Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-24

press, counsel and court officers found tn,
greatest difficulty in forcing their way through
the immense throng that blocked every pas
sageway. Even holders of special tickets
were in many instances unable to get neal
enough to the policemen and bailiffs to show
them their tickets. When the doors closed
one thousa nd people were left outside. AS
soon as the court opened, Guiteau made the
following announcement: "I.spent yesterday
in examining my mail, l had several hun
bred letters, many of them from ladies, and
some were very tender. l desire to express
nv thanks to the ladies for these kind and
tender letters. One letter suggests that Gen.
Arthur give me cabinet office. Now, want
to say [ would not take any office from PreSi-
dent Arthur and under the circumstances I
don't think it would be proper that l should
accept one. Now, i'll regard to Judge POr-
ter, want TO say, as he is to have the closing
of this case if he tries to mislead the court, and
jury, and my counsel will stop him. He
came. into this case under Misrepresentation
ON the part of Gen. Arthur, otherwise he
would not be in the case. He don't properly
represent the government. He only repre-
sents himself
JUDGE PORTER
entered the court room shortly before the
prisoner had delivered himself of this warn
ing. After moments delay he stepped to
the open space before the jury and in tones
which clearly betrayed his weakened condition
began the closing argument, and said:
If 1t please your honor and gentlemen of the
jury, in my own inffmity for l share your
fatigue, proceed as best can to discharge
my duty. The nature of this duty is such
that 7 shonld feel that | were almost accas.
sorry after the fact if l should fail to speak
such words as | can to aid you in reaching a
proper conclusion. Thus far the trial has
practically been conducted by the prisoner and
Scoville. Everyone has been denounced at
their will and even now, l am informed will
be interrupted by them both.
Judge Porter briefly recited the scenes of
disorder, the abuse and SANDER to which every
one on the cause had for two months been
subjected, and yet, he said, OF the three
speeches which have been made by the defense,
l will do the prisoner the justice to say that
his was the least Objectionable.
GUITEAU's CHARACTER.
After sketchng the circumstances leading
up to the crime, and painting with fervid Ian
guage the dai inning wickedness of its execu-
ton, Judge Porter turned his attention to the
prisoner and proceeded to depict his charac-
critic, robber and and swinder. A lawyer
who never wOp a case; no court, no jury
failed to see in him a rogue and such men can
not win eau SEES. He has left his trail
of infamy in hundred directions. The
a man who is a lawyer had such notions of
morality that when he had taken debts to col
lect, and collected them by dagging the debt
or he held them. A man who was cabable of
blasting the name of the woman with whom
he slept for years and still recognized as his
wife. A man, who, when he was tired of this
woman, pretending to be Christian and be-
lever of the Bible, looked into the book and
read "Tho shalt not commit adultery and
then went out Immediately and committed adj
dnltery with street walker A man who
pushed himself into the fellowship of Chris
tian associations as follower of the savior
when fresh from years of foul fornication in
the one Idea Of community"
Guteau-"T That lie ought to choke YOU
AS Judge Porter proceeded with resistless
torrent of deunnciations, the prisoner oc-
casionally called out, That's a lie;
that's absolutely false or that amt So"
GUITEAU's LIFE.
Passing in review the principal events of
prisoners life Judge Porter showed up in all
its hideous deformity the infamous bent of his
nature. Alud ding to his dispute with his
brother, John w. Guiteau, in Boston, when he
struck the latter in the face, Judge Porter said
this was the fist and last time this coward
ever struck any blow in the face His coward
hand always struck from behind.
HIS VICTIM.
After showing who and what was the
murderer, Judge Porter next described his
victim, paying glowing tribute to the char
acter and sery ices of the lamented president,
and pronouncing a most touching eulogy, as
it were, upon his memory, The claims of the
prisoner to be praying man, were considered,
and the hollow mockery of the claim shown.
Guiteau, angrily, shouted: II pray every
night and morning, and before every meal II
you did the same you would be better man.
You wouldn't be here looking for blood
money"
"The prisoner says he waited for six weeks.
Why, if he had made up his mind unalterably
to murder the president the first of June, said
Judge Porter. "Did he still continue to pray
down to the very act of murder?"
Guiteau-'I prayed to see if the Lord
wouldn't let me off from killing him. %
"What was he praying for" continued
Judge Porter 1.-THE man who claimed TO
have received divine inspiration himself pre-
pares his defense in advance for an act to do
which he was divinely inspired The believer
in inspiration he would himself alter the in,
spired book, and substitute for it book OF
his own. That he did not shoot the
president on the first OCCASION" said
Judge Porter, twas due to his coward heart
Had he done it on that occasion he would
have been torn to pieces, and he knew it. On
this occasion the president was surrounded by
his cabinet and his friends His son not ye1
strong, but who would have been urged al
such time, with God given strength, to de
fend his father, was also by his side, and the
assassin's craven heart failed him, and he said
Not vet; at some other time.''
With faithful picturlng, Judge Porter re
lated the logging Of the presidents footstep:
to the little church, and the incidents or accl
dents on each occasion which baffied him
President Garfeld's visit to Secretary Blaine:
house, dogged by the assassin, was visibly
portrayed.
INSPIRATION.
cit was night said the speaker, clark al
that night when the devil first whispered thi.
crime in the assassins ear He lay in hiding
in the alley. Why? With inspiration and tn
command of God upon him to kill the presi
dent, and with a pressure that would max
him do it if he died the next minute any tim
after June L. Why did he not kill him. Be
cause he thought he would do it some othe
time. Because this politician thought b
would become identical with the stalwarts il
the Republican party. Because he thought b
had so carefully laid the foundation for hi
defense against crime and for his protection
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