Word: guiteau
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last Thursday morning the HERALD issued two editions. Nearly 200 copies of the first edition, containing an account of the final scene in the Guiteau??? trial, were sold in the streets before the Boston papers reached Cambridge. The amount of money realized from this undertaking was, of course, small; but if we have succeeded in showing the public that we can present them with the latest news as soon as they can get it from the Boston papers, we rest well satisfied with our enterprise...
...Guiteau remains hopeful of a new trial, and declares the verdict of the jury was most surprising to him. H???gotism seems to be departing, and his health ??? poor. Mr. Scoville will file a motion for a new trial Saturday. District Attorney Corkhill has been the recipient of many congratulations from all parts of the country...
From conversation with some of the jurors in the Guiteau case, it is learned that what has been said all along in regard to the prisoner ruining his own case is true. There has hardly existed, at any time, the shadow of a doubt as to Guiteau's sanity and responsibility for his crime...
...recess of half an hour was taken. At 5.35 the court was called to order, and at 5.36 the jury came in and rendered a verdict of guilty. Guiteau's bearing after the verdict was given was cool and collected. The sentence will soon be pronounced...
...jury left the court room at 4.45, and retired to the consultation room. There was great confusion in the court room, Guiteau and the judge seeming to be the only quiet persons in the room...