The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-02-10
GuITEAu SENTENCED.
To BE Hung june 30th. 1882.

WASHINGTON, February 3.-After the ar
gument of Scoville, Judge Cox overruled
the motion for a suspension of sentence and
said TO Guiteau: "Stsnd up. Have you
anything to say why sentence should not be
passed upon your"
The prisoner arose, pale, but with lips
compressed and desperate determination
stamped upon his features. In low and
desperate tone he began, but soon his man
ner became wild and violent, and pounding
upon the table he delivered himself of the
following harangue al am not guilty of the
charge set forth In the indictment. 1t was
Gods act, not mine, and God will take care
Of 1t, and don't let the American people for
get 1t. He will take care of it and every Of
fcer of this Government, from the executive
down to that of marshal, and taking in every
man on that jury and every member of this
bench will pay for it, and the American ma
ton will roll in blood if my body goes into
the ground and am hung. The Jews put
the despised Galilean in the grave. For
time they triumphed; but at the destruction
of Jerusalem, forty years afterward, the Al.
mighty got even with them. / am not afraid
of death. am here as Gods man. Kill
me tomorrow If you want. / am Gods
man and have been from the start"
Judge Cox then proceeded to pass sentence,
addressing the prisoner as follows: "You
have been convicted of crime so terrible in
Its consequences and so far-reaching in Its
result that it has drawn upon you the horror
of the whole world and the execration of
your countrymen. The excitement pro-
duced by such an offense made 1t no easy
task to secure for you a fair and impartial
trial, but you have had the power of the
United States Treasury and of the Govern
ment in your service to protect your person
from violence and to procure evidence 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 de-
Tended by counsel with zeal and devotion
that merits the highest enconium, and GER
tainly have done by best to secure a fair
presentation of your defense. Notwith-
standing this you have been found guilty. 1t
would have been comfort to many people
If the verdict of the jury had established the
fact that your crime was the act of an ire
sponsible man. 1t would have left the peo-
pie in the satisfying belief that the crime of
political assassination was something foreign
to the institutions and civilization of our
country, but the result has denied them that
comfort. The country will accept it as a
fact that crime has been committed, and
the Court will have to deal with it the high
est penalty known to the criminal code to
serve as an example to others. Your career
has been so extraordinary that the people
might we'll at times have doubted your san
ity, but one can not but believe that when
the crime was committed you thoroughly
understood the nature of the crime and its
consequences"
Guiteau--I was acting as Gods man, and
had not moral sense and conscience enough
to recognize the moral iniquity of such an
act.
Judge Cox-"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 have been pre-
vented. This shows your conscience warned
you against it, 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? IL must be matter of conjecture.
Probably men will think that some fana.-
cism or morbid desire for selfexaltation was
the real inspiration for the act. Your own
testimony seems to controvert the theories OF
your counsel. They have maintained, snd
thought honestly, / believe, that you were
driven against your will by an insane i'm
pulse. The testimony showed that you de-
liberately resolved to do 1t, and that your de-
liberate and misguided will was the sole inn
pulse. This may seem insanity to some per-
sons, but the law looks upon it as willful
crime. You will have due opportunity of
having any errors | may have committed in
the course of this trial passed upon by the
court in bdnc; but meanwhile 1t Is necessary
for me to pronounce the sentence of the law
that you be taken hence to the common jail
of the District, from whence you came, and
there be kept In confinement, and on Friday,
the Both day of June, 1882, you will be taken
to place prepared for your execution with
in the walls of said Jail, and there, between
the hours of IL and Up. m, you be hanged
by the neck until you are dead, and may the
Lord have mercy on your SOUL"
During the reading Guiteau stood appar-
emily unmoved and with his gaze riveted
upon the judge, but when the last words
were spoken he struck the table violently
and shouted: Sand may the Lord have mer-
cy on your soul. would rather stand
where do than where that jury do and
where your honor stands. am not afraid
to die. stand here as Gods man, who had
a part in procuring this unrighteous verdict.
Nothing but good has come from Garfeld's
removal, and that will be the verdict of pos
terity on my inspiration. don't care snap
for the verdict of this corrupt generation. /
would rather thousand times be In my po-
sition than that of those who have bounded
me to death. shall have glorious flight
To glory; but that miserable scoundrel, Cork
hill, will have permanent job down below
where the devil is preparing for him."
After apparently talking himself out, the
prisoner turned to his brother and without
the slightest trace of excitemen. conversed
for some minutes before taken from the
court room.