THE GUITEAU TRIAL THE consistent portion of the pub lie will give a sigh of relief when the drop curtain falls upon the last scene of the farce now being enacted in a court of justice at the capital of the nation the so called garfield trial ia Is so continuously ludicrous anti antl anu trifling as to inspire the readers of its particulars with mingled wonder and disgust it is probable that the last end of the mixture of the sublimely tragic and absurd will be the hang mans drop as the proceedings edings edinga present the extraordinary spectacle of affording the murderer an opportunity of exhibiting in open court el either elther ther lher feigned or genuine insanity it was said of the ancient people who accepted the true order of the lowly nazarine that they where spoken against and all manner of evil was spoken of them by bythe the world the mormons cormons Mor mons for the same reason are similarly treated one of the slanderous pet rations of journalistic and pulpit stenn nareia in thia thim tonuca 1 to go the rounds and is to the effect that guiteau is a mormon the mormons Mor mons mona not only abhor and detest sueh such wretches as he but they think he is in far more congenial company when ministered to by sectarian blind leaders of the blind who hold it as a christian truth that such characters as guiteau can by pel oel believing leving ieving in the atoning blood of the savior leap into eer everlasting lasting glory aa as soon as their necks are broken by the hang mans drop to such we commend corm corn mend characters of the guiteau stripe seeing they expect to go to the same department of the great hereafter should guiteau escape the extreme penalty of the law on the common plea of insanity and consequent irresponsibility for his crime I 1 the result will have a demoralizing effle effect ct perhaps this would be more strongly marked in so notorious a case than one ono of a more ordinary character it would increase the tendency to en ter the lunacy line of defense for the worst class of crimes and all that will be deemed necessary for the escape of a double dyed criminal from the grasp of the executioner will be to rave a little tear his hair and beat the al air wit with h his fists however much guiteau may be insane he be possesses two tw conspicuous elements of murderers generally a callous indifference for whatever sut suf buffering suffering he may inflict on others and a strong regard for the preservation of his own safety this latter feeling was clearly exhibited yesterday when he be was placed on the stand and manifested great anxiety to place the bodies of the officers of the law lav between the crowd in court and his own corpus