The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-10
TO BE HANGED.
THE MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL OVER
RULED-GUlTEAU TO HANG ON
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motion for new trial for the assassin,
md Mr.. Corkhill opposed it vigorously.
On the following morning Judge Cox
his decision over-ruling the
motion. The court room was only
about half filed and with the exception
Of few ladies, most of those present
were lawyers and reporters.
While the Judge was rendering his de
cision, the assassin listened quietly to the
rulings of the court. He did
not seem surprised that new trial had
been denied him. AS soon as the Judge
had concluded the district attorney arose
to move for sentence. He was inter
rupted by Mr.. Scoville, who excepted to
the decision and filed a motion in arrest
of Judgment, which was over-ruled. For
the first time Guiteau interrupted. He
asked the court if there was anything
necessary for him to do to reserve his
rights, and he reiterated his oft-repeated
expectation of having several lawyers to
assist him before the court in banc.
Scoville tried to interrupt his client, and
Guiteau at once became excited. He
turned upon bis steadfast friend with
angry deGunciations of his methods of
conducting the trial "You are doing
well enough on your theory, Scoville;
but your theory is all wrong. You con-
victed me on your jackass theory"
The district attorney solemnly moved
that sentence be passed upon the pris-
oner.
81 ask your honor to defer it as long
as you can" shouted the assassin, who by
this time was plainly laboring under great
excitement, but in obedience to the in
structions of the court, he stood up and
replied to the question as to whether he
had anything to say why sentence should
not be passed upon him, with an air of
bravado, and threatened with Gods
punishment all who had been engaged
in his conviction. The judges sentence
was brief and as follows:
''You have been convicted of a crime
so terrible in its circumstances and so
far-reaching in its results that it has
drawn upon you the horror of the whole
world and the execrations of your coun-
trymen. The excitement produced by
such an offense made it no easy task to
secure for you fair and impartial trial,
but you have had the power of the
United States treasury and of the gov
ernment in your service to protect your
person from violence ard to procure evi-
dence from all parts of the country. You
have had as fair and impartial a jury as
ever assembled in court of justice.
You have been defended by counsel with
a zeal and devotion that merits the
highest encomium, and l certainly have
done my best to secure a fair presenta.
ton of your defense. Notwithstanding
all this you have been found guilty. 1t
would have been a comfort to many
people if the verdict of the jury had es-
tablished the fact that your act was that
of an irresponsible man. 1t would have
left the people the satisfying belief that
political assassination was something
entirely foreign to the institutions and
civilization of our country; but the result
has denied them that comfort. The
country will accept it as fact that that
crime can be committed, and the court
will have to deal with it with the highest
penalty known to the criminal code to
serve as an example to others. Your
career has been so extraordinary that peo-
Pile might well at times have doubted
your sanity. But one cannot but believe
that when the crime was committed, you
thoroughly understood the nature of the
crime and its consequences, (Guiteau-l
was acting as Gods NAM, and that you
had moral sense and conscience enough
to recognize the moral iniqulty of such
an act.
The Prisoner-''That's a matter Of
opinion"
"Your testimony shows that you re
coiled with horror from the idea You
say that you prayed against it. You say
that you thought it might be prevented
This shows that your conscience warneC
you against it, but by the wretched so
phstry of your own mind you worked
yourself up against the protest of YOU
own conscience. What motive coulc
have induced you to this act must be {
matter of con njecture. Probably men viii
think that some fanaticism as inorbC
desire for self -exaltation was the real in
spiration for the act. Your own testi
mony seems to controvert the theories o.
your counsel. They have maintained anC
thought, believe, that you were driver
against your own will by an insane i'm
pulse to commit the act, but your testi
mony showed that you deliberately re
solved to do it, and that deliberate anC
misguided will was the sole impulse
This may seem insanity to some persons
but the law looks upon it as a wilfu
crime
"You will have due opportunity o
having any error l may have committed
during the course of the trial passel
upon by the court in banc, but meanwhile
it is necessary for me to pronounce tn,
sentence of the law, that you be tskel
hence to the common Jail of the district
from whence you came, and there b.
kept in confinement, and on Friday, tn,
thirtieth day of June, 1882, you be takel
to the place prepared for the execution
within the walls of said jail and there
between the hours of l2 m, and p. m.
you be hanged by the neck until you ar
dead, and may the Lord have mercy OF
your soul.
Guiteau stood quietly during the de
livery of the sentence, but on its conclus
ion became very noisy and abusive
shouting auathemas on the court an,
counsel for the prosecution. A deput,
marshal placed his hand over the assas
sins mouth and he would have strucl
the officer had he not been prompt,
seized and handcuffed, lie was takel
at once to Jail and a guard placed owe
him.
George II, Vending of Chicago, il
a lecture recently in Music Hall, Brook
lyn, said that inidels sowed irreverenc
and reaped disrespect. Tom Pain
would never be anything but Tom, eyel
if a hundred monuments were erected L
his memory, and fifty million American
would never know Ingersoll by any othe