The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-01-27
ncuILrY As rNDrcrED.n
Close or the Great Trial and Conviction
or the Assassin.

WASHINGTON, January %. - AT three
o'clock Judge Porter concluded his srgu-
n.rm aud Judge Cox charged the jury.
The verdict Of the jury Is guilty. The
jury was out six minutes. Al 5:35 the
Court was called 10 order and At $3.50 the
"guiliy" as Indicted.
In Ibis final speech, Judge Porter, for the
prosecution. spoke as follows:
"If it please your HONOR aud gentlemen
"f the jury, In my own intImity (for share
your fatieue) will proceed rs best can, Ia
discharge my duty. The nature 81 this
duty is such that should feel that were
almost accessory after the fact IL | should
fail to speak such words a. can 10 aid you
iE reaching prp,r conclusion, THUS far
The trial rs practically beet conducted by
the prisoner aud Scovllle. Every ole has
been denounced a. their will, and even now,
am inf;,Im med that will be interrupted by
them both"
Judge Porter briefly recited the scenes f
uiS'IhFis tbt doNcC anu W
every one In The case had for TWO months
been subject, "and yel," he said, "of the
speerhes which have b eli made by The de
frnse, will do the prisoner the justice 10
say that his Was the least objectionable"
AEer sketching the circulnst snces leading
up To the crime and pointing with feiyd
language TO the damning wickrdness Of It's
xeculion, Judge Porter turned his attention
to the prisoner, aud proceeded 10 depict his
character IN the followin. terms:
- begsar, a hypocrite, iobber and
swindIrI; q lawyer who never won Cause.
No CouIt, no jury failed 10 see In him dis
honest rogue, aud such men cannot win
rauses. Hr has left his trail Of infany In
. hundred dileclioiis. The man who, as a
| lawyer, had such rotions If morality that
| ahrn he had AIKEN debts 10 collect, and cui
lrced them by DIGGING The deboIs, held
them; a man who was capable If blasting
| the name If he woman Nth whom he had
slept for yeas, and still recognized as his
vie; a man WIN, when he tired Of this
Woman, pretended 10 be Christian and a
believer IN the Bible, looked into The Book
aud read, Thou shalt not commit adultery
and then went ont immediately aud con-
mii,rd adultery with aslreet-walkr'; a man
who pushed himself iuio The fellowship of
Christian associai ions as a follower Of the
Savior when fresh from six Yeas nf full
| ia, uira ion In The Ouejda Community"
Gutean--"rhat lie ought 10 choke you"
Judge Porter prorerded with resist less
| iorient Of deuuuciation. the prisoner Oeca q.
sionally calling oui: .Thai's a lie" That's
absolutely false, or That Amt so."
Passing in review the principal events of
| The prisoners life. Judge Porter showed up
IN all lis hideous def"rmity The Infamous
bent Of his nature. AhIding 10 his dispute
with his bro; her, John w. GuIieau, In Bos-
ton, when he struck The latter IN he fare,
Judge Porter said hat this was the first aud
The last time his coward ever struck any
blow IN The fa,t--his coward hand always
stru k from behind.
Aher showing who and what was the
murderer, Judge Porter next drscrlbed his
victim. paving glowing tribute TO the
character aud services Of The lanented
President and pronotIncirg q most touching
pulogy, AS il were, upon his memory; the
| claims nf the prisoner 10 be praying man
were considered aud the hollow mockeiy of
the claim shown.