The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-02-10
GUIFEAU,s Death SENTENCE.


When Judge Cox, on Saturday last, passed
sentence on Guiteau, he addressed the pris-
oner as follows
"You have been convicted Of n crime so
terrible in its circumstances and so far-reach-
ing in its results that it has drawn upon YOU
the horror Of the whole civilized world and
the eXecrations of your cOuntrymen. The
excitement produced by such an Onense made
It no easy task to secure for you fair and
impartial trial, but you had the power of the
United states Treasury and of the govern
ment IN your service to protest your person
from violence and to procure evidence from
all parts Of the country You have had as
falr and impartial jury as ever assembled
IN court Of Justice. You have been defend
ed by counsel with zeal and devotion that
merit the highest encOmium and L certainly
have done my best to secure a fair presenta-
ton of the defense, Notwithstanding all
this you have been found guilty 1t would
nave been comfort to many people if the
verdict OF the Jury had established the fact
that your act was that of an irresponsible
man. 1t would have left the satisfying be-
lief that the crime of political assassination
was something entirely foreign to the insti-
tutions and civilization of our country but
the result has denied them that comfort
The country will accept it as a fact that the
crime can be committed, and the Court will
have to deal with it with the highest penalty
known to the criminal code to serve as an
extraordinary that people might well at times
nave doubted your sanity. But one cannot
but believe that when the crime was commit
ted you thoroughly understood the nature Of
tho crime and its -TGuiteau.
was acting as Gods man l-and that you
had.mOrai sense and conscience enough to
recognize the moral iniquity of such an act -
That's matter of opinion"
~ our own testimony shows that you re-
cOiled with horror from the idea You saw
that you prayed against it. You say that
you thought it might be prevented. This
shows that your conscience warned You
against it, but by the wretched sophistry Of
your own mind YOU worked Yourself M
against the protest of your own conscience
What motive could have induced you to this
act must be matter of conjecture. PrOba-
bly, men Will think that some fanaticism or a
morbid desire for self -exaltatiOn was the real
inspiration for the act. Your own testimony
seems to conuOveTt the theories Of your
counsel They have maintained and Thought
honestly, l believe, that you were driven
against your viii by an insane imOulse to
commit the act, but your testimony showed
that you deliberately resolved to DO it, and
that deliberate and misguided will was the
sole impulse This may seem insanity to
some persons, but the law looks upon it as a
Wllful crime. You viii have due OppOrtuni-
ty Of having any error may have committed
during the course Of the trial passed upon by
the Court in banc, but meanwhile it is neces-
SarY Tor me to pronounce the sentence of the
the District from whence You came, and
there be Kept in confinement and on Friday
the 30th of June, 1882, YOU be taken to the
place prepared for the execution, within the
walls Of said Jail, and there, between The
hours OF i " and 2 p. NJ, you be hanged by
the neck until you are dead. And may the
Lord have mercy on your SOUL
GUTTEAU CALLING down CURSES.
As the last solemn words fell from the
Judges lips the prisoner echoed them, but in
a far different tone OF voice, for it was in a
voice Of passionate hatred that be cried out
"And may God have mercy On your soul
had rather stand where I am than where
that jury does or than where your Honor
does. | am not afraid 70 die Confound
YOU, he cried, violently struggling with the
Deputy MaTshals, who were endeavOring tC
represS him, "teave me alone. / know where
/ stand on this business. lam here as Gods
man, and don't you forget It. God Almighty
will curse every man who has had anything
to do with this act. Nothing but good la.
. come Of General Garfeld's removal, and thai
viii be pOsterity's idea OF il. Everybody j.
happy here except few Crauks. NOTHING
+ but good has come to this snatiOn from hi,
removal. That is the reason the Lord want
/ ed him removed" ."
( Mr Scoville took an exception to the fudq
ment and sentence of the Court and whilt
this was being noted the prisoner sat tappin.
+ nervousIy with the tips of his fingers upoI
/ the table Then lie broke out AGAIN wildly
/ I'D rather thousand times be in my pO
sitiOn than be with those devils who hav
! bounded me to death. I will have a flight G,
/ glory, and I'm not afraid TO 20. But Cork
hill and the others are. There is no let-uT
on COrkhiI, the scOundreI. He has per
maneut job down below. l will 20 to glOr7
/ whenever the Lord wants me to 90, but
+ will probably stay down here good many
! years and get into the White House. I know
/ how 1 stand on this business, and so docs tn
Z Lord, and he will pull me through with the
help Of two or three good lawyers, and al
the devils in hell can't hart me"