Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-12-14

Deity and claim it contains important
truth.
! Q-Have you read q good deal
about Napoleon?
| A.-No.
| Q.-When you wrote, The Presi-
dents nomination was an act of God,
his election was an act of God, his re-
moval was an act of God did you have
Napoleons bulletins in your mind
EGoTIsM ILLUSTRATED.
A.-(Apparently gratifed) that is the
way / express myself-sharp-pointed,
sententious. If you want to see spec
linen of that kind OF style look through
my book
| Mr. Porter-I think you have re.
markable power of brain, and whatever
your brother-in-law may think, ap-
preciate your ability.
Prisoner (highly pleased)-I thank
you, Judge, for your good opinion.
Mr.. Porter (signifcantly)-I think
that is the opinion of every juror
Prisoner (excitedly)-I take my
chance before this court and jury on
the fact that the Deity inspired the act
l am not fool and the Deity never
employed fool to do his work He
put it into my brain and heart and left
me to work it out 10 my own way.
Q-And you did |?
A-Under the sanction of Deity.
| The pressure on me commenced about
six weeks before the actual shooting
[ was a predestined man from the
foundation of the world to do this act,
and / had to do it
Q-You believe in the doctrine of
predestination
A-Most decidedly. l claim l am
man of destiny You spoke of Ma
poleon. He thought he was a man of
destiny, though be had different work
from me. l am as much man of des-
tiny as the Savior, or Paul, or Martin
Luther, or any of those religious men,
| Q.-And your destiny was to kill
Garfield
Alt was my destiny to obey the
Divine will and let Him take care of it.
| put up my life and have not been
hung or shot yet.
Q.-And you did not expect to be 4?
Al had no expectation except to
do the Divine will and let Him take
care of me. / am satisfied with the
Deity's conduct of this case up to the
present moment
Q.-When were you first inspired?
AGAIN REFUSES TO ANSWER
Al decline to discuss this matter
with you any further. If you want
any more ideas on that subject refer
you to the papers. | will not be an
moved in this way any more. The
court and jury and the country under
stand it. Now, if you have got any
thing new will entertain you, other.
wise not.
Mr. Porter-But the jury is not per-
mitted to read the papers.
Prisoner-They have heard my
statement on that point several times,
and that ought to satisfy any gentle
men.
AS A PLAGIARIsT
Mr. Porter went on to cross-examine
the prisoner with the object of showing
that the pretended inspirations in re-
gard to theocratic daily, to the book
called Truth, to lecture on the second
coming of Christ, &c, were merely bor-
rowed from the ideas of Noyes, and
that portion of the book and lecture
were plagarisms from the book called
The Berean' In connection with the
prisoners leaving the Oneida Commu
nifty, Mr.. Porter put in evidence let
ter of the prisoners of April, 1865,
wherein he says be is living in obedi-
ence to irresistible conviction; that if
he did not do 1t woe would be upon
him that he must obey the will OF
God; that God and his conscience were
driving him to battle, and that he dar-
ed not draw back The package of
manuscript tied together was shown
the prisoner, aud admitted to be his
writing, although he said it appeared
to be nutilated, having neither head
nor tail
The District Attorney then read the
document from the printed slip, and the
prisoner cautioned Mr.. Scoville to fol-
low the reading with the original, as
he was afraid to trust those men,
The document is the paper written
by Guiteau to the Oneida Community
at the time of his leaving it, and is
principally devoted to advocating his
theory of establishing great theocrat-
ic paper The prisoner listened atten-
lively to its reading, interrupting now
and then to make some explanation
That's very strong idea,' he contin-
ued when the idea of establishing q
theocratic paper was mentioned. The
idea was to make the world an entire
community. 1t was a grand concep-
tion, but not at all feasible the way this
world is run. There are too many bad
people in this world
| A note was also read which had
been written to the Community by
Guiteau, and in which he confessed his
love for and subordination to Noyes,
and withdrew all charges previously
made against him.
The prisoners comment on this was
made in conversational tone: You
want he said, ito imagine yourselves
in hell, ladies and gentlemen, and you
will get some idea of my feeling in the
Oneida Community
A letter addressed by Guiteau to
member of the Community was also
introduced in evidence. In this he says:
When in the world / had programme
of my own, but God smashed that and
hurled me into the Community He
also refers to himself as the creature Of
predestination, and that having Gods
work to do he would not leave it for
the wealth of the Rothschilds and the
fame of Napoleon. That is so now,'
murmured the prisoner.
A letter written by Guiteau asking
to be received back into the Communi-