The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-10
THE ASSASSIN.

in Washington on the Sd inst, to hear the ar
guments ON the motion for a new trial, and
obtained permission to sit beside his counsel
He then undertook to address the Judge, but
was promptly suppressed. Mr. ScoyiIle brought
forward the charge that newspapers had been
furnished the jury, and MIR. Corkhill submitted
an affidavit from each member of the jury in
denial Judge Cox said be would announce his
decision on the 4th. Guiteau made two inter-
ruptions, and realized several dollars from the
sale of autographs.
1t is stated that the assassin ia beginning to
show much nervousness and irrnabilty He is
suffering from a severe cold, which has in
flannel his eyes. One Jail official says he would
not be surprised if Guiteau did not live to be
BANGED. t m %
John w. Guiteau, last evening, spent an hour
in his brothers cell, in company with Warden
Croker. The prisoner became very much ex-s
cited, and denounced his brother and Scoyille.
John W. Gulteau, in card to the public dis
avows all knowledge of the proposed exhibition
Of his brothers body, and says that, whether
his brother dies by legal process or in the IN
sane asylum, his body shall be disposed of in a
manner that will not offend public deceT,cv
In view of the recent proposition to make a
public spectacle OF Guiteau's remains it ia
thought highly probable that Judge Cox viii
exercise the discretion given him by the Re-
vised Statutes, and include in the death SEN
tence the disposition of the body.
The Death-Senfence Passed Upon the
Assassin.
In the Criminal Court at Washington, on
Saturday, Feb. 4, Judge Cox overruled the
motion for new trial in the case of the muir
derer of President Garfield. Scoville there
upon filed a motion in arrest of judgment.
Judge Cox then asked the assassin if he had
sught 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 a low and de-
liberate tone he began, but soon his manner
became wild and violent, and, pounding upon
the table, he delivered himself of the follow
ing harangue: 8 3
am not guilty of the charge set forth In the
Indictment. 1t WAS Gods act, not mine, and
God will take care of it, and don't let tho
American people forget it, He will take care OF
it and of every officer of this Government
from the Executive down to that Marshal TAX
ing in every man on that jury, and every MEM
Der of this bench will pay for it, and the Amer
lean nation will roll in blood if my body goes
into the ground and am hung. The Jews put
the desplsed Galilean in the grave. For the
time 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
II you want. am Gods man, and have been
from the start
Judge Cox then proceeded to pass sentence,
addressing the prisoner as follows: fXou
have been convicted of crime SO terrible in
its circumstances and so far-reaching 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 it no easy task
to secure for you "a 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
us fair and impartial jury as ever assembled
in court of justice. You have been defended
by counsel with zeal and devotion that mer-
It's the highest encomlum, and certainly have
done my best to secure a fair presentation OF
your defense. Notwithstanding all this you
have been found guilty. It would have been
a comfort to many people if the ver-
dict of the jury had established the
fact that your act was that of an ir-
responsible man. It would have left the
people 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
that comfort The country will accept it as
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 example to others. Your career has been so
Extraordinary that people might well, at times,
have doubted your sanity, bit one can not bui
believe that when the crime was committed Won
thoroughly understood tie nature of the crime
and its consequences II Guteau-I was acting
as Gods manl-"and that you had moral sense
and conscience enough to recognize the moral
iniquity OF such an act
The Prisoner That's q matter OF opinion.
Your own testimony shows that you recoiled
with horror from the idea. You say that you
prayed against it. You say that your conscience
warned you against it, but BY the wretched
sophlstry 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 a matter OF conjecture
Probably men will think that some fanaticism
or morbid desire for self-exaltation was the
real inspiration for the act Your own test
mony seems TO controvert the theories of YOUR
counsel They have maintained and thoughl,
honestly, 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 it ais willful crime
You will have due opportunity OF hay
ing any errors may have committed
during the course of trial passed upon bv the
court in banc but, meanwhile. it is necessary
| for me to pronounce the sentence of the law
That YOU be taken hence to the common iail of
| the District, from whence you came, and there
be kept in confinement, and on Friday. fhe 30tb
day of June. 1882, you be taken into the place
prepared for your execution, within the walls
OF said Jail, and there, between the hours of
IL and p. M, you be hanged by the neck IN
xvr11 ORC n n sSa1,I
on your SOUL
During the reading Guiteau stood apparent
ly unmoved and with his gaze riyeted d 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.
Id rather stand where do than where the
jury does and where your Honor stands. I'm
not afraid to die. / stand here as God man.
and God Almighty will curse every man
who has had a part in procuring this
unrighteous verdict, Nothing but good has
come from Garfield removal, and that will be
the verdict of posterity on my inspiration.
don't care snap for the verdict OF this corrupt
generation. would rather a thousand times
be in my position than that of those who have
bounded me to death. / shall have a glorious
! flight to glory, but that miserable sc0nndrel.
| Corkhill, will hayea permanent Job down be-
low, where the devil is preparing for hun"
! After apparently talking himself out the
prisoner turned to his brother and, without the
| slightest trace of excitement, conversed for
some minutes before being taken from the
/ courtroom. @
/ George Scoville has returned to his home in
Chicago. He will not prepare the appeal pa
pers in the case before March. Guards watch
the assassin night and day.
| Guiteau was vaccinated in the jail on the
day that he received his death sentence.
A SMALLPOX Letter.
| Deputy Warden Russ WIS onaning Gniteau's