The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1882-01-07

and for that purpose came to Washington: that
Immediately before coming to Washington he was
getting precaIiouS subsistence In New York by
Soliciting lie insurance: that in order To get 10
Washington he borrowed $40 and arrived in Wash
ington without funds: that he topped at the Eb-
beu House one day and lett without paying his
bill: that he went from one boarding house to an
other in Washington, leaving the board bills
paid in each and falsely representing that he was
expecting money and would soon pay; That he
borrowed SIS from a fiiend. ststii that he want
ed money TO pay board bill. bat rea ly u,ed II
20 purchase pistol win which To shoot the Presi-
dent of the United States that he boaTed at a re-
spectacle house in the city of Wa>hlI gtoh for
more than five weeks, leaving il only two days be-
fore the 81 ooting, and only then because the
landlady demanded pa, meIt for board,
which he promised 20 pay in few daye but
which was n. ver paid: that during this time he
was on friendly relations With lis fellow beard
ers. conyersing with them daily at the table upon
religious and general topics. attending Church,
as well as the revision OF the New Testament and
the situation represented by the Senatorial
contest at Albany, and exhibiting nothing un-
usual in his manners conduct or conversation;
that while stopping at the house he followed the
President OH a. least two occasions for the pur-
pese of shooting him, once watching him from
Lafayette Park. but seeing him tide out with
several friends desisted from shooting him; that
once he followed bin 10 The depot. but seeing q
SICK wlfe leai Ing on hls arm remained from shoot
ing on that occasion, and that du lug all Tins
time he never mentioned the sub, oi inspira-
lion or that he had any exiTadinaTy relation
with the Deity or had any Givi e C mmis>i.,n to
perform: that he went To the Riggs House the day
before the shuoting and lefi thai btard bill un-
aid that failing to secure the ifices he sought
alld disapp luted In The eXpecta Ions which he
had equeutly said he cantideuily entertained,
he fol Owed the President t om place To- place,
seeking the opportunity 10 shoot him, and Fl ally,
learning that the President Was to go la Long
Branch on certain day, be went To the railway
station to wayiay him, and there sIealIhily sp-
proachiGg him from behind. tTeacbeTously muir
dered him by shooting him in the back; that. ar.
rested aid charged with This crime ne justified
IL a patrioiic act and cls lined tlat IL
political necessity, and that the President was
guilty of the blacklist ingratitude by
going back on men who made
him; that by removing the President he
took but the life of man, which
cemented the Republican party anu prevented
another war which might nave st thousands of
lives as our last war dIj, aud that the prominent
men connected with the Republican party whom
he supposed would be benefited by his crime
would protect him from the sequences of his
act: that when lie learned that these men had
expressed their abhOrTence OF his crime he ap-
peared To be ''struck dumb" and in ''gr, mental
agony" and after collecting himself he repeat
edly used the words. Most astuuuding!' and ex-
claimed. What does il mean? / would have
staked my life that they would defend me-" and
gain repeated the words most astounding"
and that shortly theret fter he. for the first time,
used the words exprs ssed the idea of 'inspira-
tom in referring 10 his crime: and that only
since that time has nc claimed iii spiraIion"
defence tor the murder. Assuming all these
10 be true, l will ask you to slate
whether in yOur opiniOn the person sane or
insane at the time Of shoot G President Garfeldf