The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-02-05
TO BE HUNG.
The Long Agony Nearly Brought ts
An End at Last. =
Guiteau, the Assassin, Sentenced to
Be Hung in June.
The Text of Judge Cox's Charge.
And How 1t Was Taken.

The Sentence Passed.
Washington, Feb. 4.-As soon as
Judge Cox entered the court room and
the court was formally opened, the
did not repeat the request OF yesterday,
TO be allowed to sit at the counsellors
table.
Scoville stated that he wished to say
that since the adjournment of court he
had been informed that Curtis, who
made the affidavit relative to the Critic
matters was not the bailiff in charge
OF the room at the time the paper was
found; that he had been substituted for
a man by the name of Stiner, who was
in charge of the room at the time the
paper was found, and who was with
drawn by the prosecution. This man,
said Scoville, L am told, knows about
the paper, and 1 can in ten minutes
summon: as a witness a party who will
say that the man Stiner was heard to
remark, hat IL that matter of the
Critic became known he (Stiner) would
have to jump the town.
Col. Corkhill objected to the evident
attempt to postpone the consideration
of the motion, and said that ii every
bit of hearsay or gossip was to be
dragged into court, there never would
be any end to the question.
Scoville replied that he did not ask
for a postponement, but he simply de-
sired to call the attention of the court
to the information he had received, as
showing how important it was to inves-
tigate this matter with the closest scru-
tiny.
Judge Cox Immediately began to read
from manuscript his decision upon the
motion. Reading from various author
tiles on the case, Judge Cox discussed
at some length the circumstances at
tending the finding Of a newspaper in
the room by one of the bailifs of the
jury in the case. First, as to the hand
writing, there are several circumstances
that make 1t impossible that at least
two of the names on the margin of the
paper were written by the gentlemen
themselves.
Second, if, as has been suggested,
this paper was lying on the table in the
bailiff's room, and the gentlemen Of
the jury in writing in albums first tried
pens upon the margin, it would amount
to nothing in the face of the sworn
affidavit of every member of the jury,
that they did not see or read a paper at
any time during the trial. No one
could swear to the fact that the jurors
did write upon the paper, while they
all swear that they did not; and there
is no reason to doubt their veracity.
So far as the discovery of new evil
dence is concerned, the evidence wished
to be introduced is as to the prisoners
manner and appearance prior to the
assassination. If there had been no
evidence introduced upon this subject
there might be some force in the re-
quest; but a dozen or more witnesses
testified on the trial as to his manner
ana appearance, covering a period OF
time from March until the commission
of the act, the evidence now sought
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