Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-25

who was murderer from the beginning.
The prisoner-Tbat takes you in, Porter.
Porter-That is insanity which this man
has inherited. The man is liar as well as
an assassin, and he was instigated not by the
Almighty, but by the devil.
THE PRISONERS LIFE OF CRIME.
/ Mr.. Porter went on to review the prisone,
and his life Of crime, in which he included
adultery.
The prisoner-How many times have yor
been guilty of that Look up your record,
old man. / guess you are about as bad al
Corkhill.
Mr.. Porter went on to refer to the prison
ers's life in Washington, and asked. Was thi:
temporary mania, Abrahamic mania, ol
disease of the brain, which resulted in the
murder for the benefit of the stalwarts of the
Republican party?
The prisoner-For the benefit of the Amer
lean people. A removal, not murder. They
are very well satisfied with if, too.
Porter-Gsntlemen if | went no further
do you believe that mans brain was diseased
| deal with nothing else now Was hil
brain diseased, and did the disease come anC
go according to whether President Garfield
went out alone, or went out with his wife
or went out with his children, OF
went to the Soldiers Home, or went to the
railroad depot? Do you believe that the
right remedy for disease of the brain is tc
make six weeks preparation for assassina.
tion, and that the shooting of another man
through tins spine is a cure for the disease
| That is the case, as the prisoner makes out.
The prisoner-If l were President of the
United States. and had ruined the Republi-
can party, as Garfield had, / ought to be
shot. That is my opinion about that, and it
is the opinion Of great many people, too.
| -.
In the course of his further argument. Por-
| ter referred to the prisoners divorced wife as
a woman who loved him.
| The prisoner did not love her. It was a
one-sided affair.
Porter-The woman who married him
The prisoner-That was swindle.
Porter-The woman who slept with
him
TIE prisoner-Sometimes she did, and
| sometimes she didn't.
Porter-The woman who borrowed for him.
and who gave evenings of her industry to
| furnish him with money which he spent on
street prostitutes.
The prisoner-That is lie, and big one.
Porter-The woman whose divorce was Sc
cured by his procurement by all sorts of de.
ceit. meanness and ignominy.
The prisoner-I had 10 business to marry
her at all.
Porter-He and his prostitutes were nit.
nesses to aid him in removing his wife.
The prisoner-All that happened was years
ago, and has nothing to do with this case.
Continuing, Judge Porter said: "Who
else is responsible? John FL. Noyes is he
responsible? He killed Garield-J ohm Fl.
Noyes, from whom the prisoner stole his
lectures p
Guiteau-That is false; rely upon my
own brains for my productions.
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Porter-That father wl.om, when Is years
old, he (Guiteau) struck, was responsible
That father whom he never forgave, and with
whom he had not spoken for the last fifteen
years of his honorable life. The mother,
whom he scarcely ever remembers, was
guilty, because she had an attack of erysip-
elias some weeks before he was born, and had
cut off her hair, thereby transmitting to him
congenital insanity. His drunken, dissolute
uncle (who, however, did not become insane
until after the prisoner was born) was re-
sponsible for the killing of Garfield His
uncle Francis was responsible, because, dis
appointed in love, he killed the husband of
the woman he loved and long afterwards be-
came demented. His cousin Abbie is re-
sponsible, because from travelling mesmer-
ist she became an inmate of an insane asy-
luD one Eaue tli5 IDuruSreE insane.
Guiteau-There's enough to kill your case,
by your own showing.
THE THUNDERBoLT FALLS.
Porter-The Chicago Convention killed
Garfield by the nomination it made. The
doctors killed him. His nomination and his
election were two acts of God. The prisoner
would have us believe that the Deity, who
had thus twice confirmed his choice, found it
necessary to correct his labors by appointing
this wretched swindler and hypocrite, this
syphilitic monstrosity, to murder the Presi-
| dent. whose nomination and election He had
confirmed.
Judge Porter paused, and exclaimed /:
The deliberate murderer sits there :" point
ing at Guiteau, and emphasizing the cul-
ninating point Of bis sentences with terrible
force and meaning, said to the jury: "The
Junior counsel has said that you are kings,
implying that you may override the law and
evidence in grasping an almost intangible
doubt, and ignoring the solid structure of the
evidence of guilt. You are not kings, and
the man who told you so Is the only man in
| 50, 600 0G0 of people who could OR would
recommend Guiteau fer Office"
| Recess.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Judge Porter, after recess, dealt with
Guiteau's cunning and duplicity. Referring
to Guiteau's pious bursts, he said, with de-
| liberate emphasis: 81 do not believe in all
this assemblage that there is one soul that
contemplates with such abject terror the DOS
brszen murderer"
Guiteau, with the fsrocity of wild beast,
fairly yelled 'That is a miserable lie, and
you know it, Porter; and you are an Internal
scoundrel! I hope God Almighty will sepd
for You soon-hoth you and Corkhill. Such
a miserable, stinking whine as that is.''
QUESTIONS FOR THE JURY.
Without noticing the outbreak Porter con.
tinued The first question for the jury ia.
Was the prisoner insane July I'd? If not,
the case is ended. Second, if he was insane,
was it to degree that he didn't know that
murder was morally and legally wrong? If
not, the jury YVES by oath bound to convict
him. Third, if in utter disregard of his con-
fession under oath the jury found that he
actually, honestly believed that God com.
manded him to kill the President and that
he was under that delusion, and unless the
| iury find that such delusion disabled him
| from knowing that such act was morally
and legally wrong, they must convict If
such delusion did exist, and was caused by
| insanity. then, and then only, they must ac-
quit. He swore that he was able to control
| his will. Fifth, if he was partly insane
through his own deprayity and malignity,
they must convict. Sixth, if the jury be-
lieve that he was partly or wholly insane, bat
believe that he knew his act was legally or
morally wrong, they must convict. The jury
must not override reason and law, snd let
murder. rape and arson run riot through the
| land. Murder has baen in the world since
| the frst-born of woman slew the second. born
and God, knowing mans nature. Inscribed oa
tables Of stone, .'Thou shalt not kill
| Human live TO Guiteau is Of small value,
Life" said he, in ore of those letters of his,
sis a full dream" etc "Whoso sheddeth
mans blood by man shall his blood be she'd"
says the Gospel, and against this we hsvs had
the gospel of Guiteau. You are to Judge
whether the gospel of cur Maker or the gos-
pei OF this murderer shall prevail.
| HEREDITARY INSANITY.
Reviewing the claim of the defense to he
reditary insanity, Judge Porter said: Sco-
vile dared not say his wife's father was
insane. His family physician, who was with
him till death. would have known it. and yet
not one dare kiss tie Holy Book and make
oath to such statement. This defense is a
falsehood. and part of the imposturs and
sharl that wraps about the whole case.
! Mr.. Porter, referring to the testimony of
Mrs. ScoviLle, paid her the compliment of
being sincere woman. She said she had
never noticed insanity in the prisoner until
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