Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-24

aad been by the Presidents side he would have
stayed his hand. II they had only a reasonable
doubt a. tn whether the prisoner knew the differ
eace between right and wrong they were bound ID
convict.
WHO WOULD BE SAFE
il 1t were true that every man who had had an in
sane cousin. an insane uncle, an insane aunt-not
insane himself. but perfectly knowing that mur-
der is legally and morally wrong-holds their lives
in their right hands. This was the license that
the brother-in-law or Guiteau contended fora
license 20 be gained not from the law but from one
of twelve emperors I'm denance OF the law The
insane or this country were 10 learn by the ver-
d1ct OF this Jury-if they acquitted this pris-
oner-that every one OF them was at liberty 10
murder. These lunatics could rush forth with
knife and torch In their hands and spread murder
and ruin through the country.
GUIrEAU NEVER WAS INSANE
Mr.. Porter said he WAS glad TO learn that while
the case produced horror outside OF lunatic asy-
lums, 1t produced greater horror there. He be-
lieyed II jury was TO be empaneled in any luna
Tic asylum, they would convict this man. for IL
would endanger their lives 10 let this go free
III thS man was not Insane they had ut one duty,
ana that was 10 convict. BE was not insane. lie
aNerred what this proof indisputably established,
liit ne never Was ms he, and certainly not he
2d II July. The principal claim to establish this
ciailn-the atrocity OF this act-thst claim was the
claim aI no, OF the prisoner He would admit that it
committed for six thousand years.
GUITEAU ON THE BIBLE LAW.
Mr. Porter having referred to the Divine COM
mand against murder and the law, ,''WhoSo Shedeth
the blood OF man, by man his blood shall be she'd"
the prisoner said ''That was 1000 or 1900 years
ago. We've got new laws since then"
THE GOSPEL OF GUITEAU.
They had had the gospel OF Guiteau said Mr..
Porter, and he thought the jury would endorse it,
Well II is said this man is insane His insanity is
hereditlry. From whom did he inherit? From
murderer? No. He inherited from his father who
had worshpped God down to the time OF his
death; pure, Just. righteous. conscientious man.
Scovllie dared not put to his own wife the question:
WAS Luther W. Guiteau nsane?" None dared
say upon the Book OF God that he believed Luther
w. GuIteau was insane.
LIAR AS WELL AS AN ASSASSIN.
The claim OF heredity was sham and impos-
ture Was this mans brain diseased on the 2i of
July? II not, they were relieved OF much discus
sion. II was diseased it was a regular disease
1t left him, according TO his own statement at
the hour In which the assassination was accom-
plished. The man was liar as well as an assassin
ana the crime was instigated not 10y the Diety but
by the father OF lies.
Mr.. Porter referred to the prisoners own testi-
mony that he had enjoyed COOL health i'm iail ex-
cept once. when his digestion was disturbed by
OVer-feaStlng at one OF his THANKSGIVING leveeS A
man VINO had always enjoyed good health except
when he suffered one infirmity, resulting from his
Interpretation OF the command Thou shalt not
commit adultery"
r."
prisoner Il have your record, old man. 1t smells
about as bad as Corkhilrs."
Did they believe his mind was diseased? con-
tinued Mr.. Porter. This idea OF insanity origi-
mated with this prisoner. He had prepared for
assassination for six weeks-aS he said, praying-
praying that Garfield might be removed but he be
Gu1TEAU SAYS GARFIELD OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN
"If had been President OF the United States.-
broke In the prisoner, "as GARFIELD was. and ruined
the republican party, think ought to have been
Shot That's what think of that
THE PLEA OF INSANITY.
He tGuiteau}, said Mr.. Porter, was lawyer. He
had prepared his own defence. From the day
Scovtile had called on the prisoner-on July 4th-
the press had been loaded with this idea OF insan-
ify: Mr: Porter having reviewed the testimony OF
Gulteau's relatives, and saying that for some un-
eXplalned reason the testimony OF Geo. W. Scovie
was not given, said they had the testimony OF his
wife, the woman who loved him.
One-sided affair."
"The woman who married him."
"That was swinde."
"The wOman," continued Mr.. Porter 0who lived
with him; who slept with him."
sometimes she did, and sometimes she didn't"
None OF these, continued Mr.. Poner, had sworn
this man as insane: They had called upon men
whom this priSo ner had sMindled to do that
AT 3:1O pm. the cOu TT adjourned.
TRIAL NOTES.
This morning witness In a case which was on
the assignment OF the Circuit Court, having been
directed by Mrs. lockwood to come to court
found himself in the crowd near the eastern door
OF the court house Informing the officers that he
was witness, and they supposlng that he was to
go before the grand Jury his ingress was expe-
dited. and just as the doors were opened, he
reached the entrance, when, being wedged in by
the crowd before he could recover himself he was
borne on the waves OF crinOiine, broadcloth, &C.,
and Landed in the middle OF the Criminal Court
room, where he remained an enforced listener to
NJ mt In n
Macarthur proceeded with his call in the Circuit
Court, and Mrs. lockwood started on search for
her witness and aScertaned that he was blocked
in In the Criminal Court room. Returning she
made an excuse to Judge Macarthur, who re-
garded 1t as reasonable one, and she was not
pressed into the trial.
Hon S. s. Cox, Attorney General Brewster and
Judge Wylie Sat on the bench with Judge Cox this
morning.
MI. Porter's son sat at the counsel table to-day