The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-18
WILL HE HANG?
Speculations as to the Probable Yer
dict of Guiteau's Jury.
VIII 1t Be a Disagreement or GUILTY.
That Is the. Question.


was at once interrupted by Guiteau,
who had been looking over towards the
jury for some minutes in an anxious OF
expected tanner
Hadn't L better deliver it now?''
he called out.
''Oh yes" replied Scoville, 81 had
forgotten"
Then turning to Judge Cox: "He
desires, your honor, to prefer the re-
quest that he be allowed to address the
jury. 1 have looked over the paper
which he desires to read, and can see
nothing Of an Objectionable character. ="
Judge Cox nodded assent, and Quit
eau said:
II have written down what I wish
to say, and 1 will read it. 1t is in re-
gard to my speech"
He then read with considerable EN- :
phasis: 81 intend no disrespect to
this honorable court. In general, 1 am
satisfied with the law as proposed by
your honor, but 1 have suggested a
still broader view, which 1 ask your
honor to follow, to wit: That if the
jury believe that l believed it was
right to remove the president because
1 had special divine authority so to do,
and was forced to do 1t by the Deity,
they acquit on the ground of transitory
mania. Sickies, Mcfarland and His.
cock were acquitted on the ground Of
transitory mania.
In my speech published in all the
leading American papers yesterday, and
which, l presume, your honor has read,
1 gave my reasons for asking your
honor so to change. Reed made a bril-
liant and lawyerlike plea for the de-
fens, and Scoville is making a strong
argument for his theory, but neither
Reed nor Scoville represent me in this
defense. 1 am here as my own coun-
sci, and, as stated at the opening of the
case, no n u represent me to that
jury. 1 know my feelings and my in
spiration in removing the president,
and l have set it forth to my satisfac-
ton In my speech published yesterday,
and ask your honor in the name of JUS
tice, and in the name Of the American
people, to allow me to address the jury
Of my conntrymen when my life may
be at stake. II a man on that jury has
q doubt as to his duty in acquitting me,
my speech will probably settle him in
my favor, and, therefore, in the inter-
est Of justice, it is of the greatest i'm
p~ortance that they hear me in my de-
Tense. Your honor can decide the
matter II you have any doubt as to
your duty"
Scoville began with a general com
plant Of the unfairness on the part of
the prosecution, particularly Of the
prosecuting attorney. He had from the
beginning prescribed who should visit
the Jail and who should not. He had
introduced persons into the prisoners
cell under a false guise to worm out his
secrets, and whom the prisoner said
anything which might injure to his
benefit, the prosecuting attorney had
been very careful to let it become
known. He complained of Corkhill's
unfairness in destroying the notes of
S~tenographer Bailey, so that the de-
fenss could not have the benefit of
them. The conduct Of the prosecu-
tion in the court room, he alleged, was
not only unfair to the defense, but was
often discourteous, and more befitting
the police court than this.
Scoville then criticised severely the
course Of the prosecution in refusing to
permit the prisoner to address the jury
for a brief hour or two. simply because
they feared they might disclose by his
name Of his speech his true mental
condition,
In abiding to the discussion of the
proposition to allow the prisoner to
speak, Scoville quoted the district at
torney as having. said, if the prisoner
should be allowed to speak, it should
be from the dock.
Corkhill-"I said nothing Of the
kind. L protested against his return to
the counsel table, and I said it would
be a disgrace to have him speak from
the dock.n
Guiteau called out: swell, 1 have
beer a good boy lately, SO you'd better
let me out"
Scoyille then called attention to the
letter written by Guiteau to the dis
trict attorney, and from which a por.
ton had been clipped, as he claimed
by the prosecution, and in a spirit of un
fairness.
Davidge (smiling)-"Oh, just as.
sumo that to be one Of the conspirators.
cut it out" IA
Corkhill-"I suppose what you ART
driving at is that you want the jury tc
think l cut a slip out Of that letterp'
Scoville-I believe it was done by
you, or by your direction. and for the
reason that yon believed it for the in
terest Of the prosecution
s do l." shouted Guiteau.
Scoville then proceeded to give the
Jury his views upon Judge Porter, and
70 Instruct them rs to how much weight
tney should attach to his u~tterances,
etc.
ocovills continued up to the hour O
adjournment. His review Of the life O.
the prisoner, explaining his acts in the
nshrof counsel's(Scoville's) theory upor