The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-01

ence In his hall were Of liberal ten.
denotes. 0ultean's Views wore not ~ liberal
tendencies Gulteau's Views were hntsgon-
Mrs. Mary Lockwood, tho next witness,
keeps boarding house In the city. The
prisoner had taken meals thcre ipr
one month, beginning last March.
She stated OF his rude and unpublished be.
havior, and Of his peculiar and disagreed
bic manner OF looking nt persons, Whiie
at her house he had not paid his bill IN inil.
Norwood Damon, a retired Unitarian
minister OF Boston, related an incident OF %
lecture in Payne's Memorial Hall, Boston:
He said his discourse was incoherent, and
he could not understand him.
WASHINGTON, November @,-Shortly be-
fore the advent of Judge Cox, this morning,
the Criminal COURTROOM presented the ap-
pearance of q well-fllled theatre upon an
opening night, the audience filling every
nook and corner of the room, and was
composed of ladies', for the most part
epresen ting the most fashionable circle OF
Washington society. There was the usual
amount of pushing and showing upon the
outside of the building, but only the ia
vored ones who held passes, were ac-
companied by or especially invited
by some one of the court officers,
were enabled to gain admission. The hum
of female voices was fast becoming deaten-
ing, when Marshal Henry announced that
all demonstrations of noisy character must
be repressed or the court room would be
cleared. This admonition was repeated by
Judge Cox, Immediately upon the opening
of court.
Scoville stated that Guiteau desired to
make statement. No objection being
made, Guiteau read from manuscript sub
stantially as follows:
II propose to have all the facts bearing
on the case to go before the court and
iury. and to do this, | have
been forced to interrupt the counsel and
witnesses, who were mistaken as to supposed
facts. l mean no discourtesy to them, or
any one. When any question OF Deity or
myself is Of vital Importance. in this
case the pro @Sat t thd potical dgn sd
Theological record may be developed. !
am glad your honor and opposing counsel
are disposed to give a historical review of
my life and ask the press and public to do
likewise. All want is absolute justice,
and shall not permit any crooked work.
I nave no idea my counsel wants
crooked work. They are often mistaken on
supposed focts and shall have to correct
them. Last spring certain newspapers in
denouncing the President for break
improper appointments. Iwould like these
Journals to repeat those editorials now and
see how they would look and sound In at
tempting to remove the President, only
did what the papers said ought to be
done. Since July "a they have
been deiiyng the h;no President Tres lent tb and
they said ought to be done. | want the
newspapers and doctors, who actually
killed the President, to share with me the
odium of his death. | never would have
shot him of my own volition, notwithstand-
ing these newspapers. if ! had not
been commissioned by the Deity
to do the. deed, but this fact
does not relieve the newspapers from the
moval. Ifhe had been properly treated,
he would have been living to-day. It has
been published that 1 am in fear of death.
1t is false. l have always been a Chris
tian, and an active worker for God. Some
people think that l am a murderer,
but the Lord does not, for he inspired the
act, as in the case of Abraham and a score
of other cases in the Bible. The assault
made upon me on Saturday last has been
civilized world are watching this case,
and it behooves this court and the
Metropolitan police to protect me, at
all hazards. | hereby warn all ''cranks, "
of high and low degree, to keep away from
me, under penalty OF instant death. He
would have been shot dead on Saturday
but for the rearing of the horses in the van
as the officer was shooting, so that he lost his
aim, and though the van hurried after him
he temporarily escaped. | was in my
on "cranks:" All they can see
in the case is the policemen's revolyers.
A gain l say, if they value their lives they
must keep away from me. desire the
court and jury to dispose Of this case on
the facts and the law, and / leave all re-
sponsibility about it to their verdict"
Scoyille referred to his previous demands
were taken from Guiteau at the time of his
arrest. A colloquy ensued between
in which considerable feeling
was shown upon both sides
Scoville protested against the course of
the District-Atto ip the matter, and the
latter contemptuously retorted, from his
seat:
"Oh, stuff! stuff! all stuffw
The controversy was finally settled and
Scoville called John A. Logan for the de-
did not respond, however.
Guiteau who seemed greatly excited, here
broke in again and spoke so as to be dis
tinctly heard in every part of the court
room
There is another matter that ] want to
speak about, right now: l understand
that my divorced wife is to be
brought here as witness agasnst me. If
that is so, there will be trouble. She was
poor, unfortunate thing, or never should
have married her. But If she should come
to testify against me and dome any harm,
| will rip her up. She was seduced in Phil
adelphia and had child before married
her!h
With great difficulty scoville, after some
minutes of expostulation, succeeded IN
nuieting Guiteau, who for the next fifteen
minutes devoted himself TO his papers.
Two other witnesses were called, but
failed to respond.
Joseph d. Smith, Of Freeport, Illinois.
then testified as TO his acquaintance with
Guiteau's family.
Charles Reed, of Chicago, was the next
witness. lie testified TO Guiteau's actions
while practicing law in Chicago, confirming
.omc of the statements made by Scoyille,
and contradicting others, NOTABLY the
facts of Guiteaus admission to the bar.
he had an interview with the defendant at
he Riggs House last summer, in which he
was asked to loan him fifteen dollars. His
appearance at the time was harrasssed and
queer. lie also saw him at the jail after
he shooting, and concluded he was off his
Harman Omerling, Of williamsport,
a lawyer, spoke Of the pecu-
iarities Of Guiteau's family as did the next
witness, Thomas North, Of Freeport, Hi
nois, who said further that the prisoner was
m exaggerated copy Of his father in phys
zeal appearance and mental peculiarities.
Several violent interruptions were made
by Guiteau during the day, and one time
railing forth stern threat from the court
81 eagging him, which apparently had lit
lie effect.
senator Logan. Emery Storrs and other
witnesses failed 20 respond and ScOville
aid he should ask for attachment against
storrs 70 compel his attendance
WteurrGTor. November U.-There was
4 Great crowd nt the courthouse this morn
me. and nffer every inch Of space was Occu-
MED. several hundred were standing ont
side waiting and hoping 70 be able 20 get
I'M. Iron Che opening Of court, Scorllle
read . Telegram fr0ri Emory a rtorrsi %
rIIiraro. saving ne could not possibly
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