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and legally wrong? II he was not in
ssns to that degree. you are bound

% ana legally wrong? IL ne was not II
II ssns to that degree, you are boun
$ under your oathS to convict him.
. Third. II, In utter disregard of hi
y confessions, under oaths you shall fin,
o that ne actually and honestly believe,
y that God had commanded him to xii
, President Garfield, and that he was un
der o delusiOn, unless you find tn,
. further fact that such delusion disabled
! him from knowing such act was NOR,
ally and legally wrong, you are bound
under yOnr Oaths to convict him.
Fourth. II you find such delusion did
not exist, that God commanded him to
do the act, and that such delusOn was
the sole product of insanity, then, and
then only you can acquit him, when
you find he was unable to control his
own will. And you must remember
that under oath he has sworn that he
was able to control 1t, for hs said, "had
Mrs. Garfield been with him at the de.
pot on the 81 Of July, would not have
shot him."
Fifth. If YOU find that even though
he WAS partially insane 1t resulted from
, his own malisnity, his own depravity,
yet still you are bound under the in
struction of the Court to convict him.
sixth. II, upon the whole case, you
have no reasonable doubt whether he
was partially or wholly insane, if you
believe that he knew that his act was
legally and morally wrong, you are un.
der your oaths bo and to convict him.
The law, said Judge Porter, IL founded
upon reason, and it must not be said
that All American jury shall override
ihe law and establish Il principle which
will let murder, and rape, land arson run
riot through the land.
Murder ha. bean in the world since
the first born Of woman slew the second
born, and God knowing mana nature
inscribed on tablets Of stone, "Thou
shalt not kill" Human life to Guiteau
Is OF small valls. Life, said he, in one
these letters OF his, IL tickle dream,
&c. "Wh0so sheddeth mans blood by |
man shall his blood be- she'd" says the
Gospel, ind against this we have had |
the gospel of Guiteau.
You are to judge whether the gospel
OF our Maker or the gospel of the mur.
derer shall prevail. Reviewing the
claim of the defence 10 here 1itary in
sanity, Judge Potter said that Mrs
Scoville dare not say her father was In.
sane. His family physician, who was
with him till death would have known
1t and yet not one dare kiss the holy
book and make oath 70 .uch state.
ment.
This defence Is falsehool, and part
OF the imposLnre and sham that wraps
about the whole case.
The incident of the axe Judge Porter
turned against the defence with telling
effect, and this raising Of the murder
GUS axe against his own sister, which
she in her honesty of soul, imagined an
indication of insanity, but which, in
reality, was but in keeping with his cow
ard y attack fro n behind upon his in
firm father, and with the devllish de-
pravity which eliminated in his mur-
lering the President, this raising of
he axe was the only evidence which
MS sister could recall through her forty
years of kno wledge OF her brother.
Guiteau twisted uneasily and, with
'ome nervous hesitation of speech, call.
ID out:
'The prosecution are making a good
leal out Of nothing. They are just
lsing that evidence altogether different
rom what Scoville intended. He never
'ught to have said anything about it. .
: just shows how little sense the SEQ. :.
lilies have got.''
The witness Amerling, who exhibited :
us bank book to the jury to show them .
hat he had $1,000 on deposit at home,
vas very roughly handled by the speak o
r, as was DR.. North, and their credi
lity shown TO be more tl,aL d1bious.
AT quarter-past three, Judge Porter !
ot having concluded his argument the !
'ourt adjourned until to morrow. o