Washington Correspondence

öince the last chapter of the assassins carcer has been begun, an impatient and indignant people muy possibly be interested enough to read some of the incidente of tliv grand finale. "GUITEAU GUILTY A8 INDICTED." The closing scènes in the court room were rendered unusually solemn and weired by the flickering light of the candles, which had been hastilyprocured, to illuminate the court room which is unprovided with gas. Judge Porter, in order to get the case to the jury on Wednesday, cut his scathing remarks short by one day and iinished at 3:15 p. m. Judge Cox then took an hour and-a-half in reading rapidly from manuscript his charge to the jury, A a quarter to üve he delivered the case to the jury, and then immediately re tired, and then a recess of half an hour was taken. Before the half hosr was over, however, it was known that the jury had agreed on a verdict, and the tact that they had agreed so soon, left little douht in most minds that the verdict was "guilty." Promptly at half past flve the court reassembled, the prisoner returned from the Marshalls room, the darkness hanging like a pall about him, as he sat in the prisoners doek, his face hid in his hands. Slowly, one by one, the jurymen flled into their places with a stately tread, and solemn faces. iv stray canaie now ana tnen appearec in the funeral procession, and all else was as still as death. Vhile an impressive silence reigned the clerk held the old familiarjcolloquy with tke foreman of the jury. Mr. Hamlin. "Wh„t say you gentlemen of the jury? Guilty, or not guilty ?" And when the answer cauie, "Guilty as indicted," there was an involuntary burst of applause.which required all the vociferous energy of all the officers of the court to restrain. The jury at the requestof Lawyer Scoville wa3 polled, and as the last man responded "guilty," the prisoner shouted from the doek, "My blood will be upon the heads, of that jury; don't you forget it." Before he lert the court room, he asked what the people outside thought of it. Just then cheers for the verdict were distinctly heard, and he was answered. Extra policemen were on hand to prevent demonstrations as he was taken to the van, but as it startecl off with him to the jjail, the crowd broke out with crie3, and rent the air with their cheers and yells. In a conversation with some of the jurors it was learned that what has been said all aloug as to the prisoner running his own case was true. They said that iiis examination confirmed the jurors in the opinión that he was psrfectly sane. What little doubt there was (and there was at one time just a mere shadow of a doubt) was cleared away by the argument of vidge, and at that time the verdict WQulfl have been the same. Mr. liright said 'Í nevcr thought for a moment that he was insane, and yet I am told I am the man some people predicted would hang the jury." He and most of the jurymenare Christian gentlemen and are of good standing in this community, and what they aflirin is thoroughly relied upon. Thd ürst informal ballot by the jury resulted in eleven guilcy and one blank. The next and formal ballot resulted in twelve guilty. ïhe jury and district attorney are receiving congratulations from all parts of the country. Some of the jury have lost in their business by neglect, and subscriptions have been begun to repay them. SCÈNES SATUHDAY 4UI INST. As soon as Judge Cox entered the court room and the court was formally opened, the prisoner took his place in the doek, Scoville made an unsuccessf ui attempt to delay proceedings whereupon Judge Cox read his decisión being interrupted by both Scoville and Guiteau. At length Col. Corkhill asked for the sentence of the court, Judge Cox then saiil to the prisoner. "Have you anything to say why seutence should not be passed upon you." The prisoner arose, and began in a low and delibérate tone, but soon his mauner became ■wild and violent and poundingupon the table he delivered himself of the folio wing harangue: "I am not guilty of the charge set forth in the indictment. It was God's act, not mine, and God will take care of it and don't let the American people f orget it. He will take oare of it and every oüicer oí this government from the Executive down to that Marshal, takiug in every man on that jury and every member of this bench, will pay for it and the American nation will roll in blood if my body goes into the ground and I am hung. The Jews put the despised Galilean in the grave. For the time they triumphed, but at the destruction of Jerusalem, forty years afterwards, the Almighty got even with them. I am not afraid of death. I am here as God's man. KU1 me to morrow if you want. I am God's man and I have been from the start." THE SENTENCE. Judge Cox then proceed lo pass sentence, addressing the prisoner as follows: "You have been convicted of a crime so terrible in its circumstances and so far reaching in its results that it has drawn upon you the horror of the whole world and the execrations of your countrymen. The excitement produced by such an offense made it no easy task to secure for you a fair and impartial trial, but you have had the power of the United States Treasury and of the government in your service to protect your person from violence and to procure evidence from all parts of the country. You have had as fair and as impartial a jury as ever assembied in a court of juptice. You have been defended by counsel with a zeal and devotion that meriis the highest encomium, and I certainly have done my best to secure a fair presentation of your defense. Notwithstanding all this you have been found guilty. It would have been a comfort to many people if the verdict of the jury had established the fact that your act was that of an irresponsible man. It woiald have left the people the satisfying belief that the crime of political assassination was something entirely foreign to our institutions and the civilization of our country; but the result has denied them that comfort. The country will accept it as a fact that that crime can be committed and the court will have to deal with it with the highest penalty known to the criminal code to serve as an example to others. Your career has been so extraordinary that people may welJ, at times, have doubted your sanity, but one cannot but believe that when the crime was committed you tkoroughly understood the nature of the crime and its consequence - (Guiteau - "I was acting as God's man") and that you had moral sense and conscience enough to recognize the moral iniquity of such an act. [The prisoner - "That's a matter of opinión."] Your own testimony shows that you recoiled with horror from the idea. 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 by the wretched sophistry of your own mind you worked yourself up against the protest of your own conscience. What motive could have duced you to this act must be a matter of conjecture. Probably men will think that some fanaticism or a morbid desire for self-exaltation was the real inspiration for the act. Your own testimony seems to controvert the theories ofryour counsel. They have maintained audthought, honestly, Ibelieve, that you were driven against your -svill by an insane impulse. The testimony showed that jou deliberately resolved to do it and that delibérate and misguided will was the solé impulse. This nay seem insanity to some persons, but ;he law looks upon it as willful crime. You will have tfue opportunity of havng any errors I may have committed during the course of the trial passed I upon by the court en baña, but mean while it is necessary for me to pro■ nounce the sentence of law, that you be taken henee to the common jail of the District, f rom whence you carne and there be kept in conflneinent, and en Friday, the 30th day of June, 1882, you be taken tn the place prepared for execution within the waUs of said jai], and there, between the hours of 12 noon and 2 in tbe afternoon you be hanged by the neck until you are deud. And may the Lord have merey on your soul." During the readlng Guiteau stood apparently umnoved, and with his gaze riveted on the judge, but whenthe flnal words were spoken he struck the tab! e violently and shouted: "And may the Lord have mercy on your soul. I would rather stand where I do than where that jury does and where your Honor does. I am not afraid to die. I stand here as God's man, and God Almighty will curse every man who has had a part in procuring this unrighteous verdict. Nothing but good can come from Garfield's removal, and that will be the verdict by posterity on my inspiration. I don't care a snap ior tho verdict. This is a oorrupt generation. I would rather a thousand tirftes be in my position than in that of those who have hounded me to death. I shall have a glorious flight to glory, but that miserable scoundrel, Corkhill, will have a permanent job down below where the devil is preparing for him."