The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-02-09
LATER NEWS,

a FIRE destroying $780, 900 worth Of prop
erty occurred in Jersey City last week.
OWING to excessive rains all the lower coun-
try about Shreveport, La, has been submerged.
OWING to i'll health, Lieutenant Danenhower
of the ill-fated Jeanette, has been ordered
home.
FOURTEEN inches of snow fell in Washington
City on the 9TH inst. Twelve inches fell IN
Northern Virginia.
THE Jefferson Public School Building, the
finest in Washington City, has been destroyed
by fire; loss, s135, 600.
THE men falling victims in Midlothian (Va.)
mine, in which an explosion occurred a few
days ago, were nearly all married, who leave ~
widows and 10S orphans.
GU1TEAu is to be closely guarded day and
night until the day of his execution, to prevent
the possibility of his committing suicide.
TIE snow-storms of the 9th and 9th insts.
were of unexampled severity throughout the
Middle and New England States. At Carbon
dale, Pa, snow covered the ground to the
depth of thirty-six inches, and numbering in
that region was stopped. The streets Of New
York and Boston were completely blockaded,
and trains on nearly all Eastern roads were
delayed or snow-bound. Several casualties
were reported by the roofs of buildings being
crushed in by the weight OF snow. Shipping
along the coast suffered considerably by heavy
gales. In New Brunswick the storm was accom-
panied by severe cold, and many persons were
badly frost-bitten.
aU1TEAU SENTENCED TO HANG JUNE 80.
The day for the hanging of Charles J. Gui-
teau, the assassin of President Garfield, has
at last been fixed upon and sentence pronounced.
After denying the motion for a new trial, Judge
Cox commanded the prisoner to stand up and
receive the sentence of the Court. Guiteau re-
fused to obey the command until it had been
repeated several times, when he arose, pale,
but with lips compressed and desperate deter
mination stamped upon his features. Deliver
ing himself of harrangue, in which he called
| down the maledictions of the Almighty on all
those implicated in his conviction, he
became quieted and Judge Cox proceeded;
You have been. convicted Of crime SO ter
| rible 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 countrymen. The excitement pro-
| duced 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 Treasury and of the government 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 jury
as ever assembled in Court of justice. You
| have been defended by counsel with o zeal
and devotion that merit the highest en-
conium, and 1 certainly have done my best
| to secure fair presentation of your defense.
| Notwithstanding all 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 act was that of
| an irresponsible man. 1t would have left
| the people the satisfying belief that the crime
| of political assassination was something en-
tire1y foreign to the institutions and civiliza-
ton of our country. But the result has de-
| MED them that comfort. The country will ac-
cept it as q fact that the crime can be commit-
ted, and the court VIII nave 20 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 people might
well, at times, have doubted your sanity.
| But one can not but believe that when
| the crime was committed you thoroughly
understood the nature of the crime and
its consequences. [Guiteau-"1 was acting as
Gods man and that you had moral sense and
conscience enough to recognize the moral in
iquity of such an act [Prisoner-"That's a
matter of opinion y Your own testimony shows
that you recoiled with horror from the idea.
say that you thought it might be prevented.
| This shows that your conscience warned
you against 1t, but by the wretched sophistry
| of your own mind you worked yourself
up against the protest Of your own con-
science. What motive could have induced
| you to this act must be matter of conjecture.
Probably men will think that some fanaticisn,
or morbid desire for self-exaltation was the
real inspiration for the act. Your own tefti.
mony seems to controvert the theories OF
your counsel. They have maintained, and
thought honestly, believe, that you were
driven against your will by an insane i'm.
ately resolved to do it, and that your deliber.
ate and misguided will was the sole impulse
This may seem insanity to some persons
but the law looks upon it as q willful crime
You will have due opportunity Of having any
errors may have committed during the course
Of the trial passed upon by the Court in banc
but meanwhile it is necessary for me to pro
nounce 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 Fri
day, the 30th day of June, 1882, you be taker
to the place prepared for the execution, within
the wall Of said jail, and there, between tn,
hours Of IL m. and 2 p. m, you be hanged b.
the neck until you are dead, and may the Lore
have mercy on your soul.
"And may the Lord have mercy on you,
SOUL" added the prisoner, following which, il
an excitable tone of voice, he denounced tn,
Court, the jury, and counsel for committing
this terrible outrage on Gods man, and added
al shall have glorious flight to glory" HI
was then returned to jail and placed unde
guard to prevent the possibility Of suicided.