The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14

whether the sorrow that was upon Ter to
such an extent was not of itself sufficient
TO overthrow that girls intellect All
night long she rocked back and
forth, and all night long she moaned
and groaned, as this terrible pain pierced
her heart, aud shot its burning shafts
| through her intellect. That pain that she
/ had suffered during the last ten months
came upon her more overwhelmingly and
/ in her head it throbbed and beat and
throboed and beat, until she did not know
what she was about. The morning broke
but with the morning there came no sur
cease Of sorrow to this child She could
not eat. Nay, more than that; three times
/ during that day she swooned and tainted
completely away. This is proven. This
/ IS corroborated. This is not the story of
this girl alone, that they would have you
dlsbelieve, and think that you would be-
lieve this little girl before you would be-
leve whole room full of Harts-false
ldarts. She fainted three times during the
day No dinner did she eat. No supper
passed her lips Mind you, now, there is
girl that had gone from Friday night until
sunday night, forty eight hours, without
food. II would affect strong men some
what Here is a girl who had gone one
whole night at least without sleep. That
would affect strong men. Sunday night
came on, and all that night long, except that
! once in while she would creep into her
! bed, hoping and praying that sleep would
come and drive this trouble from her. she
sat there rocking back and forth as she had
the night before, in that rocking chair, with
a shawl wrapped about her, moaning and
grooming and suffering the torments of the
damned, suffering the torrents that are
pictured to those who it is said, will finally
be thrust down into
TIE DEEPEST DAAINATIoN.
Monday came, but Monday morning, with
Its rays OF light, brought no Joy to the heart
OF this poor girl. She ate no break fast, she
ate no dinner. 1t is looked upon as strange
| by the prosecution that these people should
talk of sending this girl to California. They
| found on Sunday that if she remained here
in such distress, that they were likely to
lose their daughter. They felt that they
must get her away from here. They knew
! tnat before that man came here, she was
able to go about her household duties to
some extent, but that after he came back
sue appeared like mad woman, so they de-
cided that they would send her to Callstoga
! Springs in California. This is looked upon
as suspicious Everything is looked upon
as suspicious by the prosecution. 1t was
talked over by the father and the mother
| on that Sunday. and on Monday morning
| the girl was Informed oft. and her mother
said they would go down town and look at
trunk. They already had one at home,
but they thought, however. they would ex-
anime another. The girl was to buy it for
herself. She concluded that she could use
that trunk that she had at home. She
took out her little things and folded them,
and laid them upon the chairs and tables
ready TO place in the trunk to leave
/ the city. Not another thing my
brother says, did they do. No, because
before the time came for her to leave the
city, this terrible tragedy had happened.
hot
up and down TO procure evidence in this
case and so / have. it is compliment that
1 thank my brother for. | nave felt that if
ever did anything well in my life |
wanted to do it well for this poor little
girl; the facts in he" case are such that
they bring 10 my heart the deepest sym
pathy They have brought to my eyes be
tore this tears that | was not ashamed Of
have seen her suffer as the prosecution
mas not seen hersuffer, and as you have not
seen her suffer.
And so, as 1 said, gentlemen of the jury,
they came down town here, and examined
that trunk. l do not believe that up to that
II ne this girl had In her heart a single
thought OF murder, | propose to give YOU
my theory about this case. which / believe
IS borne out thoroughly and completely by
ali the testimony in this case. [ co not
think, from the testimony, that up TO that
point she had single thought of killing this
man. l do believe from the testimony in this
case, and l say | think the testimony in
the case discloses, that up to that time she
had thoughts OF killing herself. She felt
that she must leave this earth: that she
could not live under the pain and suffering,
They looked at that trunk, the mother
started for Dinwoodey's store, ami the girl
made an excuse to 90 to Mr.. Aueroaca's TO
get some gloves. Before she reached Auer-
bachs store, the thought entered her head
to purchase that pistol. Mind YOU this
girl, after seeing that man on that morn
ing, was utterly irresponsible for anything
that she did. That the thoughts that came
into her head at that lime We're not the
thoughts that were born of sound reason
and judgment, of sound memory and under
standing. Nay, more than that | believe
as DR.. Hamilton said. that if the girl had
met that man any time during those terri
BILE ten months, she would have been lust as
; liable to have committed the act that she
finally committed on the 29th of Sept. last
she was suffering, the doctors say, from
melancholia The people did not see fit, al
though they have prosecuted this case with
extreme VigOr, with yigOr that IL seemed
TO me at times to excel almost any prosecu-
ton ] have ever seen in this court room
they did not see fit to produce any phvsi-
clan here to combat the testimony that was
given by the three physicians that we
swore in this case. Ii that girl had not
been suffering from melancholia, had not
been irresponsible, they could have pro-
duced them here.
AS she approached Auerbach's store that
afternoon, the thought entered her mead to
20 and purchase pistol. The girls recol-
lection about those tumultuous moments is
very indefinite, and we do not know
whether she at that moment purchased
that pistol with which to
KILL HERSELF OR TO KILL HALL.
At that moment there must have come
into her heart the thought If murdering
herself or the thought of killing Hall, one
Of the two. The thought was born
of a distressed and irresponsible
mind She gees TO the store and she is
! perfectly cool and self possessed when she
gets there. l beg you to mark that fact,
because you must know from your own ex-
perience that when your minds have been
swayed by tumult, If you decide upon a
line Of policy, no matter if it is done simply
by the weight of hair, your mind becomes
easy and contented as you pursue that
, line OF policy. So it is with the insane
The moment that they decide upon any
: thing that is definite that they are to carry
out, they will carry it out with as much
. shrewdnesS, with as much acumen, with as
! much intellect, as any sane person. NV
brother mas combatted that theory. but the
doctors tell you that insane people can plan
and execute with all the ability of the sane
Ia one breath MIR. Critchlow told you thai
it was possible for there TO bel any insanity
with a homicidal impulse resulting in 9
homicide unless there had been disclosed
previous to that time symptoms of it, and
ia the next he told you that Guiteau in his
opinion was crazy He told you that no
body ever knew of the melanchollacs plan.
ming deliberately, and in the next breath he
insists that Guiteau was insane. DID any
body ever plan or premeditate or deliberate
any more tnan Guiteau did in the
KILLING OF GARFIELD?