The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-11-15

nent statements he says was in habit of con-
Meeting my name with words
premier TO ENGLAND"
etc. These statements are false. My father
was frequent visitor at the community, but
never resided there. He wanted to 60, but my
step-mother opposed it. / wish this Oneida
Community business to pass into oblivion. My
ex-wife has been Summoned by the prosecution
Our marriage was premature. I only knew
her ten weeks, and we were married on ten
hours notice. She was poor girl. She had
been unfortunate and had no business to have
married her. We were married in 1869, separ-
ased in 1873 and divorced in 1874 without ISSUE
was practising law then, and we lived at hotels
and boarding houses. l have known little
about her since 1873. 1 understood that she
married well four years ago, and is living in
Colorado. have been strictly virtuous for six
or seven years. 1 claim to be
GENTLEMAN AND CHRISTIAN.
I have bbn in Jail since July 2. have borne
my confinement patiently and quietly, know
ing my vindication would come. Twice have
1 been shot at and come near being shot dead,
but the Lord kept me harmless like the He
brew children in the fiery furnace Not hair
on my head has been singed, because the Lord
whom served when / sought to remove the
President, had taken care of me- have been
kindly treated by the Jail officials. and have no
complaint save that my letters have been in
tercepted going out and coming in, and have
been cut off until recently from reporters and
newspapers, which 1 consider illegal and i'm
pertinent Certain parties. whom L need not
name, have been greatly benefited financially
by my inspiration, and am going to ask them
to contribute to my defence. l have no right
or wish to ask my lawyers to work for nothing.
There are hundreds of p rsons who are, or
will be benefited financially by the new adj
minstration. They are all indebted to me for
their Positions from the President down. l
confidently appeal to them and to the public at
large TO
SEND ME MONEY FOR MY DEFENSE.
The money can be sent quickly by express
Withholding the name ii you wish TOY to
George Scoville, Washinton, d. @. 1t will be
sacredly used for my defence. Certain politi-
clans seem perfectly willing to fatten at the
public crib on my inspiration, but they pretend
to be Mortified out of their senses at the late
Presidents removal, and want nothing to do
with me. They say am "a dastardly assas-
SIM" The word assassin" CRATES on the mind,
and yet some people delight in using 1t. Why
am 1 an assassin any more than man who
shot another during the war? Thousands OF
brave boys on both sides were shot dead during
the war, but no one thinks of talking about an
assassination. Then it was homicide, ! g.,
man was killed. But in my case the doctors
killed the late President, not me; so that there
is not even homicide in this case. The Pres-
ident was simply shot and
WOUNDED BY AN INSANE MAN.
The man was insane in law because it was
Gods act and not his. There is not the first
element of murder in this case. To constitute
the crime ofmurder two elements must co-exist
an actual homicide, malice in law or malice
in fact The law presumes malice from the
fact of the homicide. There is no homicide in
this case. and therefore no malice in law. NAL
ice in fact depends on the circumstances at
tending the homicide. Admitting that the
late President died from the effect of the shot,