The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-02-09
GUlTEAU'S DEATH SENTENCE.

GUITEAU'S DEATH SENTENCE.
Gulteau Sentenced to b. Hanged Until
He is Dead on the 8Dth
The Assassin Declares Himself Gods Man
and Predicts Wrath and
Vengeance.
On Friday Guiteau was brought into court and
placed in the dock Before taking Ills seat Gui-
teau looked cvsr to his counsel and said In .
quiet and rather pleading tone.
Can sit at that table, II your honor please?
Judge Cox-If there ia no objection from
counsel.
Guitesu1have you any objection, Colonel'
The prisoner then took seat at tho table by
the side Of Scoyille and taking out Of his coat
pocket roll OF manuscript addressed the court
in apparent belief, and with the air Of principal
counsel in the case: III the court please, before
this motion is made desire to correct few
errors that have nrept IT," At this point he
jected to any remarks from tho prisoner &c.,
Vile also objected and thought any thing Of the
kind had better be postponed until the business
before the court had besn disposed of.
sooville proceeded to read afidavits and
other papers fled by him with his motion of .
rev trial F. e. Snyder, maker of the A.
fdavit upon which ecoville relies mainly to
support his moi i'm, sat Immediately in the rear
Of scoville. Cork i'll then read the affidavit of
each member Of the jury, in which they most
Of <he Critic or any other paper during tie
time they served as jurors upon the trial of
Guiteau. Following these was read the A.
fidavit Of Norman Wizard, 10 the effect
that he had known Snyder for fifteen
years, and to his knowledge said sny-
and that he wizard would not believe him un.
der OATH Col. Corkhill also read af1idavits of
John L. Sergeant, formerly q detective in
Washington, and Detective McElfresh, who ar
rested Snyder several years ago on the charge
Of grand larceny, also an affidavit of George @.
which Snyder alleges he took the copy of the
Critic with tho jurors names upon it. The af1i-
ant did not purchase Critic during the trial
Judge Cox was expected to render his decision
on Saturday nv s.rrpn.v
M Scoville MADE AL ef1oft to postpone the de-
cision on the motion for new trial. Oh the
ground that the matter should be further in
vestgated but Judge Cox began at once to read
his deci sion. Referring to the allegations con-
nected with the finding OF the newspaper in
the jury room, he said that they amounted to
L
member of the jury that they lid not see or
read paper at aay time during the trial. No
ono could swear to the fact that the jurors did
write upon the paper while they all swear they
did not, and there is no reason to doubt the ir
veracity. He disposed Of the talk about tie
could in no wise affect the verdict. As to tho
expert witness whose admissions after the trial
are alleged to have been different from his evil
dence given upon the trial, Judge Cox said
sworn admis.i ions Of this character could never
be considered as ground for overturning YER
dict that may have been obtained through evil
dence of the very witness who, from q corrupt
motive, might seek to reverse verdict.
From all the papers presented, Judge Cox
summed up: 81 am unable to find any reason
| to grant the motion, which is therefore over
| ruled"
scoyille-! would like to note exceptions to
Col Corkhill-Your honor, it now becomes
Scoville-One moment, please. would like
70 file in due form the motion which referred
to yesterday. Scoville then filed his motion il,
arrest Of Judgement
Guiteati. who had been permitted to resume
his seat at the counsel table, called out, ut
your honor please, desire to ask if there is any
motion that ought to make to reserve my
rights" Scoville tried to prevent his speak
ing, but he retorted, "Well, I don't want any
| advantage Cdkou OI 1u0. Waut 10 Know now
much time shall Lave to prepare my appeal to
the court in banc."
scoville-Please keep quiet We haven't
| reached that yet.
Guiteau. with much excitement.-I won't
keep quiet sln here and propose to do my
own talking.
Judge Cox then informed Scoville of the rules
of practice applicable to filing his exception,
and after this matter had been arranged, Cork
hill renewed his motion, saying, 1T is now my
duty to ask for the sentence OF the court"
Judge Cox to the prisoner-Stand up. Have
you anytliog to say why sentence should not be
passed upon you?
Guiteau, still sitting-I ask your honor ia
postpone sentence as long as possible.
Judge Cox-Stand up. Have you anything
to say why sentence should not be passed upon
you?
compressed and a desperate determination
'iberate tone he began, but coon his manner be-
came wild and violent, and pounding upon tie
table, Ee delivered himself Of tho following
harsngue: II am not guilty of the charge sci
forth IN tho Indictment. It was Gods act, moi
mine, and God will take care Of it and don't lei
the American people forgot it He will take
care Of it and every officer left to this govern
meet, from ths executive down to that marshal
aa!9s and u ev sTs'' member OF OF III; 'R;'
bench, will pay for IT; a1d tile American ma
ton will roll in blood, it my body goes into
despised Gallileao in the grave. For the time
they triumphed, but at the destruction Of Jeru.
salem forty years afterward. the Almighty got
sven with them. I am not afraid Of death. ]
am here 50 Gods man. Kill me tomorrow II
you want to. I am Gods man and have eai6
60 from the etart"
Judge Cox then proceeded to pass sen
tence, addressing the prisoner in the following
manner: ssYou have been coavicetd 0
crime 80 terrible In it's circutn stances AMI g
far reaching in its results that it has drawn up
on you the horror OF the whole world and til
excavations Of your countrymen. The excite
ment produced by such an offense made it III
easy task to secure for you 3 fair and impsl
tial trial, but you have had the power of til
United States treasury and government in you
service to protect your person from violenc
and TO procure evidence from all parts Of tn
cruntry: You have had az fair and in
Of justice. You have been defended b
counsel with = zeal and devotion that merit
the highest encomium and I certainly hav
done my best to secure q fair presentation
your defence. Notwithstanding all this 20
have been found guilty. 1t would have been
jury had established it that your act was that
have left the people satisfied
the belief Ina the crime Of murdt
political assassination was something entirel
foreign to the constitution and civilization
OF our country. But the result has Geni<
them that comfort The country will accept
as fact that the crime can be committed and til
court will have to deal with it with the h;ghe.
penalty known to the criminal code, to serve 9
an example to the Others Your career ha
been so extraordinary that people might well /.
times have doubted your sanity, but one cannt
but believe that when the crime was committf
you thoroughly understood the nature Of til
cr1me and its consequences
Guiteau: was acting as Gods man.
Aud that You had moral sense and cor
science to recognize the iniquity OF such s
act.
The Prisoner: That's matter Of opinion.
Your own testimony shows that you reooile
with horror from the idea. You say that 20,
prayed against it You say that you though
it might be prevented This shows that you
conscience warned you against 1t, but by tn
wretched sophistry Of your own min
you worked yourself up against tn
protest Of your own conscience
What motive could have induced you to TIL
act must be matter Of conjecture. Probabl
men will think that some fanaticism OF morbi
desire for self exaltation was the real inspi
ration for the act. Your own testimony eeem
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