The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-04

result has denied them that comfort, and
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 penal
ty 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
But one cannot but believe that
when the crime was committed you thor
| oughly understood the nature of crime and
its consequences.
Guiteau 81 was acting as Gods man"
'fAnd that you had moral sense and
conscience enough to recognize the moral
iniquity of such on act.
Prisoner That's matter of opinion
Your own testimony shows that you re-
coled with horror. From the idea YOU
say that you prayed against it you say that
you thought it might be presented. This
shows that your conscience warned you
against it but by wretched sophisfry Of
your own mind you worked yourself up
against the protest of your own,conscisnce.
what motive could have induced YOU to
this act must be 3 matter of conjecture,
probably men will think that some fanati-
cism or morbid desire for self-exaltation
was the real inspiration for the act Your
own testimony seemed to controvert the
theories of your counsel, they have main
tanned and thought honestly, 1 believe,
that you were driven against your will by
an insane impulse; testimony showed that
you deliberately resolved to do it, and that
deliberate and misguided win was the
sole impulse; this may seem insanity to
some persons, but the law looks upon it as
wilful crime. You viii have due opportu-
nifty of showing any errers I may have
committed during the course ef the tr1al
passed upon by 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 COM
mon jail of the district, from
whence you came, and there be kept in
in confinement; and on Friday, the 3oth
day of June, 1882, you be taken to place
prepared for your execution, within the
walls of said jail, and there between the
hours of twelve and two p. m, you be
haaq,<d by the neck until you are dead,
and NAV the Lord have mercy on your
seul."
During the reading Guiteau stood ap-
parently unmove,d, and with his gaze rivet-
ed upon the Judge, but when the final
words were spoken he struck the table
violently and shouted .tand G,ay the Lord
have mercy on your soul I'd ratn@
stand where do, than where that Jurv
does and where your Honor stands Tml
not afraid to die. I stand here as Gods
man, and God Almighty viii curse every
man who has had part in procuring the
unrighteous verdict. Nothing but
good has come from Garfeld's re-
the verdict of posterity on my inspiration,
l don't care snap for the verdict of this
corrupt generation; [ would rather thou
sand times be in my position than that of
those who have bounded me to death; I
shall have glorious fight to glory, but
that miserable scoundrel, CorkhiIl, will |
have permanent job down below where
the devil is preparing for him"
After apparently talking himself out, the |
prisoners turned to his brother and with |
out the slightest trace of excitement con-
7ersed for some minutes before being taken
rom the court room.