Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-06
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
GOING TO GLORY
GUITHAU HAS A FLIGHT
OF BLOQUBNCB.
new TRIAL REFUSED.
Scenes in Court After the
Decision.
The PRISONER MAKES A SPEECH, |
The American Nation Com
signed TO PerditEom.
The PRISONER MAKES A SPEECH.
The American Nation Com
signed TO PerditE0n.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

THE NAIlONAL CAFlIALs
Gufteau's Plea For New Trfal-The
Notion Overruled-An Excited Speech
From the Assassin-F4fs Only Hope in
the Court In Banc.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.--When court came
in yesterday morning Mr.. Scoville further
stated his grounds for securing new trial
for Guiteau, after which Judge Cox proceed
ed to render his decision. He considered the
two principal reasons that had been brought
for new trial, the first being that certain
newspaper matter circulated to prejudice the
minds of the jury against the prisoner was
found in one of the rooms assigned to the
jury and passed under their examination and
inspection. The court attached little weight
to this allegation, saying that the mere fact
that paper found in the room occupied by
the jury, in their absence, had no signif-
canoe. It was in the power of any friend of
the prisoner to place it there. a prisoner
would have nothing to do but to get friend
to commit the very trick that was suspected
and charged by the government in this very
case, and that fact alone would not influence
the court in the slightest degree, and aft
davits of the bailiffs and the jury showed
that this was not the room of any of the
Jurors, but was the room of the bailiffs, to
which the jurors resorted occasionally for the
purpose of signing their autographs, but
always under the observation of the bailiffs.
John W. Guiteaus testimony sthat certain
signatures appearing upon the paper were in
the handwriting of jurors was considered of
doubtful weight. The court said that the
knowledge of the afiant concerning the
handwriting of the jurors might be acquired
for the very purpose of qualifying the
affiant to give testimony concerning
it, and consequently would make
the affiant incompetent to testify.
He had not given close criticism to the writ
ing on the paper, but his eye had been at
tracted by one or two features which were
somewhat suspicious. The letter III" in
the initial of Mr.. Brights name was written
in two Or three different ways, and Mr.. Helm
lines name was spelled in two ways, and
each wrong, which made it extremely i'm
probable that those gentlemen could have
written their names themselves. On the
other hand, as opposed to the affidavit of
Mr.. Guiteau, were the afidavits of the
ported to be on the paper, and who
testified that the names were not in
their handwriting. The other Jurors did
not pretend to know the handwriting of
their co-jurors. but united in swearing that
no such paper was in the room at all. And
still he could conceive that these Jurors were
honestly mistaken he could conceive the
state of facts as was supposed by the counsel
for the defense, that this newspaper, nearly
q month old at the time it was said to have
been found, was lying in the room of the
bailiff and that those gentlemen before writ
ing their autographs tried their pen or ink by
scribbling on the paper, and yet were sa unsus-
picious as to ignore its presence and to be
convinced that no such paper was
there at ALL He could conceive that state of
facts to exist, but could hardly believe that
it existed after the unanimous affidavits of
the bailiffs or jurors that no paper came
under their observation at ALL He had no
reason to suspect the veracity of these gen.
tlemen, and consequently must believe their
affidavit. One of the additional grounds for
the motion made Friday was that informa-
ton had reached counsel of conversations be-
tween the jury and other parties That was
stated simply on information-on the say SO
of O third person named. Information of
that sort would be coming to counsel all the
time, but no court could act except upon
sworn statements. Another ground for the
motion was the alleged discovery of new evil
dence but the character of this as described
by affidavit was necessarily cumulative and
consequently not justifying the granting of
new trial. The court then declared that after
mature consideration of all the reasons pre-
sented he was obliged to override the motion
for new trial. Mr.. Scoville noted an excep-
ton to the ruling.
District Attorney Corkhill then moved for
sentence Judge Cox ordered the prisoner
to stand up, and asking him if he had any
thing to say why sentence should not be
passed upon him the prisoner made the fol-
lowing address:
am not guilty of the charge set forth In the in
dictment. 1t Gods act, not mine, and God will
take care of it. will take of It, and don't let
the American people forget it, BE viii take care of
1t and every officer of this government from the
Executive down to the marshall taking in every man
the jury and every member of this BENCH will pay
for it, and the American nation will roll in blood if
my body goes into the ground and am hung. The
Jews put the despised Galli1ean into the For
the time they trfumphed but at the destruction of
Jerusalem forty afterward, the Almighty got
even with them 1 am not afraid of death /,
here Gods man. Kill me tomorrow, if you want.
I am Gods man, and have been from the start.
Judge Cox then proceeded to pass SEN
tence. After detailing the crime for which
the prisoner at the bar was convicted, and
declaring that fair and impartial trial had
been granted him, he said that the prisoners
own act controversial the theory of his coun.
sci that he had been impelled by irresponsi-
BILE insanity to the commission of his crime,
and that the law looked upon his act as a
willful crime. He then sentenced him to be
hung on Friday, June 80, 1882, between the
hours of - and 2 p. m. Mr.. scoville took
an exception to the Judgment and sentence
of the court, and while this was being noted
the prisoner sat tapping nervously with the
tips of his fingers upon the table. Then he
| broke out again wildly: 'Td rather thou
| sand times be in my position than be with
those devils who have bounded me to death
I will have flight to glory, and I am not
| afraid to go. But Corkhill and the others
are. There is no let up on Corkhill, the
scoundrel. He has permanent job down
| below. I will 60 to glory whenever the
Lord wants me to go, but I will probably
| stay down here good many years and get
| into the White House. know how stand
on this business and SO does the Lord and he
will pull me through with the help of two or
three good lawyers, and all the devils in hell
can't hurt me-" Court then adjourned.
| Very few people went out to the Jail to-
day. Guiteau was morose and irritable and
! did not care to see visitors His guards say
he tossed uneasily In bed last night. His
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