The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-12-03
GUlrEAU'o TRIAL.
IILB.

The Prisoner Makes mother Appeal for
Ala Before Proceeding With the Cr. So
Examination, in Which He Becomes Hat
I'll. and Grows Obstinate.
WAsHINGToN, Dec. 1.-The Guiteau trial
was resumed this morn'ng in the presence of
the usual throng. Upon entering The wit
ness box Guiteau desired, before resuming
his evidence TO make personal statement.
and addressed himself to the audience.
saying:
Two weeks ago sent out an appeal for money.
cld II on my own account, ana the day after
ward cJvlle in public announced il WAS without
MS authority. again invite my friends e., seud
money III the cause of justice aud for nv def. sc
They can send s., sl". Sl5 sl,tOO if they wish
Ii they don't want To be known they can send
without name To Seville
Judge Porter then began a rapid fire of
interrOgations, eliciting from the prisoner
IN his several replies. that physically he
was coward, and always kept away from
personal danger. Morally, he was as brave
as hon, when he thought Deity was back
of him. In his opinion the doctors killed
the President. The acts Of Jones and Mason
in attempting to kill him were WRONG. and
they ought to be punished, unless they can
chow they were inspired by Deity. The
witness soon showed signs of impatience
and excIiability, aud striking his omen hand
upon the desk, emphasized every sentence
uttered. When pressed for nswers he
finally became Obstinate and shouted to
Judge Porter: Il know you well, and
know bigger men than OIL are; We seen YOU
shake your finger at witnesses in New York,
but you can't scare me- and shortly after
commandments, To which he respond
ed in the affirmative, and ii
he believed that the command
ment Thou shalt not kill" ous sht
To read in his case, Thou shalt kill" lie be-
came exceedingly violent, and refused 10
q scuss that matter at all. There was no
murder in his case and no killing. It was
simply Tor the jury to dettrmine whether
or not his act in removing the President wa
inspired by the Deity or not 1t Wa all
nonsense to split hairs any longer over that
word. 1t mast be distinctly understood
that the removal of the President was the
act of Deity. Witness proved decidedly
obstinate, AID after fatty contradicting the
testimony of General Logan. Colonel Reed.
and several other Witnesses he positively
refused To answer several questions. his in
variable response being Il decline to discuss
that with YOU" The witness seemed To be
greatly annoyed at judge Porter's habit of
pointing his finger at him, "a he freq ientlv
did IN the way of EN- pllasizing his lerroga-
tories, and again broke out angrily, You
need not point your bOny fOre-tinger at me.
JuuSt Il We seen Ou 90 that DelOrS,
but you can't scare me-"
HOW TO BORROW MONEY
The witness declined to go into boarding
house matters. as they had no bearing on
the Case. He supposed he owed $3.50 to
various lantladies. and some time other
he expected To pay them. judge C,x d-
rected the prisoner to reply t. the question.
The witness was readily driven from one
position to another till confronted with the
evidence of his own witnesses. when he
would unhesilaiingly pronounce their evil
dence false. Once he emph ssized his con-
tradiciion by saying: Anything [ swear
To, Judge, Is true; you can put that down
Il Fl xed fact" Being pressed as to how
lie proposed To raise the funds which he
Sal he was expecting tp receive. the witness
replied: Il intended t. borrow it from
some of my friends" aud added II will
tell you, Judge, how borrowed money. f.
may be of service to you when you want to
borrow for yourself | don't lie nor sneak
mt go right up io a man and ask him for
what | want" The witness was closely
questioned about the purchase of the pistol.
AMI when a,ked why he bought one with
an ivory handle instead of a plain one he
replied: Because thought it was worth
dollar m re-"
Judge Porter-Did you not say it would
look better in the Patent Office?
Wi'hesS duiIiitteu lie mlSnt have believed
or thought the pis'ol would sometime be
placed in the State Department
DoEsN T LIKE THE WORD MURDER
Shortly afterward Guteau became very
indignant at Judge Porter's use of the word
murder" aud shouted fierceiy You seem
to delight III the uss of the words kill and
murder. There's NJ use of your whining i'm
that way. The mere outward fact of how
removed the President has nothing what
ever 10 DO with this case" Guiteau's shrewd-
ness IN detecting and anticipating ANY. point
which might be made against him was