Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-14
MIR. REEDS ARGUMENT TO-DAY

ABOUT $4,000. suppose some Of these checks may
DE worthless. People must send good checks OF
none l do my own banking business, and sign
these checks payable to my order"
Judge Cox Kulcs Against the Pris-
speech.
Mr. Scoyille rising, said that before proceeding
he would like to know the courts ruling on the ap-
plication OF the prisoner to speak in his own be-
half as he and his associates desired, If the pris-
oner was to speak, that he should speak before
them.
Judge Cox said that he was 10th in cap,tal
to argue his case before the Jury but he was per-
fectly persuaded that the speech OF the prisoner
testimony and statements not proper to go to the
jury now. They knew perfectly that it was i'm
possible to restrain the prisoner by any rules OF
oecorum. III there was anything In his manu-
scripts that his counsel thought was proper he
could be allowed to present it,
GUITEAU EXCEPTs TO THE RULING.
81 represent myself, If your honor please"
shouted the prisoner, ''and except to your ruling
Let the record show that l appear as my own
counsel, and except to this ruling"
The officers In the dock tried to quiet the pris-
oner, but he brushed them away impatiently, and
said: 81 have got an encomium upon your honor In
my speech. viii withdraw it. and you WIFI go down
to posterity with a black spot on your name. am
not to be trffled with by this court or this jury.
want this jury to understand and the American
people TO understand it.'
Mr.. Reeds Argument
When the prisoner was quiet Mr.. Reed took his
place before the jury and began his address, After
referring to the gravity Of the case, he said he
would draw no gilded picture. He would talk to
them as though they were neIghbors The pros
ecution had some doubt in their minds, else why
had Mr. Davidge occupied two days in addressing
the jury, saying in repeated sentences that the
evidence Et OF the defence was rubbish; why this
effort If they had not a serious doubt that these
Twelve men dld not agree with them in this
cause ca use, and as to the mental condition
dead President, he said, he would venture he the
dead would have said he had never wronged
this prisoner: he is insane; let him go free. He
would venture it was true that the widow on the
morning and evening OF each day, when she
kneeied before God, uttered prayer to guide that
lunatic. Mr. Reed, having referred to the Law
renee case, said the prosecuting officer In that,
case case, mad told the jury that the American people
That the man was insane than that he was
sane.
CHARLOTTE CoRDAY.
Kings and emperorS were murdered in European
countries because they were hated by the peonle
Did the jury desire to have it go abroad and her
aided throughout Europe that the free govern
ment OF this country is a failure. Far rather that
1t be said that this man was insane than it should
pe said That a citizen OF this republic SO
eered to the ar French sr C M h
day, Who, in 1898, entered Marat's bath While he
was IN lt, and there run dagger to his heart. Ii
they had not done it. he asked the Jurors when
ths trial was over to 20 to the COrcoran Art Gal
lery and there see the picture OF this girl clngng
TO the bars and pleading to posteri'y-nsane Yet
In but Il few days that girl was hurried from her
dungeon and guillQttned-a lasting disgrace upon
the French people.
THE CASE OF JAMES HATFIELD
He referred TO the case OF James Hatfield, who
IN 1900. SHOT at King George in the Drlry Lane
Theater, London. He was indicted for high treason
He was -friendless like this poor wretch.
The government assigned to his defence an emf
nent counsellor, Lord Erkskine. This. so far as
the speaker knew. was the first notable case in
which the defence Of insanity was
interposed. The jury found him insane: he was
sent 10 an insane asylum: lived there 40 years.
and died there. Mr. Reed here stopped to relate
the circumstances Of the Hatfield case. In the
Hatfield case. he said, when a servant testified to
an assault made upon a little child by the de-
fendant, the latter said: sit is id lieu His
memory of the event was obliterated by disease
without any provocation, the prisoner raised an
axe over his sisters head to ceaye her down
Mhen she related the story here he said: "That's
false" Why, because he did not remember it,
ANOTHER ALLEGED PARALLEL CASE
Mr.. Reed also referred to the case OF Oxford,
who shot at Queen Victoria In 1e40 and said it
marvellous parallel to this case Ok
ford when he bought his pistol, asked how far
they would carry; about bullets, percussion caps
so as to make his aim fatal; yet HE was ACQUITTED
on the ground OF insanity Still he was deliberate
MI Reed pointed out other circumstances OF the
OXf0ru case which he claimed had parallels in this
case. oxford, he said, was acquitted and sent to
an asylum, where, SO far as the speaker knew, he
was still confined.
THE LAWRENCE CASE
1t might have struck the Jury as strange thing
that this prisoner should behave himself as he
had during this trial. He ventured to say that it
was not generally known that there had been
trial in this very court in which the same thing
had occurred. He referred to the Lawrence case
and read at considerable length from report of
the case.
REFERRING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE COURT
he said that all the evidences in this case bearing
upon the point that the prisoner knew not that he
was doing wrong, WAS uncontradicted, Mr..
Davdge had said repeatedly that the question
was whether the prisoner knew the difference be-
tween light and wrong. {Mr. Dayidge-"Oh MOI
Oh nO!') The court had said the test was whether
the prisoner knew the difference between right |
ana ad wrong IN res9ect or tlis act The court
mental dellslon or otner mental disorder, then he
was not responsible.
Every iuryman, he said, upon the facts OF this
case was a king No court. no notentate cnuld in.
wade their right to judge the facts, upon Which
they were supreme. They Were to say which wit
ness was be believed ana which not. Ii any one
man among them 1t was found when they went TO
the jury room, had a serious doubt as TO whether
TINS man was sane, 1t was his duty to acquit him.
and no one had right to dictate. The defence
asked the juIynen to be men; to be moral heroes.
luhaticS We're Known on the face of the earth In
Galilee and round about Jerusalem 1890 years ago
Christ healed lunatic; he did not say hang him.
WCuid He have said hang tuiS nlah?
"IEe American people say let him co. shouted
the prisoner. "Teil them that every one is On my
side, Reed"
MR.. REED READS FROM MATTHEW.
tMr. Reed read from the 4th chapter OF
Matthew. This prosecution, he exclaimed,
says, XIII him, hang him: he's g wretch"
The Saviour said: u Heal him. Mr.. Reed
read also from the 18th chapter OF Matthew,
where Jesus rebuked the devil, Of which man
was possessed. John W. Gu teau had said in his
testimony that this man Was Possessed OF the
deVll. the very laEgu guage OF the GOSPEL
He aint my refeitiice,e called out the prisoner.
Il have bigger nien than he is ior reference"
The unfortunate creatures thus possesses, said
Mr.. Reed. were entitled 70 the PITY OF every man,
woman and child They should follow the exam
ample OF the Master and heal him, net k1ll him.
GUITEAU ANNOUNCES THAT BE WILL HAVE KIs
SPEECH PUBLISHED.
MI. Reed, having paused moment to consult
the report OF the testimony, the prisoner said:-
sThat gives me chance to say. your honor, that
am going to havem my speech published in all the
papers in America, and then am going 70 ask