Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-01-25

| Referring to the fight of the counsel for
the defence when he painted the President
widow at her daily prayers, praying for the
acquittai of the prisoner in the name OF JUS
| tice Judge Porter in burning language
showed up the profanity and inconsistency OF
| such assertions, and rebuked tne assumption
of a man who had never exchanged word
With Mrs. Garfield, in presuming to credit
her with such monstrous sentiments.
Continuing, Porter said, Who else is re-
eponsible? John H. Noyes, he u RESPONSE
bic. He killed Garfield. John H. Noyes,
from whom the prisoner stole his lectures.
Guiteau-That is false. rely on my own
brains for my productions.
Who else? His father is responsible,-
that father whom he struck when Is years
old. He killed President Garfield; that
father whom he had not for the last fifteen
wears of his honored life exchanged word.
who else is responsible? Why. the mother,
whom he scarcely remembers,-who was
guilty of the montrosity of having an attack
of ervsipelas so as to necessitate the cutting
of her hair some weeks before his birth. and
who for this reason, ii Is asserted, transmitted
congenital insanity to this murderer. VINO
else is responsible? Why. Uncle Abram
who was drunken and dissolute, but not IN
sane. He transmitted insanity to him, al
though he Ulu nOt utCOiDc iiIsaHC ubhiA "'sNA
the prisoner was born. He killed GARFIELD
BY making the prisoner insane.
Who else is responsible? Why Uncle
Francis killed Garfield. Uncle Francis. who.
we are told, being disappointed in love, either
killed the husband of the woman he loved,
or fought a sham duel, and long after became
demented He killed Garfield by making
this man a congenital montrosity, as DIR.
Spitzka says. Then Cousin Abby. she is re-
sponsible who unfortunately was taken pos
session of by one of this Guiteau tribe.
travelling mesmerst and her young mind was
wrought upon so that finally she was, for bet
ter protection, sent to an insane asylam. She
killed Garfield by making this murderer in
sane. and if all this was not enough to kill
President Garfield
Guiteau-There's enough to kill your case
according to your own showing.
Why. the Chicago convention killed him. If
they hadn't nominated him l should not have
killed him, says the murderer. The doctors
killed him, for if he had not been chosen Presi-
dent he would not have been killed. His
nomination was an act of God, and his cleo
! ton was an 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 correct his labors by
appointing this swindler, this hypocrite, this
syphilitic montrosity, to murder the Presi-
dent whose nomination and election he had
confirmed.
These are the defences put toward by the
prisoner and his trained counsel, to divert
your attention from the fact that the deliber-
ate murderer of Garfield sits there, (pointing
to the prisOner). but even this is not enough.
The press killed Garfield, and the press is
arraigned by the prisoner, and without an in
dictment the press is found guilty by the
murderer, but fortunately they are found
guilty only by the bistered tongue of the
murderous liar himself.
Porter denied the assumption of Col. Reed
that Garfield thought Guiteau was insane
and quoted from the conversations with the
doctors, to show the weakness of the assump-
ton.
Abiding to President Arthur, Judge Por-
ter asserted that he was Gartield's successor
by the same constitutional force of legitimacy
as was Garfield himself
Guiteau shouted Made so by the inspira
ton of Guiteau, and don't you forget it.
Porter, replying to taunt from the pris-
oner. described him as ''slippery as the
orange peel as venomous the rattle
snake" and. speaking of the act of the muir
der, said, This was the rattlesnake without
the rattle, but not without the fangs.
l might, said Porter. detain you week,
but am here for the purpose of ascertaining
whether this man is guilty, and these colat-
eral issues will not dwell upon. The junior
counsel has told you you are kings, implying
you may override law and evidence in grasp
ing an almost intagible 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 5O,OOO,-
| 600 who would or could recommend Guiteau
for office.
Recess.
After recess, Porter resumed his argument
and by mastery portraiture pointed out the
cunning, the duplicity, the acting of the pris-
oner since the beginning of the trial. You
are, gentlemen of the jury, no more kings
| in respect of the law than is the murderer in
the DOCK who sits uncrowned save with his
own conceit.
Referring to the repeated assertion that he
had sent Garfield prepared to meet his God,
and he, (Guiteau.) too, was ready to die if
God willed it, Porter with deliberate empha-
sis said: l do not believe that in all this as
semblage there is one soul that contemplates
with such abject terror the possibility of
facing his Maker as does this brazen muir
derer.
Guiteau whirled around with the ferocity
of a wild beast, and fairly yelled, That's a
miserable lie, and you know it, Porter, and
you are an Internal scoundrel. 1 hope that
Almighty will send for you soon, both you
and Corkhill-such miserable, sinking
whine as that is.
The law, said Porter. as it bears upon this
case is supreme, and you are simply God
made men, under the obligation of a solemn
oath, to bring in your verdict under the law
and facts.
Summing up questions presented by the
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