Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1882 — HE MUST HANG. [ARTICLE]

HE MUST HANG.

The Supreme Court of the District Refuses Gniteau a New Trial. In the District Supreme Court at Washington, May 22, Justice James announced the decision of the court in banc upon tho exceptions in the Guiteau case, denying a new tfial end affirming the judgment below. Justice Hagner, in a separate opinion, discussed the bearings of the old Maryland law, and held that even under the Maryland act of 1785 the indictment would have been good in this District, and Justice Cartter stated that tbe opinions given were the unanimous opinions of the court. The court holds that jurisdiction is complete where a fatal blow is struck, without regard to the locality of actual demise; that tbe bullet fired at the President by Guiteau gp the 2d day of July, in this city, was the cause of his death, and that the trial could only have been held in Washington ; that the death of the President in New Jersey, except as affected by local statutes, could not change jurisdiction. The assassin had not been in New Jersey, had committed no offense against New Jersey laws, and the mere fact, of the victim being removed to Elberon to prolong his life or save it, if possible, could not be made to affect the character of the crime.

The intelligence of the decision of the court was conveyed to Guiteau a few minutes after its announcement in court, and was received by him with stolid indifference. He said to the guard who gave him the intelligence that he had not anticipated anything else. “My dependence is now placed in President Arthur,” he said. “ I made him what he is, and he cannot afford to go back on me.” The assassin has permitted his beard to grow and his face is covered with stubble, which causes him to present a very unattractive appearance. He was asked by a visitor why he did not shave, and quickly replied that his barber, a fellow prisoner, had been dischai ged a few weeks ago, and he did not know any one as yet capable of filling the vacancy. Gen. Crocker says that Guiteau is afraid to trust himself with a strange barber for fear that another attempt wifi be made on his life. His sole anxiety, said the General, seems to be that he shall be properly protected from would-be avengers. The rule in regard to visitors will be strictly enforced hereafter ; no one but his guards and counsel will be permitted to see him. Speaking of the arrangements for his execution, Warden Crocker said that the preliminaries could be arranged at short notice, the only articles to be prepared being a rope and the adjustment of a spring attachment to the scaffold. This gloomy instrument of death is in a direct line with the cell occupied by the condemned, being in the upper end of the north corridor, while his cell is in the first corridor.

The gleam of falling water, according to Mr. J. S. Gardner, attracts certain insects quite as powerfully as does artificial light. In Iceland he has observed moth after moth to fly deliberately into a waterfall and disappear. He thinks trout prefer broken streams on account of the abundance of food furnished by the self-destruction of insects, and not—as is usually supposed—because of the greater aeration of the water. At the police court the prisoner refuses obstinately to answer any of the questions put to him by the presiding magistrate. “Beware, prisoner," says the magistrate, “ for your bearing toward the tribunal cannot fail to affect it when it comes to pass sentence.” “ Your pardon, worthy air," replies the prisoner in broken tones, “but the humiliation of my podlion overpowers me. This is the very first time, s’help me, that I eve/ was brought up at any court less important than the Quarter Soasionß.'’ “What made the mule kick you?’ they asked of a gentleman who had, been sent flying through the roof of a barn. And he answered: “Do you think I was fool enough to go back and inquire ? ” Every lady who shops by mail should send five P-cent stamps for a copy of Strawbridge Clothier'e Quarterly. The present number contains 1,000 engravings, illustrating the new fashions, and four pages of new music. Strawbridge & Clothier, Eighth and Market streets, Philadelphia.