The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-24
P0RTER'S PHILIPPIO
AGAINST NsrTHEMoNaRELlNTHED DOCK.
ElOqasnes Inspired by 4 RlsAtsOus Cau,s-TA,
Assanln Squlrms Under thO Rhetorical Lash
Of Judge rOrtsr-rhs tattrruptiOus
Don't Work to Good Eject.

oring applicants ut least, besieging ever
avenue OF approach. The members Of Ii
press, the counsel and court officers ioun
the greatest difficulty in forcing their wa
through the immense throDs that blocke
up every passage.way. Holders of speciG
tickets were in many instances unable I
get near enough to the policemen IN,
bailitIs to show them in. When the door
closed one thousand people we're left Out
side.
AS soon as court opened Guiteal
made tho following announcement: Z"
spent yesterday in examining my mail.
had several hundred letters, many Of then
from ladies, and some were very tender.
desire to express my thanks to the ladiet
for these kind and tender letters. On,
letter suggests that General Arthur SHOULD
give me Cabinet office. Now, want tC
say that would not take any office from
President Arthur, and under tho circum
stances don't think II would be propel
thnt should accept one now. In regard
70 Judge Porter, want 10 say, as to his
closing OF the case, that il he attempts Il
mislead the court or jury l and my counsel
will stop him. He came into this case
under q misapprehension on the part ol
General Arthur, otherwise he would not
be in the case. He don't properly repre-.
sent the Government-he only represents
himself"
Judge Porter entered the court room
shortly. before the prisoner had delivered
himself Of this warning. After q few mo.
ments delay he stepped into the open space
before the jury, and in tones which clearly
betrayed Ills weakened condition, began
the closing argument. Said Judge Porter:
III Il please Your Honor and gentlemen OF
the jury, in my own inlirnity, for share
your fatigue, ! will proceed as best | can 10
discharge my duty. The nature Of This
DUTY Is such that should feel that were
almost an accessory after the fact II ] should
lail to speak such words as can to aid you
IN reachinga proper conclusion. Thus far
the trial has practically been conducted by
the prisoner and Scoville. Every one has
been denounced at their will, and even now
! am informed that ! will be interrupted by
them both"
Judge Porter briefly recited the scenes Of
disorder and the abuse and SANDER to
which every one upon the case had for two
months been subjected. "And yet, ;" he said,
"ot the threespceChes which had been made
by the defense will do the prisoner the
Justice to say that his was the least obiec-
tionable. Alter sketching the circnm-
stances leading up to the crime aud painting
with iervtd language, damning the wicked:
ness oil lis execution, Judge Porter turned
his attention to the prisoner and proceeded
to depict his character in the following
terms: ,Abeggar, n hypocrite, arobbcr and
Il sWlndier; q lawyer who never won case;
no court, no jury failed to see in him a dis.
honest rogue, and such can not win causes.
lie has left his trnil Of infamy in q hundred
directions. The man, who MS a LAWYER. Ind
such notionsof morality that when he bad
taken debts TO collect and collected them bv
dogglnS the debtor held them against his
CLIENT man who was capable Of blasting
the name OF n women with whom he ba3
slept lor years aud still recognized ms his
Tlle; man, who, when he tired out OF this
women, pretending to be n Christian and
believer Of the Bible, looked in the book
and read, "Thou shalt not commit adul.
terry" and then went out aud deliberately
committed adultery, street walker, a man
who pushed himself into the fellowship OF
christian association as n follower. Of the
savior, when fresh from six years fornica,
tlon in the Onieda community,
Gulteal-That's a lie that ought 10 choke
you. " e''"'
Porter proceeded with resistless torrent
oil denuncintion and invectiye, the prisoner
occasionally calling out: That is lie. tbat
Is absolutely false or that Is not SO.
Public justice demanded that the assass;n n
should never leave the dock save in the
shacAies OF sentenced felon. He, who
spared no one, should not be spared; he
spared not the good Garfield; lie SHARED
not the loving wife, who had once saved
her husbands life; he spared not the little
mother upon whose lips had rested on the
ionrth oI March last the kissing lips which
IH mH9 Just before rested on the Book OF God.
ms vie wretch, had he been Tree and I'M.
shackied, had he thought the insanity plea
%onid slye him, bad he had The "bill.
dos IN his hand, would have shot bullet
lilfohgh Judge Cox when he refused to
permit him TO speak-would have put a
1nllet through Mr.. Davidge when he was
denounclng him us murderer. He wanted
TO know whether on the day when Juror
hones lost his wife, when his home was
narEened with the shadow OF death, IL he
would not, had 1t served his purpose, have
sh0t Hobbs then and there, not ftom i'll
Tlll TO him, but for the good will TO
himself; had be not on one occasion threat.
ened one Of the Jury with removal by that
69a who he claimed as partner.
Iasslng in review OF the PRINCIPAL events
ot the prisoners life, Judge Porter showed
up IN all Its hideous deiormity the infa-
nous bent ot his nature,
Abiding to the dispute with his brother.
John v. EHiteau, in Boston, when he
struck the latter in the face, Judge Porter
SAD that this was the first and inst fine
Il,s coward ever struck any one in the face
nus coward hand always struck from be-
hind; After showing who and what the
murderer was, Judge Porter next described
his victim, paying glowing tribute to the
character and services of tho iamented
PRESIDENT, and pronouncing most touch.
iiig ea'ogy, its it were, upon his memory.
Ihe claims OF the prisoner TO be d prayiNp
man were tlten considered, and the hollow
moCkery OF the claim shown,
.Guiteaa aangrily shouted: ~ pray every
night and morning, aud before every mgaI,
II you did the same yoH would be q better
man,you wouldn't be here working for
blood Money"
''rhe prisoner says he prayed for six
weeks. Why, if he had made up his mind
unalterably TO kill the President on June
!" said Judge Porter, "did he still continue
to pray down to the act OF the murder:f
Gutteau-f prayed 10 sec il the Lord
wonldn'tlet me off from killing him,
What was he pruying for, continued
Porter. The man who claimed to have re,
cetved divine inspiration himself, prepares
his defence in advance for an act 10 dc
which he, was divinely Inspired. He be,
lieves in inspiration. He would himsel
alter the inspired book and substitute for 4
book Of his own. That he did not shoot
the President on the first occasion, saij
Judge Porter, twas due to his coward heart
Had he done It on that occasion he would
have been torn to pieces and he knew il
tffn fhig 0nCupiaY, fLn f3..z! !,f..-. /. -. " :,