The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-24
SPEAKS.
A Flow of Burning Eloquence from
the Lips of the Great Lawyer.
a Flood of Condemnation and Accu-
satiOn Which stings,
The Trial.

there were at least ten clamoring ap.
piicants besleging every avenue of APP.
preach. The crush was greater than
ever before. When the doors closed
a thousand people were left outside. AS
coon as the court opened Guiteau said.
Il spent yesterday in examining my
mail. l had several hundred letters,
many from ladies, and some we're very
tender. | desire to express my thanks
to the ladies for these kind and tender
letters. One letter suggests that Presi-
dent Arthur give me a cabinet office.
Now, L want to say L would not take
any office from President Arthur, and
under any circumstances L don't think
it would be proper L should accept me.
Now in regard to Judge Porter L want
to say as he is to have the closing of the
Gaze, if he attempts to mislead the
court and jury L aud my counsel will
stop him. He came into this case I'M
der under apprehension on the part of
General Arthur, otherwise he would
not be in the case. He don't properly
represent the government. He only re-
presents himself"
Judge Porter entered the court room
shortly before the prisoner had de-
livered himself of this warning. After
a moments delay he stepped to the
open space before the jury and in tones
which clearly betrayed his weakened
condition, began the closing argument.
Said Judge Porter:
''If it please your honor and gentle
men of the jury:-In my infrmity, for
L share you fatigue, L proceed as best L
can to discharge my duty. The nature
of this duty is such that L should feel L
were almost accessory after the fact if L
should fail to speak such words as L can
to aid you in reaching the proper con-
clusion. Thus far the trial has practi-
cally been conducted by the prisoner
and Scoyille.
After sketching circumstances lead
ing up to the crime and painting with
feryid language the damning wicked
ness of its execution, Judge Porter
turned his attention the prisoner and
proceeded to depict his character in the
following ters:-A beggar, a hypocrite,
a robber, and a swindler; a lawyer who
never won cause; no jury could have
failed 10 see in him a dishonest rogue,
and such men cannot win causes. He
has left his trail of infamy in a hundred
directions. The mar who as a lawyer
had such notions Of morality that when
he had taken debts to collect collected
them by logging the debtors and held
them. A man who was capable of
blasting the name of a oma with
whom he had slept for years and still
recognized as his wife. A man who
when he tired of this woman, pretend
ing to be a Christian and believer of the
Bible, looked into the book and read:
Thou shalt not commit adultery and
then went out Immediately and com-
united adultery with a 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 f%ornication in the
Oneida community"
Guiteau: "That lie ought to choke
you"
AS Judge Porter proceeded with a
resistless torrent of denunciations, the
prisoner occasionally called out: THAT'S
a lie; that's absolutely false; or that
amt So"
After showing who and what was the
murder, Judge Porter next described
his victim, paying a glowing tribute to
the character and service of the Ia
mented president.
The believer in inspiration, he would
himself alter the inspired book and sub.
stitute for it a book of his own. That
he did not shoot the president on the
first occasion, said Judge Porter, was
due to his coward heart. Had he done
it on that occasion he would have beer
torn to pieces, and he knew it, On this
occasion the president was surrounded
ny uio CdDllltb nAlA lie lllCLuc, anu VI
son not yet strong, but who would have
been urged at such a time with God
given strength ID defend his father, wa
also by his side, and the assasin's era
ven heart failed hin and he said no
yet, at some other Time. With graphic
p%icturing Judge Porter related the dog
ging of the Presidents footsteps to tn,
little church.
The incidents or accidents on eacl
occasion which bafled. President Gar
fields visit to Secretary Blaine's hous'
logged by the assassin was wildly por
trayed. 1t was night, said the speaker
dark as that night when the devil frs
whispered this crime in the assassin
ear. He lay in hiding in an alley
Wby2 With the inspired command o
God resting upon him to kill the Pres
, dent, and with a pressure that woul
have made him do it if he died the mex
minute. Any time after June LIST VIII
did he not kill himr Because he though
he would do it some other time, becaus
} this politician thought he could becom
identical with stalwart and republica
; because he thought he had SO CAREFUL
, laid the foundation for his defenc
: against the crime and for his protet
Q ton from mob violence that he migt
: safely commit the act. In the light {
q day this careful man, careful of his ow
safety. made every provision. even I