The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-02-10


public spectacle of Guiteaus remains, 1t is
thought highly probable that Judge Cox will
exercise the discretion gwen him by the Re
vised Statutes, and include in the death SEN
tence tho disposition OF the body.
The Death-Sentencc Passed Upon the
Assassin.
In the Criminal Court at Washington, on
Saturday, Feb. A, Judge Cox overruled the
motion for new trial in the case of the MUIR
derer of President Garfield. Scovile there
upon filed n motion III arrest OF Judgment.
Judge Cox then asked the assassin If he had
aught to say why sentence should not be passed
upon him. The prisoner arose, PALE but with
lips compressed, and desperate determination
stamped upon his features, In low and de-
hberate tone he began, but soon his manner
became wild and violent, and, pounding upon
tho table, he delivered himself Of the follow
ing harangue:
am not guilty of the charge set forth in the
Indictment. 1t was Gods act, not mine, and
God Will take care OF it, aud don't let the
American people forget 1t. He will take care OF
il and of every officer OF this Government,
from the Executive down to that Marshal, taxi
ing i'll every man on that jury, and every men,
Der of this bench will pay for 1t, and the Amer
lean nation will roll i'll blood if my body goes
INTO the ground and am hung. The Jews put
tho dcsplsed Gahean in the grave. For the
t:ae they triumphed, but at the destruction Of
Jerusalem. forty years afterward, the Almighty
got even with them. / am not afraid of death.
| am here as Gods man. Kill me tomorrow
if you want. l am Gods man, and have been
from the start"
Judge Cox then proceeded to pass sentence
addressing the prisoner as follows: "YOu
have been convicted of crime so terrible in
its circumstances, and so far-reachinY III its re-
suits, that it has drawn upon you the horror
of the whole world and the excavations Of
your countrymen. The excitement produced
by such an offense made 1t no easy task
to secure for you fair and i'm
partial trial. but YOU have had the power
of the United States treasury and of the
Government in your service to protect your
person from violence and to procure evidence
from all parts of the country. You have had
al fair aud impartial jury as ever assembled
In court Of justice. You have been defended
by counsel with zeal and devotion that mer-
its the highest encomlum, and L certainly have
done my best to secure q fair presentation of
your defense. Notwithstanding all this you
have been found guilty. 1t would have been
q comfort to many people If the yer
dict OF the jury had established the
fact that your act was that OF an IT.
responsible man. 1t would have left the
people a satisfying belief that the crime of
political assassination was something entirely
foreign to the institutions and civilization of
our country but the result has denied them
Il a
fact that the crime can be committed, and the
court will have TO deal with il with the highest
penalty known 10 the criminal code, TO serve as
an example to Others. Your career mas been SO
extraordinary that people might well, at times
have doubted your sanity, but one can not but
believe that when the crime was committed you
thoroughly understood nature OF the crime
and its consequences leu teau-I was acting
as Gods man]-" and that you had moral sense
and conscience enough TO recognize the moral
lnquity OF such an act"
The Prisoner-rhat's a matter Of opinion.
"Your own testimony shows that you recoiled
with horror from the idea. You say that you
prayed against it. You sag that your conscience
warned you against 1t, but by the wretched
sophistry of your own mind you worked your
self up against the protest OF your own con-
| science. What motive could have induced YOU
to this act must be matter of conjecture.
| Probably men will think that some fanatcism
! or morbid desire for self-exatation was the
real inspiration for the act. Your own test.
mony seems to controvert tue theories Of your
counsel They have maintained and thought,
| honestly, l believe, that you were driven
! against your will by an insane impulse. The
testimony showed that you deliberately re-
| solved to do it, and that your deliberate and
misguided will was the sole impulse. This
may seem insanity to some persons but the
law looks upon IL as willful crime
You will have due opportunity of hay
ing any errors 1 may have committed
during the course Of trial passed upon by tho
court in banc bat, meanwhile, 1t is necessary
! for me to pronounce the sentence OF the law
! that you be taken hence to the common Jail of
| the District, from whence You came, and there
be kept in confinement, and on Friday the 3Oth
day Of June, 1882, you be taken into the place
! prepared for your execution, within the walls
Of said Jail, and there, between tine hours of
IL and p. M, you be hanged by the neck I'M
til you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy
on your soul.
During the reading Guiteau stood apparent
ly unmoved and with his gaze riveted u, on the
Judge, but when the final words were spoken
he struck the table Violently and shouted
"And may the Lord have mercy on your soul
I'd rather stand where l do than where the
| jury does and where your Honor stands. I'm
not afraid to die. l stand here as Gods man,
| and God Almighty will curse every man
who has had part in procuring this
| unrighteous verdict. Nothing but good has
come from Garfield's removal and that will be
the verdict Of posterity on my inspiration. I
don't care snap for the verdict of this corrupt
generation. would rather thousand times
be in my position than that of those who have
bounded me to death. l shall have a glorious
flight to glory, but that miserable scoundrel,
Corkhill, Will have permanent job down be-
low, where the devil is preparing for him."
After apparently talking himself ont the
| prisoner turned to his brother and, without the
slig htest trace of excitement conyersed for
some minutes before being taken from the
! courtroom.
George Scoville has returned to his home in
| Chicago He v Ill not prepare the appeal pa
| pers in the case before March. Guards watch
! the assassin night and day.
Guiteau was vaccinated in tho Jail on the
| day that he received his death sentence