Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-02
GUITEAU.
GUITEAU. THE QUESTION OF JURISDICTION SETTLED. New Jersey Law Gives the state
 Courts
JURISDICTION IN THE CASE.

At the time the late President was re- moved to Long Branch the question was raised as to the jurisdiction If the Dis trict of Columbia courts in the event of his death in New Jersey. An6 an attor- ney prepared long brief showing that no court would have jurisdiction and cited opinions. Since the sad death of the President the question has increas- ed in importance, and a law been found upon the statute books of New Jersey, which, unless unconstitutional clearly gives the New Jersey courts jurisdiction in the case. According to l revised stat utes New Jersey, 1877, page 232 title, Criminal Procedure, 1t will be found that the Legislature, fortunately for bewildered people, has settled the ques- ton so clearly and completely that all good citizens will feel constrained to al- low legitimate measures to be carried out, thoroughly cognizant that the na- tiOn and the dead chieftain will be avenged legally. The statute is:
 Section 76. Where any person shall be feloniously stricken or poisoned upon the sea, or at any place out of the juris- diction of this State, and shall die of the same stroke, or poisoning within the ju- risdictiOn of this State, or where any person shall be ielOniously stricken or poisoned within the jurisdiction of this State, and shall die of such stroke or poisoning upon the sea, or at any place out of the jurisdiction of this State, in either of the said cases, an indictment thereof found by jurors of the county, within the jurisdiction of this State in which such death, stroke or poisoning shall happen respectively as aforesaid, whether 1t shall be found before any Coroner, upon view of such dead body, or before the Justices of the Peace. or other Justices or Commissioner who shall have authority to inquire ot mur- ders, shall be as good and effectual ln law as well against the principal O. prin- cipals in any such murder, as against the accessory or the accessories thereto, as if such felOnious stroke and death thereby ensuing, or poisoning and death thereby ensuing, etc, had happened in the county where such indictment shall be found.
 The section is quite lengthy, but ap- pears to be an adequately comprehen- sive enactment, probably framed after Statutes 2d and 3d, Edward ", New Jersey Statute law, and its natural jus tice is as desirable a dispenser of na- tional wrath as Guiteau could dread or patriotism ask.
 The question of the murderer's sanity is one but little considered, because there Is scarcely doubt of it.
 The only other question k, Is this New Jersey law constitutional? A simi- lar law enacted by the Massachusetts Legislature was decided to be so. This decision may be found in 1Ol Massachu- setts l Commonwealth vs. Macloonl And where a blow was struck on a river in Canada and the victim died in Nlichi- gan, the Supreme Court of the latter State held that it had constitutional iu- risdiction, under a law similar to that of | New Jersey, to try and convict the mur- derer. (Tyler vs. The People, $ Michi- ca'l, 3269
 We see that murder and treason can not go unwhipped of justice. The cul- prit is doomed, tR.ggh for the present enjoying the protection 0. the law. ! Blood. though it sleeps a time. yvt never dies The gods murderers fix Tevengci1' eyes ! Let us bide our time and his punish ment continues. The cowardly j. that would prompt the destruct | transcendent human nobility, wls ! guarded and unexpecting, is inc;" to sustain the dreaded uncertainty out the most poignant anguish. Which way shall fiys Infinite wrath. and infinite despair | Which way fly K holl myself am hell, l And in the lowest deep. a lower deep, ! Still threatening to devour me, opens wI'te- To which the hell suffer seems a heaven.
 The nations dastardly foe must be and will be annihilated.