Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-04
THIRD EDITION,
TO HANG.
GUITEAU SENTENCED.
The Execution Appointed for juno 80.

| Ane Execution AppOinteO IOr June SO
WAsHINGroN, D. c., Feb. 4.-Guitea,
was again brought into court this morn
ing, and the crowd was as great as ever
The court overruled the motion for new
trial, and sentenced the prisoner to b.
hanged in the Washington Jail, June 80,
between the hours of twelve, H., and two
p. m.
When Judge Cox ordered the prisoner
to stand up and asked if he had anything
to say why sentence should not be pro-
nounced the prisoner arose, pale but with
lips compressed and desperate determine.
tion stamped upon his features. He began
in low and deliberate tone, but soon
his manner became wild and violent.
and he pounded upon the table as he
delivered rambling speech, declaring
himself not guilty as indicted. and that
God would take care of him. Judge Cox
then addressed the prisoner, pointing out
the enormity Of his offence and pointing
to its results. He sentenced the prisoner
to death
Judge Cox's Address.
The judge addressed the prisoner as fol-
lows " You have been convict ed of 4
crime so terrible in its circumstances and
so far reaching in it's results, that it has
drawn upon you the horror of the whole
world and the execratiOns Of your country
men. The excitement produced by such
an offence made it no easy task to secure
you fair and impartial trial, but you
have had the power of the United States
treasury and Of the government in your
service to protect your person from viO-
lence and to procure evidence from all
parts of the country. You have
had as fair and impartial jury as over
assembled i'll = court of justice. You
have been defended by counsel with zeal
and devotion that merits the highest en-
comium. certainly have dOne my best
to secure \ fair presentation of your de-
fence. Notwithstanding all this you have
been found guilty.
people if the verdict of the jury had esta6-
al irresponsible man. 1t would have left
crime Of political assassination was sOme-
thing entirely foreign to the institutions
and civilization of our country, but the
result has denied them that comfort. The
country will accept it as q fact that that
crime can be committed and the court will
have to deal with it with the highest pen
atty known to the criminal code to serve
as an example to others.
Your career has been SO extraordinary
that people might we'll at times have
doubted your sanity. But one cannot but
believe that when the crime was commit
ted you thoroughly understood the nature
of the crime and its consequences. Your
own testimony shows that you recOiled
with horror from the idea. You say that
you prayed against it, you say that you
thought it might he prevented. This
shows that your conscience warned you
against it, but by the wretched sophistry
Of your own mind you worked yourself up
against the protest of your own con-
science.
"What motion could have induced you
10 this act must be matter of conjecture.
mon will think that some fanati-
,ism or Il morbid desire for self-exaltation
was the real inspiration for the act
\ lOur own testimony seems to con-
.rOvert the theories Of your counsel.
They have maintained and thought,
honestly l believe, that you were
lriven against your will by an insane i'm
pulse to commit the act, but your testi-
nOny showed that you deliberately re-
solved to do it, and that deliberate and |
Misguided will was the sole impulse. This
nay seem insanity to some persons but |
he law looks upon it as wilful crime. |
iou will have duo opportunity of having
my errors may have committed during |
he course of tho trial passed upon by the |
'ourt in banc, but meanwhile it is |
necessary for me to pronounce the |
sentence of tho law, that you |
'e taken hence to the common Jail of the |
District from whence you came, and
here be kept in confinement, and |
IN Friday the 3Oth day of June,
SS2, you be taken to the place
for the execution within the
walls Of said Jail, and there between the
lours of 12 m. and p. m. you be hanged
~ the neck until you are dead, AMI may |
he Lord have mercy on your SOUL"
During the reading OF the sentence GU
eau stood apparently unmOyed, and with
lis gaze riveted upon tho judge, but when
he final words, MAY the Lord have
mercy OH your sOul," we're spoken
&c struck the table violently and shouted,
6 And may the Lord have mercy ON your |
oul! I'd rather stand where do than |
where that jury does and where your honor |
lOes Pm not afraid to die stand here
IS Gods man and God Almighty |
will curse every man who has had a part in
procuring this unrighteous verdict. Moth
ng but good has come from Garfield's re-
uOval and that will be the verdict of pos
Gritty Oh my inspiration. don't care a
crap for the verdict of this corrupt genera
ion. l would rather thousand times
&c in my position than that of those who
lave pounded me to death. shall have a
,lorious fight to glory, but that miserable
cOundrel Corkhill will have permanent |
oh down below, where the devil is pre-
,aring for him.
After apparently talking himself out
lie prisoner turned to his brother, and
Without the slightest trace of excitement |
onversed for some minutes before being |
aiken from the court room.
BIG FIRE IN WASHING
|cstructIOn of the Jefferson Public School /
Building.