St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-06-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

ARGUMENT upon the Dill OF exceptions
in the Guiteau case was begun on the 9th,
before the Judges of the Supreme Court Of
the District, sitting in banc, Chief Justice
Carter presiding, and Justices Macarthur,
Hagner and James. Col. Corkhill and Da-
vidge appeared for the Government, and
ing passed to discussion of the
question of the jurisdiction of the
court below, arguing the crime was not
indictable in the District, because the Of
tense was not completed there. Chief
Justice Carter suggested that while
murder was the killing Of a person,
and the crime could not be defined
as murder until death occurred, yet the act
OF felony was completed when the murderer
had finished with his victim. Counsel ad-
m1tted Guiteau might be indicted, and iii
found to be sane) convicted OF assault with
intent to kill, but held he could not be tried
for murder. Reed argued that the sentence
OF death is void, claiming that under proper
construction of the statutes of the District
the date Of the execution should have been
fixed some day within thirty days after the
fourth Monday of October, 1882. He pro-
ceeded to discuss the evidence for the pros
ecution admitted at the trial and objected to
by the defense, arguing especially against
the evidence OF DIR. Fordyce Barker. The
next exception upon which counsel laid
special stress was to the admission of Mrs.
Dunmore's evidence, she having been the
wife of defendant. Mr.. Reed closed his
argument with an appeal to the Court TO
save, under the law and by the law, this land
from the shame, and her judiciary from the
disgrace, of sending an insane man to the
gallows. Colonel Corkhill opened for the
prosecution, quoting the decision of the Su-
preme Court Of Tennessee, which held the
offense was committed at the place of the
blow, though death occurred elsewhere.
He argued that the evidence admitted for
the prosecution to rebut the defense Of
insanity was competent and properly ad-
mitted.
DIR. II. r. PALMER's International
Music School begins June 26, at Meadville,
Pa, and continues four weeks.
ANOTHER cyclone has been destroy
ing life and property in various places. At
McAllister, Indian Territory, eight men
were killed outright and many wounded,
some OF them fatally. The lightning was
continuous, and SO vivid as to render it light
as day for over an hour. At Mound City,
HANS, the greatest damage done was sus-
tanned by the Christian Church. The steeple
was landed on one corner ofsthe parsonage,
completely demolishing it. Near Lakefeld,
Mimi, school house was lifted up and
scattered over the prairie. It was occupied
by teacher and eleven pupils, who were
all more or less bruised. The storm came
in the form of a funnel-shaped cloud, which
bounded along the prairie and passed into
Heron Lake, sucking up water to the height
OF 100 feet. Missouri and Illinois were also
visited. but no very serious losses are re-
ported.
A REWARD Of ETC, 900 is to be offered
for information which will lead to the con-
vietion OF the murderers of Cayendish and
Bourke.
TWENTY business buildings in Ridge
town, Ontario, including the express and
Post offices, Nelson's Bank and. Elliott &