Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-02-10


al of all present. The prisoner wa
hurried out of the court room into tn
van, to be carried to Jail.
Judge Cox Ito the prisoneI, "Stan
up. Have you anything to say VIII
sentence Should not be passed upo
yous"
Guiteau (still sitting)--'I ask you
Honor to postpone sentence as long a
possible"
Judge Cox-"Stand up. Have yo,
anything to say why sentence shoult
not now be pronounced upon you!"
The prisoner then arose.
PALE, BUT WITH LIrS COMPRESSED
ard desperate determination stamped
upen his features. In a low and dehb
crate tone he began, but soon his man
ner became wild and violent, ane
pounding upon the table he delivered
himself of the following harangue:
II am not guilty of the charge Sc
forth in the Indictment. 1t was God:
act not mine, and God will take care
of it, and don't let the American peo'
pie forget it. He will take care of it
and every officer of this government,
from the Executive down to the Mar.
shall, taking in every man on that jury
and every member of this bench will
pay for 1t, and
THE AMERICAN NATION WILL ROLL. IN
BLOOD
if my body goes INTO 1ne ground and j
am hung. The Jews put the desplsed
Gahlean in the grave for the time.
They triumphed; but at the destruction
of Jerusalem forty years afterwards the
Almighty got even with them. am
not afraid of death.
AM HERE AS GODS MAN.
Kill me tomorrow, if you want-I 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 a
crime so terrible in its circumstances
aid so far-reaching in its result that it
has drawn upon you the horror Of the
whole world and the execration of your
countrymen. The excitement pro-
duced by such an ofense made it no
easy task to secure for you a fair and
trial, but you have had the
yower 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 as fair
and impartial a jury as ever assembled
in a court of justice. You have been
defended by counsel with zeal and de-
votion that merits the highest encomi-
um, and l have done my best to Sc
cure fair presentation of your defense.
Notwithstanding all this you have been
found guilty. 1t would have been
comfort to many people if the verdict
Of the jury had established the fact that
your act was that of an irresponsible
mar. 1t would have left the people
he satisfying belief that the crime of
political assassination was something
entirely foreign to i : institutions and
civilization of our country, but the re-
ult has denied them that comfort.
The country will accent it as a fact that
hat crime can be committed, and the
Court will have to deal with 1t with the
lighest penalty known to the criminal
ode, to serve as an example to others
1our career has been so extraordinary
hat people might well at times have
oubted your sanity; but one cannot
ut believe that when the crime was
ommitted you thoroughly understood
he nature of the crime and its conse-
uences Guiteau-I was acting as
'od's mani and that you had moral
ense and conscience enough to .recog-
lze the moral iniquity of such an act"
Prisoner: That's matter of ssopin-
N.
"Your own testimony shows that you
cooled with horror from the idea.
ou say that you prayed against it;
GU say that you thought is might be
'evented. This shows that your con.
ience warned you against it, but by
e wretched sophistry of your own
ind, you worked yourself up against
e protest Of your own conscience.
hat motive could have induced YOU {
that act must be matter of con- ,
cture. Probably men will think that t
me fanaticism or morbid desire =,
r self-exaltation was the real >
Spir alton for this act. Your !;
N testimony seems to controvert =
theories of your counsel. They :
We maintained, ard thought honestly $
'elleve, that you were driven against E
ur will by an insane impulse, The r
'timony showed that you deliberately 6
solved to do it, and that a deliberate -
d misguided will was the sole impulse = =
us may seem insanity to some per. =
rs but the law looks upon it as a will
CRIME. You will have due opportu.
y OF having any errors l may have b
mmitted during the course of the rt
ii passed upon by the court in banc. p
meanwhile it is necessary for me to b
the sentence of the law-$ =
t you be taken hence to the com. 6
N jail Of the District, from whence Il
i came and there be kept in con.
sment and on Friday the 80 of June,
81, Won be taken m tha Dl,oe