The Dillon tribune., 1882-02-11
s,xrrNCE OF aU1TEAU.

81 ..ntence on the prisoner ~ tO!OwS.
as.eo geo., ...ll Istill sitting)-l ask your Honor
u'se.n ...one Mes sentence as long ~ possible.
pceIcoc cocx-S3tand up. Have you any.
u'se ,c ssy why sentence should not now
PtooU;er s~;.oner arose, pale but with lips
Ine r.sd and desperate determination
oup anon his features. In low and
ampsS, ap.,s tone he began, but soon his
e'Oas h,came wild and violent, and
annss. =, mnon the table, he delivered
cunIasEef cueas eef The following harangue:
I. an 40. guilty Of the c.,arge set 'ortn
\. Indictment. Il wa: Coos act, ana
J! as .,ine. God will take care Of 1t, and
a. let the American people forget In.
on m n ne care Of It, and every officer
e -. s"' 'Governmeut, from the Executive
~ US - hat Of marshal, taking In every
on" y. of that jury and every member Of
a,n n.o..h :" viii nay for II. The American
b,s ~ os'l Iii roll In blood II my body goes
auv% ~ y. ground and I am hung. The
20 ~. ~. ".,t the despised Gallileean In the
". ~. For the time they triumphed. but
'.s. =. destruction Of Jerusalem forty
-. Wv .fferward the Almighty got even
s.' ~ .h.m. am not afraid Of death. !
ria ...s u's. a. Gods man. Kill me tomorrow
~" NJ want am Cots man, and have
N from the start.
:" T.d"e Cox then proceeded TO pass sen.
.ss. s addressing the prisoner a. follows:
Vou have been convicted OF crime so
...,hi. IN its circumstances and so far
s."hino s..Si in its results, that It has drawn
% .sn vou The horror Of the whole world,
"a E ~ execrations Of your countrytnen.
~. RS excitement produced, BY such an
y. s..r. made Il no easy task to secure for
y" ' : fair and impartial trial, but you
~. Nd the power Of the United States
r..s.ury w. , and Of the Government In your
.,riee i, protect your person from VIC.
...s and to procure evidence from all
n.ts Of the country. You have had as
I, I,ir and impartial a jury a. ever assembled
|;a "u , CO. court Of justice. You have been de-
Snded by counsel with a zeal and devo-
~" s'r' hat merits the highest encomiun,
an, and I certainly have done my best to Sc.
cnre e 4 fair pesentatton Of your defense
|@Votwihstanding @ all this. you have BEEN
f,urd guilty. L would have been com.
mrt to many people il the verdict Of the
;rv had established the tact that your
,r' -, v.s that Of an irresponsible man. 1t
would have left people the satisfying be.
,sftk It the crime Of political assassination
va, 50 mething foreign to the institutions
and civilization Of our country; but the re.
,ult has denied them that comfort. The
country will accept It as a fact that the
rdme can be committed, and the courts
vill have to deal with 1t with the highest
nen,ltv known to the criminal code, to
serye y an example to others. Your
career has ben 50 extraordinary that
n.ople might we'll at times have doubted
rour sanity. But one cannot but believe
that wl,en the crime was committed you
maoughly understood the nature Of the
crime and its consequences.
Guiteau-l was acting as Gods man.
Judge Cox-And that you had moral
xnse and conscience enough to recognize
The lniquity Of such an act.
Proner-That's matter Of opinion.
Judge Cox-Your own testimony show
that you recoiled with horror from thu
iea. You say that you prayed agains
It, You say that you thought It nigh
Be prevented. This shows your con
science warned you against It; but by thu
xretched sophistry Of your own mind
you worked yourself up against the pro
tst Of your own conscience. What mo
tive could have induced you to this &C
must he matter Of conjecture. Probabl!
men will think that some fanaticisn q
morbid desire for self.esteeem was tn
real inspiration Of the act. Your testi
mony seems to contradict the theory q
your counsel. They have maintaine'
and thought honestly, I believe that yo
were drawn against your will by tnsan
impulse. The testimony showed tha
you deliberately resolved to do It. an
that deliberate and misguided will wa
your sole impulse. This may seem tnsar
Iy to some persons, but the law look
upon It as willlul crime.
direct that you be taken whence yo
came and there he kept in confinemen
and on Friday, the goth day Of June, lSS
you be taken to place prepared for yot
execution within the walls Of said jai
and there between the hours OF II m. an
ap. M, you se hanged by the neck unit
you are dead and may the Lord ha'
mercy on your soul.
During the reading Guiteau stood al
parently unmoved, and with his ga
riseted upon the Judge. But when tt
hnal words were spoken, he struck It
table violently and shouted, land may It
Lord have mercy upon your soul. !
rather stand where I do now than whe
that jury does, and where your hon'
County Seat War
A st. Paul special says: Grant count
Dakota, Is embroiled In county seat ",
The county records are at Bigstone Gu
n n defiance t. Of an alleged Judicial de>tsi'
mat Milhank was designated Is the coun
seat In November. Lately two comm
stoners tried to remove the records
Milhank, supported by two or three hu
dred armed citizens; but similar force
niRstone prevented them. Specials 8
MY three hundred armed men are M
bsgstone. threatening to shoot whoev
attempts to remove the safe. They ha
oarricade, have Indians to help the
and defy dislodgement.
Threatened Outbreak
rears are entertained Of an outbreak
me crow reservation in the spring. ]
Grows have been friendly to the viii
EYER since 1891. They guided Lewis q
S'ask across Montana. They have b<
eeoken up and no white mans &C
ssangs n any Of their wigwams. It see
rom the marathon made to the War
parlme"tb by army officers that under
arrangement made with the Crows
ine Interior Department Of the North
rac'nc Railroad that corporation Is e.
nea TO take ties for its roadbed from
xFow reservation. The Crow reser
.s.a Is covered with parties OF men
rrs,ensib'y cutting ties for the railrs
nut many Of them prospecting and
,,sved by the Crows to be about to se