The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-10-21
TRIAL OF GUITEAU.
Arraigned and Pleads "Not
Guilty"
Jurisdiction, Hereditary Insanity. and Maiprac-
tice by Physicians TO be the Chief
Points of Defense.

Points of Defense.
ARGUMENT OF JURISDICTION, OCTOBER 80
TRIAL, NOV Z.
From a lengthy telegram concerning the
arraignment of Guiteau last Saturday we
condense the following:
WASHINGTON, October 15.-The court
room displayed many police aud detectives
not in uniform. At 11:15 Scoville appeared,
and Immediately after Marshal Henry with
two assistants, between whom was Guiteau,
entered from the witness room. Guiteau
was hustled along, bowed and covering, and
wore handouts. He seemed broken in
health and uncared for in person, bis dark
clothes rusty and shabby, and looking mis-
cradle and neglected.
District Attorney Corkill said the grand
jury of the District of Columbia had indict-
ed Charles J. Guiteau, now in court, fer the
murder Of James A. Garfield, and asked that
he be arraigned and required to plead. The
prisoner was ordered up aud stood In Ian
guild manner with his head inclined to his
right shoulder, eyes partially or wholly
closed, hands crossed as If still handcuffed,
and in a sickly manner. THUS he stood
nearly half an hour while the indictment
was being read, without manifesting any in-
terest. Ga the question being put, "What
say you to the plea: Guilty, or Not Gujlty?''
Guiteau went down In his pocket for piece
Of soiled and crumpled paper, but he was
brought up by peremptory order to enter a
plea, and he replied, 81 enter plea of not
guilty, If your honor please"
His affidavit was then read to the effect
that there are many witnesses material for
his defense that Scoville had their address
es; that he has not money to pay fees and
mileage, and praying the court to order them
at the public expense. Scoville also read his
affidavit that the defense would consist of
two points First, insanity Of the defendant,
and second, that the wound was not neces-
sarily mortal and not the cause of the Presi-
dents death. He also set up that he had not
been able 10 procure witnesses, because Gui-
teau was too crazy to assist him in the mat
ter. He gave as the names of witnesses he
desired summoned, John NJ. Guiteau, New
York; G. A. Parker, VIM. j. Maynard, Fran
els Brownly, Orson w. Goyet, and F. NJ.
Scoville, Chicago. BY them he expected to
prove inherent and hereditary insanity. DIV.
Guiteau, defendant 8 uncle, died insane in
New York Augustur Parker, cousin, died
insane in Chicago; Abbie Maynard, another
cousin in Chicago, is permanently insane (;
and his father was a monomaniac on religion
for several years. "That the defendant was
insane at the time Of the shooting l will
prove by the testimony of the following wit
nesses: Drs. Mcdonald and Finch, insane
asylum, Wards Island, New York; W..
Bradner, late of the Pennsylvania Hospital
forthe Insane, Philadelphia, and Dr.Sprague,
in charge of the Cook County Asylum, ILL
nois."
Scoville said he further expected to prove
by the following named medical experts ::
William A. Hammond, New York; j..
Marian Simms, New York Moses Gum,
Chicago, and Edmund Andrews, Chicago,
that the wound was not necessarily fatal and
was not of itself the cause of death, but that
death eIsued from the result of malpractice
by the principal physicians in charge of the
wounded man. He said there were still
other witnesses on the question of insanity
whose names he expected to get in thirty
days; that he had asked Emory Storrs and
Richard L. Merrick to assist in the defense.
The first declined; tho latter would only
agree to argue the question Of jurisdiction.
He had applied, at Guiteau's request, to
BENZ. F. Butler, but said from a telegram
from Butler that his letter had not arrived
and must have miscarried. He therefore
asked further time.
Corkhill said the trial ought to take place
as soon as possible. Scoville, through his
relation to the prisoner, had been conversant
with the case. He asked that a day be fixed
for trial and not day for presenting atfida-
Wits for further continuance. The defense
had foreshadowed their case. The law Is
extremely liberal to persons accused of
crime, but the law has never gone SC far as
it was now asked to extendit. The law allows
material witnesses within the jurisdiction,
or within 100 miles, to be summoned for a
prisoner without means, and the Govern
ment will pay for the same. The court
could not 60 beyond this. The court cannot
summon eminent surgeons as experts on the
question of insanity. If that defense Is to
be undertaken, the prisoner and his counsel
must provide for 1t. The dispositions of
other witnesses can be taken. He asked
that the question of jurisdiction be set for
October Both, so it could be got out of the
way, and that the trial be set for November
7th. 1t was so ordered. The court suggested
that If the question of Jurisdiction was to be
raised, the plea of not guilty must be with
drawn and demurrer or some other plea
interposed.
Scoville said he would leave that for Mer-
rick or Butler, or whoever came In to take
charge Of the case, to do. This closed the
proceedings. Guiteau was again handcuffed,
hurried out Of court and into hack which
drove to the Jail. He maintained the same
listless attitude throughout.
Guiteau's Trial.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.--Guiteau will