Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-21
Good-Bye to Guitea,f .

TgE oPINIoN-DIsPoSAL OF THE PRISON EB.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-A unanimous de-
cision of the District supreme court on the
questions raised by the defense in the Guiteau
case will be announced Monday.
The Post tomorrow will give the follow
ing as the points of the decision: 1.-THE opin-
ton of the court will broadly sustain the po-
sitlon taken by the district attorney that the
Jurisdiction is complete where the fatal blow
vas struck without TT gard to the locality Of
SEXUAL demise. The court holds that the bull
let fired at the President by Guiteau in this
city was the cause of his death, and that the
trial could only have been held in Washing
ton: that the death of the president in New
5ersey, except as affected by the local statute,
could not change the juris LECTION; that the
assassin had not been in New Jersey and had
committed no offelse against New Jersey
laws; and that the mere fact of the victim be-
i1g removed to Elberon to prolong his life or
save it If possible could not be made to effect
the character of the crime. The court will
hold in addition that there are several grounds
on which the Jurisdiction as exercised might
ne maintained if it were necessary to decide
the case.
First-That this is United States court,
with all the powers of any circuit court of the
United States.
Second-That this is a judicial district, and
mat under the provision of law, when @ crime
Is begun in one and completed in another dis
trtct, the offense is complete in either.
Third-That murder being an offense in this
district against the United States the re-
tnoval of the president to New Jersey did not
take him beyond the jurisdiction of the gov
ernment against which the oftense was COM
United.
Considerable anxiety has been expressed as
70 the action of the supreme court of the
United States, it bang announced that appli-
cation would be made to that body by the de-
fandant's counsel for writ of habeas
corpus. There are are now only TWO justices
OK that court in the city, court having ad-
iourned for a time), Chief Justice
Waite and Justice Miller. The best legal
authorities express doubts whether
such writ could be granted by the full court
ia session, and it is not believed that any
single Judge will take the responsibility of pas
sing on so important question, when 1t IS
.aCailed that the court was in session for
three months after the sentence was passed.
Il may therefore be concluded that Gulteau
VIII hang, and that there is no hope for him.
The Post adds: After delivery of the opinion
the prisoner will be taken from the solitary
cell, where he is now confined, and placed
under guard, better known as the 'death
watch.' Every action will be observed up
10 the fatal moment, and not word will be
permitted to be spoken 20 him except by his
advisor, or by persons specially
authorized by the warden, Gen. Crocker. who
las had entire charge of and responsible for
the assassin from this time on until his dead
body is ready to be submitted to post mortem
examination. District Attorney Corkhlll has
determined upon an examination of the brain
Of the assassin by board of the most emf
aant experts in the United States to put at
rast,as he believes, any further question of his
sanity. After the autopsy the body will be
delivered to the relatives OF the doomed man,
Il any call for 1t.