Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-02-05
And he is Asked if He hiss Any
thing to Say
Why the Sentence OF Death Should
Not be Pronounced.
He Still Insists it was the Act OF
Diety, and that he is Gods Man.
Judge Cox Pronounces the Sen
tence of the Court,
That the Assassin Shall be Hanged
June aotn;s
By the Neck, Until He is Dead
Dead, Dead

D6dQ, D6aQ !
+, WASHINGTON, February After
the motion for q new trial had been
overruled, Guiteau, who had been
permitted to resume his seat at the
counsel table, called out eff your
honor please, I desire to know of any
motion that I ought to make to pre-
serve my rights"
Scoville tried to prevent his
speaking, but he retorted, "Well,
1 don't want any advantage taken OF
me. l want to know how much time
1 shall have to prepare my appeal to
the court in banc."
Scoville-"Please keep quiet, we
havnt reached that yet"
Guiteau, with much excitement
81 won't keep quiet. am here, and
propose to do my own talking"
Judge Cox then informed
Scoville of the rules of practice as to
the application to the filing of his
exceptions. After this matter had
been arranged, Corkhin said:
'It is now my desire to ask for
the sentence of the Court"
Judge Cox to the prisoner:
''Stand up. Have you anything to
say why sentence should not now be
passed upon you?"
Guiteau (still sitting: "Your
honor to postpone sentence as long
as possible"
Judge Cox: "Stand up. Have
you anything to say why sentence
should not be now passed upon
you 2"
The prisoner, with lips compressed
and determination stamped upon
his features, in low and dense tones,
began, but soon his manner became
wild and violent, and, pounding upon
the table, he delivered himself of the
following language:
81 am not guilty of the charge set
forth in the Indictment. It was Coos
act, not mine, and he will care of it
The American people forgot it. He
will take charge of it, and every off
Ger of this Government, from tn,
executive down to that marshal, tax
ing in every man on that jury and
every member of this bench, wal
pay for it, and the American natiol
will roll in blood if my body goe
into the ground and I am hung.
am Gods man, and have been from
the start"
Judge Cox then proceeded to pas
sentence, addressing the prisoner a
follows:
"You have been convicted of
crime so terrible in it's circumstance
and so far reaching that it ha
brought upon you the horror of tn
whole. world, and the execration {
your countrymen. The excitemen
provoked by such an ofense rendere
it no easy task to secure for you
8 fair and impartial trial. But yo
9 have had the power of the Unite
! States Treasury and Government i
!: your service to protect your perso
4 from violence and to procure evi
e dence from all parts of th
t country. You have had as fair an
> impartial jury as ever assembled
II court of justice. You have bee
l. defended by your counsel with pc
3 severance that excites the highes
4, encomiums of the country. I Gel
D; tainly have done my best to secure
q fair presentation of your defens
n Notwithstanding all this you hay
II been found guilty. 1t would ha'
n been comfort to many peop
,e if the verdict of the jury had estal
III hshed the fact that your act was th'
IN of an irresponsible man. 1t wouI
have left the people the satisfyir
belief that the crime of political al
sassination was something entire
y foreign to the institutions of o.
10 country. But the result has prov,
n otherwise. I must accept the ff
TO that the crime has been commit,
l. and the court will ha
y, to deal with the highest penalty know
le to the criminal code, to set an exaI
i'd pie to others.
to Your case has been SO extraor(
I'd nary that people might well at tim
ed have denied your sanity. But o
OF cannot but believe that when t
at crime was committed you thorough
knew the nature of the crime and
consequences"
Guiteau: "I was acting as CO.
90 man.
ire 'And that you had moral sense q
sre conscience enough to recognize
70. moral iniquity of such an act.
NO Ihe prisoner "That's matter
n6 opinion"
ho "Your own testimony shows IL
Wv you recoiled with horror from /
~ act. You say that you practis
against it-you say that you thoue
it might have been prevented
6 which shows that your ce
We science warned you against it. /
hat by weaving the sephistries of "
18th own mind, you worked yourself
ned against the protest of your own c
the science What motive could hi
len induced you to 90 TINS act must