Connecticut western news., 1882-02-01
THE TRIAL OF GUITRAU.
Incidents of the Case, Speeches, E

Incidents of the Case, Speeches, Etc
 Guiteau's address was the same as
 that he had ready given to the press
 He appeared to be singularly affected
 at times in reading. The trembling il
 his voice continued till he spoke abou
 his mother and declared that ht
 had always been 0 clover of tho
 Lord," when he broke down com
 pletely, and applying his handker
 chief to his eyes, wiped away the tears
 which, naturally or forced for the pur
 pose of exciting sympathy, courset
 down his cheeks. He promptly re
 covered himself, and in his usual tone
 of voice proceeded with his address Coming down to his quotation from "John Browns Body" he threw back
 his head and sang verse from that ole song, much to the amusement of the spectators.
 He read from his speech:
 "Put my body in the ground if you
 will; that is all you can do. But there.
 after comes day of reckoning. The
 mills of the Gods grind slow, but they
 grind sure, and they will grind to atoms
 every man that injures me-"
 And supplemented it with the remark
 ''As sure as hair of my head is injured
 this nation will go down in the dust,
 and don't you forget it."
 After sketching the circumstances
 leading up to the crime and painting with fervid language the dannine wickedness of it's execution, Judge Porter in his address to the jury turned his attention to the prisoner and pro- kN Snt 4I-
 "A beggar, a hyprocrite, 8 robber and swindler, lawyer who never won a cause, no court, no jury failed to see Tn him the dishonest rogue, and such men cannot win causes. He has left his trail of infamy in hundred directions, The man who as a lawyer had such mo- tions of morality that, when he had taken debts to collect and collected them by dogging the debtor, he held them against bis client ; 8 man who was capable of blasting the name of woman with whom he had slept for years and still recognized as b1s wife; man who when he tired of th1s woman, pretending to be a Christian and believer of the Bible, looked in the book and read 'Thou shalt not commit adulery,' and then went out and deliberately com mltted adultery with street walker: a man who pushed himself into the fell lowship of Christian associations. as a follower of the Saviour, when fresh from six years of foul fornication in the Onelda Community-''
 Guiteau-" "That lie ought to choke you."
 As Judge Porter proceeded with the reslstless torrent of denunciation and invective, the prisoner occasionally called out, "That's & lie," "That's ab- solutely false," or "That ain't so.",
 Judge Porter said MT. Scoviile had pre- ented theory of the defense which was plausible and false. He had en- parked the defense upon craft which the prisoner with his own hands had scuttled. Unless the prisoner was a liar he was guilty. Of the three argu- ments made for the defense, that of the prisoner himself was the most free from objection. He accused MT. Scoville in particular of making deliberate misstatements and pervert- ing the testimony. When MT. Por. ter touched upon the question of public opinion concerning Guiteau, MT. Sco- vile objected, and took an exception to statements of the speaker denying what Guiteau himself had asserted as to the tone of the press and the public. There was lively tilt, in which Gui- teau took part, and Judge Cox said MT. Porter could deny what Guiteau had said, but could not make p ositive state nents as to what is contained in news- papers.
 Judge Porter exhausted the vocabu- ary of vituperatlon Tuesday in his speech against Guiteau, describing h1m IS a wretched swindler and hypocrite, IS slippery as the orange peel and as as the rattlesnake, but neaner than the snake, be- 'ause he was without the rattles. hough not without the fangs, and applying other terms to him which can- lot be quoted lere. Guiteau inter- 'upted this torrent of denunciation. re- that it was all bosh, and Por- CT knew it. He continued his inter- uptions all day, sometimes declaring hat the speaker was telling false. loods, and at other times ridi- 'uling him. His assertion that MT. Porter was a wine bibber reminded the 1 peaker of verse, which he repeated l or the jury. Another interruption led Ar. Porter to say that he was afraid the prisoner had not the latest intelligence rom heaven. Referring to Guiteau's ssertlon that he made Arthur resident, MT. Porter said Gen. .rthur was made President by he voice of his country-men, the anne voice that made Garfield Presi- ent, and that Willard Fillmore was 1st as truly elected by the people as he President whom he succeeded. Gui- eau declared that this was false. for .rthur and Fillmore were nominated for 'ice- President, and would not have been ominated for President at the time. peaking of Guiteau's statement to the ,istrlct Attorneys stenographer, made Fter the assassination, and which the efense claimed was destroyed because
 contained the prisoners claim to in- MT. Porter said he had read lat statement, and it contained no 1ch thing. MT. Scoville at once ob. cted, saying that Mir. Porter was trying get indirect and unsworn evidence efore the jury. MT. Porter defended his purse on the ground that he was nly contradicting what the prisoner ad said. Judge Cox said the statement as objectionable, as the prisoner was nder oath as witness, and MT. Porter as not. Mir. Porter, nevertheless, at 'mpted to go on with what he wished to y, but Mir. Scoville stopped him again, ad Judge Cox said he could not allow 1ything more to be said by MT. Por- 1T on the contents of that paper. MT. orter declared that he had practiced w longer than Judge Cox, and inti- ated that he needed no ruling from i'm. Judge Cox listened to this un- owed, but Col. Reed indignantly de- ared that MT. Porter ought to be pun he'd for contempt.
 When Judge Porter finished his ad-