S.lW
else and he shouted in great excitement TO havethe
notes read. "Pll try if can't fasten something on
| vou Judge Porter" he said. On two occasions
there was an extraordinary scene. These were
| when Guiteau recited passages from hls speeches;
The second was an extract from the speech ne hs9
prepared to deliver to the Court. ms voice and
manner changed the moment nc began lie dropped
the conversational tone and assumed the oratorcal
He seamed exalted with vanity, ahd ms eye
cleaned. Meanwhile the, spectators ;. listened
in deep silence while hG rolled his
RS and adorned his fustian sentences
with the gestures and infections of school boys
oratory But there is no space TO tell tenth part
OF his antics of the instances he gave OF quick
wit lhe latter can be best appTecla ed III tie de-
tailed. report by remembering that Judge foltei
read most of his questions from manuscript, and
that Guiteau usually answered before the words
were fairly out oil the questlOneT mouth.
| The cross-cXaminatlon brought out several IN
portant points, One that there was little lndl-
cation of The alleged Divine inspiration in anything
written by the assassin before his crime
had been committed. Gulteau tried hard to snow
that the phrase in his address 10 the people about
| people, contained the idea Judge Porer also
| brought out clearly before the jury the fact that
Gulteau was able TO control the impulse to shoot the
President OH the day he came To the depot Win MIS-
(iartield-a point having plainly important bear
ing upon the question OF responsibility. The whole
! tenor of the examination was, OF course, 10 snow
| that the idea OF Divine inspiration Was an after
| thought aud Slat the real motive of the murder
| was revenge Every word Guiteau uttered proved
| that he perfectly understood this. and ne
| fought srenuously all the way through
| AGAINST the belief that he was
| disappointed oilice-seeker. While on this point
he declared that If the Paris C0unselship as he al
| WAYS calls it, had been urged upon him by both tue
| President and Mr.. Blaine any time after the IN
| sniration to kill Garfield had been received, he
| would have refused the office: AT another time
when speaking of 'acts of GOd' he said lie expect
ed an act OF God TO protect him from violence Oh any
| kind whether hanging or shooting
| One incident was his disclosure, IN Wnlcn ne
seemed TO take real pleasure that his brother John
| w (uteau, then III the COURTROOM, had been ue-
| fainter Mr.. Gditeau explained afterward that tno
dcfalcation was technical one simply. The Illus
trai0ns of the asSassin's vanity were numberless.
He constantly said we" in talking about the lead-
| ing men of the Republican party. Perhaps tne
| most CHASTITY instance was his admission, III stip
| stance that he bought an iyory-handlcd pistoi,
because he thought it would look better as reno
| of the murder
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