Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-24

| as an honorable lawyer or an honorable gentle
man.
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CRIME.
The prisoner told them that the responsibility
was upon Secretary Blaine He had sail before
the responsibility was upon God There was the
widow, whom SO far as it appears. Mr.. Reed never
| saw, but whom he claimed had made him heI
spokesman to tell the Jury that she was kneeling
In prayer that Tue jury should declare this man is
| a lOnatic. There WIS sense in which the pris-
Oner lett her responsible for the Presidents death.
| because he had sworn II she hal been with the
President he would not have fired the shot.
THR JURY NOT TO BIZ xERE INTELLECTUAL MA
CHIMES.
They told the jury that they must leave their
! moral nature outside when they came into the
jury box, and be mere intellectual machines. Not
| so the law. The judges were to be mere iutelec-
tual machines; they were to leave feeling outside
OF the court. but long before the magma Charta IT.
! was established that the crime OF murder should
he tried by a jury OF the vicinage-men who knew
the man, and who took their moral natures with
them into the jury box. After an effective deScrip-
tion of the crime, MIR. Porter, gazing in apparent
men, 1t is Well for us all that the law does not
call upon jurors to leave the only immortal part
| OF their nature-their moral nature-Outsde OF the
court house when they come to try case like
this"
TRYING TO EvADE THE RESPONSIBILITY.
| Mr. Porter then rapidly reviewed and riiicuIed
the attempts to throw the responsibility for the
| crime upon John H Noyes, upon the father OF the
prisoner, his mother, his unces and cousins. They
! had killed Garfield by making this man con-
| genital mOnstrosity.
"If all these people killed Gen. Garfield" said
the prisoner, pretending not to perceive the satire
you had better dismiss your case"
The Chicago convention, the electors OF the
United States, said Mr.. Porter, they had killed
Garfield: This prisoner came to the conclusion
| that God undertook to take the back track after
Inspiring the Chicago convention and the election
OF Garfield by appointing him with his swindltng
record-him the man who struck his father, who
l1fted an axe against his sister, who struck his
brother-appointing him to correct the errors OF
| God by numbering the President All! but even
this was not enough. The press, the press that
killed Garfield, and the press was summar1iy ar
raigned by this prisoner, indicted without the Or
derer, but fortunately he no longer had his bull
dog pistol, and they were only to be convicted OF
the murder OF Garfield by
TIE BIIsTERED TONGUE OF THIS MURDEROUs LIAR
1t true, that in the heat of political strife they
said hard things OF one another but is that hoist
ing the black flag and giving liberty to murderer
to kill whom he pleases? That's the theory of this
defence Then came another charge-he was
ashamed to say it-not from the prisoner, but from
man who claimed to be member of the Ameri-
can bar. There were those who are placed in too
lofty position to defend themselves from the VI
perS that bisSed at them. There was
DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN SENATOR,
who would this moment, were he not too proud to
accept the Office, be occupying seat On the SUI
preme bench Of the United States-a man earnest
In all he undertakes faithful to his friends,
to his convictions even though they involved
sacrl1ice-a man who shrunk from nothing, and
whose unstained integrity, courage, fearless
ness all kneW-such man was to-day arraigned
by the prisoners defender, as responsible for the
murder OF President Garfield.
mot by my consent" Interrupted the prisoner.
GEN. GRANT.
DartNN hnvn
Grant, without mentioning his name. ale was
arraigned by the lawyer OF Guiteau-"
'But not by Guiteau," interjected the prisoner.
'As responsible" continued Mr.. Porter, "for the
murder OF President Garfield. Nay, more than
that, We have
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES"
"Made So" interrupted the prisoner, 'by the
inspiration OF Guiteau, and don't you forget it,
Porter"
'The successor OF Garfield" continued Mr..
Porter. 'The successor Of Lincoln, of Jackson, OF
Washington and Jefferson and Adams; elevated
to that position not by an assassin, but by the
voice OF his cOuntrymen. Every vote in the United
States that was cast for James A. Garfield was
cast for Chester A. Arthur. When this creature
says says % 4 made Arthur President, he forgets tnat
his countrymen." Having referred to the Const-
tutioD as making provision for the succession to
President met his death by slipping on an orange
peel or treading on rattlesnake, "Was it the
Porter 'Tor the prisoner had shown himself all his
life as slippery as the orange peel and
as the rattlesnake. This was rattlesnake With
Arthur President OF the United States just as that
rattlesnake might have DONE"
THE DEAD PRESIDENT AND THE PRISONER.
They were told by this defence that Gen. Garfield
himself, when this prisoner met him in paradise-to
which his daily prayers were addressed, although
he seemed very averse to going there-that Presi-
dent Garfield would be shocked; that he will be
very much astonished that jury should have
found his murderer guilty. He would read, as a
part OF his argument, something that was histori-
this prisoner. He then read the reported CONVEX
satiOn between President Garfield and Mrs. Dr.
Edison during his illness, in which the President
said he supposed people would come to him one
day with petition to pardon this man, and, after
placed said: aNo, don't suppose could" 'u'd 'e
,d 81 wish to say" spoke up the prisoner that at
tended Mrs. Garf1elds reception at the White
House, and was received very We'll"
THE DEVIL IN THE SWINE.
Mr.. Porter proceeded to quote from the Bible
but having some difficulty in finding the place,
the prisoner said:
"You are not acquainted with the Bible, I see"
Mr.. Porter then cited the passage where the
devils having been cast out OF the multitude took
refuge in the swine, and the swine rushed down
into the sea and were choked. Whether or not
The devil in this man was not to be choked by law
remained for this jury to say.
III you don't stop drinking wine," said the prise
Oner, 1.-The devil will choke you. You will go to a
drunkardS grave yet"
at 12 O'Clock a recess for half hour was taken
After Recess.
GUITEAU AN ACTOR.
When the court reasSembled at 1:35 Mr.. Porter
resumed his argument and referred to the state
ment made by Mr. Reed in argument that the
jurors were kings or emperOrS. Mr. Porter said
they were kings and emperors in the same sense
as that prisoner who sits in the box uncrowned
except In his own conception, man who sup
poses that when he had lifted his hands, stained
htmsf tlustrious. He told us that ii necessary to
shield him q juror, or the judge, or one OF the
counsel Will be struck down. He was an actor
While in jail he had been playing his natural part;
here he played another part posing before the
jury and carving out the suggestions of his
counsel. Though this man had sworn that he
prayed to GOd there was not that soul In the as
sembly who shrank as did this wretch from meet
ing his Maker.
GuITEAu CALLS MR. PORTER AN INTERNAL sCouN.
DREL.
That's absolutely false, Porter" shouted the
prisoner, "and you know 1t, too; and you are an
internal scoundrel God Almighty will put you