The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-02-09

To He Hanged.
On Saturday morning Judge Cox
,verruled the motion for new trial
n the Guiteau case, and sentenced the
prisoner to be hanged in the Jail at
between the hours ofnoon
and two o'clock on Friday, the SOth
day of June next. Guiteau received
the sentence with no particular dem
except to say that the Court
i'm banc would reverse the decision of
Judge Cox. No order was made in
regard to the disposition of the body.
THE SENTENCE.
The prisoner being directed to stand
up, Judge Cox proceeded to pass SEN
tence upon him as follows:
You have been convicted of crime
SO terrible in its consequences and so
far reaching in its results that it has
drawn upon you the horror of the
whole world, and the eXecrations OF
your cOuntrymen. The excitement
produced by such an offense made it
no easy task TO secure for you a fair
and impartial trial, but you have had
the power of the United States treasu-
ry aud of the government in your ser
vice to protect your person from viO-
lence, and to procure evidence from
all parts of the country. You have
had as fair and impartial a jury rs ever
assembled in q court of justice. You
have been defended by counsel with a
zeal and devotion which merits the
highest encomiums, and L certainly
have done my best to secure a fair pre-
81 1ofon~a Nnfuifh-
standing all this, you have been found
guilty. 1t would have been comfort
to many people IL the verdict of the
| Jury had established the fact that your
act was that Of an irresponsible man.
1t would have left the people the sat
! isfying belief that the crime of pollti-
cal assassination was something entire
| ly foreign to the institutions and CIV
| iliZation of our country, but the result
has denied them that comfort. The
country will accept it as fact that
| that crime can be committed, ana the
court will have to deal with it with the
hight st penalty known to the criminal
code, to serve as an example to others.
Y0ur career has been no extraordinary
that people might we'll at times have
doubled your sanity, but one cannot
but believe that when the crime was
committed you thoroughly understood
the nature of the crime and its cOnse-
quences-
Guiteau-I was acting as Gods man.
And that you had moral sense and
conscience enough to recognize the
| iniquity of such an act.
The prisoner-That's a matter OF
opinion.
| Your own testimony shows that you
recoiled with horror from the idea
You say that you prayed against it.
You say that you thought 1T might DC
science warned you against 1t, but by
the wretched sOphistry of your own
mind, you worked yourself up against
the protest of your own conscience
What motive could have induced you
to this act must be matter OF cOnJec
ture, Probably men will think thai
some fanaticism or morbid desire fol
self-exaltation was the real inspiration
for the act. Your own testimony seems
to controvert the theories of YOU
counsel. They have m iintained ant
thought, honestly, believe, that yot
were driven against your will by al
ed that YOU deliberately resolved to dc
it. and that your deliberate and mis-
guided will was your sole impulse
This may seem insanity to some per
sons, but the law looks upon it as viii
full crime.
You will have due opportunity o
having any errors I may have commit
ted during the course of the trial pass
ed upon by the court in banc, bu
meanwhile it is necessary for me t.
pronounce the sentence OF the law tina
you be taken hence to the common
Jail of the District from whence yol
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ment, and on Friday, the 30th day o
June, 1882, you be taken to place
prepared for your execution within th'
walls of said Jail, and there, betweeI
the hours of II IN. and 2 p. m., you b'
hanged by the neck until you are dead
and may the Lord have mercy upOl
your soul.
During the reading Guiteau stOOt
lapparently unmOved and with his gaz
riveted upon the Judge, hut when th'
final words were spoken, he struck tn
table violently and shouted, :. AM
may the Lord have mercy on you
soul. 1 would rather stand where
do than where that jury does ant
to die. 1 stand here as Gods man, ant
God Almighty will curse every maj
who has had a part in procuring thi
lunrighteOlls verdict. Nothing but goo,
has come from Garfield's removal. ant
that will be the verdict of posterity oi
nv inspiration. i don't care snal
for the verdict of this corrupt genera
t on. | would rather thousand time
be in my position than in that OF thos
who have bounded me to death.
shall have glorious flight To glory
but that miserable scoundrel, COrkhill
will have u permanent job down he
low, where the Devil is preparing TO
him."
After apparently talking himself out
the prisoner turned to his brother, and
without the slightest trace of excite
ment, cenversed for some minutes be
fore being taken from the court room
Upon the arrival of Guiteau at tn
jail he was at once taken to cell an
y guard placed over him. This pre-
caution is always observed in the cas-
Of prisoners under sentence of deatl
and will be rigidly adhered to i'm Gu
teau's case, both by night and by day
There is no foundation for the repOi
+ that Guiteau had committed suicide.