to the occurrence on the 18th of June, Mr. Porter then asked some questions as
when the prisoner refrained from shooting the President on account of Mrs. Garfield's presence, and finally asked, "If Mrs, Garfield had been with the President on 2nd July would you have shot him?"
A.—No; I should not have shot hin in hor presence; I did not know what effect it might have on her.
It depended entirely on your will?
A.—It depended on whether I had a suitable opportunity.
Porter asked why he would not have Mrs. Garfield's presence Prisoner—If your head is 0 thick that you can't got the idea I won't try to pound im. Don't ask your questions in a mean, sickly sort of way.
Porter pressed iis question, whereupon the prisoner took up a paper, and, adjusting his eyeglasses, began to read the paper, paying no attention whatever to counsel.
Porter—What are you reading Prisoner (without raising his eyes)—I am "lancing over the New York Herald.
Porter—Don't yon think the time of the Court and of the jury is of some value?
Prisoner—Not in the way you are inter-togating about the matter; it has been dincnsted and repented over mud over agrin (and prisoner-settled hhimsélf back: in his chair to-read).
Scoville—Counsel "has sgone over -tho same ground four: times.
Porter—I should like to hear "what he said on the subject Prisoner—You must'be 'a very stupid man; the papers'are full of it; the: papers are full of my atiswers, "Rorter—What were your answers'?
Prisoner—I decline io'anawer.
Porter—Isuppose you have no objection to answering what you did on the day: you killed him?
GUrrEAU's stony oF THE shooting.
The prisoner then gave an account of his action on the morning of 2nd July. He pt the previous night at the Rij rly and sat in Latay Breakfast he went to his room aud.pat his revolver in his pecket, A little before 9 o'clock he wont to the depot and had his boots blacked.
Portor—Did, you want to be in full dross when you killed him?
to be in full dross. I don't want to be Prlaoner (Arudling) No, I didn't wait interrupted.
Porter—And I don't want to be iiterthe President dro} tae curtiage and not nages, which show how much the President was under Blui Blaine was blowing and blo ing, and the President was listening, They are on the most intimate terms, Blaine got out of one side of the carriage and Garfield out of the other. They walk depot and passed within I drew my twice and hit'him on cot You shot him in the back did not fire ut any particular place,—Did you not fire for the hollow of his back A.—My litetition was: tévshoot him in Q.—Did you think if he got, two balls in ack it would remove him?
A.—I thought a Q—Aud you intended to put them there?
A.—I did.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.