The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-24

convicted or acquitted would make no dir
ference if his full duty in this responsible
charge was performed. In reply to the broad
cast imputaton put upon the government, tnat
they were offered special inducement oy Col
Corkhill to come here and testify, Judge For,
ter said "Not one dollar can Col Corkhlli
draw from the treasury except upon proper
vouchers certified according to law, ana NOT
single witness has received one dollar more
than the bare allowance provided by law. ne
repealed the assumption OF counsel ior the ue-
fence that there was man upon the Jury VINO
would hang the prisoner. The prisoner NM
self had indicated he rested his safety upon one
man.
Gateau-I rely upon twelve men.
Arguments of the defence for the past seven
DAYS had all been directed TO this one object
to decide the jury. Judge Porter addressed
himself upon this subject with great force OF
argument and eloquence directly to the INTEL
tigence and conscience of the jury. The must
not believe if any man of them thought to dis.
charge his duty by avoiding his full duty and
should cause divided jury that the United
States government would any the less press thls
trial to conviction, and continued ms case
stands and stands alone upon the single question
whether on the I'd day of July the prisoner
believed he was commanded to commit the
crime.
Guiteau-That's it; that's all there is to it.
Judge Porter-The prisoner assents and in
my opinion he knew from the first that upon
sci had half the intelligence of the prisoner
tn ey would have seen the same.
Guiteau-Thank you, Judge, but | don't
ia Ike much stock in your opinion any way.
Judge Porter adverted to the constant inter-
ruptions of the prisoner, his false claims of
sympathy and that the press was with him, and
said in contradiction, 81 have yet to see SIN
gle American newspaper that's has one word to
say in the defence.
Mr.. Scoyille vainly strove to get the ear of
the court, protesting that Porter was exceeding
the rules of the court by such statements. At
length Judge Porter paused, aud Mr.. Scoville
demanded that he be allowed to make similar
statements in reply
Judge Porter attem pied to go on but SEQ
vile reinforced by the clamor of the prisoner,
succeeded sin getting the floor, when with
much excitement he demanded his rights
should be respected. He insisted that Porter
had no fright to state what the newspapers
said or what they did not say and he desired
that an exception be duly noted,
Col. Corkhill insisted that the counsel had no
right to object. The prisoner had been allowed
to state what he had received in the way of
letters. He had been permitted to read them
and to read extracts from papers and to make
all sorts of statements as to what the American
people and press were saying of him, and
Judge Porter was simply contradicting these
statements.
Judge Cox intimated the prisoner was not
allowed to doas charged but he could not be
restrained from doing SO.
Mr.. Scoville-Well. can't Judge Porter be
restrained?
Judge Cox ruled that the speaker might con-
tradict assertions.
Judge Porter then read from the printed evil
dence several of the more noted examples of
this effort on the part of the prisoner to deceive
the jury, after which he desired to be excused
from further speaking for the day.
The court then adjourned until tomorrow.