Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-02-01


q sham duel, and long after became de-
mented He killed Garfield by max
ing this man a congenital montrosity,
as DR. Spitzka says. Then cousin Alb
bey, she is responsible, who unfor
tunately was taken possession OF by
one of this Guiteau tribe, q travelling
mesmerist, and her young mind SO
wrought upon that finally she was, for
better protection, sent to an insane
asylum. She killed Garfield by max
ing this murderer insane, and as if all
this were not enough to kill President
Garfield.
Guiteau-There's enough to kill
your case according to you own show
ing
| SwINDLER AND HYPOCRITE.
Judge Porter-Why, the Chicago
Convention killed him. Ii they hadn't
nominated him, | should not have
killed him, says the prisoner. The
doctors killed him, for if he had not
been chosen President he would not
have been killed. His nomination
was the act of God His election was
the act of God, says the prisoner, and
he would have US believe that the
Deity, who had thus twice confirmed
His choice, found it necessary to cor
rect His labors by appointing this
wretched swindler, this hypocrite. this
! syphilitic monstrosity to murder the
President, whose nomination and
election He had confirmed. These are
the defenses put forward by this pris-
oner and his trained counsel to divert
your attention from the fact that the
deliberate murderer of Garfield sits
there (pointing at the prisoner). But
even this is not enough. The press
killed Garfield and the press is ar
raigned by the prisoner, and without
indictment the press is found guilty of
murder. But fortunately they are
found guilty only by the blistered
tongue OF the murderous liar himself.
AN ASSUMPTION DENIED.
Judge Porter denied the assumption
of Mr.. Reed that President Garfield
thought Gulteau insane, and quoted
from conversations with his doctors to
| show the weakness of the assertion.
Abiding to President Arthur, Judge
Porter asserted that he was Garields
successor by the same force Of legiti-
macy as was Garfield himself
Guiteau shouted, Made 80 by the
inspiration of Guitean, and don't you
forget it, Porter
Replying to the taunt from the
prisoner, Judge Porter described him
as slippery as an orange peel, and
venomous as a rattlesnake, and speak
ing of the act of murder, said this was
| q rattlesnake without rattle, but not
without fangs.
Il might said Judge Porter, 'detain
you week, but | am here for>the
purpose Of ascertaining whether this
man is guilty, and these collateral is
sues | will not delay upon. Tie
junior counsel, said Judge Porter, has
told you you were kings, implying
that you may override law and evil
dence in grasping an almost intangible
doubt and ignoring the solid structure
of evidence of guilt. You. are not
kings, and the man who told you so is
the junior counsel, the only man in
fifty millions who would or could rec
ommend Guiteau for office.
A THRILLING PICTURE.
Referring to Reeds suggestion about
Mrs. Garfield praying in behalf of the
prisoner, MIR. Porter said: Imagine
what sort of scenes these are that coun-
sci thus brings up. Imagine the
aged mother of the President coming
before you, draped in black. Imagine,
according to the old custom of English
laws, the trial taking place in the pres
ence of the corps of Garfield, mutilated
by the murderer, wrapped in white
linen, through which it was supposed
the mere approach of the murderer
would start the blood to flow. Imag-
inc Garfield lying there-not one Of
the clavicles of his backbone, but the
whole man, cold in death, with the
death sweat not even yet dry on his
brow, with the expression of agony
which this prisoner put there, and
with the covering assassin yonder
shrinking from approach to the body,
which was required by the old process
of the bier rite. Imagine the aged
mother, who had looked to that son to
close her eyes in death, bowling with
grief at the coffin head, with Mrs. Gar
field, whose lips were the last that
touched the cold lips of the President,
sitting at his feet in dust and ashes.
If in such scenes Mr.. Charles II. Reed
stood up and said the woman who
seems to you to be knceling only to
God in her sorrow, is kleeling to God
in prayer that this murderer may be
dealt with leniently, what would you
think of it? 1t is well for US all, gen.
tlemen, that the law does not call upon
Jurors to leave only the immortal part
of their nature-their moral nature
outside of the court house, when they
come to administer Justice
THE assassin BROUGHT TO BAY.
After recess Judge Porter resumed
his argument, and pointed out the cum
ming, the duplicity, the acting of, the
prisoner since the beginning Of the
trial. You are, gentlemen of the jury,
no more kings in respect of law than
is the prisoner In the dock, who sits
uncrowned, save with his own conceit.'
Referring to the oft-repeated asser
tion that he had sent Garfield prepared
to meet his God, and he (Guiteau),
too, was ready to die if God willed it,
Judge Porter said, with deliberate en-
phasis, Il do not believe in all this as
semblage, there is one soul that con-
templates with such abject terror the
possibility of facing his Maker as does
this brazen murderer
Guiteau whirled around with the fe-
rocity of a wild beast, and fairly yelled,
That's a miserable lie, and you know