The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-02-02

Them A man who was capable Of blast
ing the name of the woman with whom he
slept for years and still recognized as his
wife A man. who. when he was tired of this
woman, pretending TO be Christian and a be-
lever Of the B,b!e, looked into the book and
read "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and
then walk outimmediately and committed adul
terry with q street walker. A man who
pushed himself into the fellowship of Chris
tan associations as a follower of the Savior
when fresh from years of foul fornication in
the Oneida community"
Guiteau-''That lie fought to choke YOU"
As Judge Porter proceeded with a. resistless
torrent of denunciations, the prisoner. OCCASION
ally called out, .'rhat's lie; that's absolutely
ut was night" said the speaker, clark as
the night when the. devil first wins pered this
crime in the assassins ear. he lay In hiding in
the alley. Why2 With inspiration and the
command Of God upon him to kill The president,
and with a pressure that would make him do
it il he died the next minute any time after
June l. Why did he not kill him. Because
he thought he would do it some other
time. Because this politician thought he
would become Identical with the stalwarts il
the republican party. Because he thought he
had so carefully laid the foundation for his de-
Tense against crime and for his protection
nit the act in the l hit of day. This careful
man, careful for Las own safety, made every
provision. even to his conveyance to the iail
and When he lad seen his victim fall turned
and ran. Ran where? Where could he run
Passing in review the principal events of
prisoners life, Judge Porter showed up in all
it's hideous deformity the infamous bent of bis
nature. Abiding to his dispute with his
brother, John ". Guiteau, in Boston, when he
struck the latter IN the face, Judge Porter said
this was the first and last time this coward ever
struck any blow in the face. His coward hand
,{~~rnx orr nyx $~~r lo1S,
"lhat he did not shoot the president on thu
first OCCASION" said Judge Porter, was dus to
his coward heart Had he done it on that occa-
sion he would have been torn TO pieces and ne
knew 1t. On this occasion the president was
surrounded by his cabinet and his friends. His
| urged at such time with God given
strength, to defend his father, was also
by his side, and the assassin's craven
heart failed him. and he said:
Not yet; at some other time.''
With faithful picturing, Judge Porter related
Il do=ging Of the presidents footsteps 10 the
Gale church, and the incidents or accidents on
each occasion which bat13d him. President
Garfeld's visit to Secretary Blaines house,
logged by the assassin, was viviuly portrayed
1.-The evidence and papers presented here b.
Gen. Reynolds" said Judge Porter, land
among them the prisoners address to the Am
erican people are sufficient to stamp him as e
i cool, calculating, cold blooded murderer
These papers ct one time could not be found
either in the district attornevs or attorney GEN.
erals omces, s1d a7i,ii5r OF the
tS ean''' until day Of 0''' sWo bef saw
Gen. Reynolds took hand, but thank God
the papers were found and they are in e7idence
before you, and before I conclude think I
shall be able to show you that not one OF you
could upon this evidence acquit him, unless
you perjure your souls and assume youc share
Of responsibility for the murder OF the lament
cd president"
Mr.. Porter grewso i'll that the court ad
journed
TUESDAY, JAN "a.
There was an immense crowd to-day to heal
Judge Porter against Guiteau. The prisoner
CAME in very quietly in his owa shutting, cow
ardly manner, stumbling over the feet of the
jury past whom he ia conducted 80 closely thai
he cannot avoid touching them.
Judge Porter, who seemed himself again,
came in and, bowling to the jury, teok or hie
hat and coat, and rose to resume his argument
Guiteau, who had been waiting patiently the
assembling Of the court, opened his mouth
The burden OF his little speech was that he had
heard of the arrest this forenoon of two cranke
who had been hanging around the court house
probably waiting to do him harm. He wanted
them and all their tribe to understand that ht
was under the protection of the law, and that
the maa who attempted to harm him would be
shot dead.
Porter began his argument, saying in eaustio
tones: The prisoner having as usual opened
the court, I presume I may resume" His
sueech was SIMPLE review of the Testimony
bearing on the alleged insanity, and actual de-
pravity Of the ''murdorous liar" without
parallel for the past 5000 years who sat in
the dock. But simple as it was, it compre-
hended terrible arrangement and denun cia ion
OF the assassin and his COUNSEL which bit III like
vitroL Porter has a splendid mastery of Ian
guage. he knows how to suit the word to the
action as well as the action to the word.
He exercised all his powers to the utmost as
he brought out in the high relief before the
jury the separate facts in The wicked life Of the
murderer, and pressed home upon them, after
q careful review of the evidence on that point,
the conclusion that he was sane when he capped
his vile career with the murder OF the president
Perhaps the most striking, feature of his
MORNINGS speech was his reply to
Reeds somewhat indicate description Of Mrs.
Garfeld's prayer for the acquittal Of her hus-
bands murderer. 'fter scouting the very idea
US absurd, Porter 4ye1ted by vivid word
painting the dingy, commonplace court room
into q meadlmval place OF trial for murder.
He described the unburied corpse Of the muir
dered Garfield wrapped in pure white sheet,
lying during the week after his death on a
pier in the confer of the court room. He
thrilled the jury aud the audience as hs pict-
ured the weeping wife and the sad eyed mother
overwhelmed with grief, kneeling beside the
dad ID BODY t Of their Loved one from
Sons this ''"' foS "rs deed who hr saa
oack affrighted, as he dragged toward it in or
der to try whether the blood would flow from
the fresh wounds of the loved body before the
people, proving as it stained with its lndelible
dye the white sheet that the true murderer COW.
Ieu before the murdered
Referring to Guiteau's cold blooded sugges-
ton that the manner of Garfeld's taking off was
immaterial, that he might have beeu Killed as
eaeiiy with all orange peel as bullet, he said:
''Yes, or by the venom Jus fangs Of rattle
snake. Both were combined IN the case. This
villain has been slippery through life and no
has the venom and fangs of q rastlesnake with
out however, the warning rattle which always
accomp Mas nis brother reptile He struck
in the back without sound"
He was frequently interrupted by Guitsau's
counsel aud by Guiteau himself. Hera ia
specimen of one of the scenes:
In the course OF the argument, Porter re-
ferred to the prisoners divorced wife as q
woman wh1 loved him.
The prisonerI did not love her. It was
one sidei affair.
Porter-The woman who married him
The prlsoner-That was swindle
Porter-The woman who slept with him
The prisoner-Some times she did, and some
times she did not.
Porter-The woman who borrowed for him,
ana VINO gave the earnings or her Industry to
furnish hum money, which he spent on street
prostitutes.
The prisoner-Tbat's q lie, and a big one
Por:er-The woman whose divorce was go
cured by his procurement, by all sorts of de.
ceit, meanness and ignomy
/ The prisoner-I had no business to marry
her at all.
Porter-He and lis prostitutes were witnesses
to aid him in removing his wife,
The p1isoner-All that happened ten years
ago, and has nothing to Go with this CASE
!ar. Porter laid down the law as follows:
The first of the questions ;or you to consider
is, as the prisoner insane on the I'd Of July?
IF he was not, the Case ia at an end, aud your
sworn duty is ended.
Sscond-If you reach that, if he was insane on
that day, WAS he insane t. that degree that on
the I'd Of July he did not know that murder
was morally and legally wrong? If he was not
insane to that degree you are bound under
your oath to convict him.
Third-If, in utter disregard of his confes-
ron un!er oath, you shall find he actually and
honestly believed that God had commanded
him to kill President Garfield, and that he was
under delusion, unless you find the further
fact that such delusion disabled him from
knowing such act was morally and legally
wrong, you are bound under your oaths to con-
vict him.
Fourth-If you find such delusion did exist.
that God commanded him to do the act. and
eCCh CielrsiOn WAS the sole prOdnct NJ insanitp