Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-05

court will have to deal with 1t with the high
est penalty known to the criminal code, to
serve as an example to Others. Your career
has been so extraordinary that people might
| well at times have doubted your sanity, but
| cannot but believe that when the crime was
| committed you thoroughly understood the
| nature of the crime and its consequences
Guiteau-I was acting as Gods man.
| And that you had a moral sense and con-
science brought to recognize the iniquity OF
such and act
The prisoner-That matter of opinion.
Your own testimony showed that you re-
| coiled with horror from the deed You say
that You prayed against it. You say that you
thought it might be prevented. This shows
| that your conscience warned you against it,
| but by wretched sophistry of your own mind
you worked yourself up against the protest OF
your own conscience. What motive could
have induced you to this act must be a matter
of conjecture. Probably men will think that
some fanaticism or morbid desire for self exul-
tation was the real inspiring motive
for the act, your own testimony seems to con-
trovert the theories of your own counsel.
They have maintained and thought honestly,
! believe, that you were driven against your
will by an insane impulse. The testimony
shows that you deliberately resolved to do it
and that your deliberate and misguided will
was the sole impulse. This may seem insan-
lty 10 some persons, OUT the law looks upon IL
as w1llful crime.
You will have due opportunity OF
having any errors that have COM
mitted during the course of the trial
passed upon you by the court in bane, but
meanwhile it is necessary for me to pronounce
the sentence of the law, that you be taken
hence to the common jail in the district from
whence you came and there be kept in con-
finement; and Friday the Both of June, 1882,
ha %ot- 10 fha Via fnp
execution, within the walls of said Jail, and
there between the hours of II and 2 p. m. you
be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and
may God have mercy on your SOUL"
During the reading Guiteau stood apparent
ly enamored and with his gaze rivetted upon
the judge, but when the final words were
spoken he struck the table violently and
shouted land may the Lord have
stand where 1 do than where that jury
does, and where your honor stands.
I'm not afraid to to die. Istand here as Gods
man and God Almighty will curse every man
who has had part in procuring this I'M
righteous verdict. Nothing but good has
come from Garfcld's removal and that will
be the verdict of posterity on my inspiration.
don't care a snap for the verdict of this cor
rupt generation. would rather a thousand
times be in my position than that of those
who have hunted me to death. shall havea
glorious flight to glory, but that miserable
scoundrel CsrkhIll will have permanent job
down below where the devil is preparing for
him.
After apparently talking himself out the
prisoner turned to his brother and without
the slightest trace of excitement conyersed for
some minutes before being taken from the
court room.
IN HIS CELL.
Upon the arrival of Gulteau at the Jail he
was at once taken to his cell and guard put
over him. This precaution is always observed
in cases of prisoners under sentence of death,
aud will be rigidly adhered to in this case both
by night and day. There is no foundation for
the report that Guiteau committed suicide.